andyman wrote:

Arson Smith wrote:USB stuff

Someone recently mentioned the USB host controller to me - the piece of hardware responsible for the ports. Maybe get that checked out?

Bet'cher ass I will - thank you for the tip!

My co-worker loves Christmas music. He starts playing it around the middle of November and doesn't stop till the new year. It's that time again, and I'm hearing that Paul McCartney Christmas song, all tinny, coming from across the aisle. It's going to be a long holiday season.

Welcome to Holiday Light -- kill me.

This just might be the year where I snap...

Chapter Two wrote:I heard Queen's Spread Your Wings and the rest of the News Of The World album today for the first time since I was about eight years old. It did not disappoint me. It's fucking brilliant.

Wonderful album. One of my music goals/dreams is to someday get my band to cover "It's Late".

Fashion mistakes have been made before, I know. It's not a new thing.

This one is different. This morning, I saw a young woman with a hole in her jeans. Now now, I know that jeans with holes at the knees are old hat, but this hole was the size of the palm of my hand and on her left hip, a little bit to the front. This was purposeful. You couldn't miss it. She couldn't have missed it.

She was also absently chewing gum while standing in the aisle of the train, checking out her look in the reflection of the window. She had the gall to adjust the angle of her white-fake-fur-lined hood instead of running into traffic.

I get called in for a job interview today and I go in and sit down in the office to be interviewed. The woman who was interviewing me told me of two open positions, one being full time night stock. Mind you that only two minutes have passed maybe three, I tell her i am interested in the night position and as I say this the General manager stops at the door listens to her briefly summarize the job and when she finishes his only input is "Quit sitting there and hire his ass already". By this time only a maximum of five minutes has passed and I just fucking lost it. All he had to say after that was "See how easy it is during the holidays".Hysterical! It was the most brief and hilarious interview I have ever had or even heard of. It pretty much made whole month.

my girlfriend woke me up and asked if i wanted to go to circuit city to see our mutual friend, chris.

"no. i don't. i just woke up."

"well, in a little while then?"

"sure. what's he doing at circuit city, he get a job there?"

"he's camping out to buy a PS3. one sold on ebay the other day for $15,000. so he's going to turn around and sell it."

"oh, ok."

so we went and visited chris, and bought some beer. and got drunk in a tent outside of a circuit city.

good times.

I bought some of these:



And will be cooking them shortly. Of course, I photographed them before I took them home.

Whaaa? What is that? A mutant cauliflower?

burun wrote:I bought some of these:

And will be cooking them shortly. Of course, I photographed them before I took them home.

Lovely!

night_tools wrote:Whaaa? What is that? A mutant cauliflower?

It is a Romanesco. Often mislabeled the Broccoflower. It is an heirloom brassica, which means that it is a naturally-occurring variant and not a gene-spliced mutant.

I think they are easily found in Italy. You can get them here in the States in late autumn (which is now) and boy are they incredibly tasty.

And fun to look at. Self-similar genetics! Mandelbrot vegetables! Gourmands and mathematicians can sup together at last!