You know you've been looking for this; if you haven't, then watch it and find out why everyone else has. It really needs no introduction, but here's one anyway.

Quick, watch it before it gets pulled! Wholesome whatthefuckness at its most classic. Me, I love it when cartoons go into scary territory, always have.

    Here, I answer some questions asked by dove_cg regarding my fanfic idea. For you lurkers, some questions come from here.

Why do you call your character a Mary Sue?    Reverse psychology; If I say she isn't then everyone will assume she is ( Read more... )

    More fantasy goodness...about fantasy wrongness. See, there's this guy ~3.875 years my junior named Christopher Paolini who's writing a fantasy trilogy. I'll assume my readership has never known of Eragon before so as to give myself an excuse to infodump. Eragon is a checklist of fantasy cliches and a New York Times bestseller. Paolini is ( Read more... )

    Someone mentions writing writing fantasy fiction, I mention limyaael. It's a reflex. The problem lies in that she hasn't updated her memories in...a while. While the newer rants are accessible through the main journal, it's inconvenient to view them 20 entries at a time; it's even more inconvenient for someone who gets to view her locked entries ( Read more... )

    My continuing observation has...well, observed two sociological patterns in how humans approach economics. There are the political know-it-alls who have no damn idea what they're talking about, and everyone else, who try to avoid the obstructing barroom thug that is economics knowing that they wouldn't know what they'd be saying either ( Read more... )

    I have this idea for a series of Bratz fan fiction. (I've also explained this entry's title in the first sentence.) Here's the "plot": giggling schoolgirls contrasted with Mary-Sue, who gets to do the interesting stuff. It should bear mentioning that said Sue has a mindset more fitting with Mossad operatives than high-schooler fashion ( Read more... )

Oh, Square One, how I miss thee. And Mathman, how I got involved with Square One in the first place. (I was into video games since at least eight, Centipede being my particular favorite.) Not much Mathman on YouTube, but I found this Mathman clip that's funny on its own ( Read more... )

    Once again, Haley shows her genius; specifically, she draws a parallel between warfare and street cons. The rules of the shell game can be described thus: (a) an apparent game of skill is presented to the mark under the assumption that (b) the con is actually playing the game in the first place and not planing to (c) lie and cheat. (And here ( Read more... )

I should really write a list of what I might want to blog about, because I should've done an entry about this long age. Thankfully, I remembered this while wading through the muck of Machiavelli's excess clauses. Squashed Philosophers features the classics without the classically bad writing.

(My mode above? I've just been playing Age of ( Read more... )

    Connections and The Day the Universe Changed (briefly described here and here) are two ten-part documentary series by James Burke about the history of scientific and technological progress. Specifically, Burke emphasizes how "everything is connected to everything else" through a geneology of seemingly unrelated scientific disciplines, the ( Read more... )