How much do you / should you tip food delivery drivers such as pizza delivery, etc?
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Reason #371 I love San Francisco: San Franciscans to vote on renaming sewage plant after George W. Bush

HP fandom taken just a bit too far: 120 ways to annoy muggles (I'm not gonna name any names but this reminds me of some of you. You know who you are!)
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Apparently I like cheese. A lot.

The other day I went to the fridge for some cheese and realized I had: ( a lot of cheese )

From malefica_v (aka Queen of Days): No Pants Day (Friday May 4th - tomorrow!) and Free RPG Day (June 23rd).

If you missed Body Worlds when it was in Philly or Boston, Bodies: The Exhibition (Warning: plays sound) has recently opened in Rosslyn. Tickets. Has anyone seen it? How is it?

From divamanda23, this Onion-esque "news" item: Child born with 'Care and handling ( Read more... )

geekchick pointed this out at Arisia but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere: Robert Anton Wilson passed away recently, may Eris grant his soul eternal peace The Good Kind of Excitement. His Cosmic Meme-Orial by the sea is in Santa Cruz on Feb 18th.

I definitely want to see Pan's Labyrinth soon. It could be Saturday with chadu, it could be Sunday at AFI with tommxA ( Read more... )

I'm still working on an Arisia post. The short version is I exceeded maximum fun density (had too much fun in too little time) and got very sore and bruised as a result. So yeah, it was a great weekend. :)

I'll probably be at the volunteer party this weekend. Who else is going? I'm also going to try and swing by jessicamelusine's birthday party, and Scrabble ( Read more... )

Due to a sudden but win/win change in plans I might actually make it to happy hour tonight! (I know, I know. Try not to fall over or choke or anything.)

From schneier, Bill Maher's AccuTerror Forecast.

Somehow that led me to this video: Grape Microwave Plasma

AFX Akiba Fest2006 Christmas Cosplay Concert Ball ( Read more... )

From icewolf010, this site has all things bacon, including a Bacon of the Month club. Also see bacontarian.com.

From smoemeth: I thought traffic circles in DC were bad but this insane roundabout in Swindon, England puts things in perspective.

From fabucat, perhaps this is one of Ashcroft's "phantoms of lost liberty"This cute picture reminds me of someone but I won't ( Read more... )

My back felt lots better, then apparently I overdid it Tuesday and it hurt A WHOLE LOT MORE for a day. I don't know what I did but it was so un-fun I'm trying hard not to do it again. ;)

Tower Records is closing. I'd love to pick the bones but just the thought of leaning over for that long makes my back cringe. Hopefully I'll get there before ( Read more... )

First of all, Happy Birthday to queenofhalves! Now that you're not 12 any more, maybe I can work on getting past my love-hate attitude towards Libras... and get that shoe tree out of my mouth. ;)

Which reminds me, the other day queenofhalves linked to the Men In Skirts Calendar, featuring a bunch of LiveJournal folks. I won't spoil the surprise, go check them out for ( Read more... )