Went out to start shoveling the cars out and found out that my next door neighbor just got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. WTF?
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Feb 11, 2010 6:05:21 am PST #7847 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Daisy Jane - Feb 11, 2010 6:09:03 am PST #7848 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It's probably not as much snow as other places get, but it's coming down pretty hard out there with no signs of letting up.
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2010 6:09:40 am PST #7849 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The guy who does xkcd has submitted some bug reports for the Android phone:
* Sometimes, when arranging home screen icons, you feel sad and you're not sure why...
* If you stop for gas, sometimes navigation suspends, but doesn't resume when you start driving again (or just disappears without notifying you), so you miss the upcoming turn and think you're already on I-95, and by the time you discover your mistake and turn around you've lost enough time that you totally get to the conference too late to catch Richard Stallman doing his acapella Bad Romance cover which is the whole reason you paid the entry fee in the first place.
Randall Munroe's Android bug-reports
eta: More here: [link]
Sometimes the GPS stops getting locks on satellites until the phone is rebooted. (This may be related to the GPSStatus app, installed to avoid this kind of thing.) To be fair, satellites are very small and far away, so you can hardly blame it for having trouble.
megan walker - Feb 11, 2010 6:11:18 am PST #7850 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, my flight is apparently now cancelled. Their other Dallas flight isn't so I am on eternal hold to see if I can get on.
Jesse - Feb 11, 2010 6:15:11 am PST #7851 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
WTF?
Seriously.
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2010 6:19:04 am PST #7852 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sinatra song believed to be a karaoke curse in the Philippines
Karaoke fanatics in the Philippines have been avoiding the song My Way because they believe it is cursed. "You can get killed," one patron, who has witnessed numerous fights at his favorite karaoke bar, told the NY Times. Several establishments have removed the Sinatra fave from their song list.
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2010 6:21:18 am PST #7853 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mary Robinette Kowal sez, "Neil Clarke, editor of the Hugo nominated Clarkesworld Magazine, was slain on his front lawn by a snow dalek, while his young son watched. We are deeply saddened by his loss and suggest that people living in the path of the coming Snowpocalypse beware that it is merely a cover for a Dalek invasion."
Tom Scola - Feb 11, 2010 6:22:36 am PST #7854 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Karaoke fanatics in the Philippines have been avoiding the song My Way because they believe it is cursed.
Dude. Sid Vicious!
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2010 6:23:29 am PST #7855 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Another awesome Valentine card: [link]
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2010 6:26:38 am PST #7856 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Lego steampunk "Voyage to the Moon" model
The 1902 French movie Le Voyage dans la lune provided one of most indelible science fiction images ever: the grimacing Man on the Moon with giant bullet-like space capsule in his eye. Guy Himber's excellent Lego steampunk adaptation evokes the same feel with panache. I love the barrel as the exhaust port! The sculpture won the award for 'Best Art' at the 2009 BrickCon Lego convention.