Oh, and ANOTHER thing: “cute shoes.” If the shoes are “cute”, I can’t wear them. They will hurt me. You go wear all the cute shoes you want.

Staying up until 1 am to make sure a software deployment went okay. Go hire somebody young for that.

Even MORE insane: KRTK tv station says they charged her for possession of “.02 ounces of marijuana.” I mean... WHAT?

PARADOX.

WAFFLE. WINDOW.

Now I’m making waffles for dinner tonight.

“in this vein”? Really? Really?

Rotary cutters are hella sharp!

I LOVE these books.

glad you survived!

The thing I will NEVER do again is have Apple holiday presents shipped to the mall store for pickup. During the holidays, the Apple store is full of tense people in heavy winter coats, all huddled together around demo iPads, and there is NO OXYGEN left in the store. I only had to wait about 10 minutes to pick up my…

Yeah, my mind went “...evolutionary biology BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...”. I would like to think that the vast majority of men, by virtue of their brains, are no longer subject to urges to spread their sperm out there. Therefore the men who use this “assume that since she is breathing she would like to have sex” technique…

I won’t make friends with this remark, but how do you know? How do you know that nobody even noticed she was there?

I’m a hobbyist dye artist, and I cannot convince people there is any use in knowing what their clothing is made out of. “Can you redye my bridesmaid dress?” Maybe. What is it made of? “I don’t know... satin?” Er... well, it really matters. It matters a lot. You get back to me after you’ve read the tags, and by the…

Plus size women apparently never travel anywhere and aren’t allowed to have jackets with cool pockets.

Cucumbers, really? I’d wake myself up burping.

I’m sure someone on the internet can help with that.

Well, but NO, because the only hard-working taxpayers are those in the tippy-top bracket. Everybody else is just a godless parasite. (signed, a godless parasite)

Since his last victory my consumption of brandy old-fashioneds has gone up significantly.

Hm, what year? I had to read “We” by Zamyatin and IIRC “Vintage Season” by Kuttner & Moore; “Shadow of the Torturer” by Gene Wolfe; “The Many Colored Land” by Julian May; “Left Hand of Darkness”; Clarke’s “Childhood’s End.” That was around 1985 ish.