Today's xkcd is really funny to me, because as I was reading it I was hearing my neighbor's nameplate on his cubicle rattling due to leg shaking. Several months ago I got annoyed by my own leg shaking's tendency to make my own nameplate rattle. Rather than stop shaking my leg (c'mon, it's comforting...) I tried to adjust the nameplate, but it ( Read more... )

Did you read the news about the kids who beat a homeless man to death? Did you see that they called it "a game" and related it to a violent video game? Well, as you might expect, the media jumped all over that. But maybe you'd like to read a letter from the boy's de facto stepmother about the whole thing. This needs to be spread.

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I swear if I'd been able to write down my dream last night I could have written a novel. Or maybe a screenplay. I remember pretty much zero about it now, unfortunately. But I remember thinking when I woke up, "I could try to write this down, and have something really cool to work with, except then I'd get frustrated as everything starts to drain ( Read more... )

A - AVAILABLE: Depends what you mean by "available ( Read more... )

So, I just overheard someone talking to the guy in the next cubicle. He deals with a lot of layout, though he himself is not a "layer-outer". So he says, "then it's layer, layer..." and I immediately whisper to myself "pants on fayer." And begin attempts to keep my self-amusement silent ( Read more... )

...but an email saying that they got a shipment of PC keyboards and anyone who got a Unix keyboard could head down and trade it out. They're USB, so no interruption. It's just as quiet and the keys are all where they belong! Wahoo! To celebrate, I'm going to make lots of typos while typing and backspace, and open a bunch of tabs with Ctrl+T. ( Read more... )

Stop motion animation on a Lite Brite. Frickin awesome. I couldn't care less what they're singing about or animating. It's the concept of the thing.

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I did the aural version of a double-take yesterday and was just now reminded of it again. Apparently the name of the woman who does the traffic for 101X is named Amy Gay. When she finishes her report, she says, "I'm Amy Gay, and this is Skywatch Traffic." Of course, I heard this initially as "I may be gay, and this is Skywatch Traffic." My ( Read more... )