Generally, I don't consider myself a gun enthusiast. In fact, I generally try to distance myself from people who are, figuratively as well as literally. On the other hand, I don't think that enthusiasm for weaponry is bad in and of itself, and while I do strive to be non-violent in my personal life, I'm not exactly a pacifist, either ( Read more... )

For those of you who read my last post, this is actually what I'd been meaning to write about when a wrote that other generic shlock instead ( Read more... )

from The Daily Show, John Stewart and John Oliver are discussing Bush's legacy. John Stewart asks his senior analyst why Bush seems to be so bent on screwing up America in every last possible way ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was at the old house -- which, by the way, seems unimaginably shoddy now that all our personal belongings aren't masking any of its "charm" -- I was cleaning up a bit and packing a few remaining odds and ends, when the new tenant came by to negotiate on the washer, dryer and fridge ( Read more... )

This morning, I bought about 1.5 Roombas at a garage sale. How did I buy one and a half robotic vacuum cleaners, you might ask ( Read more... )

A while back I posted an entry in which I said I'd give a prize to whomever could explain what Female, Fat, Forty, Fertile, and Flatulent, referred to. christa7 correctly answered with Gallbladder disease, and felixamatrix had the most imaginative non-correct answer which I still don't quite understand.

Anyway, some time went by and then christa7 asked "what about that ( Read more... )

Remember how I used to be a musician? And remember how I'm currently studying Chinese Medicine? Well, I finally did something about that correlation and starting writing a bunch of ludicrously cheesy songs. These songs are not just for fun though; they are meant as mnemonics to help me remember key details about herbal formulas, such as the ( Read more... )

Mark Morford, the ever-amusing columnist for the S.F. Chronicle, has recently composed this elegant interpretation of the recent discovery by scientists that our planets internal music is a lot more complex than previously thought, though it's still far from being understood.

In unrelated news, the increasingly famous Stuff White People Like blog ( Read more... )

(posted earlier by mameiping. I'm reposting it because everyone should watch it.)

It all started with the viral video of the guy in the orange sweatshirt moving in ways that simply look impossible. I'm sure, by now, that everyone on the Series Of Tubes has seen this video...

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David "Elsewhere" Bernal has since been the star of quite a few adds, and he's still doing his stuff.
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