EDIT/UPDATE: We did this, and it was good. Thanks, folks. :D

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So I stole this idea from xyzzysqrl, just to be honest ( Read more... )

So last year in August I bought a '96 Subaru outback. I paid about $4400 for it, if memory serves. I also got suckered big-time. The piece of crap was a junker from the start, and the seller obviously knew it - he had gone to pains to warm the engine up before letting me test drive (had to 'drive it in from out of town') and the check engine light ( Read more... )

... I return! I still live in Alaska, precisely, which is more and more of a drag. I've been playing World of Warcraft since it came out, but I quit back in May and sold my account. With that monkey off my back, I have a lot of spare time, and a lot of opportunity to look back and go 'what the hell have you done?' because, folks, it's a yawning ( Read more... )

So I'm working for the local branch of a national cruise and tour company this summer. I was just hard up for work when I applied, and followed through so that I could be sure I had something lined up for the summer. Until training started a week and a half back, I really didn't know what it would be like. Well, today was my first day on the job ( Read more... )

Futuristic Sex Robotz ( Read more... )

Yes, yes, I am in fact still alive and well. I spent about 16 months hopelessly addicted to World of Warcraft, which has spawned plenty of pleasent memories and a newfound determination to 'get out' a bit more. I still feel like I don't know quite where to start 'reclaiming' my life, but I'm optimistic regardless. I'll be working the summer for one ( Read more... )

That would be the International Standards Organization ( Read more... )

A moment of glory from the Arstechnica forums: A full photojournal of a member's experience with a beehive in his back-yard.

http://tinyurl.com/b2mf4

Hah! hylian thought I wasn't paying attention, and wouldn't reply to the meme-thingus. Verbatim from her friends-only post ( Read more... )

Bla bla bla, boring boring. Nothing to report aside from that I live, and I am horridly unproductive ( Read more... )