My air conditioner has decided to go on holiday. The high today was over 100. The combination of these circumstances is extremely unfortunate.

For the first time in my life, I now possess a so-called smartphone. It was free with my family's new phone plan and it is highly awesome. The actual phone if anyone cares (not directly relevant ( Read more... )

Link to podcast webpage.

In four easy steps:

1. Bike 3 miles downtown to the farmer's market.
2. Wander the farmer's market for 30 minutes
3. Bike 3 miles back from the farmer's market
4. Step 4, chow down on a quart of delicious fresh locally grown strawberries whilst hot, sweaty, and thirsty from bike ride. BEST STRAWBERRIES EVER.

Dear Foxnews,

You fail at many things, but normally things military isn't one of them. This time it is. A ballistic missile submarine is not a "defense" submarine. The only thing you can use it for is reducing someone's country to ashes. This seems to me an awful lot like an "attack"* from my arm chair general perspective ( Read more... )

So the following is an event that I did not witness, and this is told third hand. However, it has not been reported in any medium as far as I am aware and I feel that the world will be a better place if this true story is out here on the internet. The story goes something like this ( Read more... )

Dear Internet,

Why did you create TVTropes. WHYYYYYYYYY?

Now I know all sorts of fascinating and bizarre facts about every TV/Movie show ever. Like the fact that the celebratory end music from Star Wars Episode 1 is just the emperor's theme in a major key sung by children (holy crap John Williams, I had no idea you were that subversive!).

So for Lent, I have chosen to give up... the internet ( Read more... )

I find it hilarious that the threat of a major snowstorm has resulted in the obliteration of bread supplies at teh local grocery store two days beforehand. Furthermore there are zero snow shovels remaining in the entire city.

You'd think with the multiple snowfalls this winter, people would finally be used to this stuff by now and stop panicking

Annoying ( Read more... )