A post apropos nothing in particular:

I don't like beer.

I never have, and I am pretty sure I never will.

When Nick and I were kids, our parents used to let us try tiny sips of whatever alcoholic beverage they were drinking with dinner -- basically, we got a clean teaspoon from the kitchen and they'd measure out a spoonful as a sample -- and while I ( Read more... )

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Over the past few weeks, I've been getting a handful of spam emails claiming to be from Amazon.com. The thing is, they've been coming to my fandom Hotmail account, which is not associated with my Amazon account, so obviously there's no way they could be real...

Except I just remembered today that I do, actually, have a secondary Amazon account ( Read more... )

Random thought of the day:

I just realized that for some reason, having a little brother with a phobia of butterflies is about ten times funnier than having a little sister with a phobia of butterflies.

There is absolutely NO objective reason why this is true, but it is true.

Cultural perceptions of gender are so weird.

(Look, I do my best ( Read more... )

Today's randomly chosen theme is: otters

Otters are cute and adorable!

They are also ruthless predators, and have been known to gang up and intimidate alligators. As with cats, don't mistake cute for harmless.

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On a tangential note, is that meme about otters that look like Benedict Cumberbatch still a thing? Because that was hilarious. :D

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Today's randomly chosen theme is: a forkForks are for poking and lifting stuff. Alternately, they are the point where a single path splits into multiple options ( Read more... )

For reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, I need to crowdsource as many terrible and/or hilarious nicknames for "Nicholas" as possible ( Read more... )

The Red Cross is sort of adorable in its efforts to drum up, I dunno, a sort of community feeling among blood donors? Or to ping that little game-reward button most of us have somewhere in the back of our brains.

To wit, this email I received after my most recent donation:

Dear LIZ ( Read more... )

Earlier this year I bought the comfiest sweater in the world at a local clothing store's going-out-of-business sale, and now that autumn has finally arrived for good and for keeps, I get to wear it!

It is not the world's best sweater -- for that, it would need to be three inches longer from shoulder to hem so I could have bought it one or two ( Read more... )

I've been trying to work through the tail end of a Great Lectures series on the Vikings, but I didn't feel like rummaging through my art supplies basket to find my coloring pages, so I opened MS Paint instead and have been making little finger "paintings" loosely in the style of Bob Ross as my latest concentration aid ( Read more... )