January 2009
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Bottlenose dolphin shows off her butchering skills →
In other news, dolphins are really smart. These dolphins (at least the Australian ones) demonstrate that humans aren’t the only food snobs in the evolutionary scheme of things using a special method of preparing cuttlefish for optimal gastronomic enjoyment. Using just their mouths and snouts, dophins are able to gut and debone a cuttlefish making it much easier to eat. Lady dolphins have...
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You know you're special..
D feels creative, and at 1am, I’m feeling intrigued… The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations: * I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! * What I create will be with you in mind. * It’ll be done sometime this year (2009) * You have no clue what it’s going...
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Jan 29th
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I just picked up the keys to my new house *glee*
Jan 29th
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I am at my brother’s house waiting for electricians to finish up doing stuff. They had to cut the power so I’m running on laptop battery with no internet. Productivity is very low and there’s about an hour’s electrical work left and less than an hour’s battery. Meanwhile I’m composing this on my N95 which isn’t particularly comfortable… I think I...
Jan 29th
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RE: To the woman that crapped in my car
Very funny post on Craigslist. It had a happy and hopefully less digestively challenging ending. We met on Craigslist so I am hoping that this post finds you. I know that it could quite possibly be the most humiliating first date that you have ever been on, but I am willing to look past that. I thought we had chemistry sitting at McMenamins sharing that basket of Cajun Tots while drinking the...
Jan 29th
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White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code →
I just like reading articles that tell me things about Obama as a person… He’s just very interesting.
Jan 29th
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Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint... →
Most entertainingly written complaint letter I have seen. I very much like the part when he gets to the main course.
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Words I Learned From Reading David Foster Wallace →
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Schools phasing out cursive →
Well naturally. Now that teachers have become bored with not teaching kids how to read, it’s only natural that they stop teaching them how to write as well. Originally posted as a comment by CascadeHush on The Menstrom Cycle about Schools phasing out cursive using Disqus.
Jan 27th
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“Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll...”
– programmers are tiny gods via slantback and brocatus okay, i am really getting sick of both designers and programmers with their high-horse shit. you shouldn’t have to approach your designer or your programmer with caution, they should be willing and ready to take whatever you throw at them and...
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Crashed Ice →
Quebec hosts an extreme ice skating race called Crashed Ice, an event sponsored by Red Bull.  It’s like ice hockey but without sticks and pucks but just as frenetically paced. Canada sounds fantastic. Ice Hockey and Crashed Ice - ice, padding with a generous serving of conflict/collision… spectator sport bliss.
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Chinese New Year! Oh my god! Chinese New Year! It’s almost 12:30am and there is MAYHEM in my ‘hood! Fireworks have been exploding CONSTANTLY for hours and hours! Burned shreds of red tissue paper from spent fireworks are piling up in drifts! The air is opaque with smoke. People are running through the streets screaming “Woooooo!” I have never seen Chinese people going...
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Jan 24th
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To the persistent person trying to get a password reset for my Evernote account: This is not the username you are looking for. kthx.
Jan 24th
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Fox News Fear Imbalance (via The Daily Show) Yeah. The Daily Show is funny.
Jan 24th
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I have once again been shunned by the deities of old computer games. In an effort to get some cross-platform-multiplayer-iConquer-esque action going, I tried to install Alpha Centauri onto OSX.  I hear the OSX/Mac port doesn’t work very well, so I grabbed my original Windows copy and tried to get it to run on Crossover Games.  No dice.  Apparently someone has managed to get it to run quite...
Jan 24th
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旧正月（チャイニーズ・ニューイヤー）って何？ →
Chinese New Year explained in Japanese.
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