I'm watching the most awesome thing right now....

Picture a bedraggled tribe of post-apocalyptic humans living in a jungle that looks suspiciously like a national park.  They're scraping a living together in the undergrowth, though their tanner must be good because all their clothes are cut perfectly (save for the random "jagged" edge and the deep ( Read more... )

Ewan's shatteringly adorable appearance on Top Gear is coming on tonight on BBC America, and that inspired me to venture a repost:

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He's really disarming in this interview.  At some point you just have to reject it and walk away for your own safety.  Sexy bastard.

See my icon?  Change the caption to "Old hard drives suck, Microsoft sucks, and Outlook Express sucks."

My computer access is encumbered at the moment, as I've been reduced to using a very old desktop (though the one I wrote my dissertation on, heh), and a very old laptop that is due to have its hard drive crap out at any time.

My main desktop is ( Read more... )

Having a tough time today.  I've been sitting here for hours and I just cannot engage the material.  Imagine a massive steam engine with all the gears and pipes and moving parts chugging along....then it slowly comes to that proverbial grinding halt and is utterly still.  Then rusts over solid.  Silence and stillness and cold, hollow machinery.  ( Read more... )

QUESTION:

Has anyone ever finished a bottle of nail polish?  I haven't.  They should make them half the normal size or smaller.  Enough for one or two goes and then that's it.  I have 2 dozen bottles that will never go empty.  What a waste.

My nails grow bizarrely fast.  It's like watching a werewolf shoot out claws.  I finally decided to fix up a ( Read more... )

OMG.

G is playing Miley Cyrus in the next room.  And not even as a joke.

Miley.

Cyrus.

I need brain-scrubbers and some Bryan Ferry STAT.


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I like David Tennant, I even met him and got his autograph pre-Who.  But damn!  His fans are fast and determined!  It's ON now beeoches!!

(Icon for new Bear tonight on Discovery.  *squeak!*)

I'm no friend to either party, but Republicans are really showing their asses more and more these days.  And they are not pretty.  The shitstorm conservatives are raising over healthcare reform is astoundingly absurd, ugly, and worst of all, irresponsible.  Oh, and galactically uninformed.

The conservative Investor's Business Daily Editorial ( Read more... )

The State & Local Politics Final Exams continue!  The answers below are exactly as they appear on the student's exam.

Question:  Define federalism.

Federalism is the agreement that the government is ran by two governments.   The national and local government.

*twitch*

Ah, here we are again, the time of year when we sit to grade final exams.  The little lambs, bless them.  Students really do seem to be getting dumber and lazier every year.

But it can be fun, sometimes, to see what they come up with, and I heartily confess that odabee_jones  and I refer to our students as asshats, and there's a reason.  Many reasons, usually ( Read more... )