Preparing taxes for the second year in a row ( Read more... )

SOME TIME AGO

Kit: Sweden is such a hipster country, with the beards and the cheap modernist furniture and the national Twitter account.

Me: Yes but does Sweden have a Tumblr?

Kit: It's classified.

MORE RECENTLY

Kit: Can we just be Sweden now?

Me: Hipster beards and all?

Kit: Hey, if it comes with their gender equality and health care system, I can live ( Read more... )

Me: NOW IF WE CAN JUST GET ONE MORE POTENTIAL REPUBLICAN SENATOR TO SAY WHAT HE REALLY THINKS ABOUT RAPE...
Jessica: or poor people
or like anything
Me: Yes let's face it most of what they say is horrifying and the rest is lies.
Jessica: please, romney say another thing about those losers that pay no income tax.
Me: Make another $10,000 bet. You know ( Read more... )

CUSTOMER: * buying a chocolate-covered Twinkie * Do I need to refrigerate this to keep it from spoiling ( Read more... )

"Intarwebs, I have had a shitty, shitty day. I had to postpone an important job interview because last night I came down with the screaming trots. So it was LITERALLY shitty."

The Intarwebs reply, "BALDERDASH! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR DAY THAT CANNOT BE CURED BY WATCHING A FAT CAT TRY TO ENTER A SKINNY BOX!"*


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To the animators at NASA who put together the little video about the scientific legacy of the Galileo mission*:

Okay, so your idea of how to edit scenes makes it pretty clear why you didn't end up with your dream job at Pixar and instead spend a whole lot of your time animating spinning spheres of various colors and sizes.

HOWEVER.

The choice of " ( Read more... )

Mitt. Mittens. Walter Mitty Romnekins.

The ONLY thing you said during the first debate that people are going to remember (and BTW, that was some impressive wall-to-wall lying you did...do you think you can buy numbers as easily as TV commercials?) is your little throwaway line about firing Big Bird. It never even registered that you said you'd fire ( Read more... )

Like every other good geek grrl with an Internet connection, I was watching the live stream from NASA when Curiosity alighted on Mars like a minivan-sized metal ballerina, and the contact high from the jubilation at the JPL has had me prowling nasa.gov for the past couple of weeks, looking at what's been shakin' in the space race since I gave up ( Read more... )

...which is an ADORABLE and very real blog on Tumblr. Go coo at it and then come back here ( Read more... )

So apparently there is ancient wheat cultivar called "farro" that the Romans used but that now is planted mainly as groundcover between cash-crop seasons. And certain avant garde chefs took this trash-crop and some 2000 year-old recipes and made something hella good out of it. So now farro is this big, fat trendy thing just like asiago cheese ( Read more... )