Just involved in a conversation prompted by Top Chef, having to do with phallic presentation. Someone complained of a lack of finesse; my interlocutor responded with, “With phalluses, there’s usually a lack of finesse.” (Or something to that effect.)

I suggested that this conjured an image of a penis engaged in some kind of precision work, [...]

Suck it, ASCII.

Unicode > ASCII on the web – Boing Boing Gadgets

I have something the crap out of which you must absolutely listen to. You should just go ahead and do that know, before I explain it a way that makes it not seem funny, which I am about to do…

Now. If you’re one of those people who listens to Macbreak Weekly not because they like [...]

Grrr.

Grrr. Back in the day, I subscribed to emailed job postings from idealist.org, a hippie-type job clearinghouse dingus. Ever since, these emails have been accumulating in one of my spare email accounts, mostly unread. I decided I might as well turn them off, since I’m not reading them, and there’s no reason to clog the [...]

I’ve been, and I quote here, blog-meme-tagged, by the artist formerly known as Uncle Jazzbeau. I’m supposed to state the rules now, although I’m 100% sure that I won’t be able to remain in compliance with them.

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits [...]

“Google Search: suspenders a trend for 2007?”

Seriously, never before have I felt so much like I was living in Bloom County. Next, the Egg Nog council of America will be sending me bribes to get me to post about the fact that America’s all agog about egg nog blogs…...

And I sure as hell hope that [...]