Granted, this is in no way scientific and comes from some website called “What They Play”, but still…. Jesus Christ…a little sexually repressed, are we? “Two men kissing” rates a point higher than a severed fucking head even though the two men would be no more real than the CGI head? So nobody really cared […]
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 […]
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 […]
I get the biggest kick out of B. and the way his mind works; I never know what to expect. I know he’s naturally curious about a wide range of subjects, and I’ve always told him that he can ask me anything whether it’s about grammar, spelling, vocabulary or something entirely unrelated; that if I […]
Posted in the ID Please Flickr group, there was a picture of framed butterfly specimens. I clicked–I can ID most North American species–and looked, and thought, “This must be an accidental submission–someone posted to all of his/her groups”. Nope, ID Please was the only group to which it was posted, so it was no accident! […]
I have added to the context menu a Delete command that bypasses the trash. I don’t use it often, but some stuff I know I want deleted, and I keep my trash can neatly stored in a drawer on the panel because I don’t like clutter on my Desktop, so emptying it means a couple […]
This is the second time I’ve seen this picture on the blog page for one of my favourite radio stations. The site is non-English, but one would think that the person’s name would be useful. Not so in this case because….it’s “Robin”. That might be helpful elsewhere, but here in North America, Robin can be […]