Cut for the benefit of medically squeamish

( owowowowowowow )

Some days, it is good to realize that you are not as completely corrupted as you assumed you were. That your innocence is not totally lost. That no matter how jaded you are to goatse and shitting dick nipples and the usual filth of the dregs of the internet, there's still horrible things you have been safe from. Even if you understood Rule 34 ( Read more... )

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So, in between running around like crazy and getting moved into San Diego, I've been going to art museums. And reading about art. And while there's some things of modern art that I simply do not get, or find boring (*cough*abstractexpressionism*cough*), I do find a lot of movements intruiging, and I've particularly been struck by one in particular ( Read more... )

Ok, this lj is going to start with one of the most cliche lj-angst-post tropes ever. ( Cut for emo, length, and for folks that don't think they should read it )

It has a keyboard.

No, I'm not talking about the standard QWERTY one (which... is admittedly kinda crappy, and annoying to write on for too long).

I mean I've been practicing musical scales because one of the apps has a freaking keyboard that is fun to simply bang on and make... some sort of hopefully vaguely-musical noise. It's been a long time ( Read more... )

So, my original plan was to wait for the iPad 3g ( Read more... )

Thursday night:

Picked Ho0ber up at train station. Steaks and scotch tasting flights at The Brandy Library. Missed that salon of Lee's, though, sadly.
Friday:

Movers arrived an hour early! Argh! Crazy run-around-packing-time! Also, scary thing: the head mover dude is a computer science graduate. Yipes!

Bought plane ticket home for early Thursday ( Read more... )

I've always felt that the "well, scientists were wrong about X, Y, and Z, so they're probably wrong about [thing I think should be wrong], too" argument was somehow fallacious, or at least irrelevant, but I've never had a truly decent rebuttal(*). But I stumbled across this bit of writing by Asimov by way of RationalWiki, which gives a really, ( Read more... )

I wanted to show somebody that horribly horribly purplely-prosed published pile of plumb p...crazy writing I found a while back, so I googled "dew-covered otters". This was of course totally misremembering the relevant line, ("bottles of wine covered with dew, and otters") but I still found the Metafilter discussion thereof. Which is a comment ( Read more... )