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September 24, 2012 It's been a long saga, for a small amount of currency. What did we learn? (1) Redundancy is good. (Redundancy is good.) If you're ever trying to do this, it's more successful to send many pennies to many people, rather than circu...
When one wants to ask a friend to do a favor, there's only one way to do it--messenger fly. Messenger flies are notoriously picky about who they choose to carry messages for, so we were forced to kidnap one. Luckily, he saw reason quickly and, ...
BD and I have been talking about this task for years. Years. "Wow, this must be epic, then!" Wait. Allow me to show you the years of conversation we've had about it. "Hey, that task. We need to start it." "Yeah we do. Next week." "Okay." Ad infinitu...
One of the greatest joys of living in upstate New York was the apple-picking. Midwest apples just aren't the same, and the apple-picking excursions I've been on here have been pretty disappointing. Spurred by bitterness, I decided that no one else ...
June 27: At the end of the Chicago Pride parade, one Mr. 0., one Meredithian, and one Gremlin sat in a Caribou coffee and chatted about the SF0 days of their past. During this meeting, a random idea for silliness was formed. July 1: Sitting on the e...
QUIDDITCH: TEAM RAVENCLAW VS TEAM HUFFLEPUFF With rules plucked from the books and many nerdy discussions about the proper "canon" and such, we took to the fields with a game of Quidditch!! We adjusted the rules several times during breaks, in orde...
In doing this test, we had a huge advantage and a huge disadvantage. In our favor, each of the rooms in our home is painted a different vivid color (except for a wall we kept white). So it was easy to tell when we had three rooms reflected, becau...
Part of my job is literally to chew gum and then spit it out. Yes, I get paid to do this. A few months ago, the chewing gum base was made out of a polymer that tasted pretty much exactly like vomit. It was awful. But we don't get paid if we can'...
The tale of Steve was not a happy one. Steve never knew his parents, he was born in a breeding facility and then shipped off to America to be sold. He sat for weeks in a store until I came along and viciously purchased him and placed him in my bathro...
The hot sun was abruptly covered by clouds; rain pounded down upon us without warning. Something clicked in my brain, and I ran inside. I've been hanging on to old art for years, none of which I'm excited by any longer. Most of it is representatio...