I found this in an old notebook of mine, probably from around Christmas given some other stuff. I'm posting it here because you lot might get all the references ( Read more... )

I have a few dear principles. One of them is that you aren't allowed to be obsessed with showtunes from a show you haven't seen live. I am in danger of violating this principle.

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I'm watching Survivor online, in the ad-supported official streaming way. They've recently been trying new ads, these interactive ones from one of the cell phone companies; there was a pop-up at the end asking me to fill out a survey about them, so I assume it's an experiment ( Read more... )

Two different cnn.com headlines today invokes Scientists. Not geologists or environmental scientists, just Scientists. What does this say about our society?

Poll #1 is for straight females, poll #2 is for pretty much everyone else (The idea's to separate out my target audience, so if you're a bi female, answer #1 as you would for a guy, I guess. If you're more confusing, just pick one). If the answer's both, pick the one that's more important and explain the nuances in comments ( Read more... )

Tanga is a website that does deal-of-the-day stuff like Woot except that they sometimes have board games, which means I follow them and occasionally actually buy stuff. Like Woot's Bag of Crap, they sometimes do a grab bag, which they call Tanga Trash- a little pricier than the BoC, but it doesn't sell out so fast as to kill their servers. I missed ( Read more... )

I'm at home now, on break. And you know it's not a very exciting day when the best thing to share is actual challenged ballots from the Minnesota senatorial election recount, stolen from one of the other blogs I've got in my RSS reader, I think ( Read more... )

Now that people (Like two people, but still) actually IM me when I'm not around to see if I'm here, I should probably start using my away message rather than just always leaving Adium open and letting people figure it out.

In order to continue to be my friend, you need to go play World of Goo. There's a cross-platform demo. I'll wait.

It's one of those building/physics puzzle games, with the twist that, from what I've seen so far, every level is based on a good idea of how to apply the physics. Some of the ideas are downright brilliant, and having it all click as to ( Read more... )