Sometimes in life you open doors that look pretty innocuous, but lead places you definitely don't want to go ( Read more... )

Someone at my workplace has dared to tell me that I CANNOT RAP!  I am thinking that the second part of "Gimme Some More" [Busta], after the intro but before the chorus, will be sufficiently incontrovertible proof to the contrary.  I am not sure how I can do it without being fired for racism, though.  Even just that one portion contains "nigga" ( Read more... )

Whenever an American starts a sentence with "It's a free country...", I always get really disappointed.  I keep expecting "It's a free country, so I'm going to express my views reasonably and amiably in a public forum regardless of what they are" or "It's a free country, so I'm going to quit my job and marry my true love who is well above my ( Read more... )

Let's play pretend.

Say you are the commander of a fleet in a modern Western nation's navy (pick any one you like).  You're given a directive from your government to combat African piracy.  Your priorities are as follows, in order:

1) Preserve the safety of any innocents captured at sea or held hostage at sea by pirates.
2) Keep the costs of your ( Read more... )

Month of vegetarianism is over!  I kept a logbook of what I ate, mostly to convince myself that I actually managed not to eat meat for a month.  The actual result however has been to make me realize that holy shit, I eat nothing but junk food unless someone more cultured (ie Anna's family) is around.

I did not find this particularly hard to do, ( Read more... )

Today on the T I saw a woman reading a book entitled "How to Prosper in the Current Financial Crisis" and thought nothing of it, except perhaps for feeling some pity.  Then later I saw someone else reading the same book.  I thought it was one of the most meta things I had ever experienced.  Judging from the fact that it looked too new to be a ( Read more... )

So, it's January 5 and I still haven't made a new year's resolution.  (Perhaps worse yet, I also haven't gotten some folks their Christmas presents yet, but that I think I have under control.)  I really like the tradition of new year's resolutions, so I feel it's important I get on this ASAP ( Read more... )

Zwei freunde sind auf noch einen Abenteuer gegangen; geh ins Hoelle.

More details when I have pictures available to me, because I know we've got at least 20, and I ain't writin' y'all no 20,000 words.

So, I've come up with an idea for a short film.  If I ever decide that I don't need to be a part of normal society any more or I don't want friends, I will make it ( Read more... )

Hi all,

I've uploaded (and hopefully removed the embedded track info from) 25 tracks from classic computer games. If this is the sort of thing you find amusing, see if you can guess the game and/or either the name of the track or its place of incidence in the game! Some are instantly recognizable to most nerds and some will be quite hard, so don't ( Read more... )