"It's really a shame that you're gay."

"What? I'm not gay. Why would it be a shame if I were?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I was just thinking that I could introduce you to my daughter."

"Oh. Well, I usually prefer women."

"Usually? What does that mean?"

"Have you seen John Barrowman?"

"Okay, fair point."

Finally caught up with the end of season 2 of Game of Thrones. I miss all the extra characters in the books, but I'm still really enjoying Peter Dinklage et al ( Read more... )

( Random thoughts on jobbiness )

Yeah, you. The one with the web browser.

Do you like webcomics? Do you like Star Trek? Do you like mocking Mary Sues?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, go read Ensign Sue Must Die. It's short and funny.

So, lots of things have been going on at work lately. My main job, not either of the side gigs. However, I won't talk about that, because it fails the Hypothetical Person's Interest Test ( Read more... )

I was planning to blog about what's been going on in the past few weeks, but hey, let me just talk about today.

( Post, why are you so long )

I try not to review books before I'm finished with them. But I have to say something about Lev Grossman's The Magicians before I go crazy. No spoilers here, so no cut ( Read more... )

It's nearly* the Christmas season again, which means (decorations, holidays, drinking too much spiked eggnog and) time to start thinking about New Year's resolutions again. My project this year worked out really well - I picked 43 things I was going to do, but also made the meta-resolution that if needed, I would scale some goals back until I was ( Read more... )

So Thanksgiving was pretty good. I flew out to California to spend time with my mom's family.

( I has a long )

If you're trying to convince a group of people coworkers to remember an idea, having a contest to see who can come up with the best anagram of it is one of the worst things you can do ( Read more... )