This will only make sense if you first read this post on BoingBoing (caution! Egregious usage of the unword "guesstimate").

There's no way in hell I could pass this up:


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You know you’ve been dealt too many bad hands at the Customer Service Poker Table when news like this gets you excited (from the New York Times):

…in July, Netflix took an unusual step for a Web-based company: it eliminated e-mail-based customer service inquiries. Now all questions, complaints and suggestions go to the Hillsboro call center, which ( Read more... )

I've given a strong impression about how much I enjoy playing with food. Well, this past weekend I caught a bit of Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen." It's basically a reality TV show about a loud, cursing Scotsman, full of piss and white wine vinegar, putting a bunch of chef wannabes through hell for a shot at a prestigious head chef position in Las ( Read more... )

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While exploring a mall in Manchester, NH yesterday my girlfriend, previously an employee of Timberland Corporation, mentioned that the Timberland Outlet in the mall was "environmentally friendly ( Read more... )

Once the summer kicked in I paid very little attention to both Chinese and Economics. I probably should be paying attention to, I don’t know, the respective topics of my major rather than the stressors involved with deciphering Nietzsche, but that’s a non-sequitor for another time ( Read more... )

Look, there's a good chance you won't find this funny. However, it's your own damn fault; you should have seen The Seventh Seal.

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I've been receiving many of these "congratulations on your Dean's List achievement" type letters of late. They're frequently amusing for differing reasons but none so much as the one I received this morning in the mail:


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I’m not going to lie to you: having taken Calculus 2 and passed (with the A? We’ll find out on Monday) I’m still uncertain if I understand the damn stuff. However, having used some of it today, I feel pretty proud ( Read more... )

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