I’ve met more Australian people in my time in Germany than makes sense. I mean, I didn’t know there were this many of them. But I guess if I lived on a dumpy prison island and spoke in a bizarrely obnoxious dialect that made everyone around me suspect I’d recently been quite near a loud … Continue reading
I like to think I’m pretty much up to speed on contemporary culture, but in all actuality I just get sidetracked by the nerdy things and am generally unable to follow a simple conversation with the average normie. Case in point. Today Carl and I are walking back from the city with a mutual friend … Continue reading
I do a lot of bitching, and a lot of mocking. It’s pretty much why I get up in the morning. Recently one of my favorite blogs linked to this piece, a list of the 50 most despicable people in America for 2007. It is absolute gold. I very truly wish that I could write … Continue reading
I’ve been told that I value logic very highly, and also that I’m a huge jerkface pathological debater and I argue vehemently regardless of what my stance on any given topic really is. I’m an ENTP, so this is to be expected. But seriously, man, I own people at arguing. Thus I experience a sense … Continue reading
My good friend Nick has a theory that smart people always lie because their intelligence leads them to become easily bored with social interaction, and many of them glean pleasure from messing with other, less-mentally-well-endowed individuals. Here is a quote taken from a comment on this entry where Nick explains this. I would never answer … Continue reading
I was innocently surfing tonight when I was all too suddenly broadsided by a careening semitrailer of technological illiteracy. 03:13:48 Unknown_Player(1): if i stick songs on itunes from a cd, do those songs take up a lot more space than an mp3 03:14:07 I: that’s what an mp3 is 03:14:14 I: a song that was … Continue reading
My post about that freaking sweet Portal song by Victims Of Science got me thinking that the world needs way more videogame tribute music. So I fired up my sweet professional audio synthesizing software (read: GarageBand) and coughed up a turd. When I linked Jordan to my newest brainchild, he said: “I don’t want to … Continue reading
This city of Munich is beautiful. The upkeep is remarkable, the overall effort the city exerts to make sure it stays beautiful is really worth a tip of the hat. Sometimes, when I miss a tram, and have to wait up to two minutes for the next one, some street cleaning crews will stroll by, … Continue reading
OK, it’s been awhile since I’ve plastered lolcats all over the place, so give me some leniency here. This picture freaking rocks. Oh man, that just made my day. That dog is absolutely getting rocked. “Pwn3d,” one might even be driven to say. But that expression of sheer horror is yet bested. The poor kid … Continue reading