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We Need New Units

Don’t get me wrong, I love SI, but those tend to lack the punch of, say, a Smoot.

So, I had to wait 1.8 Freebirds for a treadmill today. I should know better than to go to the gym on a Saturday in January.

BM2K9 Photos

This is a thoroughly inadequate attempt to convey some of what Burning Man is like. You really have to experience it for yourself, but the best summary I know of is this: Burning Man is fucking intense.

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Pitstop in Hays, [...]

Thank you, PETA.

Thank you for providing a forum in which I can read things like:

Please honor all living creatures because all life is sacred and we’re all connected to the to one life force which is conscious spiritual energy. Love is the way, kindness, respect, and always, zero cruelty.

And thank you for providing so much unintentional humor:

Apropos of Nothing…

Alan Alda’s name is 50% a’s. (And 25% l’s!)

LOL @ Mazur

Ben Mazur
although i feel your hero name as the Brown Recluse would be more appropriate if you were indian
the Pale Pink Recluse sounds a bit too sexually inappropriate
Sean Terrill
Like the Purple Puncher?
wait, it was the Pink Puncher and the Purple Pimp.
seriously, my favorite musical
Ben Mazur
hmmm, i typed it into GIS and got [...]

All the News that’s Fit to Blog

I was watching The Colbert Report on Hulu, and there was an item about the WBC, which got me briefly excited until I realized they were talking about the World Barista Championships, which lends itself to stunning footage like this:

As opposed to the World Bartending Championships, where people do things like pour seven flaming cocktails [...]

Linky Linky

So I don’t have to thinky thinky.

I want to move to the UK, just so I can read their editorials. Seriously, this is what passes for an opinion piece over there. It’s more important, and a damn sight better written, than what passes for news on our side of the pond – even if I [...]

Is There Anybody out There?

Even if I didn’t know it was a trans-solstice celebration period, I could tell based on the fact that I don’t have to scroll to see the bottom of my buddy list.

What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

My mom just called me – twice in a row – and woke me up from a dream in which a multinational corporation was selling a fruit juice that turned people into sex-crazed zombies I had to kill with a katana. Maybe I should start from the beginning.

It was a cross between Snow [...]

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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzZkNDU5MmViNzVjNzkzMDE3NzNlN2MyZjRjYTk4YjE= 

It’s amazing how ambiguous things become clear when you look at them through the lens of your own ideals.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o762HKxYMeA&search=bush%20was%20right 

I just assumed this was tongue in cheek, but no, hard as it is to believe, it’s ironically funny.

 

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/hourbyhour/37830?begHour=6&begDay=156 

Monday is going to be the most perfect day that has ever happened.