$1600 for a carburetor? I paid $1500 for the car!! Hmm. Or did I pay $1500 for a carburetor, and get a free car with it? Either way, I don’t think I’ll pay to repair it. I think that one-time-only emissions waiver is the way to go, and then I will (I hope) buy a […]
I have located the wonderful ingredient that made a certain frozen burrito irresistible to me. And I’m glad, because those durned things are very bad for me. The ingredient is the poblano pepper. I followed a recipe from www.savingdinner.com (go check it out!) and made a poblano sauce for my steak the other night, and
What does your God have to say about the murder of His children? Quoting from this site: The children were killed when a bomb exploded in central Baghdad’s bustling Fadel area near a camera shop which also sold alcohol, police Lt. Ali Mittab said. The target was unclear but religious extremists often attack stories that
I tried to blog, honest! It said it hated me. Okay, so what it actually said was some damn thing about a runtime error, but that’s just computer language for “I hate you and I wish you would go away.” So I did. For one day. And I sent flowers and chocolates and now my
Ooh, pretty… I have a new wallpaper. And a new screen saver. You have to check out this site. Digital Blasphemy Awesome, ne? Hope just keeps saying she can’t believe it’s not real. I find they spark my imagination. Not in a “I wonder what would happen if…” kind of way, but just–I enjoy them
Quoting from this site: Increasing numbers of young people in Japan are feeling alienated by modern life. Several thousand are termed “hikikomori” – recluses who never leave their room, finding entertainment only on the internet. The suicide pacts still make up a relatively small proportion of Japan’s suicides. More than 34,000 Japanese took their own
Just saw a commercial for an SUV–one of the smaller ones–and it made a huge deal of the fact that the vehicle gets thirty miles to the gallon. Umm–did I miss something? My 1988 Corolla gets 32. Yeah, they were talking about an SUV, but still! In eighteen years, they haven’t managed to improve any
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