Hilariously derailed
I had something rattling around inside my head to write about over lunch, and then saw the above picture over on Tea & Cookies and completely lost my train of thought. She writes about the Big Book Sale in San...
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What’s Russian for “emo”?
Per Bill and MeFi: Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal: Russia Uh, wow. I haven’t really looked into the links and stories to see what the majority LJ’er reaction is, but it seems that the “In Soviet Russia, Blog...
I am NOT frustrated!!!
No, no… this doesn’t sound familiar to me at all! Of course that could be why I’m participating in NaBloPoMo and not NaNoWriMo. I’ve had to give up most of my webcomic daily reads, so I’m glad Pearls Before Swine...
The only PR I’ll actually follow
Blog shilling time again: Project Rooftop. I don’t collect monthly comics anymore, they just take up too much space. Hell, I haven’t even managed to sort through the ones taking up space in my apartment now. I’ve heard that Marvel...
“The Computer Guy” — I can relate
Hesitantly, I responded: “I work in computer support.” The transition to silence was immediate. All eyes suddenly turned to me, raised eyebrows all around. If you hadn’t heard my response, judging from everyone’s reaction you might think I said something...
Thanksgiving Dinner: The Ultimate Table for One?
In her book, An Alphabet for Gourmets, the late M.F.K. Fisher wrote that “dining alone” has its place, however unpopular. “This misanthropic attitude is one I am not proud of,” she writes, “but it is firmly there, based on my...
Dumbledore vs. Apple Store
It’s finally happened, my post about Dumbledore being a homo has garnered more interest than my post on the Apple Store’s dreadful customer service. I’m a little surprised at that, to be honest since the Apple Store post was linked...
Why can’t I work for a place this cool?
“Well done” created by Bruketa & Zinić is the new annual report for Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe. It consists of two parts: a big book containing numbers and a report of an independent auditor a small...
Different starting points, same facts
A very good question, posed by the Creation Museum. Blogger John Scalzi took a visit there and shares a great photo tour as well as writing up quite the report on his visit. I had to stop reading and looking...
Table for Two: Rasika Restaurant
I still feel a little full from last night’s dinner at Rasika with Michael, oy. We figured that Halloween night would be a good night to grab a nice dinner out, unfortunately I came up with this idea when we’d...