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X-Files meets Stargate
Watching the second episode of X-Files, "Deep Throat," I couldn't help but notice that both the actor playing the Air Force pilot and the actress playing his wife have been in Stargate SG-1, which makes the whole episode feel like a cross-over. From the Stargate perspective, the pilot was a scientist at Area 51 who came in contact with something ( Read more... ) -
You know it's a classy hotel when...
Real phone tree message when I called the main phone number for a hotel:
Thank you for calling the [hotel name]. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please hang up and dial 9-1-1. If this is a mental health crisis, you may please contact the county crisis line at [phone number]. If you know the 3-digit extension for the person ( Read more... ) -
9-1-1 is hiring!
It's no secret that 9-1-1 can get overwhelmed with calls so that emergency calls have to hold until someone can get off the phone with the emergency they're already taking care of to answer the new emergency call. This is one of the reasons we tend to scream incoherently and make threatening motions whenever the city threatens to downsize our ( Read more... ) -
Nothing like having the best equipment.
Really. This is nothing like that. Today I fixed a keyboard so one of the most-used keys would stop falling off of it when pressed ( Read more... ) -
Deodorant non sequitur
My roommate just walked out of her room and proclaimed, "Lesson number one: Don't eat deodorant. Makes your mouth funny."
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The definition of art
Read today in a magazine, "Art is anything that makes you feel a little bit less alone ( Read more... ) -
A gift of graph for my student friends...
To all my friends who have not yet chewed through the bars to escape from graduated from the education system:
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