I have comprehended a new thing.

I get really uncomfortable the very rare times that someone says, essentially, "Are you married?" as the follow up to finding out my name and clearly as the preface to asking me out. For a while, I figured that it was because my skeeve radar goes off - I am not the sort of person you just ask out, ask anyone who's ( Read more... )

And so the great cycle has turned again; I have the sudden, urgent need to have a Mat Devine gracing my living room. This is based on the latest blog of his, which I find even more fabulous than usual. I'm sorry, Gerard, Bill, Gabe - I'm going to have to forsake you all. Don't forget not to write ( Read more... )

I need to invent a way of drawing little pictures that can be attached to an email so that "visually-oriented" people can GET WHAT I AM SAYING TO THEM, without assuming - because they apparently understand NOTHING I have told them = that I am actually emailing them to say something like, instead of "I'm having trouble with step fourteen, but steps ( Read more... )

Dear Scene Queen Haironista,

I was with you about that story right up to the point that you claimed that the company you were interviewing at had a dress code that, because they didn't like your dyed hair, was "probably unconstitutional ( Read more... )

I think the phrase BLOODY FURIOUS suits my mood, ACTUALLY.

See, when I CHOOSE a product BASED ON what it says on the box: "Each typeface was hand selected to inspire creativity and add life to any personal or business project," (emphasis mine) DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME, IN THE FUCKING README AFTER I INSTALL YOUR FUCKING PRODUCT, that "The fonts ( Read more... )

As an American, I believe firmly that if I am prepared to hand over good money for something, that thing should be available.

This does not seem like a difficult concept. You have something I want, I have money, we trade these things, and everyone goes home happy. I am not left trying to figure out who I have to kill to get what I want, and I ( Read more... )

I feel compelled to make this post a good 'un because I have new people on my flist who have evidently friended me because apiphile says I'm even angrier than she is. Also, I haven't said much about politics in a LONG while (here's how long: my real political posts are on my website, which I haven't updated in donkeys. Also, they're all bitching about GW ( Read more... )

The thing about Go Fug Yourself is that the Fug Girls look at someone's picture and decide, using accepted rules of design and style that their outfit is atrocious. They also factor in a person's individual style, and the other impressions that can be gathered from the photo, such as whether the person appears happy ( Read more... )

We have a new hire in my department. I need to work on ( Read more... )

I...am seriously going to kill something ( Read more... )