I hate it when retailers get uppity. I made an order to an online store that was never filled, and they give me the "cancelled orders require a restocking fee" bullshit. They never even told me it was backordered, or gave me the chance to confirm. I emailed them back saying they can either waive a 2.50 restocking fee, or I never buy shit from ( Read more... )

This entry turned somewhat political, but let me preface it by saying that I think it is very important to protect the environment and the balances and ecosystems that support life on this planet, I just think that there's a lot of unquestioned tenets of the eco-friendly lifestyle that people take for granted. There's also a dangerous sense of ( Read more... )

I remember the idea for a Babylon 5 marathon getting tossed around a while back, but it never materialized. Considering a lot of us are now re-fragmented for the school year, it's looking less and less likely, but I downloaded and am re-watching Season 1 again for myself. I was worried everything would seem campy and/or low-budget in retrospect, ( Read more... )

Went on a long wikipedia run, somehow going from Dyson Spheres to Da Vinci Code to Last Supper to Judas Iscariot. The whole deal raises some interesting philosophical questions I'd thought about before, but not really in detail. I've also wondered about the details of what Judas actually betrayed. I mean, it's very poetic and all (Shakespeare did ( Read more... )

Boo: The Battlefield 2 demo crashes on my Windows XP machine, so I can't even try it out. Maybe the full version would work, but I fail to see any reason to pay money when even the free version is a buggy piece of shit ( Read more... )

This is an interesting blog by a doctor who reads comics. Does reviews of medical terminology and portrayals of injuries/treatments in various comics. Recently there was a post about the whole psychic powers<->nosebleeds thing, which I had noticed. Pretty interesting ( Read more... )

McDonalds stops serving breakfast at 10, which is retarded. People seriously go in to a McDonalds at 10:30 expecting lunch? Christ. This is a college town, FFS ( Read more... )

fawxie tagged me with this meme, and I'm participating because I'm always open to music suggestions and recommendations from other people. So read this and list your own songs:

Songs:
Final Doom 'Quick Fix' - DJ RedlightHyperblast (Redux) - Unreal Tournament 2k4 OST ( Read more... )

( Comics stuff - all the books I've bought this summer )

I have an itch that I'm in the process of scratching, we'll see if anything ever comes of it. Partly, I'm doing it to learn the ropes with Ruby ( Read more... )