Out of curiousity I installed Pokémon GO on my phone a couple of days ago and... it's addictive. I'm already a walker who enjoys wandering around my city for my lunch break and taking different routes to get from the office to the light rail station, so having another reason to look around and register the landmarks, learn about ones I haven't ( Read more... )

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I am so naming a character in a Journal Entry Yana Chernyshova one of these days. [Warning: NSFW]

In other very furry inspiration, you really can't beat Marcus Ranum's Catgirls, including the utterly perfect In Heat. [Again, NSFW]

In a review of Gentoo, writer "Pappy" at opednews.com writes, "As everyone knows who reads my stuff, I am nothing if not a rebel," followed by this gem: "While Gentoo remains perhaps the most difficult operating system I have ever installed on a computer, once it gets installed, it works quite nicely ( Read more... )

Went to the doctor's this morning for my follow-up. He said I have the kidneys and liver of an 18 year old. I made some crack about not drinking heavily. "Well," he said, "now you know you can start." My cholesterol is good, as is my testosterone. Funny, I don't feel that way. I feel... 40.


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Ouch #1: Seen in a book review: The habitat arrives in Saturn orbit and sends a lumbering probe down to the surface of Saturn's moon. The probe refuses to upload its data. The habitat experiences a series of minor malfunctions that slightly affect certain things, like the orientation of its solar array. There's a presidential election, in which the ( Read more... )

1. Mexican Neo-Symphonic/Progressive Rock

2. Underage Lesbian Vampire Dickgirls In Love. (Manga, but NSFW, obviously).

I have seen the coolest wasp ever. The Emerald Cockroach Wasp doesn't just kill cockroaches (which I utterly loathe) and implant its eggs into them. Oh, no. It's too cool for that. Instead, it lands on the roach's head and inserts its stinger precisely into the portion of the roach's brain that controls movement, turning it into a zombie. The ( Read more... )

I saw this woman driving down the street yesterday in a handsome, black Mazda, the kind that looks like it tried to "sex up" a late-70's model Corvette. What first caught my eye was her license plate: VIXEN, followed by what looked like two SCA-related stickers on either side of the plate. As I got closer, I saw they were authentic Autobahn pass ( Read more... )