...as greenlily would say.

Does anyone know if LJ syndication is on the fritz? I haven't gotten any syndicated entries all week.

Thanks in advance for any info you can give me.

Lately I've been obsessed with the idea that landline phones are so incredibly reliable when compared to cell phones. Obviously, their functionality is more limited: you can't play video games or send text messages or take photos with a landline phone. But dammit, landline phones always work. You can always hear the person on the other end; you can ( Read more... )

A month or two ago, we visited some friends in suburban NJ. They took us to a nearby "Famous Dave's BBQ" for dinner ( Read more... )

* I would rather read a 400-page book divided into 100 four-page chapters than a book of the same length divided into four 100-page chapters.

* I would rather read a dry account of differences in markup standards as spread out over a comic strip than read all the same words presented purely as prose. (Dinosaur Comics is a perfect example of this. ( Read more... )

According to this website, today was the 9th day of the month of Epip in the year 1725 of the Coptic calendar.

Thus saith Wikipedia"The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and still used in Egypt. This calendar is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar. ... [T]he Roman Emperor Augustus ( Read more... )

Ever heard one of these? About half a year ago, I dialed a friend and was surprised to hear some Dixieland jazz playing instead of a ring. I figured I must have been shunted straight to his voice mail via call waiting, and that he'd wackily chosen to make a music clip be his "away message". But to my further befuddlement, he then answered the phone ( Read more... )

Age nine was an important year for me. It was the year that I finally learned how to do two things my peers had known how to do already for at least three years: tying shoelaces and riding a bike.

( Transformers Velcro! )

So we're told. But if today were the last day of your life, would you actually ( Read more... )

My birthday was a little over a month ago. This was the first birthday in my life for which I have ever received so many birthday wishes, and it's all because of Facebook ( Read more... )

One of the best teachers I had in my four years at UNC wasn't even a teacher for my major (computer science). His name was Thomas Stumpf, and he taught (among other things) 18th-century English literature (listed then as "ENGL 66 ( Read more... )