Hey everyone-I recently published a book on the history of GPS. As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, I'm doing a geocaching project involving Brooklyn (and possibly other boroughs) literary history. I want to place some caches that correspond either to places mentioned in books set in Brooklyn, or...

You know, as a Jew, I get really tired of anti-Semites assuming that I'm stingy with dong, or that my ancestors were all dong-changers or dong-lenders.

I never want this thread to end! Thank you, Gary Glitter.

Peripatetic wrote:That would be an expensive trip; what with the weak dong and all.

Okay, I'm still laughing at this, like, five minutes later.

Thanks so much for the advice, everyone.

So I'm thinking of buying a bike for the first time in my adult life. I was thinking about getting a hybrid, and I was wondering if any of you bike owners have some advice. Is this a good decision? How much should I spend? Anything else you can tell me would be helpful. The main reason I want a bike...

Yeah, just because this launched a genre as dubious as the rock opera does not make it crap. I think it's an amazingly cohesive piece of work, and in 1969 must have sounded completely unlike anything else. This album used to freak the shit out of me when I was a little kid--something about the subje...

The best part: "Mr. Green is now Jacob Green, an African-American 'with all the ins.'"

Really? All of them? Sign me up!

I always make it a point to thank myself. Sometimes I even take me out to dinner. I find that I really appreciate the gesture.

longdivi wrote:By the way, I waited around until after Gottsching E-2 E-4. That was one of the worst things I've ever seen.

You know, for the first ten minutes or so, I was thinking "booo-ring," but then I went up closer to the stage and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Does he do that weird loud Siamese meow that sounds kind of like a donkey or something? He does that! He sounds like a calf, and he's so freaking loud I thought he was deaf. Yeah, Siamese'll do that. Come to think of it, it kind of sounds more like a car horn than like any other animal. And it's al...