The National Weather Service has seen fit to issue a severe weather alert to the effect of it is January in the northern hemisphere and snow could conceivably be falling FROM THE SKYNot particularly heavy snow, not a blizzard, not effing white-out conditions. Not even for the death-from-exposure temperatures we've had the past few days ( Read more... )

+++ TO PUBLIC RADIO PLEDGE DRIVE +++

YOU CANNOT BE YOUR OWN ZEITGEIST STOP

FUNDAMENTALLY IMPOSSIBLE STOP

PLS STOP SAYING FOOLISH THINGS STOP

I WILL GET YOU A DICTIONARY STOP

+++ CHRONOGRAPHIA +++

In light of yesterday's lj strike,* I think it would be wise if the upsurge in site traffic today was directed at synecdochic's completely hypothetical journalling service poll. I am not above getting my point across in the most pointedly pointy way possible, and I think you probably aren't either. The people who run lj have repeatedly demonstrated that they ( Read more... )

Well I don't know. When watching a fictional recounting of Hannibal's exploits, is it too much to ask that they use African elephants and not Asiatic ( Read more... )

Oh Livejournal Six Apart. BAD FORM. I can't say that enough. I don't know how you think this is 'earning back our trust.' All you're doing is:

[A] shifting blame to the potential victims of predators

[B] making it easier for bullies to bully[C] letting your user base know that you don't care about a significant chunk of it because that ( Read more... )

On second thought, no I don't think I can be bothered to kill the poison ivy or trim back the exceedingly pointy blackberry bramble at the end of the garden. Once the noisy and obnoxious neighbors (and their visiting relatives here for the holiday) learn not to go barging into other people's gardens, trampling plants left and right in their attempt ( Read more... )

Argh. Gnashing of teeth. Beration of self for stupidity ( Read more... )

The more I think about it, the more I wonder why everyone automatically jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Body was murdered. He might have over-indulged on the laudanum. Took the Bentley round the cliff corner too fast. Flew his bi-plane into inclement weather. Slipped on the marble tiled floor while getting out of the whirlpool ( Read more... )

one of my co-workers believes that azkaban is "not as good a movie as the other two."

he is clearly insane.

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. . .

at least we are assuming so for his dignity's sake. to call him a gibbering idiot who was raised by a family of inbred blind racoons with no math skills seems a bit presumptuous.