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| Friday, December 21st, 2012 | | 11:59 pm |
 EDIT: I do not automatically friend back anyone just because they friended me – especially if I have no idea who they are and how they found me. If you're planning on hanging around in here, you might as well introduce yourself. If you add me and never say a word, I might not even notice you. | | Monday, December 21st, 2009 | | 6:46 pm |
My Car Today
Died on the way to work. Needed a new fuel pump. After all that work I did to make sure it was clear and ready to go this morning… | | 4:33 pm |
The Vodka God- Stranded
The much-beloved Vodka God is on his way home from a not-very-blissful day of having his car stall (the nerve!) being towed to not one, two, but three dealerships until one was found to be open, and then spending craptons of cash he doesn't have to be able to get home. Horrible day for a deity, particularly a currently sober one. So this is his wife asking for comments of love and encouragement for him to see when he gets here- cause he'll need it. Let's see those comments. 1... 2... 3... EMPATHY! GO! | | Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | | 9:02 pm |
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Les Misérables: the game of the book is the first time that the story of Les Misérables has been adapted into a game. Notice the careful wording. It's the first time the story has been adapted, not the first time the characters have appeared in a game… Les Misérables is popular in Japan, and computer based fighting games are also popular in Japan, so it was inevitable that one day they would meet. So "Arm Joe" was born: a fighting game that uses characters and costumes based on the musical… A man called Takase made the game in the late 1990s. It features all the main characters from Les Misérables, plus a Robot replica of Valjean, a personification of divine judgment, and an animated stuffed rabbit who drives a Mini. 
The picture above shows Inspector Javert faced off against Monsieur Thénardier. Click on the image to see several more screenshots, an explanation for the name "Arm Joe", and a link allowing you to download the game and drop a barricade onto Éponine. | | 9:44 am |
For Anyone Who Doubts That Snow Makes DC People INSANE
People were having a snowball fight in the street (it's not like anybody was out driving) and hit a plainclothes cop. He pulled out a gun. He apparently also didn't bother to identify himself as a cop until another officer (in uniform) arrived and pulled out his gun on the first cop and made him "drop it and let's see some ID." (source) Naturally, someone had a camera, recorded the conversation with the cops, and put it up on YouTube. Idiot cop: "Yes, I did because I got hit with snowballs." Sensible cop: "Go back to your snowball fight, call the station if there are any other problems." | | 6:45 am |
| | Saturday, December 19th, 2009 | | 6:55 pm |
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White Beats Red
It's been over two months since I unsuccessfully tried to donate platelets at the Red Cross. They keep calling, and I keep making appointments, but I haven't been able to make it back there. Saturday mornings are the best/easiest time for me to donate, but my Saturdays since then have been taken up by a play date for Richard, car trouble, a wedding, a birthday party, being sick, being sick again, and other things I've forgotten about. I made an appointment to donate this morning, but there's over a foot of snow on the ground with more still falling steadily. That doesn't frighten me – the road wasn't plowed yet when I woke up this morning; but at least there were no other drivers, and those are the biggest dangers around here whenever there's even a hint of snow on the ground (or even just in the forecast for the relatively-near future) – but I had to assume that the Red Cross, like almost everywhere else, would be closed; the employees huddled at home, hiding under a pile of milk cartons, bread loaves, and rolls of toilet paper. So, another appointment missed. On Tuesday, they'll give me another call and I'll make another appointment for next Saturday. It's funny that, even if I had successfully donated back in October, they'd still be pestering me now because of how much has passed since then. 
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| | Friday, December 18th, 2009 | | 5:00 pm |
| | Monday, December 14th, 2009 | | 10:00 pm |
As The Man Would Say, "Mmmmm... Donutsh... *hic*"
YNetNews.com — New for Hanukkah: Vodka donuts! The who with the what now? Alcohol importers in Israel have decided to market their vodka in an original way: By hiring a pastry chef who is also a bartender to create vodka-soaked donuts ahead of the holiday of Hanukkah. "Adults await sufganiyot (Hanukkah donuts) no less than children do," a source from the company that imports "Hortiza", the vodka to be infused into the donuts, said. "Therefore," he added, "we have decided to launch a line of donuts suitable for adults and party-goers." Naturally, I think that this has to be one of the greatest ideas in the history of ever … except … is it really a good idea for a group of people sitting around up to nine open flames to be eating flammable pastry? A 100 gram donut, sold at the price of ₪4.5 (about US$1.18), contains 90 milliliters of vodka diluted with jam. The vodka contains 35% alcohol, and the alcohol content of each donut is equal to that of a bottle of beer. In other words, anyone eating more than one vodka donut had better hand over his or her car keys to a friend. Are you kidding? I want a couple of dozen of these at the next long, boring company meeting. In order to meet the requirements of the law, the vodka donut will only be sold to adults presenting the appropriate ID. The vodka donut trend seems to be spreading this year, and has also reached many bakeries in lower concentrations. Spreading is good; I expect my Jewish friends to let me know when these appear locally. However, I cannot in all good conscience approve of that "lower concentrations" phrase. (Thanks to  irishrose888 for notifying me of this development.) | | Saturday, December 12th, 2009 | | 7:27 am |
New England Patriots Mascot Arrested in Sex Sting
Providence, RI — A man who acts as a mascot for the New England Patriots is among 14 people who have been arrested for prostitution-related crimes in Rhode Island since a new law went into effect that banned indoor prostitution… It's a relatively-little-known fact that, for several years now, "indoor" prostitution has been legal in Rhode Island due to an accidental loophole caused by a poorly-designed law. A defense attorney for one arrested John managed to get his client off by finding and exploiting that loophole (thus getting the client off for the second time); and once the precedent had been set, other judges were throwing out cases which also fit the loophole. Eventually, the police stopped making arrests which they knew weren't going to be upheld. Every year, the RI general assembly tried to pass a law to close the loophole, but they failed for a variety of reasons. The ACLU opposed any attempted to close the loophole, as did some families with Italian-sounding last names. Apparently, just last month, a new law made prostitution a misdemeanor crime "regardless of where it occurs". State Police say Robert Sormanti of Warwick was among those arrested in an undercover sting at a hotel. The Providence Journal reports Sormanti is among the team's mascots… I realize that it doesn't count as "furry" since the New England Patriots' mascot isn't an animal (it's a Patriot, duh), but I still think it's funny imagining he was in the costume at the time of the arrest. You know, while that loophole was still in effect, maybe the Patriots should have just used her (NSFW) as their official mascot. A football stadium counts as "indoors", right? (No, wait, they play in Massachusetts. Never mind.) | | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | | 8:09 am |
| | Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 | | 5:23 pm |
| | Sunday, December 6th, 2009 | | 3:21 pm |
| | Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | | 10:19 am |
| | Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | | 12:38 pm |
Bad Sex in Fiction Award
London (AP) — A cringe-inducing passage which compares a sexual encounter to battle with an one-eyed mythological monster was awarded Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize on Monday. I thought "battling with Cyclops" was a euphemism for masturbation? The editors of the Literary Review magazine said best-selling American author Jonathan Littell won the prize for describing a sex act as "a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg." "I was so hard my blood boiled and the juice ran down my egg... The sex was not all it was cracked up to be, after I came out of my shell. When it was over, I just felt fried. I guess the yolk was on me." The offending passage compared female genitalia to various Greek fiends, including the mythical monster Gorgon and "a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks." Which orifice is the Scylla and which is the Charybdis? Littell beat other shortlisted authors including Paul Theroux and John Banville to the prize, which celebrates crude or ridiculous descriptions of sex in modern literature. Perhaps if they had actually had sex, they might have been able to do a better job writing about it. Littell's book The Kindly Ones is a 900-page epic narrated by a fictional Nazi officer. Originally published in French, the international best-seller won France's top literary honor, the Goncourt Prize, in 2006. So it's about the French being screwed by the Germans? I withdraw my previous comment; this is something with which they should have a lot of experience… Last year, the magazine gave the annual prize to British writer Rachel Johnson for a passage in her satirical novel Shire Hell. John Updike was awarded a lifetime achievement award after he had been shortlisted for the prize four times in its 17-year history. John Updike is the only one of the authors listed whose work I've ever read (The Witches of Eastwick). Of course, given that he published a collection of poems in 1974 named Cunts: Upon Receiving The Swingers Life Club Membership Solicitation, I suppose it was inevitable that he would win an award like this sooner or later. Literary Review said Littell's editor accepted the prize, but the author himself was not available for comment. Rachel Johnson considers her 2008 Bad Sex in Fiction Prize an "absolute honour". | | 9:23 am |
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Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42 Describe (briefly) what you see in the above picture. Post a comment if you need to be more verbose. Do you consider that picture Safe For Work? Why is that picture there? | | 9:10 am |
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