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The 24 bottle case of beer I bought today cost $38.90. I used a hundred dollar bill; sixty-odd change after taxes.
I can’t find the change. It may have fallen out of my pocket in the parking lot.
This better be good beer.

What color should she get?

I’d like to see a blue one.
(via Neatorama)

Two Southern ladies, Maribelle and AnneMarie, were sitting on the porch drinking mint juleps. They have the following conversation, best imagined with an upscale Southern drawl:
Maribelle: AnneMarie, do you see this huge diamond ring?
AnneMarie: Yes.
Maribelle: My husband bought this for me.
AnneMarie: Isn’t that special.
Maribelle: Do you see that Jaguar in the parking lot?

AnneMarie: Yes.
Maribelle: My [...]

The girl who lives in the apartment next door to us (I’ll call her Beth) has been leaving her cat alone in the apartment for days and days — or at least that’s what I’ve suspected for the past couple months. I just got an email from a friend confirming my suspicions. Beth told my [...]

“Tom” is short for tomato. God, this is going to be a great video series. The following video is a sequel to (or a repeat of) this video.

And Tom (which is short for Tommyboy), watch how I prune the tomato plant in this video. Then go out and prune all your tomato plants [...]

I changed my long-distance phone plan today. I use Primus, which had a much better rate than the competitors back in August, 2000 when I got it.
My old plan was The Dime Time MAX (which isn’t offered anymore):

$3.95 network monthly fee
10 cents per minute evenings (6pm-8am) & weekends anywhere in Canada. Never
pay more that $20 [...]

It’s as exciting as it sounds. I recorded this video on my Sony Cyber-shot digital camera (not a video camera). The picture and sound quality suck. Then I had to compress it down to a WMV before uploading it to YouTube, so don’t expect high quality here.

The tomato plants have been in my green house [...]

Who would you rather kiss on the lips for 30 seconds, Woody Allen or William Shatner?

Woody Allen

William Shatner

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NOTE: This question is open to both males and females, and it’s Woody Allen and William Shatner as they exist in the present day.

The series, that is. The last volume is released tomorrow, July 21.
I read the first 4, forgetting them within a week after reading them. They’re fun, easy reads, but I don’t understand the hype. There are much better series out there, including Pullman’s His Dark Materials (which is being made into a [...]

Firefox doesn’t support opening Windows executable files (i.e. files with an .exe extension); you have to save it, then manually run it. I missed the ability to execute a program directly from a browser (as Internet Explorer allows).
The OpenDownload add-on fixes that. When you click an executable, the dialog now has a “Run” [...]

Okay, I know you all know who Donald Knuth is, but just to waste some bandwidth, I’ll provide his background anyway:
Knuth wrote The Art Of Computer Programming, considered the Bible of computer programming for those with an academic background. I remember seeing the beige, hard-cover volumes at MUN’s book store for graduates, yet I [...]

Tags: computer science, donald knuth, programming

Silly headlines like this have been in the Canadian news a lot since yesterday: And on that note, the White Stripes tour is over:
The White Stripes put on a surprise pre-concert show for fans in St. John’s Monday evening, but it could not have been much shorter.
…the White Stripes played just a single note — [...]

I tried to order a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated via their website, but as Greg likes to say, it “sucks ass”:

The “State” dropdown list doesn’t list Canadian provinces
The Postal Code can’t go in the “Zip Code” field, but at the end of your second address line instead.

When I submit the form, the form is displayed [...]

I love this photo of Johnny Cash. His expression drives home the poignancy.
Johnny Cash Gives You the Finger provides a good write-up about it and its origin:
…[the photographer] snapping pictures of Cash before a concert at San Quentin Prison, asked Cash for a shot “for the warden,” and got this result.

A Blunt Atheist FAQ is a lengthy list of questions that atheists often receive, including brief but concise (and sometimes amusing) answers:
How do I tell my family and friends I’m an atheist?
First you should think twice about telling. Some people can’t take it, so healthy self‐preservation might call for keeping it a secret or admitting [...]