- An incredibly bitter and sadly accurate obituary of M. Scott Peck, the spiritual psychology self-help writer. His first book was reasonably useful but the rest of his career was a waste, and apparently he was the Peter Sellers of popular moral philosophy. Via Robot Wisdom
- The LA Times has a good piece on food safety at Chinese places. Chinese friends of mine tell me that if the grade is better than C it’s probably not authentic. Then again, my cultural tolerance doesn’t extend to salmonella or living insects in my rice.
- Pets in Uniform! Pets in Uniform! PETS IN UNIFORM? Via memepool.
- Robot finds 600 barrels of pirate loot. I assume the robot has one leg and an eye patch.
You can’t fight in here, this is the war room!
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Robots and pirates. My day is complete.
L.
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Re: yo ho ho / bee dee bee dee bee dee
What are you doing Dave? YARRRR!!
(I know, HAL wasn’t technically a robot. but gimme a break, it’s been a long day.)
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Re: yo ho ho / bee dee bee dee bee dee
My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it.
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KING OF FOOD
living insects in my rice
Wow, in that case, the place we ate all the time in college was totally authentic!
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I keep forgetting memepool even exists! I used to go there all the time. Must not be that strong a meme. *cough*
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I cannot believe that people actually pay that guy $20 to make shitty photoshops of their pets.
That’s not true — I can believe it, but it pisses me off so much that I cannot handle that belief.
They’re not even very good photoshops.
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Pissed off… or jealous?
Sounds like a genius way of making money to me.
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I for one welcome our new militaristic animal-abusing overlords!
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From the pets in uniform thing, the “This could be YOUR pet:” sounds like more of a warning than an enticement to me.
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I like how the “Related links” for the article about the Chilean treasure are all “Pinochet’s Reign of Terror”, “The Coup in Chile”, “US Aid to Pinochet”, “First-Hand Accounts of the Coup”, etc., because that must be all that ever comes up on a topic search for Chile in the news.
Doesn’t help their tourism board much, really. “Come to Chile! We’ll drug you and throw you into the ocean from a plane!” No, wait, that’s Argentina. In Chile they just cut your hands off.
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Four-rats general
I can just imagine a scenario where I send that guy a picture of a rat and he’s all “I WILL NOT PHOTOSHOP A MILITARY UNIFORM ON THIS RAT BECAUSE OMG DISRESPECT AND NEVAR FORGET” but in reality I know that he’d probably sell his grandma for a fistful of quarters.
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About that robot: just gimme a minute and a blowtorch and it will be much more pirate-y. I just need to figure out where to put that eye patch … maybe over the doohickey on the left side?
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