bestrooftalkever: A reversal of Pavlov’s concept…

Current reading (or: I suck at finishing anything) Toll the Hounds Book number eight in a series that I’m enjoying, this one is dense. I started reading it in Summer 2009 and I’m only just over half way through. I think part of what’s holding me up is that the majority of characters that I liked have been killed off over the last few books, and...

Current reading (or: I suck at finishing anything) Toll the Hounds Book number eight in a series that I’m enjoying, this one is dense. I started reading it in Summer 2009 and I’m only just over half way through. I think part of what’s holding me up is that the majority of characters that I liked have been killed off over the last few books, and...

“Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the speed and leisure of both the sender and the receiver. In stark contrast, when you get a phone call, it’s almost always a convenient time for the caller and a bad time for the recipient, who I refer to as the “victim” because I insist on accuracy. My philosophy is that...

“Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the speed and leisure of both the sender and the receiver. In stark contrast, when you get a phone call, it’s almost always a convenient time for the caller and a bad time for the recipient, who I refer to as the “victim” because I insist on accuracy. My philosophy is that...

God fucking damn it Tumblr. Not this blog!

God fucking damn it Tumblr. Not this blog!

At the NHM.

At the NHM.

As per Twitter, I’m off. Unlike Twitter, I expect I’ll try and read back to this point on Tumblr, which is why booking an extra day off was a good idea. (35 hours to Eurostar, 15 hours until London) ( Photo by Cesar Huguet — CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 )

As per Twitter, I’m off. Unlike Twitter, I expect I’ll try and read back to this point on Tumblr, which is why booking an extra day off was a good idea. (35 hours to Eurostar, 15 hours until London) ( Photo by Cesar Huguet — CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 )

We recently programmed Bucket, the IRC chat bot in #xkcd, to allow people set their gender so he can use pronouns for them. This ended up taking hundreds of lines of code, three pages of documentation, and six different sets of pronouns and variables, just to cover all the basic ways people in the channel with different gender identifications...

We recently programmed Bucket, the IRC chat bot in #xkcd, to allow people set their gender so he can use pronouns for them. This ended up taking hundreds of lines of code, three pages of documentation, and six different sets of pronouns and variables, just to cover all the basic ways people in the channel with different gender identifications...

thisistheglamorous: I loved going to shop class in middle school.  Not that I was particularly good or enjoyed the teachers1 (mind you, they were very nice people but by no means my favorite teachers), it was the chance to wash my hands at the end of class.  Both wood and metal shops had Boraxo powdered soap in the metal dispensers.  It was...

thisistheglamorous: I loved going to shop class in middle school.  Not that I was particularly good or enjoyed the teachers1 (mind you, they were very nice people but by no means my favorite teachers), it was the chance to wash my hands at the end of class.  Both wood and metal shops had Boraxo powdered soap in the metal dispensers.  It was...