Category Archives: awesome

How Does Anyone Work In These Conditions

May 9, 2013 – 10:24 pm

A little while ago, the espresso machine in our office broke down. This doomsday scenario is, and I say this without the least bit of hyperbole, the most catastrophically dire situation that can exist in this or any other possible universe. If the intertubes felt slow for you the last few weeks, that’s probably why. [...]

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Summertime

May 6, 2013 – 10:52 am

Aww yeah.

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It’s Not Just For Lolcats

March 20, 2013 – 9:22 pm

So, this is pretty awesome. How does Wells Fargo secure your communications channel? With animated gifs. Ladies and gentlemen, Wells Fargo’s security. And, not to put to fine a point on it, their opinion of how trivially gulled their clients are. Are you a client of Wells Fargo? I’m just asking.

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That’s Too Much Machine For You

February 18, 2013 – 11:10 am

Man, how awful is it to see people broken by the realization that they are no longer young. Why are you being cantankerous, newly-old person? It’s totally OK not to be 17 or 23, things are still amazing! Kids are having fun! You may not really understand it, but just roll with it! The stuff [...]

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Majora’s Mask

January 24, 2013 – 10:35 pm

I’ve been thinking a lot about Majora’s Mask recently, and as usual the best way for me to get something out of my head is to blog about it. I suspect this is going to turn into one of those awkward, poorly-disguised confessionals that says more about inside of my head than to anything in [...]

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Baking Bacon

January 23, 2013 – 1:29 pm

You need a Silpat nonstick cooking mat, a baking tray, an oven and tongs. Turn the oven up to 400, but you don’t need to let it finish preheating; this starts from cold. Silpat goes on the tray, bacon goes on the Silpat and it all goes in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes. [...]

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Memetic Diversity

January 15, 2013 – 7:38 am

On my subway ride home last night two elderly Chinese ladies were sitting across from me having an animated conversation I couldn’t understand a word of, when one of them suddenly ended a sentence with “… like a boss.” The conversation paused, as the other just lifted her eyebrows and nodded appreciatively. The moment passed; [...]

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Besides The Photo And The Memory

January 6, 2013 – 2:40 pm

After explaining the death of a neighbor’s cat to Maya, every conversation we have can now get incredibly heavy without the least bit of advance warning. “Dad, I want eggs for breakfast.” “Ok, Maya, how do you ask for things?” “Please can I have eggs for breakfast please?” “Sure. We can make scrambled eggs.” “Ok. [...]

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Coffee Infused Bourbon

December 13, 2012 – 11:27 am

I’ve had this in the queue for a while, not sure why it didn’t get put up. Well, here it is. Get a bottle of a good bourbon. I’m partial to Woodford Reserve, myself, but there’s clearly room for disagreement here. But if I said “good bourbon” and you thought “Wild Turkey” or “Jim Beam”, [...]

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I Believe These Two Have Never Been Seen In The Same Room

December 12, 2012 – 3:49 pm

And thus it came to pass that in the last moments of the end times, as the worshippers of the Ancient Ones gazed on His final ascension from the depths, that their minds were broken and spirits shattered in those last moments before they were consumed as great Cthulhu approached them, Gangnam style.

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