I’M SCREAMING

Counterpoint: Balaji tweets dumber things on a regular basis.

Pool Tech here - This is embarrassing. Algae is easily controllable/preventable with proper chemical maintenance. One bottle of “Yellow Quell” would take care of this in 12 hours. I wouldn’t allow anyone to swim in this pool. Why the fuck exactly didn’t they make this an indoor facility?

I guess they win the “Greenest Olympics ever” title.

Now consider that essentially all of the stars you can see even on the most darkest and driest of nights is less than 200LY away. And even just our galaxy is over 100,000LY across!

He has some great evening photographs of the Shire from the New Zealand trip last year.

Soda water would be just as convincing and much more hydrating than carbonated sugar and quinine water. And I’d feel less bad about getting soda water for free than tonic water for free.

There’s also Dinosaurs on the other side of the event horizon?

Drinking at an organized gathering of coworkers isn’t a party. if your boss is in attendance, you’re still on the clock.

As a zero drinks person for several years now, the visible difference between the 2 drinks people and the “as many drinks as possible” people is obvious, astounding and off-putting. I was a “why drink a beer when you can drink ALL the beers” kind of a guy for years. You have no idea how gross it looks until you see it…

Turn Down For What!

IF you’re 40, you don't have to take advice from millennial bloggers on the internet

I always liked Gin and Tonic because on the nights I wasn’t feeling it, I could switch to tonic and no one would notice the difference. Plus if you frequent a bar, you can generally get multiple tonics free. I usually made the switch on or after the second drink so “worst case scenario,” if someone buys me a drink,…

Right. two drinks. Whisky and Rum. The only two drinks I need.

Do not fear the spaghettification!
The Flying Spaghetti Monster will be there on the other side of the black hole to warmly receive you!

“Anybody you’d like to nominate?”

Please remove these unauthorized photos of me immediately.

As the father of two girls who will soon be very young women, this disturbs me so. I’m not exactly sure why, since all of my life I’ve been perfectly okay with societal pressure to remove leg/armpit/facial hair on women, but there is something about this that makes me sad- as if one of the hallmarks of womanhood is to…

I’m basically a caveman, left to its own devices, my bush would probably grow to engulf my entire person.