Hanzismatter has a great blog about the really, really bad oriental character tattoos out there, and the weird mistranslations:

Give them harder puzzles to solve. Make them work for their food, the same way they do in the wild. Make life more difficult for them - an easy life is not the best way to achieve mental stability.

Friend (American) in Korea had a Korean girlfriend. First summer he was there, he said he would go to sleep with the fan on and wake up sweltering. The fan would be off. He'd turn it back on, wake up sweltering, the fan would be off. He said it took him weeks to figure out she was waking up, turning the fan off, and…

Note to office party-goers: trick candles put out a lot of smoke. More than enough to trigger the fire alarm. If your building has a direct alarm line to the fire department, well. Also, it's very difficult to explain to the entire staff of the building that you were just playing a joke on the head of security.

I was 20 before I finally dated. It was totally a good idea to wait that long, considering how much of an idiot I was. In fact, I probably should have waited another 10 years (except for the whole finding a really great guy who could put up with my idiocy until I grew up & got a clue).

Romance books and movies have the trick of ending at the right point. Keep going long enough, and everyone's story becomes a sad one: they all die at the end.

Like watching a train wreck.

The beef lobby could easily diversify, if they wanted.

Please?

Roo burgers, roo steaks, roo sausages... the thing is, they do taste different from cows, and most Americans have a difficult time with that.

Kangaroos are *delicious*. But dumb. As dumb as deer, if not dumber. Also, very very difficult to keep penned up.

Wow. This is so gorgeous. I love the way the electricity forms wave patterns in the air, and how it gets so much brighter where the two arcs meet.

You know, after seeing the trailer that's the first time I've ever wanted to see one of the "fast" movies?

I think you could play it for fun in those scenes, by showing a badass grown man being bullied by his parents... Shia kind of gets on my nerves. He seems whiney.

From a purely aesthetic standpoint, I kind of wish they could have gotten rid of Shia LeBouef and made this guy the lead. He's much, much, *much* better looking.

Scotland is the very best part of the UK, as far as I can tell. Wales is pretty dang awesome too, but it's rather small and full of Londoners on holiday in summer. You're very lucky to get to live there! Slugs aside. (Just don't want you surprised by these things, eh?)

Little silver ones used to climb up our back windows in North Yorkshire every night. We had good seals on the bottoms of the doors & windows so I never found them inside.

I thought the one I nearly stepped on near Loch Ness a few years back was a mobile sheep turd.

Damn you for that link. I was doing so well this week, staying away from there.

Lord MacGuffin, eh? Heh.