Crap —
So the point of this post is to include a Bloglines claim verification code. Which is invisible. Doot doot doot doot.
The broader context, though, is that my Urge to Blogtinkery is on an uptick. If you’re not one of those types who never leaves their RSS, you may have noticed the new theme - do […]
Jerry wants some help identifying a mineral; I’m inclined to say “uh, green, um, chlorite? epidote?” but that’s why I’m not a real geologist. He’s also got some tomatoes going, and by zoinks, it’s March, time to get cracking on these recalcitrant scavenged Cherokee Purples!
Am I the only one who finds her eyebrows falling out […]
Mexico finally made it illegal for a husband to rape his wife, hoorah!
I was honorably mentioned in the t-shirt slogan contest, w00t!
This morning I woke up to a total fucker of a charley horse. My leg still hurts, boo.
Newly responsible for the untimely demise of my graduate career: Cities
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Wait a minute - I thought hipsters drank cheap, “ironic” domestic beer? Whatever happened to PBR?
If you look down to the right, you’ll notice that I’ve put up a couple of new themes, one of which is about pirates. However, it is not yet filtered into pirate-speech. I’d say […]
One: Visitation
Zoinks almighty, I’ve been visited by celebrity! You may all stand in line for sprinklings of secondhand radio pixie dust.
Two: A Borrowed Rantlet
From Tild, via Feministe
Jebus H Christ! Is there no relief from phones? Is there nowhere we can be free of the eternal everpresence of the goddamn fucking telephone?
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I hate telephones. Hate them […]
Tis the season for tenure reviews to go awry, for academic dreams to collapse in a pile of rejection letters, for program administrators to bloom in creationist insanity. Tis also the season for up and quittin’ one’s job, and GeoMonkey is seeking my replacement. This is an entry-level position for someone with a Bachelor’s or […]
Okay, so I’m buying myself a laptop. And an iPod. For quasi-reals, yo, they’re sitting in my shopping cart at the Apple store. But Apple, not knowing that any moment of indecision will send me and my checkbook scurrying back under the bed, is offering free engraving on the iPod. Aaaagh!
iPolka
I’m a consumer whore
this machine […]
I’m back at work, oh joy of joys! My car is dead, hoorah!
The “nice” text formatting in WordPress - the way it works by default in v1.5, with no formatting plugins enabled, turning line breaks into paragraphs and straight quotes into curly quotes and most importantly, double-hyphens into n-dashes - is the shittiest thing EVAR. […]
Good consumers choose purchases based on the time-honored means of self-expression through brand identification. We need products that change brand automatically based on the buyer’s self-image.
I was thinking this might help me sort out my yogurt from everyone else’s yogurt in the company fridge, as most of my coworkers’ yogurt would be branded part […]
Sometimes, you get a few flowers from the dumpster. When they’re in the dumpster, they look in really good shape. When you bring them back and stick them in a vase on your desk, you’re suddenly confronted with their imperfections and every broken petal or droopy blossom takes on magnified importance. And you sort of […]