there was an interesting advert break in the middle of the LSU/Ole Miss football game where three niche online dating sites advertised back to back. The first was farmersonly, a hokey advert where three farmers and a dog were in a typical barn location and one of them had a tablet and found a pretty girl to go on a date with. one of the other ( Read more... )

when i was playing cards at the casino the other night, i saw (amongst some awesome Wimbledon action) a trailer for the new Wolverine movie. i couldn't hear any sound out of the trailer, but there was some text that slowly revealed itself through the trailer that went like this:

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THE FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE
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earlier today when i was on the phone with kim, she told me that she has occasionally seen people play bocce ball on the beach.

it blew my mind. bocce ball in the sand? it changes the game so much. i don't think i would like it.

someone rammed into my driver's side window this past weekend. i found a site to buy a replacement for super cheap.

after i placed the order, i got five notification emails over the period of a 24hr period. The first said (essentially), "thanks for placing your order! Your order has *not* been processed yet." the second (about ten minutes ( Read more... )

i was at a bar, getting drunk. on the telly was some UFC, and watching it i came to the following conclusions.

a, UFC is absolutely ridiculous.

b. i'm not quite sure how people who watch UFC find it not homoerotic, but clearly people don't because it represents masculine testosteroney nonsense. but really, it's *incredibly* homoerotic, and ( Read more... )

so i'm playing in a $18,000 guarantee tournament right now. I just suffered a loss in chips getting all in preflop 66 vs 10 10, so i was medium short stack.

in the small blind i get 10J. everyone folds around to me. Decent heads up hand, and i'm glad to have a fold, so i push all in. bb calls and has A7. board comes 89xxQ, giving me a ( Read more... )

the weight of a package i was shipping across the states was initially $20 priority mail. After punching in the box dimensions which was a 14x14x14 box, the computer said, oh no wait, this is going to be $40. Take out the priority option and put standard shipping, and the rate was $13 regardless of size.

That's just weird.

so on the most recent episode of Qi, it's was stated that up until the early 20th century, pink was the associated color with boys and blue was the associated color with girls.

also that up until the 15th century, boys were called "knave girls" and girls were called "gay girls".

one of the panelists asked about the pink vs. blue, what ( Read more... )

so of course because it's a holiday and all, many people have been putting up 'happy thanksgiving' like posts on lj and fb.

yesterday i was experimenting with the whole "reconnect with him/her!" deal that facebook has been touting recently and came to a general conclusion that the only 'friends' that they pop up as someone that you should ( Read more... )

i just learned that the word 'spaz' which is a mildly offensive term in the US is a highly offensive term in the UK. i get the impression that it's not offensive of the curse-word sort like "fuck" or "shit", but rather that it's a categorical offense like a racial slur would be ("nigger" or "chink") except towards the mentally challenged.

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