I started working on this post a loooooong time ago -- back in February of this year, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I wrote up about 4/5 of it, was called away, and forgot to ever return to it. So yes, the blog posts I'm linking to are several months out of date, and I'm sure this debate probably progressed quite nicely without me. But I'm ( Read more... )

My dad and my grandfather are getting into a political argument downstairs ( Read more... )

...that should have come long, long ago ( Read more... )

This video shows a creationist's perspective on vanilla flowers and the certain only species of bee that is able to pollinate them. "Clearly, the flower and the bee were made for each other by God, so we humans can have vanilla, which we enjoy ( Read more... )

The 3 cat stances we have in Karate (up from 2) are called mame "short", mahame "regular", and hame "long". That's ridiculous and retarded. Why are they called such similar names when they're totally different and the distinction is important ( Read more... )

George: ....... i want to see you so much
me: so freaking impossibly much
being with you is like being on an iv drip of joy
to make a very unpoetic analogy, but enh.

Why did I feel the need to disclaim my statement like that? Why are things like IV drips unpoetic? Unromantic I can understand; IV drips are associated with modern medicine, pain and ( Read more... )

I first encountered this principle when I got into chainmaille, but it applies to just about anything on the planet ( Read more... )