A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
Is there really a better, more apt, more semantically appropriate expression in modern English 1 than “trophy wife”? Consider it: There is (perhaps) a hard-won battle in leading up to the “winning” of the trophy. But once you have that trophy, all that’s left is the memory of that winning… …the trophy itself is dead […]
After a two years and about 200 hours 1 of use, my Mad Rock Flashes climbing shoes finally gave up the ghost. They wore clear through at the toes. There was no saving them. The shoes had served me well and had always been pretty comfortable 2, so with that in mind, I was sad […]
My life is now complete: Image seen in gene_gene234’s photostream on Flickr.
I am dutifully reporting that I am swiping and re-posting this as it appears here in Precious Roy’s Flickr photostream: The description that appears under the photo on Flickr: The title was: “What happened to the dinosaurs?” (bonus points for the elephant humping the dino/reptile, though) Keith and I were two of the judges at […]
My five Re-Tweets of fame: Re this Tweet 1 which is re this picture: How did I miss all that traffic? Better double-check that the @replies feed is in the ol’ RSS reader… Original picture on Flickr. Twhat? Is it really “Tweet”? Not “Twit”? Or “Twuote”?[↩]
Before I begin my rant/tangent, let’s get one thing straight: I understand that the point of eBay’s “Reserve Price” is to protect The Seller. I understand that if there’s an “absolute minimum” for which you’re willing to sell an item… Well, that’s great that there’s a way to guarantee that you (as The Seller) will […]
I know there are some folks out there that would say "oh, lighten up" about something like this but I thought that this was in such incredibly poor taste. With the epidemic of childhood obesity occurring in the United States, these sorts of "cute jokes" are neither cute nor funny. The makers of this bib […]
Though perhaps a more appropriate name might be lolDigg or lolSlashdot or some such…