2010.02.02 Evolution of a New iPhone User
2009.10.24 Contemplating the Orb
2009.05.21 The Nacho Incident
2009.04.10 Tax Time
2009.02.14 An Essay by Matt
2008.12.19 Age of Steam
2008.12.14 Must work on the French
2008.12.13 Border Crossing
2008.12.07 Who Moved My Chair?
2008.12.02 Gland issues
2008.11.16 Disappointing Translations
2008.11.08 A Funnier Thing I've Seen Lately
2008.10.25 Game Night at Work
2008.10.17 Gentlemen start your watches
2008.10.11 Dark Water
2008.09.12 Oh, I have to pay?
2008.08.31 Tzaziki nightmare
2008.08.18 Bagged
2008.08.12 Alphabet Metldown
2008.08.05 Creating a Monster
2008.05.03 Aversion Warning: May be nutty
2008.02.02 Is not like the other
2008.01.07 Gay? I'm not gay
2008.01.05 Cluj
2008.01.04 Unusual Romanian Jobs
[before]
[earliest]

catblogging
day to day
dialogues
dreams
favourites
food
games
humour
knowledge
language
media
memes
metablogging
music
o canada
observed
peeves
philosophy
stories: now
stories: then
supernatural
texas our texas
travels

[rss feed]
Is not like the other
Having finally got fed up with the weekly "Meetup in the making" emails from Meetup.com (otherwise known as the "get off your butt and start that meetup because after this long it's obvious no one else is going to do it" emails), I logged into the site and trudged through the dozens of account profile settings to find the one that more or less says "quit emailing me about events which don't exist."

Along the way, I ran into this curious bit of market research sprinkled among the other questions and settings:

Would you also like to hear about any of these topics?    
   Sleeping Disorder
   Migraine
   Headache Sufferers
   Arthritis
   Fibromyalgia
   Chronic Pain
   Allergies
   Lupus
   Canasta
   Heart Disease


We don't see Sally anymore these days. . . .

Oh yeah, I know. I heard it's Canasta. Totally keeps you inside the house all the time, I think.

Ah, Canasta. That's really too bad.