ganked from samikayy : "You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden, even though you have some place where you can put your stuff, that idea of home is gone. You'll see when you move out, it just sort of happens one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for...

Holy crap. That's right, totally unobjectionable technology that makes "women's work" easier is so much more revolutionary than any of that other messy stuff about, like, going against entrenched attitudes and assumptions and stuff. I guess they misunderstood the question and instead answered the question "what technological advance helped women the most in the 20th century, if we restrict our...

Thanks, gillen

gillen describes Ms. Fanning: "She strikes me as vaguely creepy, actually. Like the discarded skin of Jodi Foster." QWP, Context objects to borderline pedophile filming of child stars: http://gillen.livejournal.com/637669.html

I have all the respect in the world for science. But as with anything, some people can take respect for science too far. This usually comes in the form of portraying science as some sort of inherently rational arbiter of everything in the world and science as being run by scientists who are only concerned with a noble pursuit of pure truth. In this fantasy world, scientists are all completely logical...

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Thank you so much to everyone who made recommendations on what to see, eat, drink, and stick my dick into. I had an extraordinary time and can't wait to move up there early next year. Speaking of said recommendations, here's your feedback: The toystores in Seattle are all fantastic. badrobot68 's The Great Wind-Up in Pike...

From the "I Can Haz Cheeseburger?" Department: A 22-year old Vero Beach, Florida man is facing a domestic violence charge after getting in an argument with his girlfriend and allegedly assaulting her with a McDonald's cheeseburger . From the "Things to disappoint gillen " Department: A British medical journal is publishing a paper that concludes that happiness really is contagious...

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In August I put money in disappearinjon 's expired parking meter (14 points) . Last week I helped slapjack21 hide a body (-173 points) . Last Sunday I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points) . Last Monday I pulled gillen 's hair (-5 points) . Last month I helped theimp79 see the light (8 points...

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