Eroto-comatose lucidity

(No, I haven't tried it.)

[UPDATE: Yes, I have.]

Watching Portlandia, it seems to me that Portland is the Canada of Seattle. (I wonder what the Canada of Portland is...)

At Yael Farms, Anna gets plenty of exercise. She spends the day herding ibex, drawing water from a well, and moving heavy stones. After a Deuteronomy-friendly dinner of figs, unleavened bread and honey-drizzled ibex, she practices her Mandarin. Like many of the ibex farms sprouting up across the northeastern United States, Yael offers an intensive ( Read more... )

So at work I've been updating what we call the "bad word filter". This is a bunch of regexps that we use to detect whether a document has questionable content or not. In other words, whether it's a porn site or a link to one. Did you know that there is a difference in connotation between the words buttman and assman? They both have the same * ( Read more... )

...because I know how much you love hummus with a bunch of random crap mixed in to it to make it more palatable for white people.

“Hummus may be as far as we can go,” Mia Bolte said while food shopping at the Wedge, the Minneapolis co-op that was Holy Land’s first retailer. “We want to try new things. We want exotic. But maybe hummus is all we can ( Read more... )

ENTITLED WHITE WOMAN USES PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

(*Not* a story from The Onion, amazingly enough...)

The other day I bought chipotle hummus at Wegman's. My white-person status is now permanently secure.

Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

...According to the report, staring blankly at luminescent rectangles is an increasingly central part of modern life. At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any number of business-related tasks, while entertainment rectangles-larger and louder and ( Read more... )

Here is what British people in 1970 thought life would be like in.....THE FUTURE (by which I mean, 1980):

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I had no idea that in.....THE FUTURE (1980), there would be so many women wearing purple wigs and chrome underwear. Hott.

In 1984, when most gangs of crime-solving kids were content with merely catching petty criminals and foiling zany schemes, the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids were using their TRaSh-80s to FIGHT TERRORISM. How awesome is that?!