I survived another visit with my folks in TN. It wasn't as bad a I make it sound. Really we all get along well enough, and it's a nice friendly family. But it's true that friends, family, and fish all stink after 3 days. Maybe it's the time away from my vices that drives me nuts, but I think it's just from being around the same people that makes it ( Read more... )

Today's horoscope spoke to my heart...

"If every little detail of your life hasn't been lining up quite as neatly as you would have wanted, have no fear! Take heart in the fact that you see the bigger picture -- you know that by making small but consistent efforts to keep things on track, you can eventually get to where you need to be. Sure, there ( Read more... )

Around October 4th, we went down to Savannah for a get-the-hell-outta-atl weekend. While we were there we went on a pretty interesting historic ghost tour, and at the end found ourselves at the Pirate House. And there was this plaque on the wall that looked old and interesting, so I snapped a pic with my camera-phone.


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I'm all for modern interpretations of art, but the so-called Sandwich Artists at Subway need to go back to design school. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to make some meat and cheese on bread look appetizing? So then why do I keep getting subs that are built upside-down on smashed bread, all rolled up in a greasy napkin ( Read more... )

Your result for The Golden Compass Daemon Test ...

Opinionated SoulYou are a confident and talkative personality. Occasionally people are hurt by the jokes you make, or the things you say. If they are, though, they should tell you. You would tell them. You don't like passive aggressive people who get upset or hurt but then don't say anything - ( Read more... )

Normally I consider the general public to be complete morons, but every once in a while there are a few shining gems. I read Wired.com a lot, and most of their articles are pretty intelligent, but the user comments are fairly dumb. Not the case today ( Read more... )

Id Losing Faith In PC Gaming

"Steve Nix, director of business development at id Software, believes many hardcore gamers are abandoning PC gaming in favor of consoles."

Well, that's just great. We're losing our faith in Id too. Thanks a lot Id, for all your false promises of Duke Nukem Forever ( Read more... )

Hey, here's a heads-up on an awesome wordsmith archive.

Or, here is a announcement about an interesting banned words list.Lake Superior State University's newest list of banished words is available now. I don't agree with all of their choices, but some of these words and phrases really do need to be removed from our language ( Read more... )

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