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Mmm, nerdy.

Sparrow — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:28 +0000

I have just discovered The Drunken Moogle, a website devoted entirely to drinking and videogames. I thoroughly approve, as these are two of my favorite things, and together they’re better than brown paper boxes tied up with string!

The Triforce
1/3 Goldschlager
1/3 Banana Liquer
1/3 Sugar Cane Rum

Well, I know what I’ll be serving at our next geek gamer party.

…BRB Kahlua Mocha, Johnny Green, splash of buttercream coffee creamer, top w/ half n half and milk. IDK what you’d call it but hot damn it’s good. I feel drunk just thinking about it. Oh, wait. I bet it’d be awesome with some cold coffee, over ice. I’d try it now, but that would require making coffee, and it IS 4AM.

This is so me today…

Sparrow — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:54:31 +0000

…from Kate Beaton, of Hark A Vagrant!

╮(⊙‸°)╭

Sparrow — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:37:01 +0000

…right, so now I want a cat AND an iPad.

“I am inventing electricity, and you look like an asshole.”

Sparrow — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:55:32 +0000

Drunken History: Tesla and Edison. Hilarious.

The Joys of Living in Sin SoCal

Sparrow — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:38:34 +0000

Oh it’s so true. Californians are just about as blase as people can get about earthquakes.

If you somehow managed to miss the news, we caught part of an earthquake here today. It was quite big, but here in the OC it was a rolling quake, they don’t tend to do that much damage, since the motion is smooth they’re quite gentle as far as earthquakes go…

Unless of course they’re very, very big. Our ground here is a layer of dirt over a base of mostly sand, and a big rolling quake will cause that sand to act like a liquid, and that, my friends, causes buildings to literally sink into the ground. Awesome! …or not.

I’m a romantic, at heart.

Sparrow — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:24:32 +0000

While the rest of the world is celebrating love and casual sex, it’s important for single people like myself to remember Captain Cook, who was was killed and ritualistically eaten by Hawaiians on the 14th of February, 1779. Romantic, huh?

MC Happiness

Sparrow — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:04:40 +0000

…well, why not?

A little ray of sunshine…

Sparrow — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:23 +0000

I’ve been sorting out my finances all morning, which, even when you’re totally in the clear is pretty stressful, and can be a downright Sisyphean task if you’re an un/and/or/underemployed bohemian type like me…

Once I’d done, the moment I sat down to relax, Hunter snuggled up close. Sophie hopped up to play with me and cheer me up, but she saw that I was kinda tired, so she just pranced a bit and cuddled up on my other side.

I have the most awesome dogs in the world.

You have died and gone to…

Sparrow — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:10:44 +0000

INTERNET HELL!! (clicky for embiggening)

Good Eats!

Sparrow — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:14:42 +0000

I fell in love with Jaques Pepin when he said, quite without irony, that it was alright to use canned beans in certain recipes — and then proceeded to open a tin and do just that. Great chef, more concerned with showing people how to make good, simple food, than with all the intricacies of soaking overnight and growing your own. I thought it was pretty fabulous.

…well, this evening I finally saw something to top even that. Anthony Bourdain, cracking and devouring a small mountain of shellfish, using nothing but his hands.

Now, this comes with a story. Many years ago I had a French boyfriend, and said boyfriend and I sat down to a seafood dinner with Mint. You should know that I love fresh shellfish with a passion unrivaled by any other foodstuff. After watching me hand-crack and devour my own small mountain of shellfish, my boyfriend turned to Mint, saying, “If you want to know how a woman is in bed, watch her eat.”