minakokitty and I were on our way to the house of enemy_anime. Being quite hungry, I recommended that we stop at Chik-fil-A for some tasty chicken products. Becky ordered a kid's meal because she had eaten not long before. A bit down the road I was dividing up the meals.
BeckyDid I get a cool toy? MeI don't know. I felt a hunk of plastic. (Hands over toy) Becky" ( Read more... )

Today one of the news titles read "House passes stimulus package"-a story about a piece of economic legislation.

Wouldn't it be better if it were "Package stimulus passes house"-a story about a hot girl walking past your property?

Russian Lineage II player beats rival...to death

After the man's guild reportedly killed a rival's character in-game, the two guilds agreed to have it out in real life. The ensuing brawl left one so badly injured he subsequently died from his injuries in route to a local hospital.

Hawk's short version: PWNED!

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The article also states a 20-year- ( Read more... )

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Okay, so the murder trial against Hans Reiser started.

Did he do it? Who knows. If he did, he obviously would have used this shell command.

"I didn't kill my wife, I just sent a SIGTERM to my mother-in-law's child process."

I bring you a pair of comments that transcends all geeky Internet lore.

Slashdot is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. Part of the celebration includes an auction of nostalgic crap they have lying around to benefit the EFF. One item on sale is a box that just has stuff thrown into it. The photo of the box has a framed picture of Vegeta (yes, that ( Read more... )

So you all know by now that Robert Jordan has passed away. You also know that many have joked that he would die before he finished the series. Sadly, such has come to pass.

Now, admittedly, Rigney's Wheel of Time series wasn't a household name. Such being the case, I pondered an interesting situation this morning ( Read more... )

This was probably obvious to many of you, but this just occurred to me.

When brilliantnova and violentmarmar are together, you get Val + Mar = Valmar, the evil god of darkness from Grandia II.

Run in fear, mortals.

The Onion describes the iPhone's most highly anticipated features.

In the same vein, I thought I would list some of my own:

• Automatically calls the nearest Starbucks to pre-order your usual grande that's French or something
• Comes defaultly subscribed to RSS notifications of the JCrew and American Eagle catalogs
• One-button process to turn you ( Read more... )

The Right Stuf is having a sale until June 27 on a sizable list of Geneon titles. It's not just that you get a few bucks off, you can get 10 DVDs for $50 or 25 for $100 (fucking insane prices)!

o_o That's $5 and $4 a DVD for you pedestrians. And we're not talking bargain bin titles; I nabbed some DVDs with boxed-in-stuff. Here's what I got my ( Read more... )