Before the day is through, I wanted to take a moment to commemorate the day of birth of my sister Leah, aka tuesdays__grace. I know many of you know how cool Leah is because you've added her to your LJ friends lists completely independent of me, and I'm glad you can see for yourself that she is composed of the Platonic definition of awesome ( Read more... )

God bless the Internets for bringing us this absolutely classic caught-on-tape Bill O'Reilly meltdown from the early days of his career.

I don't know what's freakier...that he veers from placid professional to raging, bellicose maniac on a dime, or that (as chestervhe put it) he actually had hair at one point ( Read more... )

It would be wonderful if you would stop being retrograde and turn direct right about now.

If this keeps up, I may have to add Pluto back to my friends list and cut you instead.

You really don't want that. Ask everyone from internofdoom to the Hammer. When I get to cutting, it...well, it just doesn't end well for anyone ( Read more... )

I was looking for something to amuse me, and I found it: Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel is rapping to save America.

No, really, check it out:

Click to view

As I said over at Scholars & Rogues, the format's a little, er, weird, but I can't argue with the sentiment behind the lyrics. Imagine the matter/antimatter explosion that would result from ( Read more... )

The first thing I thought when the newscasters breathlessly announced this morning that "JLS is pregnant!" was that they were referring to Jamie-Lynn Sigler, formerly known as Meadow Soprano. While that would have derailed my plans to make her my next ex-wife somewhat, I was baffled as to why this was news at all ( Read more... )

This article about Gypsy clans feuding is hilariously funny, yet oddly sad when you consider it in the context of the erosion of a way of life that's existed for centuries.

All we need is for one of the families to start busting out the Chimerstry...

Every time I think Six Apart couldn't possibly surprise me with another boneheaded move to alienate their user base, they go and raise the bar some more.

I think the comment thread over at warren_ellis sums this up about right. But it seems to me that, in addition to being another ass-backward move to PROTECT THE CHILDREN that ends up causing more problems ( Read more... )

One of the odd things about my new job I noticed right away was that our offices and cubes didn't have wastebaskets. When I asked about it, my co-workers told me a hilarious story of how the city government, in an effort to reduce waste, presented everyone with these tiny little black buckets that we were expected to use for our garbage and dump ( Read more... )

I was trying to think of a caption for this photo...


( Read more... )

As proof of the law of karmic conservation, the same day I got word of my new job was when I got hit with the death plague that has claimed many of my friends of late (including ashoe and apathys_girl). After a week of coughing, hacking, and feeling like my chest was stuck in a C-clamp, today I snagged a lucky-break appointment with a nurse-practitioner right up ( Read more... )