Once upon a time there was mrshortpants. Approximately threes minutes after his ignoble birth in a back alley of the Internet, mrshortpants stumbled upon Wikipedia's list of Fearsome Critters, one of which was the "cactcus cat." Like a cactus, mrshortpants supposed, but different. Eschewing research, he composed an article about the creature, ( Read more... )

badger5 and I have been banned from Wikipedia for forty-eight hours for "sneaky vandalism." I've never been so proud of us ( Read more... )

This weekend I resumed jogging daily, slapped together that ridiculous budget assignment for my management class, filed my taxes, cleared the ever-annoying Water Temple1 in Majora's Mask, did a load of laundry, finished burning the second season of Dexter to DVD, and mopped the kitchen and bathroom. I could have gotten a start on my bibliographic ( Read more... )

I have chosen to interpret "Show me a draft of your paper, maybe about ten pages" as "Show me your poorly formatted jumble of rambling verbiage, littered with citations that don't quite match the bibliography and spiced with square-bracketed notes to yourself, half of which are bad jokes." I don't draft well.

Hi! I'm updating because I don't want to work on this research paper, and my remaining options are "play on the Internet," "hook the Wii back up," and "mop." If I hook up the Wii I will never finish my work, and the bucket is out on the balcony. Alone. I'd hate to interrupt its quiet time ( Read more... )

GUYS GUYS GUYS

Go look outside right now. We're in the middle of a lunar eclipse that's nice and visible all over North America. It's red! And fantastic!

Well, there goes my dream of Cuba pulling a Weekend at Bernie's.

skm428, this link's for you.

1. On Friday, a surprisingly difficult reference question about current educational policy in Turkmenistan ended in sweet success and with the patron presenting me with a shiny 1000 manat coin as a memento. I spent the rest of day aglow with nerd glee. It says "prezidenti"! And "banky"! I bet I know what those words mean ( Read more... )

From the sounds of it, my upstairs neighbor just tried to discreetly empty a sack of ball bearings all over his kitchen floor.