Tonight: better than the same night in 2000.

Thank you, people.

Poll su casa es me casa
(E.g. whether to load forks into the dishwasher tines up or tines down)

There's this chemist who writes a blog, and one of his best categories of blog entry is "Things I Won't Work With." In these entries, he describes substances that are so toxic, explosive, or otherwise dangerous that he refuses to ever work with them, and with good (and entertainingly articulated) reason!

One of my favorite entries is "Sand Won't ( Read more... )

Quick: name a fire-, burning-, heat-, desert-, or dust- themed song!

Examples:
- Burning Down The House
- Another One Bites The Dust
- Disco Inferno
- Put Out The Fire
- Firework

What else could go on this Burning-Man-Music list?

(Yeah, it is weird that alernating tracks are by Queen...)

Google+ people: you KNOW you'd +1 this!


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I'm looking for a way to pull a relatively large, heavy box[1] behind a bicycle. Do you have any good recommendations for a bike cargo trailer? Do you have a bike trailer that you might be ready to part with, for love or money? Stray thoughts?

1 The box is roughly 40" long, 20" wide, and 20" high, and weighs roughly 120 lbs. I'm absolutely ( Read more... )

Poll Dratskies!

Poll It's just a dot away

(Deduct two points if you Google, and another two if you read the Wikipedia entry before answering.)

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I think that 水煮牛肉 (lit. "water-cooked beef"... but don't believe it for a second; a better name would be "zomg chili-stewed beef") might be my new favorite dish.