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The adventures of a Barnes & Noble employee: This is the most fucked up thing to ever happen to me at work: Basically, I am calling a customer because the book she ordered has come in. A three year old picks up the phone and gargles into my ear before handing the phone to her […]

What time of year, you may ask? Why, the 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day! What, you don’t get a paid day off that day? Oh, hell, it’s a Sunday! Who cares?? Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you? Check out this Pirate Ninja Adventure How Pirate Are You? And, for more workday

8:15 am – Arrive at work after walking in from the train station. Put lunch in the fridge. Open up my e-mail, update the sitetracker. 8:18 am – Download a copy of games from worldoffreegames.com. Play Antz and 3D Morris. The Antz usually win. 9:00 am – read random blogs. 9:30 am – open chapter

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov “Come to the edge,” He said. They said, “We are afraid.” “Come to the edge,” He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew. – Guillaume Apollinaire “Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful,

Gmail is having hiccups, so while I wait for it to come back, here’s some Onionized “news” for your entertainment: Female Atheletes Making Great Strides in Attractiveness LOS ANGELES—In the wake of the Summer Olympics, during which many American women achieved a level of media attention often reserved for men, sports fans are pleased to

Fucking chapter 27, fucking piece of crap!! fucking GRRRRR… !! dammit, $#()*&) bitch @#&$*#%&)(#$ crappy GRRRRRR!! OK. Back to work.

So, Yellow gave up his ticket to the Cubs game last night, so me and my buddy Jenn went, and met up with some of the guys from work, Dee, Garrett and Jonas (one of the lead architects) and his son. Had a couple beers, chatted with the guys about work and baseball, discussed transactive

For a long while, I’ve had a problem with gay and straight labels, similiar to my problems with white and black labels, male and female labels. It packs us all up into boxes and allows people to make statements like, “We Americans should let gays get married.” The first time I read that, it stopped

Had a mediocre MA class last night. Worked on lower body strength training and kicking technique. Worked on crescent kicks and learning how to crunch up and shoot out a hook kick. Had a mediocre partner who appeared to be dancing around somewhere else – her mind really wasn’t on it. Had to bow out

The always-amazing Katha Pollitt discusses the ridiculous hyper-masculinity of our bullshit elections, and the mysterious absence of the other 52% of the population, in The Girlie Vote. Matt Cheney’s got a new discussion going on at the Mumpsimus about the bizarre articles department at Strange Horizons (I’ve tried to join in this discussion, but I’ve