September 2009
i was watching someone play an...
it was like watching my mom play nintendo, all waving the controller around every time she made mario jump over a gap…
trivia tuesday
ragbag:
what is the only animal whose body is not symmetric?
after consulting with elaine benes, you can find the answer here.
while sponge is correct, i must point out that the fluke, flounder, and other flatfish become asymmetrical upon entering adulthood, and that amoebas, although single-celled, are also asymmetrical.
“The book will have a first printing of 1.5 million copies, equal to the first...”
– Palin’s Book Release Moved Up - The Daily Beast
I’d love to see someone compare the syllable:word ratio of the two books.
(via webmarc)
i’m sure that a concordance will be released for all the bible-thumpers, much more telling.
and the first one of you jerks that makes it a word-cloud gets...
langer:
giantrobotlasers:
I’m about to hit the hay, but just had a thought. There are more people actively playing Farmville on Facebook than are on Twitter. That blows my mind, for a few reasons. The $1B valuation / uber hype around twitter is one part of it. But coming from the other direction, that so many people would try out something so frivolous and un-fun as farmville is really quite...
“DISCO NAP:
sleeping when ya got something goin’ later on that you need to...”
– now ya know what it’s called.
Laptop battery myths
whatson:
marco:
TUAW ends this article about laptop batteries with this advice:
Never leave the machine plugged in all the time. Laptops are meant to be portable. Using it as a desktop that never runs on the battery will destroy your battery life.
Cycles are your friend. Never letting the battery complete a cycle will greatly diminish your run-time. Try to avoid charging the battery unless...
“to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. whether it’s good...”
– unlatch-click-boom
a place for everything and everything in its place, fucker.
(s’from some book i like. use google if you feel a need to know.)
“Other flockmates will begin to cannibalise the prolapse area.”
– Prolapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Currently in the lead for most disturbing sentence I have ever read on wikipedia. And in that article, that is a tall order.
(via anthropophagous)
current top ten list of smells encountered:
1. o3 fume
2. comino seed
3. kapok/milkweed
4. lithium-manganese dioxide batteries (lithium-iron disulfides don’t kick as much scent, unless the pressure vent melted during spotwelding)
5. patchouli (fuck you, i like it)
6. d-76
7. heat-softened glaze
8. tenters (raw wool, steel, and damp wood)
9. lilac
10. oakum & molten lead
uncle jared's joke corner!
Q: What kind of bee gives milk?
A: BOO-BEES!
/mirth
on the vicissitudes of my extracanonical pursuits:
there is little more satisfying than donning a virgin wool pendleton robe over a yukata upon autumn.
i have darned my house shoes, for they had fallen into a state of disrepair.
also: this
cantus in memoriam of benjamin britten, for...
williams sonoma has all their recipes online. →
my old man was a resort hotel owner/executive chef way back in the day and has given me several of these guys’ cookbooks. i gotta say that they’re great for exquisite every-day meals.
just search for any ingredient and you’ll find a bunch of killer things to make with it.
now, it’s not like world-stoppingly amazing, but it’s really good food and really easy/cheap to...
old habits die hard
my family got an apple ][+ when i was just a weedoofus. on it, the cursor had to be at the end of whatever you were typing or else it would cut out everything after it when you pressed return.
to this day i still automatically place the cursor at the end of whatever i’m writing before i commit it. i feel anxious if i don’t.
Sex And The City 2 Seeking Twin Babies (NYC) →
whelp, it’s official. they’re making a sex and the city sequel. and from the looks of things, they need the blood of infants to finish it.
today is pickleday again here at the roessler...
got HUGE kirbies, dill weed, thai peppers, horseradish root, cloves, tons of garlics, tumeric, etc.
coming up:
one jar of sweet dill spears (in the fridge already).
one jar of extra-hot dill spears (in the fridge, too).
one jar of semi-sweet bread-and-butter slices (cuke slices are salted and under ice and chilling right now, canning begins at 16:00 -5gmt). i wish i had a mandolin, i could cut...
great waves (00:03:28.927 duration, 195kbps...
