July, 2008

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Scenic beauty that must be punished

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Victoria, B.C. yet again demonstrates that they need to be pressured to deal with their waste: they’ve made an even bigger (accidental) attempt to poison Puget Sound, this time with fish pathogens. Way to go!

Keep your (admittedly weak) tourist dollars away from those poop-where-we-eat-ers.

But it's harder to type using a toilet seat

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

An article on how the keyboards at 2 University of Washington computer labs are super disgusting mentions that “At the [Seattle Public] library’s Central Branch, all 378 public keyboards are wiped daily, cleaned thoroughly once a week and put through the dishwasher once a month on a rotating schedule.”

At my library, no keyboard cleaning is done whatsoever. Now wash your hands.
CORRECTION! Apparently there is keyboard cleaning. Now lick your hands.

Two by two, hands of blue

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Driving to work this morning, passed 2 cops at the end of my street, one wearing blue nitrile gloves, maybe for evidence collecting? Also a big City of Redmond Police SUV. What terrible crime has occurred???

Mmm…meat

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Outside the Ipanema Grill in Manhattan, we saw a sign reading “[n] kinds of meat”. I think n was eight or ten. Here’s what we could reconstruct of the several sword-borne meat options they brought by:

  • Sausage
  • Bacon-wrapped Turkey
  • Chicken
  • Beef ribs
  • Pork ribs
  • Pork loin
  • Roast beef
  • Skirt steak

We think maybe there were some other beef loin things. All in all, a carnivore’s yum-fest.

Why, yes, I do know because!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I’m so glad I don’t have to deal directly with these people:

We found big differences in transactions registered …. [Your] platform report about 103,105 [items], while [our] platform indicates that deliver [items] about 112,547. As indeed we have a difference of 9,445 [items] in favors of [us]. You know because this difference is so great?

(the answer is, of course, that we’re counting [items] differently; fortunately, the people who ask me understand the answers I give them)

And that dust/grease combo fudgy badness

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

From a review of a currently EU/Japan only DS product (not really a game) Cooking Guide:

We’d recommend putting your swanky new red DS in a Ziploc or something if you’re going to fry pork next to it.

Why I love Kirkus

Monday, July 7th, 2008

From a Kirkus review of Baker’s The Numerati:

The propellerheads with whom Baker converses seem a pretty benign bunch, far from the Panopticon-loving Dr. Evils the conspiracy-evoking title suggests.

Nominative Determinism is Dangerous

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

It occurred to me after Craig’s post about tipping milk that he should be worried about Nominative Determinism, since my name is Sarah TheMostDangerousGame.

In other news, happy birthday, Mom TheMostDangerousGame!

Nominative determinism is everywhere

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Nominative determinism is a recurring theme on the BBC News Magazine Monitor (which also has a Twitter presence), so I am perhaps primed to see it in this story about the new blocky milk jugs:

“Just tilt it slowly and pour slowly,” Ms. Tilton said…

But then, she would, wouldn’t she?