I think vegemite may be the grossest "food" that I have ever had in my entire life!

I managed to buy a fake Samsung Galaxy Note 3. I'm usually very tech savvy but this time I was in a huge rush because I had broken my phone two days before and had no phone. The damn thing came in a Samsung box that looked just like the box for my Note 2, as well as an S4 I had set up for my mom, about a week prior.…

I know you already bought your laptop but for future reference Parallels works really well to run a Windows VM on your Mac. I have a macbook that I use primarily but there are always times I need some windows program or another. Parallels has a mode where your Windows applications get added to your applications folder…

Its funny - Just last week I came across an article on 5th edition and reading it reminded me of how much I missed tabletop rpgs. I asked a few of my gaming buddies if they would be up for a game - I told them I hadn't decided which game yet but they all told me they would play any game I wanted to (I guess they were…

I'd like to help because the thing I enjoy most about io9 is the comments. Its frustrating (although I understand the reasoning) that so many comments are gray both as someone who enjoys scrolling through and reading comments and as someone who sometimes comments. I am less likely to comment now because my comment…

I used to be a security guard at a sprawling corporate campus which had a pond and several black swans. When I first started it was part of our job to feed the swans as well as patrol around the lake. Those things are scary and vicious. Whoever had to bring the feed out was advised to drop it and run.

I live in Canada so most likely it'll be here. I've just been really careful about food safetly my whole life after my entire kindergarten class got e. coli after drinking fresh milk on a field trip to a dairy farm.

It not the potential for salmonella (although now I am thinking about that too). Its just that the idea of raw eggs kind of freaks me out. It just seems kind of gross. I'm not judging anyone and maybe one day I will try it.

As a newbie DM playing 2E I actually managed to kill one of my characters with a skunk. They have paralysis :)

eek... I guess I'll be skipping that one ;)

I know. It was such a good book. I cannot imagine why he didn't go on to write more of them :( . Oh well, at least its better then him following up such a good story with like 12 more terrible books.

Do you cook the egg?

My instructor for my second Java class wouldn't even let us use an IDE. Instead we had to do everything in notepad. No syntax highlighting or anything. Even right up to doing basic gui stuff. And honestly, even though it seemed difficult at the time I learned a lot more about writing code and how programs go together…

My friend left Toronto heading towards Nova Scotia on Tuesday and he was really hoping to "intercept" hitchbot and take him on vacation.

I don't know where my first picture went.

Xena started as a love interest for Hercules but then became (a much cooler) hero in her own right:

You forgot Mac from Veronica Mars...just saying :) Yes I realize the numbers are still really low, I just love that show and her character somewhat inspired me to learn programming, along with the others mentioned.

I don't think I could go to a wedding like this unless it was outside. I hate being high (I get anxiety attacks) and I've ended up high before in enclosed spaces where there were multiple people smoking at the same time. I can imagine being at a wedding and everyone lighting a joint after the main course like it was …

It is true. And my girlfriend would probably leave me for him in a heartbeat because of those two movies. And he was very fine in those movies. However it was him playing Cupid that gave me the idea that I might not be completely gay (him and Heath Ledger)... So that wins it for me.

Yes. That is Karl Urban. At what I would consider to be his finest ;)