I’ve never found anything better for cats and shedding than the flea comb I bought like 10 years ago and periodically lose in my couch cushions. All the rest of the fancy brushes I’ve spent money on can bite me :p

I had this problem with a Japanese physics professor - For the first week of class I was scrambling because he kept talking about this thing I had never even heard of - a ‘Pi Curve’. This was my third year of university, I thought for sure I’d know about anything that came up as often as he said Pi Curve. I even…

It took me 6 months to stop calling my friend by a nickname when she told me she preferred her whole name, and I’ve only known her a couple of years. I can’t imagine how long it takes to switch names for someone you’ve known for 65 years, let alone someone you named yourself. I think we can cut the lady some slack for…

Did someone say Tilda Swinton GIFs?

I was thinking of the Dresden Files actually, Marsters is an excellent narrator for the series, and I’ve been through most of them listening to him (thank goodness my local library carries a pretty robust audiobook selection, because otherwise that would have been expensive). I’ve found a lot of actors - turned…

I know the feeling - I started Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” as an audiobook and I just couldn’t keep going with it, because the narrator’s voice grated on me, especially as he voiced the female character(s?), which sounded, at all times, like the voice a man would use when he’s trying to imitate the most…

It’s weird because I was just thinking about this. I listen to a lot of audiobooks - probably 30 last year alone, and a good narrator can really enhance your experience of any story.

I know lots of oil and gas jobs test because it used to be a massive problem in the industry, especially for any of the guys working out in the field (I regularly have to sift through field notes from the 80s and 90s, and there have definitely been some questionable annotations). Not that there aren’t still problems,…

I have literally never been drug tested for a job in Canada, for jobs ranging from retail, food service, summer research flunky, and 8-5 office job, and neither has my brother, who has also worked a variety of jobs, including amusement park Carnie at one point.

Oh man, if you think being a geologist doesn’t mean anything to people, try Geophysicist - at that point you might as well tell people you are a magic space wizard for all the sense it makes to anyone. Usually I tell people I’m in seismic data processing, because it is technically more true, and then people can…

I am a a Seismic Data Processor, and people have no idea what it is I do because no one has ever heard of it before (unless you are a geologist, then you might have a vauge notion)

When that thing rolled out on the screen I started giggling and I couldn’t stop for five minutes. People were staring. I didn’t care.

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I don’t know, but it was the same subset of people who were running my aunt’s smalltown wedding (I was like, 70% sure it wasn’t her). They had all the single ladies out on the dance floor, which was me, one of my cousins, and like 10 ladies over 40 who were of the recently divorced, or the “I will never marry” set.…

This reminds me of a trip my friend and I took to New Orleans. We’re Canadian, and we kept running into weird little cultural bumps everywhere. Some were fun, like wandering down the street with your booze, some were... less fun, and most of it came because we weren’t really familiar with the tipping culture that…

I imagine if you put it inside the folded letter, the moment you took the letter out of the envelope, the glitter bombing would be completely inescapable.

I sometimes do put my bag next to me, but only if there are more than a couple open bench seats still available on the bus or train car (ie. seats still available where you can avoid sitting next to another human person). Then it migrates to my lap, because new comers to the vehicle will have to sit next to somebody…

Yeah, it seems to me that this number would be higher in any group that self-selects for paternity testing, since they have a higher chance that more than one man would be involved at any stage of things.

Came here to post the same thing. I’ve fancasted it in my head and everything :)