A Catholic Priest and a Jewish Rabbi were chatting one day when the conversation turned to a discussion of job descriptions and the future. "What position do you see yourself in a couple years from now?" asked the Rabbi to the Priest ( Read more... )

sorry, reddit.com is currently down. sucks, doesn't it?

( Cut for politics, anger, and mild profanity )

As many of you know, my van has been having trouble for quite a while now. Last time I mentioned it, it refused to start when I was coming home from Utica, leading to the conclusion it had to be replaced before I go out of town again. Since then, the transmission had started making ugly noises, and Friday it started kicking on the way to work -- ( Read more... )

There is a group trying to get rights for a second season of Firefly, to be delivered via HDTV, streaming download, or direct-to-DVD mailings, and they're trying to figure out what the potential viewers want (this makes them so many levels smarter than Fox that I don't even know where to start).

You can find them here, and give your input (plus ( Read more... )

This Financial Times article (sub required) has a quote from an email written by Michael Scanlon, former bagman for Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff, which sums up the modern Republican party in two sentences ( Read more... )

We recently got shelves for our DVDs and CDs, finally removing them from the giant unorganized stacks in the cabinet. In the process of organizing them, I finally removed the post-it with my address from when Marie copied Seven Last Words.1Guess what five-letter word was on the back of the post-it ( Read more... )

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names ( Read more... )

I was going to post about this weekend's trip to Utica and realized I never mentioned last weekend's stop in NYC (I'm visiting friends while they're less than seven hours away for once).

So, for those who care, ( NYC )

This article begins with, "A senior British officer has criticised the US army for its conduct in Iraq, accusing it of institutional racism, moral righteousness, misplaced optimism, and of being ill-suited to engage in counter-insurgency operations ( Read more... )