Remember this XKCD?


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If I start doing quotes a lot, it's not a sign that I've run out of things. On the contrary I usually experience the "I have so many things I want to talk about, I don't know which one to do first." However given the date I thought it fitting.

"Who are the thousand-that is to say, who are 'the country?' In a monarchy, the king and his family ( Read more... )

I'm not going to apologize for my lack of posts of late, as my life has been sufficiently busy as of late. However that doesn't mean I don't have thoughts in my head ( Read more... )

( hopefully only mild spoilers )

For everyone out there who is single, I will repost the anti-Valentine site. Unfortunately it has gotten so popular, likely from all of the disgruntled singles, that they've had to disable card sending.

Meanwhile, Amazon.com cracks me up with their thoughtfulness in thinking about the rest of us.

This is one of my spontaneous ideas for posts, and hopefully it isn't a late-night one, otherwise I might start talking about my little but I figured I may as well talk about it now, as when I wait on my ideas, they're much less likely to see paper. Or the keyboard. Yeah, whatever ( Read more... )

For work reasons, I had to do a Google search on "Sixth International Conference on Geochronology". The first link that pops up is this. By now I really shouldn't be surprised by these things, but I'm still dumbstruck every time I run into one of these ( Read more... )

I was procrastinating taking a break from writing, and I strolled over to one of the old warhammer 40k sites that I visited. It's sad that I haven't played in a while, since everyone else seems to have lost interest. But as a sign of how little I've been keeping up with what's going on, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Eldar are finally ( Read more... )

In regards to the recent released excerpts of the intelligence report on Islamic militancy, I think it's a shame that its being politicized by both sides. It's not surprising, given that we're in an excessively negative midterm election season. It's also amusing watching both sides using the same report to support their position (yay for ( Read more... )

This is going back to one of the concerns I've voiced previously here about the relationship between NASA and the current administration. Yes, most people reading this probably don't care, but it's an issue that is important to me, and I spent enough time researching it that I'm posting it anyway. So there.

( Touchy subject for some )