> get lamp

Stygian Syzygy: Yay, Dukakis and antihistamines
moody green kale leaves: ....
Stygian Syzygy: ... Flavinoids
moody green kale leaves: wtf

(Yes, yes, autocorrect is known for weirdness, but even so flavonoids -> Dukakis seems pretty far up the bizarro scale.)

The LJ "like" notifications are about the most useless thing ever. For me, such a feature is in the "meh, I wouldn't probably use it and don't really care, though I can see why some people might want it and on the other hand 'oh no not more Facebook'" category. But that said, the notification is just a link to the liked post, with no other information, particularly not WHO THE USER WAS. I'm not even certain how people are managing to like any of my posts, since I have a legacy theme on my journal that doesn't include those kind of elements (although for that matter I don't even see it on, say, news - maybe it's only viewable if you're in the "feed" mode of reading a friends page? their supposed screenshot on http://news.livejournal.com/151114.html doesn't at all look like what I see). Even more confusing is when I get random "like" notifications for ancient posts (well, 2011) in random communities like rifftrax. It's like someone is sending bots around liking posts, or something... but if so, why?

(discussing the fact that we often don't use up a container of milk before it goes bad)

Arethinn: but if we go all the way down to pints, the lack of being ultra pasteurized might not be a problem
Celebron: ahhh, true
Arethinn: quart seems to be a threshold
Arethinn: maybe we should just get a cow
Celebron: sure
Arethinn: that's obviously cheaper and easier
Celebron: we need a dwarf cow
Arethinn: you'd have to lie on the ground to milk it!
Arethinn: tho, i don't think it's like chickens and eggs, where they lay no matter what... cows don't lactate unless they get pregnant, right?
Arethinn: so we'd need a dwarf stud
Arethinn: actually, i think they artificially inseminate dairy cows
Arethinn: plus, i don't think Tyrion is available
Celebron: ...
Arethinn: ...what was in that coffee i just drank

Back cover of a book I just discarded from the collection:



Never mind the pyramid tent, what's his excuse for the pyramid pants?

Pyramid power / G. Pat Flanagan.
6th ed.
Santa Monica, Calif. : De Vorss, 1975, c1973.
ISBN 0875162096

I did a double take that this was classed in QH (natural history and biology) rather than, say, in BF where all the parapsychology stuff goes, but QH 341 is "Nature of life, vital force, etc." which, eh, I guess. (He does talk about things like prana and mana and bioelectric energy.)

The guy who wrote this is, er, gem is apparently still around. (Is it me, or does he have a resemblance to Jack Nicholson in his picture there?)

We just saw a Kia commercial where the car, driving down the road, is first clamped onto by some kind of magnetic (?) thing dangling from a helicopter, flown out to sea and past a cruise (?) ship, whereupon a giant CG Neptune/Poseidon kind of figure rears up out of the ocean and grabs the car in his hand, but aliens take it away in their tractor beam.

Or something. I mean, by any measure, WTF, right? ("Optima: No ordinary sedan" was the tagline, I think. Uh. Yeah, I guess it's not?) I said we ought to go to Korea and see what was in their rice because clearly there was some kind of problem.

But the thing that really made me LOL was that as the helicopter flew in and got a grip on the car, that was when they put up the tinytext "Do not attempt" warning.

Do not attempt?! Just how the fuck would I attempt anything that happened in this commercial?!

650 0 Anus (Psychology) ǂv Fiction.


cannot stop giggling about this subject heading.

(I think this novel is about a guy suffering from an anal fistula and really the description of life in a small Pacific island community is the point, but still. THAT SUBJECT HEADING.)

http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2011/01/veggie-might-hash-brownskablammed.html

I now understand precisely what is meant by "Want you smothered, want you covered / like my Waffle House hash browns" (the lyric from "The Bad Touch"). I had no idea these adjectives (participles? adjectival past participles?) actually referred to specific toppings, namely sauteed onions and cheese, although I had guessed that cheese was probably involved. I'd always heard "waffle house" as a generic, because until recently I did not know there was actually a chain with that specific name, and in any case I never made the connection.

I guess this information is now stored in one of the crannies of my brain not used for storing penguins.

busyhead highthing says:
The Morrow book of new words: 8500 terms not yet in standard dictionaries
c. 1982 (apparently the previous ed. of Webster's was 1967)
includes things that to me seem bizarre, such as binary star, dopamine, and kiloton
meson
LOL, "Proposition 13"
"the name of the game"
"shuttle service" (wtf?)

weird phrases I have uttered in the past couple of days:

barely coagulated space lava
jive-talking Hypello
Do you have the Spanish Inquisition in your feet?

So there was this line in tonight's Big Bang Theory, in the context of other similarly silly speculations about who was the bravest person in the Marvel universe, about Captain America's undocumented Mexican gardner. (Neighbors of this line included something about Wolverine's proctologist, and whether Wolverine had an adamantite prostate.) I said "So, is Captain America standing in for Meg Whitman, here?"

I was just being glib, but.... yeah, I wish I hadn't, because enotsola is over there making a manip of Captain America with Meg Whitman's face and MAN IS IT EVER DISTURBING. Way worse than his "Baraka Obama" thing. Talk about using your powers for evil!

eta: Oh great. He put it in our shared folder for your, er, enjoyment: