thaddeusjd

For me cousins in Derry. ( I got no blood in Limerick....)

Have you ever watched a movie or TV show that you loved as a kid and just been shocked - shocked, I say! - by how crappy it was? Sadly, stuff that seemed great when you were a kid is often revealed to be utter shit, and that can be hard to take. Believe me, I know. I had a full-on existential meltdown when I...
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Russians. They make up only small % of the EVE Online game population. And by far they are the most aggressive, conflict driven, destructive, skilled and nationalist groups in EVE. They are more like a mobile natural disaster sweeping all before them, rather than an alliance of corporations. There will come a time when the various Russian Alliances will destroy all the rest of us...
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The 20 Nerd Commandments

As presented from Topless Robot, hear and obey!

1) Thou must experience as many nerdy properties as possible throughout your youth (nerdy parents must assist with this). By the age of 20, you must have chosen at least two sides of the following: Star Wars or Star Trek, Kirk or Picard, Marvel or DC, Mac or PC, Trukk or Munkey, Baker...
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This morning on planet Earth there are one thousand, six hundred, and eighty-six enhanced, gifted or otherwise-superpowered persons. Of these, one hundred and twenty-six are civilians leading normal lives. Thirty-eight are kept in research facilities funded by the Department of Defense, or foreign equivalents. Two hundred and twenty-six are aquatic, confined to the oceans. Twenty-nine are strictly localized powerful trees and genii loci, the Great...
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OK. So last night I am hungry, so I have to go to the grocery store. As we all know, as a bachelor, I don't have food in my fridge, just alot of stuff that goes on food. I noticed last night I have six different kinds of mustard, two types of ketchup, five jellies/jams, two apple butters, three mayonase/miricle whip things, four types of...
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OK, explain this to me someone. Hermione Granger is the smartest student at Hogworts, but she is in Gryffindor rather than Ravenclaw. Why?

OK, so people have been chattering about The Rapture, which is supposed to happen rather soon. There is even a Facebook event, Post Rapture Looting you can RSVP to.

Here is my problem. How do I know that someone has been Rapture-arated or whatever, or just not home? It is going to be slightly awkward for me to be jacking someones Jaguar if they are...
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