December 2009
Excerpt from It's Not Rocket Science and Other...
ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN
Accidents do not have minds of their own.They do not hide behind bushes and leap out on unsuspecting passers-by. If they did we would round them up and never pay insurance policies again.
The majority of what I’ve read so far consists of explaining where the clichés come from and/or what they mean. For those the authors (Clive Whichelow and Hugh Murray) have a...
Christmas
Seems to be popular to do these, and so…
A nice t-shirt (it has a breast pocket!)
Two nice pairs of trousers (I really did need more trousers)
A really swank cap
A good beanie (my current one could be charitably described as “populist shit”. This one is “warm”)
Lindt chocolates (mmmm…)
Stanley, the Impoosible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (the...
The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan &... →
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A dialogue.
dailymeh:
-!- Euthyphro has joined #archon.
-!- Socrates has joined #archon.
Euthyphro: wtf
Euthyphro: What are you doing here, Socrates? Why’d you leave #lyceum? Surely you aren’t here to rant to the ops?
Socrates: Not rant, no. Someone’s been flaming me.
Euthyphro: Who’s that?
Socrates: Some dude on tumblr. I hardly know him. He’s called Meletus. Perhaps you’ve seen his site? He’s got...
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brilliantology:
Describe yourself in terms of DnD stats. :P
I’ve puzzled over this all day and figure I should just throw out an answer rather than try formulating and then posting a complete character sheet!
I am Swan, Female Half-Elf Rogue 3/Wizard 10 (Generalist), of Lawful Evil alignment.
I’d be bold enough to give myself a stat set of; low strength,...
“καὶ τέλος κατὰ τοῦ τέγους ἁλόμενος διέφυγε, ῥαφανῖδι τὴν πυγὴν βεβυσμένος.”
– ‘And finally he fled, jumping down from the roof, with a radish stuck up his butt.’
Lucian, The Death of Peregrinus, AKA the gift that keeps on giving. (via eush)
Top 10 Snipers in History →
(via fwarg)
“This is a time to roar back and assert and celebrate the beauty of the printed...”
– Dave Eggers’ wonderful message on PRINT (via langer) (via inky) (via fwarg)
