Pictures are worth a thousand words. Someone figure out how much I'd get if I charged a nickel per.


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Today I got involved in a project. I'm not sure how involved, because during the whole pre-project-planning pre-meeting, I maybe said two words ( Read more... )

People much smarter and more qualified than myself have pointed out, time and time again, that our craze with anti-bacterial soap and antibiotics is pretty much going to kill us all in about fifty years. Our children, whose parents are afraid to let them play outside, go to kindergarten or public school, are growing up in anti-septic environments. ( Read more... )

Today in Rhetoric we had to bring in a visual argument to show the class. (Yes, we had show-and-tell.) I, of course, forgot all about it until I walked into a classroom where everyone was holding a magazine or a cutout or a poster or something, so I had to scramble to the internet to find something. After rejecting my initial choice, I remembered a ( Read more... )

God, I wish I could remember the sci-fi story that pretty much went along these lines. The only details I remember is that it's about a man and his wife, and the government is putting in subliminal billboards all up and down the highway, encouraging people to buy new things. As a result, the sides of the highway are landfills, filled with barely- ( Read more... )

Apparently, November is Native American month (possibly with the words "Heritage" or "Culture" or "History" thrown in there, I didn't bother checking.) This strikes me as kind of a fucked up thing to do - just another continuation of the tradition of giving the Native Americans the shaft ( Read more... )

People have absolutely no fucking couth anymore ( Read more... )

I don't know if any of you have read Snow Crash or not, but at the risk of spoiling the story, the Asherah virus is packaged inside a popular drug being distributed on the street, to make sure people get infected. (Also, Snape kills Dumbledore, but that's old news.) Thinking about that, and how much I hate children, gave me an idea ( Read more... )

My roommate brettlpb and I recently decided to cancel our Dish! network subscription. This largely had to do with the amount of shit that is played on television nowadays and not with the Dish! service itself, which Brett regrettably didn't tell the operator. They were surprisingly quick about it. While Brett was on the phone with them, cancelling the ( Read more... )