September 2010
“In 1977, distressed over losing their guaranteed seat in the Massachusetts...”
– Martha’s Vineyard on Wikipedia
August 2010
Returning the Dell Aero →
First call to my original sales rep. I entered his extension, and was taken to a mailbox system that asked for a mailbox number. I entered the extension again, and was promptly disconnected.
Second call, this time to customer service. Transferred to another rep, then waited on hold for 22 minutes until I was suddenly disconnected.
Third call, no hold time. Transferred to returns department....
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I’ll save you some time
dwineman:
Sign up for Hulu Plus at $10/month.
Get cozy with your iPad, all set to watch the Louies you’ve had in your Hulu queue for the past couple weeks.
Discover that the Hulu Plus app has different content from hulu.com.
That’s right: not more content. Different content.
In particular, it doesn’t have Louie.
Or anything else that was in your queue, or much of anything current that’s...
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vociferate |vəˈsifəˌrāt; vō-|
verb • to shout, complain, or argue loudly or vehemently
[intransitive] he then began to vociferate pretty loudly
[transitive] he entered, vociferating curses.
(from the New Oxford American Dictionary)
Total Drek: I could not be more amused. →
I see a lot of news that I realize will play into the evolution vs. crazy nonsensical bullshit “debate,” and I’m somewhat immune to shock at this point. Nevertheless, there’s just something awesome about seeing mother nature totally give creationists the finger:
Scientists observing a small group of Australian lizards very closely, believe they may be watching evolution...
I got Obama's Back at Starbucks this Morning →
JCPOK on Daily Kos:
The conversation escalated. I was arguing loudly, people were watching, things were getting quit around us. I asked the older man point blank if he was just batshit crazy. He said, “who is to judge what is crazy and what is not.” I pointed out that it’s batshit crazy to publicly assert strange and malicious rumors which you know not to be true. I pointed...
Unique Pretzel Bakery » Online Store →
OH NO WHY DID I FIND THIS NOT GOOD NOT GOOD
“At least 55 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2005, with a value...”
– Apple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huh.
Someone drove past this morning with the Spice...
fairylights:
Is this 1997?
1997 would be more fun than Monday.
Stay classy, America.
delgrosso:
So apparently some enlightened citizens felt it necessary to set fire to the construction site of a new Islamic community center in Tennessee.
I could likely write pages upon pages about this and similar issues in our newly Beck-ified nation, but my thoughts pretty much boil down to one thing: I cannot believe that ten years into the 21st century, we are still having violent...
Important things I have now that I did not have an...
Bagels.
Oh, and groceries.
“[Steven Moffat] first saw Karen Gillan, who plays the doctor’s assistant...”
– Doctor Who promises ‘game-changing cliffhanger’ as series split in two | Media | guardian.co.uk
Wee and dumpy? Wee and dumpy? There are no words to state how wrong that was.
A thought: if Karen Gillan and Christina Hendricks ever meet, the universe will implode from the incredible...
“One side says our weakness emboldens jihadis. The other side says our strength...”
– Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show
This seems eminently sensible to me. Don’t let crazy people dictate your life.
“Lord, please bless this Fallout Boy.”
– The movie Sex Drive was made by the actress Amanda Crew, the character of Lance Johnson, and Seth Green’s one-liners as Ezekiel.
“Piracy is a bigger problem but google has corrected this. The licensing model...”
– Arron La » Android Revenue - Advanced Task Manager
Right. Good luck with that.
“D&D is a sort of simulation. A simulation of living in a fantasy world where...”
– DM of the Rings XIV:Boring Distractions - Twenty Sided
I often get the feeling that “frequently disorganized, highly distractable, and alarmingly vague on the rules of the universe he’s trying to run” also describes any potential creator of our own universe.
“The great thing about old-fashioned, paper-and-pencil D&D was that it...”
– The Believer - Destroy All Monsters
If there exists a more concise description of why many geeks get into and stay with Dungeons and Dragons (and Magic and all the other games), I’ve never read it.
“You have to understand how hard it was for them at the start. People didn’t...”
– A Danish Chef Draws Worldwide Acclaim - NYTimes.com
The individual quoted is Daniella Illerbrand, the general manager of Mathias Dahlgren, a restaurant in Stockholm. She’s talking about René Redzepi, owner of a nearly-native-species-only restaurant in Copenhagen.
Local food doesn’t...
