So while wandering outside today, me being on the recovering side of sick, so my mental faculties are largely present but easily tired, I started wondering about the word "suppository". Where did it get that meaning? From there ( Read more... )

Them: "You have entered [10-digit phone number]. If this is correct, press 1. Otherwise..."

Me: 1

Them: "You have entered 1. If this is correct, press 1. Otherwise..."

Me: 1

Them: "Thank you. Your number has been placed on our do-not-call list."
I have never before seen this level of concern as to whether I have pressed the right keys ( Read more... )

Oh, how I have missed them! Last night there was lightning. This morning, the sky was grey and the air felt like a storm was coming. Then more lightning and thunder. Then the sky opened up and rain is now splattering everywhere. We get so few thunderstorms in Seattle, and it's the biggest weather feature that I miss from back east. (The other ( Read more... )

I just stumbled across a nifty 10-minute interview "Leonard Mlodinow on the unconscious ( Read more... )

I found something in the bathroom the other day that looked awfully like mouse droppings ( Read more... )

Fifteen minutes of Pulp Fiction, rendered in Elizabethan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dfLkcTAR80

"English, base knave, dost thou speak it?!?"

NSFW due to content (violence, death, raised voices, sexual allusions).

I forgot to mention that this group ( Read more... )

I was going to try to start updating again today, but that's apparently not what today is about. :) Instead, today has become the day to talk about the horrible things that large corporate copyright holders have lobbied the US government to do to the Internet. (Which is *us*. We are the Internet. The big revelation of social media is that *we ( Read more... )

Does it count as a "tool" if it's recreational equipment? :)



(via thewronghands via perspicuity)

"Words, they are not my strong forte."

Really.