I get back from the opera, after a wonderful night out with my wife, and the Internet gives me this:

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Well, it's no La Bohème, but it's got a certain charm.

The Pittsburgh Opera Company did an excellent job of putting on La Bohème. It's not one of my favorite operas, but they did a great job. We have to do this and the symphony more often.

Today's Questionable Content suggested the existence of romance novels (aka "girl porn") wherein we have temporal crossovers between 10th Century Vikings and modern day Navy SEALs.

It couldn't be real, could it? Oh, they're real. Honestly, I couldn't sit there and read the descriptions for too long. They're that ridiculous. The one I linked was ( Read more... )

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Ireland, you are not allowed to have toy dolls anymore if this is what you plan to do with them. And just in case you might think this isn't a real product, here's the actual store listing.

There are still people living in iron lungs. How bizarre is that? I'm just stunned by how devastating polio really was. Armies of people kept alive in iron lungs because their body was too paralyzed to breathe ( Read more... )

This calls into question everything you think you know about reality.

You do realize, this is how religions start, right?