About the increasing narcissism observed in youth ( Read more... )

OK, so he's no Borat. But this was worth a giggle.

If something in the toaster oven is smouldering, opening the toaster door will cause it to burst into flames.

If you close the door again, the flames will eventually exhaust themselves.

But your apartment will stink of charred, blackened bagel.

That is all.

Edit: Anyone know how to get smoke-stains off glass and plastic?

I didn't know about this initiative before. I came across it in minnehaha B's blog and felt compelled to spread the word:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,69615-0.htmlhttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/

The Lost project:

http://www.lost.eu/e81d

Intriguing.

Catch up on the story hereWe should ALL change our default userpics to something involving non-sexual nudity. Whether people choose classical or other artwork featuring nursing Madonnas, or other kinds of art (statue of David; Renaissance, Impressionist, or Pre-Raphaelite nudes, etc.) or images that show male and female body parts without clothing ( Read more... )

(Note: It's not that I'm doing double-nag duty; it's that LJ was being weird and this entry pulling some kind of disappearing act, so I'm moving it up to today and deleting the earlier version.)

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Yesterday (Monday) I achieved the halfway mark in my fundraising efforts!I would publicly thank several LJ people for their donations, only the ( Read more... )

Week 2 of the weekend training rides for this summer's Bike Rally.

Here is this week's route, a nice little jaunt through Mississauga/Port Credit. ( Details here. )

So...

( Yesterday was my first training ride )

Today I voted.
I now claim righteousness and
The right to complain.