There's a lot of other things I would like to talk to y'all about at this moment: my wife's birthday (Happy candle day, hellziggy!), my previous 60 hour workweek, Hellboy II, etc ( Read more... )

So, the tickets for the next leg of the Police tour go onsale today at 10AM for legacy members. I am one, having opted to renew my membership last week to hedge towards actually going again. However, given that the tickets are onsale TODAY and ALL of them are going SIMULTANEOUSLY, I can't afford that at this point in the pay cycle.

Why the fuck ( Read more... )

So, we subscribe to Wired. It's a fun little magazine if a titch smug. It covers stuff in technology that's cool and/or shiny: cameras, computers, etc. Most of the time, the articles are little (fairly well-written, mind you) love note articles about the subject at hand. Not a big deal, really, but you usually get the sense that the author is a ( Read more... )

(Partially from a response to oed_1)

I have heard from several sources that it's being posited that structural resonance could have played a part in the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. We need to dispel this rumor; it has no relevance in this situation.

This subject always comes up around bridge disasters because of the well known Tacoma ( Read more... )

Bandwagon HO!

Okay, so everyone else has something to say, I'm going to also. Obviously, the only thing anyone's interested in is the spate of LJ blog deletions that happened recently.

First, the "LJ has no right! That journal was private property! How dare they?" is completely facetious. LJ is a private venture and reserves all rights to exert ( Read more... )

Following along with yesterday's theme of stealing soapboxes from other people, mle292 posted about the "War on Christmas", which is a term coined by Pat Robertson (as I understand it) and advanced by such esteemed scholars as Bill O'Reilly. (Wow, even in sarcasm, my fingers won't let me use that phrase in association with that fuck.) It refers to the ( Read more... )