Nobody reads LJ anymore. Ever. I am officially abandoning this thing. RIP, Livejournal. You served your purpose well.

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here (source needed). You know how it works, 'X' after those you have read ( Read more... )

I want grilled cheese. And shame.


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Guinness is made with a substance called isinglass, which is derived from fish's swim bladders.

From Wiki: "Isinglass finings are widely used as a processing aid in the British brewing industry to accelerate the fining, or clarification, of beer. They are used particularly in the production of cask-conditioned beers, known as real ale, although ( Read more... )

From Cracked:

Incredibly, this is a real thing. It's called digit ratio theory and multiple studies have confirmed it ( Read more... )

After reviewing my budget for the thirteenth time, it has come to my attention that I am out of frivolous spending credits. After Cedar Point, I shall be switching completely to my shitty-ass cheap summer beer of choice, Coors Light ( Read more... )

Seven miles in Minnewaska have taught me one thing: I need to buy new sneakers. The foam soles in my three-year-old trail runners are so shot there's no give left. Thank you, Campmor, for having decent low-ankle hiking boots for $35 ( Read more... )

Interesting. I'd like to believe this, but something tells me between the drinking I did and the worrying I do, I'm too scatterbrained for this to be accurate anymore.

Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...

Linguistic

12% Logical, 24% Spatial, 55% Linguistic, 39% Intrapersonal, 14% ( Read more... )

I really wish I had local friends who actually want to go outside and do something. I live in hiking mecca and yet I've no one to go hiking with ( Read more... )

I went to put on my big floppy blue peasant skirt today to discover that the elastic seems to be shot. I stretched it out, pulled it up, let it go, and it didn't snap back. And it's too stretched out to even just fake it and tie the waistband string tighter. I think the skirt is toast.

I put on the pink one instead, but it's not the same. :(