The A(n)nals of Online Dating published the weirdo message I received!

Every 30-something year old has a little somethin somethin on the side.

Hey, mercuryfading remember that magazine I used to pick up at the newsagents and then I would text you troubling facts about polar bears and other science-related things?

And then you'd be all: Stop reading that magazine!

They totally deliver to the US. :DDDDDD

But I just watched District B13 over the weekend and if all chase scenes in action movies were this awesome it would make me so happy. Like, my jaw literally dropped open the first time I saw this.

No wires or CGI, just 100% parkour.

Take that Greengrass and your barfy shakycam action in the latter Bourne movies!

To my joy, there's a sequel!

1. Do a Google search for the name of the person you suspect of installing a key logger.
2. After that, search for things like "how much bleach does it take to kill a person" and "how do you dissolve a dead body with lye."
3. Make eye contact with that person.
4. If they act weird, they are busted.

For whatever reason, the following are really chapping my hide lately:

• People who throw themselves on the sword of workplace martyrdom* -- part of a lifelong pet peeve I suppose, I mean, academic martyrdom was in many ways equally annoying, but at least we had the excuse that we were young and dumb. Because work does not care about you. And you ( Read more... )

Lammas Fair!


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I want to know why everyone's entry says this when, in reality, there are about 3 iTunes memes floating around the internets -- at least as far as I can tell.

Ganked from...some dude.

( I can even put it under a cut so as not to offend, but I did feel like doing it: yet another iTunes meme! )

Old lady power: activate ( Read more... )

Oh and, by the way, the other awesome thing about York?

The construction worker BELTING OUT "Take Your Mama" by the Scissor Sisters.

BELTING OUT. SCISSOR SISTERS.

It's all about Bert--he had oatmeal, he loved linoleum, he enjoyed pigeons, he rocked the unibrow. What's not to love about a muppet who knows his limits?