Alice wants to move into an apartment on August 1st. Bob is offering one month's free rent. Bob agrees to give Alice a lease start date of July 31st, with August's rent free. When Alice goes to give Bob a holding deposit on the apartment, Bob gives Alice this "deal": To "make sure the place is off the market" Bob will give Alice a SUPER deal on ( Read more... )

My car is at the Nissan dealership (again) for a problem with the steering. I just had this conversation with the service dept.:
Service: Mr. Baker, you're all set. There was a problem with the joint between your steering wheel and the steering column. We replaced the joint.
Me (thinking):You fuckers just did some $500 repair without my ( Read more... )

Happy birthday Amanda!

(neptune2208 for everyone who doesn't have Amanda as an LJ friend)

Amazon.com has a gift page "for the one who has everything" here. Just a bizarre collection of stuff, but what caught my eye were the "whipped cream chargers". Now you all know what you should have gotten me for my birthday, although I wouldn't have turned my nose up at an Amish cookbook or a pan flute.

I've been dating a girl named Amanda for 6 months. She's awesome ( Read more... )

Although I like Rock Band/Guitar Hero, I keep wishing there was a better music game out there. A game that had all the great music that I actually like to listen to. A game with a more realistic, open control system where you really felt like you were playing the music. A game with a controller that actually mimics what the real instruments feel ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling Christmas-y. Maybe it was knowing that I only had 1 and a half days of work left. Anyway, Merry Early Christmas ( Read more... )

Just to be clear, the Eagles did not unveil some magical "blueprint" for stopping the Patriots. The basic strategy, as far as I can tell, was to get pressure on Brady, keep Moss from making big plays, and pray the other receivers don't kill you. I've read about a dozen pieces this year on the "blueprint" to stop the Patriots offense, and they've ( Read more... )

So what I want to know is, when are the new Hungry Hungry Hippos with Slow-Release MDMA coming out? Since kids like to swallow things, I don't understand how a toy that's basically Candy Dots that don't taste as good didn't get tested to make sure they wouldn't, say, metabolize into GHB when ingested. Also, how valuable did those toys just become ( Read more... )

Whoever thought up harems clearly had some good ideas, in a febrile-15-year-old-boy sort of way. When Jeff is Commissioner of the World, and I'm Executive VP in charge of Slowly Torturing Ex-COMCAST Employees to Death (STEED)*, I'm going to grab a course catalog from the nearest college. My harem will be composed of large-breasted** PhDs and PhD ( Read more... )