CN: Body Image, Fat shaming
I stopped by Dreamer’s Cards and Games in St. Louis Park last weekend. Cute little store: Tiny selection of comics and games, pretty large selection of Magic cards, and half the store dedicated to a playing area. I was browsing their comics selection and my gaze snagged on…wait…is that a FAT FLYING HAPPY-LOOKING FEMALE SUPERHERO!?
The nature of nerdy gifts is that they’re hard to get for other people unless you’re really familiar with their particular flavor of nerd/geek/fandom. But I recently received two TWO gifts that really float my boat. Continue reading “I Get Nerdy Gifts”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Atheist Pig is awesome. Go read ALL The Atheist Pig. All of it.
The Atheist Pig <—Unnecessarily linked thrice. Because The Atheist Pig is worth it. (<—That’s four)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Atheist Pig is awesome. Go read ALL The Atheist Pig. All of it.
The Atheist Pig <—Unnecessarily linked thrice. Because The Atheist Pig is worth it. (<—That’s four)
I found another comic to add to my Google Reader: The Atheist Pig
Source: The Atheist Pig ~ Seen over at The Friendly Atheist
Oh, and then that reminded me of this:
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
There’s always room for Princess Bride comixed.
Seen flying around teh Facebook today.
I saw this in today’s paper. I think Knute may be on to a brilliant idea!
Click on image to see original source at gocomics.com
I lost my wallet yesterday. I couldn’t find it last night.
This morning I woke up at 3am so that I could pull a 4:30am – 1pm shift. I normally work about 8am-5pm, but I have to be in Stillwater this afternoon at 3pm for my last day of scuba lessons.
At 4am I called the last place where I used my wallet, which was Cub Foods in Stillwater. A nice lady (especially nice for 4am) actually answered, but she told me I’d have to check back in with lost-and-found at 8am.
I left home at 4:05am and started driving to work. About a mile away from home I realized that I needed to turn around to pack a lunch since any lunch money I had would be in my lost wallet. I also snagged a roll of laundry quarters to pay for the $5.50 parking lot fee that I would need at the scuba lesson place.
I arrived at work at 4:45am and realized that my access badge was in my wallet. I sat in my car and played on my iPod and smartphone from 4:45am to 6am. At 6:00 my first coworker arrived and let me into the building.
At 8am I called Cub Foods – they have my wallet! Woo-hoo!
I’m going to get some breakfast to celebrate.
Enjoy some XKCD. This comic is like my morning – it’s the complicated way to get where you’re going.
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Let’s start this short week off easy with a few grab bag pieces.
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Storefront in a Box
I was alerted to an exciting series of events that is happening this summer in my South Minneapolis neighborhood. In her Stribe article, A new store every week, Kara McGuire describes Arise! Bookstore’s entrepreneurial efforts to keep their small store occupied in a move they’re calling “Storefront in a Box”. This summer they’re renting out their store week by week to various artists and small business owners for approximately $200 a pop.
The summer rental schedule can be found at the Storefront in a Box website. So far the renters include Boneshaker Books, an Art Gallery and Gift Shop, Nerd Party, Bicycle Film Festival Presents, Pop Punk Emporium, Paper Darts Magazine Gallery, Internet Variety Store, Theateropolis, Courtney McClean & The Dirty Curls’ Weeklong Naughtybilly Hoedown, and Art Swap in a Box. Phew! There’s literally something new every week!
From McGuire’s article:
There will be the Pop Punk Emporium, with a pop punk cover band, free punk haircuts and a museum with audio guide. There’s an art swap — for people to bring art and take art — and a bicycle film festival. There’s even a “Weeklong Naughtybilly Hoedown” filled with bad cowboy movies and jam sessions.
The Paper Darts literary journal will sell the summer issue as well as host readings, and the recently closed Play by Play Theatre bookstore of St. Paul will have some books for sale and host Theateropolis — a week of theater-themed classes and events.
This is what I love about living in a big(ish) city – there’s always something to do!
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For my favorite mad engineer, Senja.
Source: Cowbirds In Love Click on the link for greater resolution.
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And two stories via Pharyngula – One sobering, and one fun:
Sobering: There are over 4,000 oil rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico.
Everyone is fixated on that one burning mess in the Gulf, which is probably exactly what the oil companies want — they are probably sweating pungent carcinogenic petrochemicals at the thought that someone might look around and notice all of those other rigs, which almost certainly have a paper trail of shortcuts and risks and shoddy management.
Scary. Insert *shudder* here.
And now some FUN from Pharyngula:
Snazzy T-Shirts from HideYourArms.com:
Clever:
iWant:
Found this via skepchick, originating at dilbert.com One more celebration of World Homeopathy Awareness Week!
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