I was describing Frugal Foodies to someone, bemoaning its vegan-ness, and the guy said, "Oh, there's tons of those things around here. But they're all secret." Indeed, I learned of Frugal Foodies from the GrassRoutes guide to Oakland and Berkeley, which says, "Of all the secret dining societies in the Bay Area, this is the one that is accessible to transients or those unwilling to sift ...

friday night

Yesterday I went to games night at nfnitperplexity 's place. Y'all should come out next time! He gave us tuna stroganoff and kittens. nfnit mentioned some unauthorized modifications he'd made to his Wii, and of course I was curious about how people create the software for that. His friend Xander told us that the process usually starts by searching for a buffer overflow exploit. One of ...

kiaaaaaaai! older brother kitteh...iz poor roll model judo throw! who's ur cutie?

i wearz mah sisteh for bowtai! da belleh of da beast iz not funneh. toilet lid always closed til dis time. sleepeh kitteh is sooooo sleepeh!

Important news: I can pull off a fedora: But you don't care, do you? All you care about is pussy. Well fine, here's all the pussy you can handle: "Oh hai! Juz chillin' in mai den." "Teh Sopranos iz teh gratest masturpeas in teh histry of televizions!" "I r in mai habitat, evadin' ur eyes." "Iz wun more drop I swair!" "Oh hai! I called teck support and tehy told me to power ...

This is Rorschach: He's a bengal, probably purebred, and he came to me by a somewhat convoluted route that's not worth going into here. His fur is really unusual. In addition to the distinctive markings, it's extremely lustrous and soft. He's also got that funny siamese-type head with the big ears and a sloped snout, and the laidback personality some purebreds are bred for. Now if ...

A Pollster.com article on Obama's speech from someone who knows the field better than I do.

extreme cuteness below the fold

Two reasons why the diagrams I linked to show "centrist" candidates fairing well under Instant Runoff Voting (at least when there's one main ideological axis.) First, they assume a normal distribution of voter ideologies; i.e. most people are "centrists". That's a pretty good assumption in the United States, despite the kinds of things journalists say when they get excited. The bigger problem ...

This post on the Happiness Project blog relates pretty well to my post about organizing one's living space a while back, and also to maybe to some of my posts about building a social life. "Identify the problem" seems like it ought to be so obvious that it needn't be mentioned, but in practice life doesn't work like that - at least not for me. It's frustratingly easy to (metaphorically) ...