So I went to George Bush's barber shop today at the Watergate. In this W is genuinely a Man of the People (or pretends to be). It was a barbershop right out of my childhood, with hair tonic smells and a candy dish and Playboy magazines in the waiting area ( Read more... )

A pretty long one this time, from pisica:

( book meme )

Did anyone else notice that Facebook became unusable and slow right around the same time they enabled Facebook chat?

It would be nice if they'd turn off that useless feature and make it so loading Facebook pages doesn't take 45 seconds or more...

*sigh*

A cat playing the theremin:

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On an unrelated note, we now have housing in DC. We're living on K St NE near Union Station this summer.

This would have happened to me had I stayed in math. Probably a good thing for all involved that I did not. :-)

John McCain = Col. Saul Tigh

Firefox 3 beta is very speedy.

Relatedly, Ubuntu 8.04 beta is also quite good, although emerald isn't working at the moment.

And from the cruising-Wikipedia department, this 1923 $5 bill is really cool.

This 2008 $5 bill with a gigantic purple Helvetica 5 on it, is not.

From grammarwoman:

1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of
3. Post your answers

( Meme-age )

Whoa. I was just sitting here writing more emails about DC sublets, and Tomato ran in with something in his mouth. I was focusing on the fact that he opened the cracked door and was praising him, but Sue noticed he'd brought something in ( Read more... )

I think PhotoshopDisasters may be my new favorite website. (The current top image is mildly NSFW.)