Bohnanza
Elin and Grandpa Bowman
Haraseeket Lobster & Lunch Company
Robbins Toy makes environmentally safe toys right here in Maine.
A basis point (‰) is one one-hundredth of a percentage point—a fraction of a fraction. It’s used to describe a differential from an interest rate that is expressed as a percentage. Why am I only learning this now?
Microfortnight, a word that apparently deserves its very own domain.
« When erudition comes in, poetry departs. »
—Unspiek, Baron Bodissey
A while ago I dreamed that I was sitting in a bar eavesdropping on an insanely long winded discussion of sports. I don't need dreams for this kind of thing, it happens all the time. I don't really follow professional sports, at least (read on...)
Echo Fiction intends to launch a clearing house of sorts for modern audio drama. This is seemingly a good thing. Right?
Bad mephisto! Bad! Resetting timestamps just for closing comments on a post is just silly behavior. #
find ~/irclogs -name "#threecheeks.*" \
-exec grep -e ".*changed\ the\ topic\ of.*" {} \; \
| sed -e 's/^.*changed\ the\ topic\ of\ #ThreeCheeks\ to\://' \
> ~/tmp/topics.txt
emacs-client ~/tmp/topics.txt
Edit, edit, edit, tick, tick, tick, DING! See the shocking results…
Game Idea #87: Poker where you can see everyone's hand but your own. ... Ok, bad idea. #
Archaeologists: The Cowgirls Of Science. What a great bumpersticker.
AIM
- mazirian: Ten girls in Sweden were named Daisy in 2007. Apparently none were ever named that prior to 2007. Why suddenly ten? Did they watch too much Dukes of Hazard?
- Vlad: Ha. That’s funny. How many boys were named Cooter?
Julia Child was a spy. That is just too wonderful.
Kitties!
The Hand Drawn Map Association (much linked elsewhere, but there you have it).
Mini Trebuchet (Pentathlon Teaser)
Mr. Jack
AIM
- mazirian: Seriously, what do you fill a pink cthulhu cow pinata with?
- mazirian: Candy doesn’t seem right.
- yesmarnala: Jagged glass and rusty nails?
- mazirian: Someone suggested a republican lobbyist, but I want something other than bullshit to come out when we bust it open.
Weird and Bizarre Drinks from Japan. (I've even tried two of these.)
Tom cat grows wings to avoid sexual harassment by female cats in heat. Yeah, right.
I just read the rules to craps while sitting on the crapper. #