Some of my best friends are crazy. (2011/08/10)
No, I don’t mean eccentric. I don’t mean “differently abled”. No, I mean crazy. This is a distinction I learned about a long time ago, when a nice man in a wheelchair explained it quite succinctly:
[read more...]Gifted child syndrome (2011/08/09)
A lot of “gifted” kids end up pretty messed up. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but one of them sorta came into focus for me recently. A friend refers to it as “the entity theory of intelligence”.
[read more...]Hasbro is sitting on a gold mine. (2011/08/05)
The problem is, when I say “sitting on a gold mine”, I mean “complaining about this chair being uncomfortable”.
[read more...]Someone stole my spouse's porn. (2011/08/02)
Okay, that’s not quite right. I mean, for one thing, when Jesse wrote it, it wasn’t porn, it was character development. Also, it’s not obvious that “stolen” applies correctly to a thing you still have after someone takes it.
[read more...]C. S. Lewis wrote about Bronies, too. (2011/08/02)
Bronies, you say? That would be adult fans of the recent reboot of Hasbro’s My Little Pony toy advertisements, which are cleverly disguised as a TV show.
[read more...]New result: Futons + Box springs = No. (2011/07/29)
So, a while back, I had this idea. I had a pretty beat up old futon, and thought maybe I could get a bit more life out of it if I added a bit more springiness to it. Box springs! Those would help, right?
[read more...]Shopping! (2011/07/21)
Went shopping today. Got:
[read more...]CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR (2011/07/20)
So, what with one thing and another, we decided it was about time to consider replacing the 1992 Subaru station wagon that’s been in the family for the last 19 years. (It was originally my dad’s. I think it has belonged to both my mom and stepmom at one time and another, and currently I think it’s legally mine but I honestly don’t even remember.)
[read more...]Power is hard to get (2011/07/18)
Someone on Usenet made a partial list of reasons that various power technologies were unsuitable. I have cleaned it up.
[read more...]This may be the best of all possible worlds, but not the most awesome. (2011/07/16)
Our world: A Victorian lady would rarely be seen outdoors without her parasol.
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