redheadedleague

Me: It (the new hard drive) isn't working.

IT: Uh, lemme check something.

(Switch places with IT guy, sit on edge of desk while he sits down and attempts to reboot.)

(Notice tools sitting on desk.)

Me: Uh, I have a question.

IT: Yeah?

Me: Is this the screwdriver you used?

IT: Yeah.

Me: It's magnetic.

IT: Oh. Fuck.

Yeah, I've still got the mouse.

Just call me Noah.

You express a preference for the U.K. spelling "grey," because the U.S. "gray" always makes you think of a unit of radiation.

By the way, I still have the mouse.

Edit: As joker points out, this will make absolutely no sense to you Brits.

So I wake up this morning morning to find a small mouse clinging to my shower curtain ("I'm dark gray against a white background! He'll never see me!") I suspect the critter was stirred up by renovations to the adjacent apartment. After some negotiation ("Come back here!") I managed to coax it into a box. The mouse's initial freak-outedness quickly gave way to hunger, and...
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Leave it to William Saletan, contrarian bioethics journalist, to throw a wet blanket on the recent victory for gay rights (that's legalized marriage for all in California, if you've been like, living in a bunker or something.)

Being the sci-fi geek that I am, I've been concerned for a while that this might be the other shoe in the nature vs. nurture "debate." (yeah, debate,...
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The other day I missed the ferry, and rather than drive and waste precious juice, I decided to take the bus. I normally avoid these metal beasts, since they deprive me of all the things I like about driving (privacy, playing the stereo, feeling the wind rushing by), and often subject me to all the things I dislike about driving (traffic) and pubic transit (crowding.)...
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Is it jsut me, or is Hillary Clinton's concession beginning to resemble that episode of Happy Days when Fonzie couldn't say the words "I'm sorry?"

"I con... I co... conshu... I..."

The Venture Brothers Season Three begins, at last.

In other words, I was too busy to go to Prom this ear, and it bummed me out. Sorry if I missed you.

Cyclones. Earthquakes. And now - ants who attack electronics.

I'll be in my bunker if you need me.

Totally unrelated, but also fascinating: the woman who cannot forget. Photographic memory isn't quite as cool as roleplaying games made it out to be.

(If I had this affliction, I would be constantly trying to make my days as interesting as possible. I suspect this...
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Combine the following:

1) Working late almost every day for the past two weeks;
2) Lack of sleep from said work;
3) Playing computer Scrabble on my phone because I don't have time to play against actual humans;
4) Being convinced that the Scrabble program on my phone is manipulating the tile selection with the intention of mocking me;
5) Watching the details of the...
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