Bravissimo has white button-down shirts that accommodate boobs, but I think they’re only intended for thin busty women. The search continues...

It’s often quite creepy and unnerving; I can’t promise you won’t have nightmares, but those nightmares would have the best production design ever. I recommend daytime viewing to start, just in case.

The TWSBI Eco is another good rival for the Lamy. They have similar pricing and the same Western-size nibs, but the TWSBI is a piston-fill pen. The clear pen body is where all the ink goes, so you can easily see the ink level and the workings of the pen. It’s cheaper than buying cartridges or converters, and you don’t…

A Smart Alec with a Freudian Slip, then? That would solve your problem of having one transferable set of pockets, depending on the size differences between your bags.

I like the scene on the swing, though.

It seemed to me that, in context, she was essentially paraphrasing JFK’s “ich bin ein Berliner” statement. We’re all Berliners, we’re all Africans.

I think it’s more that we don’t take the Facebook approach to friends and still have that intermediate stage called ‘acquaintances’. I’m sure it’ll change with all the Californians moving here, though. :-)

Conversely, no adult owes any other adult anything based on birth. Children don’t have to talk to parents and parents don’t have to serve as silent ATMs for their adult children. If you want something from someone, basic civility is a good idea on either side.

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It also keeps chocolate cookies brown (or black). I frequently make black bat sugar cookies and they come out looking much better with cocoa powder instead of flour.

If you don’t want carbonated coffee, Torani’s has a Spicy Kola fountain drink syrup. You could try a couple of pumps of it in coffee like you would a regular caramel or vanilla coffee syrup, but you can control the sweetness more easily.

I don’t believe in their God, but I still have to subsidize their beliefs thanks to their tax breaks. Can we collectively stop supporting the religious? Christianity would still be legal, I just wouldn’t have to pay for it.

The multi-stall bathroom issues at my tech-industry building near Seattle are: people for whom standing on the toilet seat and squatting is the norm but covering the seat with that paper cover first is not a thing they do (leaving sprayed pee and footprints); people very loudly and wetly brushing their teeth (making…

It isn’t just you. I think it’s because in school, cursive was graded on style more than printing was, so we learned to take the time to make the letters more carefully. You might still keep that in mind when you’re writing, even if you’re not conscious of it.

I just bought a cahier d’écriture for children so that I could improve my penmanship, because it has been easier to learn a new way of writing than it is to just fix the way I write now. To make it more entertaining, I am using a fountain pen with J. Herbin’s Poussiere de lune on séyès paper, as if I lived in the…

Vote: GarageBand ‘11
Why: I use this because I can make seamless music podcasts and save them as high-quality chaptered AAC files. This lets people see the tracklist with the album art for each song, and they can also skip to a favorite song (it’s MP3s for everyone else). I generally make themed playlists, so I also…

I did say that we had a granola culture here before migration, but the refusal of preventative medicine wasn’t socially supported and it didn’t have the numbers to have an effect on anything.

I blame the vast number of fuckwits priced out of the Bay Area who moved to Seattle and brought their arrogant “I know more than scientists” attitudes with them. Yeah, we had an innate granola culture here, but it was small and not a threat to the health of our entire city.

I love that it says “congratulation”, as if she really did intend one singular small fragment of good will for a short duration, but no more.

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