February 2012
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“Our intention is to follow these directions as closely as possible, but we would...”
– #13: Jellyfish Head, Porridge in a Can, and more | Oh Dear God Why
Look, Dave is eating these things so that you don’t have to. You OWE it to him to at least read what he has to say about the experience.
girl-detective asked: GOOD LORD NO!
I just hope he doesn't burn the place for the...
When I moved to Nashville in the aftermath of the 2010 flood, apartments were hard to come by. I happened to find an (kinda crappy) apartment in a really fantastic neighborhood at a spectacular price, and have been using it as my base of operations ever since.
The middle of last year, I started getting junk mail addressed to my landlord, indicating that maybe he was in some sort of financial...
Dear Clint Eastwood,
Shilling for cars that are mostly made in Mexico and pretending it’s a great American success story isn’t cool. I’m sorry your last few films apparently flopped, though.
Trying something.
An unpopular opinion.
Minute for minute, John Oliver might be the greatest standup act I’ve seen. I haven’t seen a ton of standup, of course, but I have seen George Carlin.
It was during his “List of Synonyms” phase of the late ’80s early ’90s, but still.
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太平洋序曲 (I hope Google Translate got that right)
Last night I caught opening night of a rare staging of Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, the musical hipsters love because you’ve probably never heard of it.
Any maybe rightly so. The story of the introduction of Western culture to Japan (written in 1976) was originally staged as Kabuki theatre with an all Japanese-American (and all-male) cast, a demographic that that many communities in...
Robot school: Day 4
My company is hiring several hundred new workers, and today they came in for a pre-employment basic skills class, designed to show them what a day of putting screws in metal is like. It helps them see if they really want to work for us, and if they’re the sort of person who says “Fuck this, I’m outta here” after a couple of hours of manual labor.
They’re set up...
Fla. man adopts his 42-year-old girlfriend - CBS... →
John Goodman is apparently adopting his girlfriend in order to protect his fortune from a wrongful-death drunk driving case.
The obvious solution would be to prosecute him for incest, but this is Florida.
Robot school: day three
Once I used the robot to crush an automobile, my classmates seemed less inclined to want to operate it.
girl-detective asked: Did you know that "M" in the original Fleming novels is a big fan of Rex Stout? I haven't read them, but I used to watch the tv series and listen to the old radio broadcasts.
Day two of robot school:
We are training the robot to deface property with white board markers. Can sentience and worldwide genocide be far behind?
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January 2012
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Robot training session 1
So far we’ve learned thirty-five different ways to turn a robot off, but still haven’t manage to turn one on. Safety first!
It's gonna be the future soon
This week I’ve got classes so that I can make robots my bitch.
These robots are not pre-programmed with the four laws, so somebody’s gonna get maimed.
Your class on effective goal management pales in comparison.
EDIT: Robot class teacher is hungover sick, so robot class has a double session tomorrow and continues the rest of the week. So it’s a normal monday.
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Test item at Charlie Brown's school:
wordishness:
Mwaa mwaa mwaa mwaa mwaa?
A. Mwaa mwaa
B. Mwaa mwaa mwaa mwaa
C. Mwaa mwaa mwaa
D. Mwaa mwaa mwaa mwaa mwaa
I always thought voice changing at puberty would be an awkward time in the Peanuts world: “Hi Lucy, a bunch of us are Womp wah, waoomp woom wom at the movies tomorrow night and I was waoomp wah wah woomp wa-wah womp.”
The death of punditry
Back in my Livejournal days, I would occasionally distill a week’s worth of blog entries that I’d read into a Harper’s Weekly-esque summary of everything everyone had done. So and so went to the zoo. Somebody else got drunk and made an ass of themselves. In the interest of keeping things interesting, if the posts I’d read for the week was about what you thought about...
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