I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
--Marcus Cole, Babylon 5 ( Read more... )

Have you ever played Call of Cthulhu? Of course you haven't ( Read more... )

Ok, so anyone who's looked at education in the last decade knows what "STEM" is.

But now they've added an A. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.

...isn't that, you know, basically... all human knowledge? Don't we traditionally just call that "education"?

So I came across this thing a couple days ago. You probably know that sometimes we do stuff that generates radioactive waste. When we do, we need a place to put it. One of the places we put it is about 25 miles out of Carlsbad, NM, and it's called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and it's going to be radioactive for about ten thousand years. ( Read more... )

I like people who know who they are, and who are unrepentantly themselves. This washes over into my music, too ( Read more... )

I am doing up sheets for Attack of the Candymancer at Intercon and it is gonna be awesome. Who is around Friday morning?

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Robin Williams died today ( Read more... )

Last night, the House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost in the Republican primary. He spent $5 million in the primary (which is insanely high) and lost to a guy who only spent $200k. Normally when someone this famous gets primaried, they think about running as an independent, but Cantor's whole shtick is tied to being Totally A ( Read more... )

I visited my grandmother last night, and she spent a good chunk of the time I spent with her talking about coupon-related shenanigans she'd engaged in, and how cheaply she'd managed to acquire various things. None of them were quite so impressive as her "I got them to pay me to take this food away" stories (triple coupons FTW), but they were still ( Read more... )