I can see being a little anti-fork. Eating salad from a bowl with a fork — horrific.

Good read. I found this interesting:

"Communes ended up being places that were deeply racially divided, even though none of them would ever cop to being explicitly racist or wouldn’t even want to be. Gender norms were incredibly conservative on communes. I don’t know how many photographs I’ve looked at of young women, pregnant, barefoot, carrying loaves of bread"

I have to agree with the idea that without bureaucracy then things tend to fall into a small group of charismatic people taking the lead and the rest following.

as i sit here in 1998, i love this macbook i'm using.

of course you knew that was pink floyd

just read the front page but i think about that stuff a lot more since i lost my house. i'll never have another one. it's heartbreaking and i'm this close to bitter about it without warning.

when i'm a good dog
they sometimes throw me a bone in

In related news… I like looking at reports because they're understandable and don't talk back, unlike some people I work with.

Basically I was just gabbing about the stats here on the site. I like to nerd out on data.

Yep, they're bad azz 8-)

In related news..

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/12-years-a-slave-auditions/2753012

Aye, aye captain.. We'll let thar radiation leak into the sea and spread nuclear scurvy to all them fishes.

i didn't get any emails that i recognized or remembered.

i read this when it was fresh and was pleasantly amused at the Oceania comment. it' sounded too techy at the time for me to enter the phray.

love the socks.

i'm on board. it's on my list.

sbj on pogo stick juggling dildo!

spoiler warning:
it's the most brutal movie i've ever seen. very hard to watch. not just words. you'll see what i mean.

Great glowing whale winkies Batman!

Just dump 'em and forget 'em…hurray.

Yeah, your celery lead to a long journey through the history of silverware. (To the WABAC machine!)

Apparently at one time practically everything had its own fork. Even ice cream; turns out an ice cream fork is just a high-class, fancy spork though. I also found out about other crazy-specific silverware, such as the waffle knife and the Saratoga chip server.

Did you know that at one time, parts of the Roman Catholic Church were against forks?

Asparagus has its own fork? And an anniversary? Lord above…

That seems like a very civilized way to get celery out of a jar. Plus this post lead to the discovery that there is a special fork for serving asparagus. (And thence to the question of which anniversary is the Asparagus Anniversary.)