Outing Rob
 I was watching the Italian news, as I'm wont to do, and saw the story of Zetaman, who, I swear, is Rob:

www.katu.com/news/local/18335494.html

 The secret is out!

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The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect Passive
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=898

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The Phantom Pooper
The phantom pooper of various new york fame has nothing on this:

http://ejoh.zmolklife.com/fs/the-poo-poo-terrorist.html

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Awesome conservative of the day

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Totally bringing this to the next poker game
Card dealing robot

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For the geek who has everything.


"Ancient Roman D20 for sale, $18000"

Link

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Somehow this made me think of Rob
http://www.vimeo.com/714438

Be careful out there, man!

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Scarier
So, typical Sunday night for me. I randomly run into:

Pope set to music

Say to myself "I want that song".. google:

faaaar scarier.

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Celebrity Jeopardy
This is absolutely the best of SNL. :)

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I, of course, knew it all along.
Your results:
You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)

Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 80% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 75% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 60% River (Stowaway) 50% Inara Serra (Companion) 50% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 50% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 45% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 40% Wash (Ship Pilot) 40% Alliance 20% A Reaver (Cannibal) 10%

You are good at fixing things. You are usually cheerful. You appreciate being treated with delicacy and specialness.

Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test


Current Mood: chipper

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Picked up a Wii
Although I haven't had time to fully explore the system, so far I'm digging Zelda and Boxing.

Wii#
6478 3194 3738 9502

I'm guessing games that make good use of this will be coming down the pike.

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Goldblum
There really need to be more interviews with Jeff Goldblum. How has this opportunity been missed?

Me and Jeff Goldblum

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On Going All In
A tip of the hat to Bobby the Worm, sometimes you just have to damn the torpedoes and go full speed ahead.

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Arrr, the kink in the curve
So, what do you do when you're both a linguistics and statistics geek; with nothing to do on talk like a pirate day, and some graphing software thats just been sitting around?

Chart the distribution of 'r's in 'Arrrrrrr' across the internet.

When not doing that, you really should be digging in to just how prevalent 'wheeeeee' is.

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For Whom the Foie Gras
I saw aplacental's post over foie gras, and today happened to come across this article which claims that the geese love to have their stomach's pumped full of corn. Who doesn't?!

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Messages from the new future
Heard across thousands of homes unless someone puts an end to the madness:

"Don't you think you've played with your Wii enough? Put it away and go to bed."

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Cat looks like Gollum
Evil Cat

Following Luminifer's world's ugliest dog link, there's this picture of a mostly hairless cat in search of its precious.

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Goddam Hippies
Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.20.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.20.
Your Universalising Factor is: 1.00.


The test was too full of woolly-brained lefty morality to even be admissible as a useful philosophic test.

(This was a post I never completed back in August and forgot to post. Seems like a good time to throw it out.)

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On a professional note
My GMail sponsored link consistently points to The Daily WTF.

Google mocks me.

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Why Aussies will always be smarter than us.
Strike looms

Some argued for a series of fare-free days, while others were in favour of a repeat of the 48-hour strike which stranded 600,000 commuters a month ago.

The drivers who supported the fare-free days argued that while State Transit would not pay drivers' wages if they did not collect fares, at least the public would not be inconvenienced and might support their cause.

While I imagine this would be preposterously illegal in the U.S., I would think that it better fits the spirit of the Taylor law, than the law itself.

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