TIL Calibre’s origin story.

I had no idea a few Sony ereaders had audio support. Thanks for the tip! I’m going to check eBay a little later and see what I can find. I’m not interested in all these incremental improvements to the basic functions of an ereader so long as I can comfortably load, open and read a book. The one detail I always wanted…

They didn’t even go for the nasty ass nuggets... they went for the sauce... that industrial blend of hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup, salt, artificial coloring and flavoring.

I’m not sure if there really is that much penny-pinching in creating such a small amount of an item and distributing it so widely. You get better return on investment by creating large batches of something economies of scale being what they are. Considering the volume of what was offered, you’d think McDonald’s…

TIL what potted plants are finally good for.

I only know of one workaround, and since it only applies to old french fries, it’s not that good. Ask the server if they will make fresh fries without salt and claim a medical issue regarding sodium. At that point, they have to make a fresh batch since fries are usually salted after being pulled from the fat. Of…

Black and latin people everywhere need to go to gun ranges right now and start uploading video of themselves using modified weapons and remarking about how fast and fun they are and questioning why anybody would ban them. As soon as the GOP sees minorites using and wanting these things, we’ll get that ban rushed…

After the election and inauguration it was about two or three times a day. The “For Chrissakes Donald Trump is President?!?” feeling waned to maybe once a week, but then, I stopped paying so much attention to the news. Nowadays, I’m 3 or 4 times per week... there is a trend where he stirs up shit for a day or two and…

I’ve been banging the drum on the dangers of a Republican state led constitutional convention for about a year now and how scarily close the GOP is to getting one. The left needs to retake some state governments, but it gets increasingly harder with gerrymandering. These are incremental baby steps pushing the country…

I’ll second MediaMonkey as well since I’ve been using it for years now. I’ve found that MM is really the best software to organize and tag your music files, as a music player it’s fine and it does a good job syncing to other devices. One caveat is that the free version has a 30 day limit on encoding to MP3 and beyond…

ikr? I mean, not only are they brown-ish, they have the slanty eyes too.

We’re going to be up to our armpits in water soon enough.

Lively is all skin and bones. She’d be an appetizer, at best.

The automation on those mugshot websites can sometimes be wrong, though not in this case. I recommend going to the county booking blotter in which your perp was jailed to get it directly from the source. YMMV depending on state and county laws, of course. Florida is pretty good about arrest records and mugshots though.

You left out the part where the first cop gets a time off work with pay while his fellow cops “investigate” him to see if he acted irresponsibly with his dart gun. Meanwhile, officers and firefighters in the city and the rest of the county rack up a shit-ton of overtime for the ridiculous day-long funeral for cop #2,…

No mention that Kushner is registered to vote as a woman in New York? I’m not attaching any meaningful or sinister significance to the fact. Occam’s razor suggests it was just a paperwork flub and the Kush never checked the gender on his voter ID card. I mean, it isn’t anything like being registered to vote in…

I don’t think life can get any better for Kelly. She’s getting paid a shit-ton of money to host a show during a coveted hour on precious, liberal, snowflake network NBC stirring up the same conservative bullshit and throwing it in the faces of liberals. Suggesting that being gay is a choice and outright insulting Jane…

Oh yeah? I’ll make my own micro-blogging platform and call it Paragrapher... with poker and strippers.

The check was made out to the Trump Foundation as part of a charity auction for a portrait of donald Trump. I’m sure the Trump Foundation will soon get around to offering $25,000 worth of discounted greens fees for affected Puerto Ricans at select Trump resorts. In the meantime, those poor, suffering storm victims can…

Soo... we can expect dramatic drops in property values there? A tropical paradise that is loosely regulated and can serve as a tax shelter? If only there was a way to capitalize on this natural and humanitarian disaster.