So I started this new job last week, and I think that I'm much more over the nervousness I used to get when meeting new people than I had thought. That's one encouraging thing ( Read more... )

Alright! I can't take it anymore! This post has been percolating inside me for weeks. I can no long keep it in. You may have heard that the epic fantasy author George R. R. Martin has announced that he has completed and will be publishing the next volume, A Dance With Dragons in his series A Song of Ice and Fire this summer. Additionally, the HBO ( Read more... )

So Jason and I just had a magnificently conversation with a couple of puns that are absolutely awful. If you don't like puns, then I urge you not to read any further.

So were talking about this video from the Orson Welles movie, The Third Man, which is about the country of Switzerland (sort of). The video is thirty seconds long, if you want to ( Read more... )

No updates in a long time, I know. But I just had to share this... Amazon introduced this PayPhrase thing sort of recently, and it suggests a phrase that is sort of a shortcut to keep you from entering all of your shipping/billing information again ( Read more... )

I have been proud to contribute to this, this evening:

Fresno Tops List of "Drunkest" Cities

Seriously, I lost like ten pounds in the past year, and as a result I have become the cheapest drunk in the entire world. I must have lost all ten of those pounds directly from my LIVER.

So there was an interesting study done recently on happiness and well-being, by city. I looked at the places I've lived over the last decade or so.

CityPopulationOverall RankEmotional healthWork experiencePhysical healthHealthy behaviorsBasic access
Kansas City, MO-KS2,002,0473445474611065
Indianapolis-Carmel, IN1,715,4598292329914060
New Haven- ( Read more... )

More in-depth update on my status in a bit, but in the meantime, I would like to share with you something that I have discovered which has quickly become my favorite thing on the internet:

Norwegian pranksters!These dudes are apparently (to the best of my ability to figure out this google-translated Norwegian newspaper) following around the van ( Read more... )

I am a sort of interesting person, as you may know. As a result of being sort of interesting, there are lots of interesting bits of trivia about me that you may not know. Today, I would like to share one of my favorite bits of trivia with you.

( Did you know that I was the inspiration for the appearance of Johnny Appleseed in a small print-run children's book? )

Hey everybody, everybody! Let's pretend it's 2004 and take an internet quiz! It'll be awesome!

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are ( Read more... )

Oh, you pendants. Remember back in 1999 when smarmy assholes couldn't let any mention of the millennium go by without pointing out that 2000 was not the start of a new millennium, since there was no year zero? Did you hate them, were you one of them, or both ( Read more... )