From an entry about the extinct Pyrenean Ibex ( Read more... )

Lilla and I just had a discussion just now that started with me telling her about a news item where a man paid $150 for a toy poodle and got some steroid-enhanced ferret instead. The discussion basically amounted to me expressing my confusion at why anyone would pay $150 for a dog, but the same confusion applies to cats and other small pets, and ( Read more... )

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I just got "Your account is temporarily locked" because "we do not recognize the device you're on." It made me confirm my identity, which I had to do using my cell phone, because the fuckinng Facebook doesn't believe me when I told them where my mother was born. What the flippity frakking Jesus-wearing-panties FUCK, Facebook? It's my laptop, the ( Read more... )

Someone posted a post over at torch_wood about how someone put a funny caption on a picture of his/her son with the guy who plays Ianto and emailed it around to a bunch of people. S/He's upset about this, and I am utterly mystified as to why.

Sometimes, I feel like a Vulcan amongst humans. I push much of my emotions aside and rely heavily on logic, and then I run into proverbial walls because most other people have - at best - only a passing acquaintence with logic, and at worst go entirely on emotions. I'm not like Data, I have emotions and instincts, even whims. But even my whims are ( Read more... )

Okay, scams are bad enough when aimed at people with jobs and/or income, but I just read on the Oregon Unemployment website about a scam where people steal people's ReliaCards (what they initially put the unemployment money on) to get people's personal information to steal their identities ( Read more... )

There's this fast-food chain that confuses me. Same logo, same company, but in the Midwest it's called Hardee's, and here on the west coast it's called Carl's Junior. Odd.

Farscape Season 2's DVDs are confusing the fuck out of me. There are two sets of DVDs with different pictures and episodes on them, that both say "Season two, disk 1". Two sets of "Season 2, disk 2" as well, and so on. I am extremely fucking confused.

In my email I get a daily vocabulary word from ArcaMax. They're usually ones I've never heard before, and when not they're usually words that not many people know. Today, however, I was flabbergasted by their choice of vocabulary words: constitutionalWHAT? Come on, people, we learned that word in elementary school! EVERYONE should know that word! ( ( Read more... )