So, in case you didn't notice, I'm done here.  This journal is closed, although it won't be deleted.

At the beginning of the year I thought I might try to update at least semi-regularly, but there's just too much else I'm doing to make LJ a priority.

I'm keeping the account because I do still follow my friends.  If you'd like to keep up with me, ( Read more... )

I had intended to have my draft by now, but I'll delay it until Monday if I can get at least two more people to sign up.  Head-to-head league!  Lots o' action!  Trash-talking allowed ( Read more... )

Apparently the URL I provided in my invitation to join my fantasy football league is not useful for actually signing up, so here's the information you need ( Read more... )

Now that I have your attention (because I know most of you have given up on me by now), I can assure you I will not be appearing naked and causing any sudden urges to tear your eyes out ( Read more... )

No offense, humorless Objectivists (but I repeat myself).

From Cracked.com.


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We burned out our Sharp Carousel microwave oven tonight, heating up potatoes.  It lasted twelve years so no real complaints; in fact I'd like to get another Sharp, but the new models don't seem to be well-loved.

Any recommendations?  Spending under $100 would be ideal.

I LOL'd:

It looks like DNF might turn out to be a DNF*.

ZoomRumor has it Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms is shutting down. Shacknews today cites ‘a reliable source close to the company' who said the developer, along with the recently resurrected Apogee name, is finished and employees from both have already been let go.
I stopped caring ( Read more... )

Because I like posting flamebait, here's Matthew Yglesias, on a column by Carol Baum comparing the financial CEOs to the protagonists in Atlas Shrugged:

Atlas Shrugged is a stupid book, Ayn Rand is a stupid woman, and John Galt’s ideas are stupid. That said, none of them are nearly this stupid. Rand’s novel isn’t about a world in which executives ( Read more... )

Homer, Louisiana police chief Russell Mills, after one of his officers shot and killed a 73-year-old mute black man:

"If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested.

"We're ( Read more... )

Tycho over at Penny Arcade pretty much nails a one-line review of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse:

It's a science fiction retelling of MTV's The Real World, and it works about as well as you would expect.

Not only that, Tycho has pretty much nailed me as a viewer of Dollhouse: I keep watching in the hope that Whedon knows exactly what he's doing and that ( Read more... )