Zombie nerds!

Upon seeing the sentence, “And you’re right about the lame lameh (I can’t do the accent),” most people would read it and forget about it, but I could not. It’s supposed to be lamé, and anyone with a ten-key pad can do accented letters even in a “lamé” OS like Windows. I tried for a […]

There are some truly disgusting foods eaten in various parts of the world. Korean silkworm pupae (canned in their own murky grey-brown “gravy”), the Korean wine with baby mice in the bottom of the bottle. The Philippines (China, too, I think) has balut; a fertilised duck egg that is allowed to develop until the fÅ“tal […]

“Look Ma, here comes an ‘s’! Quick–run to the gun cab’nit an’ git me an apostrophe!” For the love of FSM, you idiots…LEARN HOW TO USE A GODDAMNED APOSTROPHE BEFORE I LOSE MY FUCKING MIND! No, no, NO! They are not “cory’s” and “oto’s” because you are talking about the fish, not something they own. […]

Okay, so we’ve established that I’m a ‘Splo’Ho’ after all, and that although I don’t try to game the system or even do anything to try to get in, I’m always at least mildly amused when I do. I spent some time yesterday just poking around Flickr, not logged in so nothing could be “suggested” […]

When my blog disappeared, I wasn’t too worried; figured it was just a minor fuckup on the server. When it wasn’t back the next day, I was somewhat concerned, and I called. Turns out that one of the servers upon which lived their MySQL databases (including mine) had a catastrophic hardware failure, and the hard […]