Doing redoing taxes is more fun that watching Naruto filler.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/led_art_all_over_boston_t.html

Colleges warned of threatening Web posts
... Police received a 911 call about 12:15 a.m. yesterday from a person in Delaware who saw the post on 4chan.org, a website that hosts message boards ... Boston police said that they are investigating the post and will work with school police departments to ensure the safety of the college communities.
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Past Self: "Hmm. Where should I 'store' the title to the car? Safe deposit box? Too obvious. Filing cabinet? Too easy. I know! I'll put it in a shoebox marked 'old docs 2004' inside another box marked 'old docs, various,' intermixed with receipts, prescriptions, loan notices and phone bills ( Read more... )

Been a while, so here are some links to assertions of the less-sane kind...
Redefining...

• Constant: "pi changes depending upon the strength of the gravitational field involved."
  
• Psychology: "At the risk of sounding extraordinarily sexist, I'm convinced that women ... are programmed to worry their men are going to abandon them."
  
• Criminal ( Read more... )

Heard this (audio link, relevant bit is at 1:50) on NPR yesterday:

"There may be many instances in which a person could not properly be charged with a crime, or a crime under the ordinary criminal code couldn't be proven, but where protecting the safety of the country requires that that person be removed from the battlefield and taken out of ( Read more... )

I am not just a document, damnit.

"Other: please submit copies of your spouse and your California Drivers License"

Okay, no one has ever (seriously) accused me of being fat. But I don't think I'll fit into a copier. And where am I going to find a hammock that's a mesh of comfort and evil1 in the Bay Area? Craigslist?

1 audio

Saffy is the ( Read more... )

Saffy: Speaker of the house is Dennis Hastert... our mayor is John Lee... we were married December 19th 2001...
Me: Is that tomorrow?
Saffy:

(tomorrow's also the day of the exam)

David: What date was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Saffy: 1776
David: I'm looking for a date.
Saffy: ... 1776
David: When do we celebrate Independence Day?
Saffy: July 4...
David: So when was the Declaration of Independance adopted?
Saffy: 1776 ( Read more... )

There's a viking fiddling with the equipment in the computer room next to my cube.

Call security: y/n?