Those of you who know me well know I often choke on something I’m drinking as my epiglottis fails to keep up with my sipping*. Well, I’ve just experienced a partial inhalation of 15 year old scotch. Lemme tell you, that ain’t something you ever want to do on purpose. Oh god it burns. Even [...]
While doing an internet search, I ran across a reply to a forum post in which the poster proudly admits to kidnapping his neighbors’ family members and transporting them to an undisclosed location.
This had my adrenaline so pumped that I had to back away from the computer for about half an hour. It was still [...]
Nnnoooooo!
Bartleby.com is no longer offering web access to The American Heritage Dictionary: “Due to financial and usage considerations the reference works licensed from Columbia University Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have been removed as of June 2009.”
Man, I used that site all the freakin’ time. Now I’m stuck with merriam-webster’s less than stellar etymology. I [...]
So, I was about to post that I was thinking of Run for the Stars as a new title for the SftS RPG and I did a quick Google while Live Writer was starting up. Most of the hits were for a 5k run that celebrities do. Turns out, though, Ellison has a 1957 novella [...]
Man I hate it when an application steals focus from the window I’m typing in and half of what I’m typing ends up in the new window. Or I just get those stupid enh enh enh noises that mean the computer can’t process type in that window.
Grrr.
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