"My granny was recently beaten to death by my granddad. Not as in, with a stick - he just died first" - Alex Horne

...and morbidity.

This guy caught a video of the space shuttle launching from a passing airliner

Dude.

I've just finished watching Once. Beautiful and touching and intimate and intense. It's the ending that makes it. For me it was completely unexpected, when the final note was put into place, it snapped the story into a new focus.

It's the story of a heartbroken guy busking on the streets of dublin...he meets a girl, they become friends and play ( Read more... )

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Best pull quote: "The future is later"

Sometimes people say things like "This is the coolest graffiti ever"

Sometimes they are right.

Being the behind-the-times sort, I just saw this ad the other day. Apparently it played during the Super Bowl, but I was polishing my andirons that day, so I missed the whole thing.

Anyway, it's feaking hilarious.

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Most of the companies I've worked at have had some sort of stock-option plan. Every one of them has said to me "we're underpaying you, but here are some options, so that you will work hard and make us successful, making yourself rich." Which is kind of bullshit. I'm so tired of waiting for vesting. Not to mention the fact that I've had tens of ( Read more... )

Well, there it is. Work has been sucking for a long time, only some of the issues were hinted at in my last whiny post. I'm being massively underpaid, so I asked for a raise. The rule I set was that anything less than 10% would be a slap in the face, so I would start looking. I got 8%, so I'm now officially looking for work ( Read more... )

So, it's a good thing that felis is not here. I just had the most fabulous dinner, but she would have died of revulsion if she had been.

I read in another journal ( Edit: thanks frogmaus!) about the most delicious dessert idea evar. You make a grilled cheese, but with brie and chocolate ( Read more... )

Fun Fact : Don't miss the always fun Great Snow Dance. The dance occurs the first night of snowfall during the winter. Innocent fauns, dryads, and priapads, surrounded by a bizarre set of leering dwarves, prance around in a dance reminiscent at times of the May Day celebrations in The Wicker Man. The lecherous dwarves try to hit the poor little ( Read more... )