All the leaves are brown, and the gas fittings are gray.

This is the bag?

Yes, that is the bag.

http://quizilla.com/users/Iceangel143/quizzes/What%20elemental%20dragon%20are%20you%3F/

Welcome to postliterate life. All of the questions and possible answers to this “Elemental Dragon” quiz are so. messed. up.

http://quizilla.com/users/Iceangel143/quizzes/ has the rest of this person’s oeuvre. This was the source of my Guardien Unicorn image too, it seems.

But also for anyone who likes the hoarse yelling guys on TV who sell knives.

It’s PEPPER!

EDIT: They are, sadly, off the air now. Tom O’Dell has moved on to Cutlery Corner

First, geeky sadness:

Jared related tonight that in his computer programming class at IVC, where they are teaching him Pascal, the instructor has done the following:

• Written a test question that implied that source files are converted into object files by the text editor, and graded it as if this was true.
• Written a homework problem in which one is given three of five variables and told to solve the problem, with two of the variables undefined; one turned out to be user input but this was not specified. As given the problem could not be solved.
• Written another test question in which the student is supposed to say which of the statements a,b,c,d,e are true and which are false, but none of them were true and this option was not one of the answers one could give.
• Asserted that Pascal is an object-oriented language.

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In the world of actual software development, it was discovered today that a compiler that unlinks /dev/null is a bad thing.

Second, food:

Chicken with spicy peanut sauce + sticky white rice + sauteed whole tiny sweet peppers = winner. Café latte with grit in it = loser.

Third, love:

Camera pans slowly over junkyard, taking 15 minutes or so to go past rusted engine blocks and exhausts, rotted out seats, and heaps of tin foil and bolts, finally coming to rest on a pudgy fortyish man, bald and hawk-nosed, sitting naked on a plastic lawn chair. He is holding up a sign saying “Nope, no luck!”

Super extra nasty AIDS in New York City?

‘Cause you know the original AIDS wasn’t nasty enough.

via rawstory

It was a 9.3?

The urine was too cool to have come from Tom Sizemore.

feedle alerts me to the existence of the JBX Grill, the attempt by Jack in the Box to enter the “upscale fast casual” world where people will spend $12.95 for 50 cents worth of Extrude-A-Fude™.

Not sure whether this is brilliant, or soon to be a hilarious failure like the Mac Tonight Supper Club.

Probably the former, since 99 44/100% of restaurants now serve whatever Sysco brings in the truck whether they charge ten or a hundred dollars for the experience.

But they have a fireplace!

Just to get y’all in the mood. The story should have been headlined AREA CLICHE GUY FULFILLS HIS STEREOTYPE. “Arrested at his mother’s mobile home” indeed. Also “favored tie-dyed t-shirts”. Any bets on Tevas?