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Jan
18
2011
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Sort of stupid: using WWII grenades as bookends. Really stupid: giving one of those grenades to a neighbor, no questions asked. Extremely stupid: accepting said grenade. Maximum stupid: immediately pulling the pin from that grenade. Bomb squad, come on down!
via gizmodo.com
sigh. Danger unexploded bookend…
Oct
25
2010
0Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Dilbert comic strip for 10/25/2010 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.
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Sep
13
2010
0I’m a huge fan of the Hyperbole and a Half site and this made ROFLMAO.
One of the most difficult aspects of interacting with other people is figuring out how to extricate yourself from a conversation without appearing rude or mentally unstable. You aren’t allowed to just walk away – you need to have a reason to stop talking. And the reason can’t be that you want to stop talking. You need to find a way to end the conversation without making it s
eem like you want the conversation to end.
This unspoken set of rules can turn an otherwise rational person into a flailing, helpless victim in a sea of self-perpetuated social anxiety.
It’s like we’re all competing in a game that no one wants to play. And even though you can’t ever win the game, you can prevent yourself from losing by pretending that you like playing long enough to be allowed to stop playing.
Sep
12
2010
0Now here’s an M Night Shyamalan movie that I would go to see…
May
15
2010
0
Ah being a teenager.
I remember it vividly. Everyone was a complete nobber and nowhere near as grown up or clever as I. This list of excerpts from a new book is as revealing as it is funny. If only I possessed the teen diary of my fourteen year old self. Oh, the scorn and ridicule I could pour on that little twat. Not that he was any worse than the others, it’s just that round about that time everything seems so important. It is not until you get older that you realise that life is far too important to take that seriously.
I’m particularly fond of the list that appears about halfway down. The delicious angst of it all.
Of course, I know supposed grown-ups that respond like this now.
Work experience is such a pain
Parents are so unreasonable
Life is disorganised
I’m far too immature
I’m too fat!
Keep being called a goth
Never got any money
Tired all the time
Bunk a lot now
Smoke quite a lot
Started drinking regularly
Keep on crying all the time
[From Opening from the album “Glassworks” by Philip Glass
[Edit: It seems that I am still able to be inadvertently pompous, listening to Philip Glass indeed!)
Apr
14
2010
0
I was looking at a website in firefox when my Echofon plugin threw this rather entertaining error (Invalid /used nonce).
I have yet to figure what it is that I did to piss the plug in off so much that it should blurt this out. Perhaps it is suffering from some kind of browser Tourettes?
I’m guessing a nonce in this usage is not referring to what I think it is…
Apr
5
2010
0I’m a big fan of XKCD. Sometimes the maths in-jokes are a little (that is to say completely) over my head but this one is hilarious. Particularly as I witnessed it myself. @wilw yelped http://twitter.com/wilw/status/11609609414 and many other of the people I follow erm followed.
[From Listening to: Lick It Up from the album “Kiss Klassics” by Kiss
[UPDATE] – I would just like to point out that I in no way find earthquakes or the damage that they cause funny. I understand that people were hurt in this seismic event and two died. According to the Guardian over 20 million people felt it.
Mexico and US rocked by earthquake
The Guardian World News 05/04/2010 11:15
Two dead in border town of Mexicali as buidings shake and roads suffer major structural damage in 7.2 magnitude quakeA 7.2-magnitude earthquake yesterday struck cities in northern Mexico and southern California, tearing up roads, making buildings sway from Los Angeles to Tijuana, and leaving at least two people dead in Mexico.
Mexican officials said at least one person died in a collapsed house and about 100 more were injured in yesterday’s quake, one of the strongest in the area for decades.
Another person, who panicked as the ground shook, ran into the street and was struck by a car on a darkened street in Mexicali, a border city near the epicentre of the quake, that was almost entirely without power.
The earthquake struck at 3.40pm (10.40pm GMT) about 38 miles (60km) south-east of Mexicali, according to the US Geological Survey, with a shallow depth of six miles. Three aftershocks of magnitudes 5.1, 4.5 and 4.3 followed within the hour, and dozens of smaller tremors struck later.
“It sounds like it’s felt by at least 20 million people at this point,” USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said. “Most of southern California felt this earthquake.”
Oct
21
2009
0Great stuff. But what about the plot twist where the story before it also makes sense? I can see from the last panel that RTD uses this grid for his writing
Ape Lad sez, “Dresden Codak, a very funny webcomic, has this handy chart of ’42 Essential Third-Act Twists’ for writers.”
42 Essential 3rd Act Twists(Thanks, Ape Lad!)
[From funny
Aug
6
2009
0
Someone pointed out TypeTees to me yesterday. There are some pretty cool t-shirts on this website if slogans and stuff are your thing. You can also get paid $500 for your pithy witticism if they choose to put it on a shirt.
You simply submit your slogan and other bozos vote for your it. I say bozos because no one seems to like mine.
Not that I’m bitter at all. I’m just misunderstood dammit.