You know what I suddenly realized I wanted? A charity rating website that solicits input from the people who the charity is trying to help. I mean, all the websites I found for evaluating charities pretty much bases it off the financials, which yeah, weeds out the worst, but doesn't actually say anything about how good they are at helping the ( Read more... )

You know what I want Mercedes Lackey to do? Stop dancing around writing a male non-human character/female human character who loves him despite his appearance, and give the next human character who falls into that situation a furry fetish rather than trying to write it as "OH SHE JUST LOVES THE BIRDMAN BECAUSE HE SINGS PRETTY AND THEY'RE BOTH ( Read more... )

...Something that the current manga pirating issues brought to mind, that I'm really not sure how I feel about ( Read more... )

Huh! I just realized that the reason my father will deny that secondhand smoke could possibly have any effects whatsoever to his dying day is because his whole justification for smoking cigars is that he doesn't inhale when he smokes, so it's not actually bad for him. I mean, it's still a stupid and denial-filled rationalization. But at least ( Read more... )

Why is it always the most important emails that get eaten? I've been waiting for some coworkers to get a list prepared for me for a couple weeks, and they just asked me if I'd received it because they'd sent it a while ago and I never responded or did anything with it. I will never not be convinced that computers are malicious ( Read more... )