The census hotline automated system just told me I could order a census form, but only if I give them the number at the top of my census form.

You know what's awesome? The Soyuz program. The Russians send more of these bitches up in a month than we send space shuttles up in a year, and it shows. They've been sending people up in these things since 1961. Not a single person has even been injured in a Soyuz accident since 1971. There were two accidents on manned missions in 1975 and ( Read more... )

Huh. Looks like there's a dating service for mentally ill people. I wonder if there's a questionnaire to evaluate compatibility of symptoms. You know, so the compulsive cleaner doesn't end up going out on a date with the coprophiliac ( Read more... )

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My boss keeps trying to get me to do stuff, but I don't feel like complying. It's different now that the health care bill got passed. We don't really need to work anymore.

Over twenty years ago, as a new faculty member at MIT, I taught an introductory class on psychoanalytic theory. For one meeting, early in the semester, I had assigned Freud's chapters on slips of the tongue from The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. I began class by reviewing Freud's first example: the chairman of a parliamentary session begins the ( Read more... )

what a bunch of bullshit

I keep waiting for a good episode of Caprica, but it never comes.

I took the belief o matic belief quiz, and the results were unsurprising. Funny how the religion I was raised with is the second to last one on the list. The only thing that would be a worse match for me would be Jehovah's Witness. (What the fuck are THEY doing ( Read more... )

"I hope Google can respect Chinese rules and regulations," responded Mr. Li, whose ministry is one of several that regulates China's Internet. "If you insist on taking this action that violates Chinese laws, I repeat: you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and you yourself will have to bear the consequences.There were two young hooligans at the ( Read more... )