Our stuff has landed. I should have taken before and after photos, of an empty bedroom transformed into a solid mass of boxes. It'll be a bit of work before we can even move around. I see a storage unit in our future :(

Dear lazyweb,

Where can I get poster mailing tubes, of respectable diameter (i.e. 4"). I need to mail out a few original prints that I'm selling on ebay and I'm pretty clueless about the best way to do it.

I think that the person behind Peanutweeter has figured out what Twitter is actually useful for.


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Selling some stuff:

Ikea workstation desk

Soundcraft M12 mixing board with rack cabinet

Antique Victorian/Federal sofa

We have a few things that need to go ( Read more... )

My wife tried to steal Will Steger's wallet at the grocery store today.

I wanted to sell it on ebay.

So now that I've come out against blaming right-wingers for the Giffords shooting, let me just say that some of the quotes in this Pharyngula post are awesome.
If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web with crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he be sitting right now? Just asking. - Michael Moore ( Read more... )

Braid is a really good game. If you missed out on the Humble Indie Bundle, well, you missed out. It's a fun puzzle game in the guise of an old-fashioned run-and-jump side-scroller. The trick is that you solve puzzles by manipulating time - rolling it forward and back, speeding it up and slowing it down, etc., though the exact mechanics change ( Read more... )

I finally found a giant snow scoop at Beisswengers (near 694 & 35W). So relieved; I shoveled 12" of snow from our front sidewalks in less than 10 minutes. [ which was promptly drifted over an hour later. But still. ]

(It's similar to this one. You push it along the ground collecting snow, then glide it over to where you're dumping the snow, and ( Read more... )