So I'm almost all moved now, except for the cleaning supplies still littering the old place. I just need to mop the bathroom and vacuum one more time, and then I'm set ( Read more... )

Who wants to hear an awesome story about corporate incompetence? I think you do ( Read more... )

"Hey, guys, I just figured out what 0/0 is! It's nullity, a concept I totally just made up. It's a little like i, only without those pesky useful applications. By the way, I'm not actually a mathematician."My personal crankometer started beeping at "Imagine you're landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot's working. If it divides by zero and ( Read more... )

You might have noticed that the LJ NavStrip is now set to "always show" by default, and that while you can disable it on your own journal and on journals that are set to defer to your preferences, you still have to see it on the journals of people who leave it as "always show." Yes, their "always show" overrides your "never show ( Read more... )

I have often said to myself, "Self, wouldn't it great if someone gathered the crazy diamonds of the Internet and organized them by subject matter and level of brilliance so that I did not have to dig through mounds of the dully stupid before hitting the bling-bling?"

JackpotIf anyone needs me, I'll be learning about how humanity evolved from the ( Read more... )

My lunch-time news reading led me to some mind-boggling stupitity currently going down in South Carolina. Apparently, the state legislature just voted to pass a bill that would make cockfighting a felony but tabled a bill that would have done the same for domestic violence. Understandably, people are upset.

Enter Representative John Graham Altman. ( Read more... )

Last winter I didn't fall on the ice once. Lo, I was proud.

I've had two major wipe-outs so far this year, both with witnesses and both right after I'd crossed a tricky area and thought, "Well, that wasn't so--"

Man, my knee hurts.

ETA: I'm sorry, pal, but you went rather past "wrong word choice," wouldn't you say?

So, a third of the high school students surveyed, upon being read the First Amendment, said that it went "too far" in guaranteeing rights. Only 83% believe that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions. Only half believe that newspapers should be allowed to publish articles without government approval ( Read more... )