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And help yourself to anything in the fridge

Thanks for agreeing to house-sit for us. In case you want to watch TV or something while you’re here, let me give you some very simple instructions.

First, of course, turn the TV on. There’s a button on the side here. It’s a little awkward to reach it, I know, so you can also do this [...]

IWUS 3×3: branding violations

The cast must include Karen Black

What began in the Flickr group known as IWUS has now crossed an ocean and invaded our home. The BITWRATHPLOOB, discovered by Flickr users Marigoldie and Tina, first made its way to Virginia to alarm and harass Jagosaurus before being forwarded on so generously to the former Yugoslavia. According to a label affixed to [...]

I wake up screaming #7: How-to

It’s been nearly two years since the first I wake up screaming post appeared on this site. More recently, Jane‘s urging me to form a Flickr group centered around the motif has yielded a lot of fun. It’s fascinating to watch others send their own contributions from their personal catalogues of horrors. Though the group [...]

Delete me now

I was so sorry to read about recent events at JPG. The glossy, dense photography magazine seemed to combine the best of web and print publishing to create a new paradigm, a paper publication that was based in a web community of enthusiasts who would generate the content rather than passively consuming it. I first [...]

Upgrade notice

If an analogy were necessary, I would say that I have just completed the blog equivalent of replacing the transmission using a bent pair of pliers and a butterknife. I let the two-year anniversary of this site pass without mention, but that unmarked occasion rekindled in me the sense of the lazy, the Luddite, and [...]

Bureaucracy, lies, & vomit

Question: how many photographs do you have to take of a two-year-old in order to obtain one usable passport picture?
Answer: how big is your SD card?

We are in the midst of bureaucracy hell. This is what happens when parents from two different countries procreate in a third one, and then have the temerity to want [...]

Browser headaches — includes survey!

In the last post I described installing Parallels and running Windows on the Mac as an overall positive experience. Regular readers will know that I avoid using Internet Explorer if at all possible, but with a new install that’s all you’ve got, and the first thing I use it for is going to Mozilla to [...]

I wake up screaming #5: Thanksgiving leftovers edition

Isoglossia.com wishes a happy, if that’s the word these images conjure up, Thanksgiving weekend to all of our readers in the United States. To any slightly deranged Canadian visitors, we’re sorry we missed your Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, but to be honest we don’t really understand what Canadian Thanksgiving is aboot.

To readers clicking through [...]

List of Grievances

A friend writes: “Hey, do you have the list of grievances [...] anymore? If not, why not?” She’s referring to some notes I kept back in school about one particular fellow student who seemed to register for every damn class I was taking. I was easily annoyed during those years. Regard:

List of Grievances

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