February 2012
50 posts
My tennis partner just sent me an IM asking, “How’s Tricks?”
I told him, “Still for kids.”
:-( It’s already bleeding thru.
I just stabbed myself in the finger with a sharp pair of hair cutting sheers. :-(
I considered shouting this from my patio but who would care?
Oh, wait…
Nein Nein Nein.
I just woke up and cried.
That awkward moment when you think you locked your car keys inside your car and you need to leave.
Okay. LOL because I just scared the stuffing out of a couple of maintenance guys here. Going off of some OSTENSIBLY bad information they tried to open my door and just walk into my unit — thinking it was vacant? I saw the knob turn. Looked thru the peephole and saw him enter his key to open the door! They didn’t even knock! I flung the door open IN MY UNDERWEAR and said, “What...
Our darling server to me: What kind of water would you like? Me: I’d like champagne water. (laughter)
Top five regrets →
swissmiss, swiss-miss.com
Top five regrets of the dying: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I wish I had…
Lemon-Cream Pasta Toss →
vikingrange.com
Sehr gute!
Scientists have (probably) made contact with... →
io9.com
13,000 feet beneath the surface of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet rests the otherworldly Lake Vostok. Home to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, Vostok has remained isolated from the rest of the world for 20 million years, and …
Waking up and remembering that my car is somewhere else
Dear Filmmakers, Please STOP asking actors to work for free. We can’t buy LaMer and shoes from Barneys with our good looks. Sincerely, Me.
I love the evening Matrix Touch show. Coming home from that is even better than that coming home tipsy from the club feeling — the walk is the same though.
Seriously.
I wish that when being interviewed, guests would NOT respond to a specific question with, “Well, let me start with my history.”
The host didn’t ask for all that and WE DON’T NEED TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR MAMIE’S LOG CABIN IN THE WOODS WHERE YOU WERE BORN. Shit. Just tell us about this great fucking book you just wrote. That’s what we are here for.
(rolls eyes)
Clever-folding tyvek San Francisco map, with... →
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
Shan sez, “Our guide/map of SF is printed on a single sheet of A3 Tyvek, and is then folded up according to a technique originally developed at Tokyo University for satellite solar panels. The bistable nature of the fold means that i…
I want to do thissssss!