Month: May 2008
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Cat Ladies. Oh. My. God. I’m almost tempted… Almost. Edited to add: And if you haven’t seen it already, behold Manbabies. My sister was way ahead of the curve with all this. I remember the summer she “helped” with the Coachmen website and spent the entire time Photoshopping her head onto Pete Sampras’s girlfriend’s body…
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What I Imagined the People Around Me Were Saying… This is very funny. Unfortunately I can completely relate to the 15- and 16-year-old ones, because I was pretty much dating that guy and that’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking at the time. Good grief. (Link courtesy of PCJM.)
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Next thing you know there’ll be a mosque…Ugh. It was bad enough learning this week that Camden Council had rejected a planned Muslim school in their community and then claimed that it was solely zoning issues – not racism – that motivated the decision. But now to see this idiotic woman parading her ignorance and…
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Eileen is taking a poll about sweet corn butter application: Butter roll, yay or nay? I grew up in a “roll” household (where you roll the sweet corn on top of a stick of butter for maximum distribution, but which unfortunately causes a dent in the butter and renders it unfit for any other purpose).…
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Wow! Does this story remind anybody else of Satomi Tiger?
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Hey runners: John “The Penguin” Bingham has a new blog! My friend Susi lent me his book No Need for Speed earlier this year. Very motivating for us plodders…
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In the interest of SCIENCE – and because this AskMeFi question is so facinating – I am going to see if Dr. Amy Jones can operate a computer laptop trackpad tonight. Stay tuned for the experiment results. Later: Well, she moved it a little bit but not much. I think that mashing her whole paw…
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The Perils of Working with Socially-Challenged NerdsMy hair’s getting a bit longer, so this morning I decided to try pulling it up with a barrette. The first thing a co-worker said when he saw me: “What’s wrong with your hair?!” Grrr. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
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How Microsoft Counts: Let me see if I’ve got this straight. 3, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7. That is some of the worst product naming I’ve ever heard.
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We are officially living in the Bizarro World. I find myself disagreeing strongly with Kevin Rudd… and agreeing with Malcolm Turnbull. And I bet a lot of you are in the same boat! Edited to add: This is an excellent, excellent editorial on the Henson controversy. Elizabeth Farrelly brings up a lot of the points…