May 2012
12 posts
The Anonymous Non-scandal
So several weeks ago I started noticing that on my Tumblr app for Android, there appeared to be posts responding to asks as if they were from Anonymous, but were visibly from the same person. You’ve probably seen those or heard about them - someone wants to post an “anonymous compliment” they got, except they hadn’t actually gotten one, so they made one up & forgot to...
Sometimes you meet the nicest people when you’re out on a Friday night trying to serve a small claims court summons.
“So congratulations, North Carolina. Last night, you struck a decisive blow for...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
Nice job!
Hey, North Carolina GOP, helluva job you’re doing down there! I bet when you got into politics, you dreamed of making a difference. And now you’ve done it! You made your state’s constitution limit marriage the way your legislation already had done. You must be so proud of yourselves for doing that! It must feel great to have amplified your already firmly established message of bigotry so that...
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“T-shirt: ‘Can’t read? Fuck you.’”
– My friend Kai just IMed me this thrifty joke & I lolled in public.
A bit of unexpected kindness
Just now I was riding my bike along the U of M Transitway, a no-cars-allowed road that connects the Minneapolis and St Paul campuses of the University of Minnesota for buses and bicycles. I got on the transitway at the same time as another cyclist. We glanced at each other cursorily & went about our biking business.
A couple of miles along, there is an intersection with a traffic signal that...
April 2012
16 posts
Adding little shreds of roasted chicken to my Kraft Mac & Cheese instead of bacon bits like I usually do: good idea, or KIND OF OKAY idea?
The latter, it turns out.
I don't take compliments well
Kai: (quoting his girlfriend talking to someone about me) "You should meet Bob. He's a good friend of Kai's. And probably one of the sweetest people in the world."
Bob: Aw! That's so nice. That is, it's so nice of you not to have told her about my underground kitten-fighting ring.
Kai: It was totally unsolicited. I merely overheard it a few minutes ago.
Bob: I'm blushing. Blushing right through the ski mask I'm wearing while stalking these college girls.
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DO YOU SIT AT A COMPUTER ALL DAY AT WORK? →
garysgalaxy:
Right when your boss is about to come by, click this link and put it in full screen. Just look super pissed off while you pretend to type on the keyboard and, if possible, tell your boss “I’M JUST….I’M JUST REALLY FUCKING BUSY RIGHT NOW.”
The Cabin In The Woods
I saw it tonight, and it’s fuckin’ fun! Go and do likewise.
My one problem with it is that the girl in it who looks like Ellie Kemper but isn’t actually Ellie Kemper should have just gone ahead and been Ellie Kemper.
Once in a while a conservative will say, “derr, wasn’t it Reagan who talked about America as A Shining City On A Hill?”. As if conservative policies played any part at all in advancing a nation to something matching that description.
I’m still in a good mood!
Got a reject letter from an employer I’d have rather not been rejected by, but mood still very fine!
Went to work and was flagrantly avoided by someone being foreclosed on. I knew they were hiding in there because I smelled cigarette smoke coming from a bedroom window. This led me to knock persistently on their door, and eventually to go chat with the...
March 2012
11 posts
I was accused of racism tonight!
I was working as a process server tonight and I had papers for a guy in Mounds View. Child Support papers, which are usually the most difficult. People being served with Child Support papers are usually losers that don’t stay in one address for very long. Often we learn that they have no permanent address at all. And when we do track them down, they take particularly vigorous efforts to...
Scambaiting!
For several years now I’ve been enjoying the work posted at 419eater.com. This is a website that documents attempts to trick scammers, specifically Nigerian fraud. Check it out - some of them are time-consuming, but worth it.
I’m reminded of this because a friend of mine is looking for a new house and came across a bizarre scam. We’re still not sure what the endgame is, but...
How one man escaped from a North Korean prison...
apieceofmine:
There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee…
oh. my.
this is so hard to read.
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Hi, um, I was wondering, if, you know, if it’s not too much trouble and stuff, if you guys would mind letting me back in here to hang out sometimes like, even though I was over there moping about getting laid off a few weeks ago and all that, but it’s like, you know, I’m just, I don’t know, I was just, you know, hi.
Laid off!
I just got laid off just now!
Eleven years ago I was laid off from a job I hated, and I was thrilled. I started working a lot more at the part-time job I had at the time & wound up making ends meet just as well.
That part-time job became my full-time job, and eleven years later it became the job that I was kind of thrilled to be laid off from a few moments ago.
The difference is that...
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“The lie was that somehow she was asking that taxpayers pay for contraception....”
– Obama adviser David Axelrod • Not accepting Rush Limbaugh’s apology to Sandra Fluke and pointing out that the apology continued to sell what Axelrod described as a falsehood. Rush would probably respond back to this by saying the government should have no role in funding “basic insurance policies.”...
Flap over birth control
Hey, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that this controversy about birth control comes from a proposed new law requiring employer-provided health insurance plans to cover birth control for women. Right?
Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and other villainous right-wing blowhards are arguing that they are being forced to pay for women to have sex. They aren’t saying...
February 2012
27 posts
Star Wars Nerditude post →
This is a fun post about an alternate viewing order for the Star Wars Double Trilogy. Note that the poster very effectively makes a case that I brought up last year, which is that Star Wars Episode One can be skipped by anyone who wants to watch the Star Wars movies.
Oscars... Zawmer style!
You guys know I like the Oscars, right? Below are my full predictions for tonight:
These are mostly pretty safe predictions. The smart money isn’t on Jean Dujardin for Best Actor (Clooney is more likely to add this to his mantle next to his 2005 Best Supporting Actor award), but most of the rest of mine are what the favorites are.
Picture - The Artist
Actor in a Leading Role - Jean...
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apieceofmine replied to your post: Who posted something about Ready Player…
I did!
Well, DUH! Of course you did, since you and I like the exact same stuff.
When I saw that, I was on the verge of finishing something else & I remembered that I had added it to my Kindle Wish List. So I downloaded a sample of it & knew immediately that this was a book for me! ”James...
Who posted something about Ready Player One recently? I just started it and OMG I LOVE IT IT IS GOING TO BE MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME (i am only 3% of the way into it but whatevz)
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Anarchy & Scotch: An open letter to everyone who... →
anarchyandscotch:
I took a peek at some of the comments on the recent post that Tumblr is considering banning blogs that promote things like eating disorders and suicide. Predictably, many people are whining about how Tumblr is taking away their right to free speech.
If you are of this mindset, please note the…
Actually, there is a third option: express your opinion about it on tumblr...
I’m watching the PBS documentary about Bill Clinton. And I’m hoping Barack Obama is watching it too; if so, he’ll find some valuable insight that will help him win against these out-of-touch Republicans.
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“Basically, I am sick of the ignorance, hatred and all the bullshit. The truth...”
– Henry Rollins (via nirvikalpa)
My Special Special Day
Gather round, everyone, and celebrate ME! For it is my day! A day of MEEEEE!!!!
Some of you may remember that 25 days ago was my 41st birthday. But that milestone pales in comparison to the monumental significance of the chronological accomplishment of arriving at this day.
Today is my 15,000th day!
I’m having dinner with pals tonight in order to commemorate this truly awesome...