For the first time, a blog post will go with the my default icon ( Read more... )

Okay. First of all, hi ( Read more... )

It's always funny to me when a person manages to show that they are culturally irrelevant (at best) by an offhand remark. I was trying to think of a good example of this. The Don Imus thing is a good one, I guess, since in my book being racist is pretty culturally irrelevant. Ditto with homophobia as per General Petraeus' remarks of some weeks ( Read more... )

A lot of the people I know are enamored of the iPod's 'Shuffle Songs' feature. When I'm not listening to podcasts or bootlegged Howard Stern broadcasts, I put all the songs on my iPod on shuffle and let it go ( Read more... )

Well, my work laptop just took a giant shit. The hard drive has apparently died. It makes scary clicking noises on startup, as thought a giant grasshopper were hiding in the platters. The last time I tried to reboot it, it said "I can't find a hard drive; good luck working NOW, bitch!" or words to that effect.


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One of the things about Los Angeles that bugs the shit out of me is the insistence upon having "Proper Names" for freeways. The San Diego Freeway, the Santa Ana Freeway, the Golden State Freeway, the Hollywood Freeway, the San Bernadino Freeway, the Santa Monica Freeway, the Harbor Freeway, the Long Beach Freeway ( Read more... )

Please drop me a line and let me know in which mislabeled/unlabeled/poorly-labeled box you put my fucking work gloves. You shitheads.

kthxbye!

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The advent of MP3 has made so-called "hidden tracks" far more of a nuisance than a cool thing. Discuss ( Read more... )

My web/email provider is pissing me off.

I have had few problems with XO, but the one I'm having right now is a big one. They have a safe-list function for email addresses, but it tops out at 25 addresses. So if there are ever more that 25 people that you might receive email from at any given point in time, chances are something's going to get ( Read more... )

Lobbying is a total bullshit practice. I hate it because the people who need the most representation get the least and vice versa ( Read more... )