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• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  Well, I usually eat most Japanese foods. There's really only two of them I just don't like. The first, natto, is pretty typical. Not even all Japanese people like it. For me it's just too much. The second, uni, is...
• Commented on How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
  I find Michelle oddly fascinating. Maybe it's that I get an odd kick out of watching women put makeup on. It's not a sexual thing, more like a fascination with a moderately arcane art that I have no experience with...
• Commented on D&D on multi-touch table
  Kind of cool. But it seems like a really expensive replacement for a battle-mat you can use write-on/wipe-off markers on.... -abs prefers the battlemat, with it's pre-drawn grid, to a whiteboard, but has to admit he loves minis and so...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  Sounds like people are having problems deciding about cultural relativity. Apparently invoking cultural relativism is only appropriate when the example you are invoking it for is one you personally approve of. -abs thinks it's "either or" and people either need...
• Commented on Squirrel for dinner
  Gotta say, my step-father introduced me to squirrel stew long ago. It was a lot easier to get away with shooting a squirrel in White Bear Lake, Minnesota than it is anywhere in Massachusetts so it's not a dish I...
• Commented on Executive compensation vs. the world
  You can approve of income disparities like this. (as Cicada does) You can disapprove of vast disparities in income between people. (as most of the rest of folks seem to) But it's just a plain fact that the disparity is...
• Commented on Indian farmer's daughter is most bad-ass woman in the world
  I'm with The Lizardman @26. I find the difference in reactions to this story and the story of the student with the samurai sword fascinating. Where's everyone saying that no one should have the right to defend their home or...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  Sounds rather horrible for the poor student who now has to live with the fact that he's taken a life. Sounds worse for the dead burgler, who really should've stayed the hell out of someone else's house in the first...
• Commented on Plastic coelacanth figurine
  Mmmmmm, Swedish Fish. I love those things. I do wish they wouldn't stick to my teeth quite so much. But at least they're not quite as bad as Jujubees. (though they're damn close) -abs loves the idea of a "Swedish...
• Commented on Pigeons are faster than DSL
  Mmmmm, the first high-bandwidth data transmission medium I can bake into a tasty pie! -abs isn't quite over his obsession with eating every animal he can yet, sorry...
• Commented on Plastic coelacanth figurine
  But wait, how am I supposed to eat a plastic fish? -abs may be into eating rare species, and dreams of eating the last of a species thus driving it into extinction, but he draws the line at devouring plastic...
• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
  I don't know what I was thinking Antinous. I know it was wayyyy off-topic. But I just can't read someone talking about a cheery "Fuck You" video without going down the road that leads to Lily Allen. Shame on me....
• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
  @#21 posted by Tdawwg "That was a great video: the cheeriest "fuck you" I've ever seen! Laurels to my transatlantic brothers and sisters." Allow me to offer you a cheerier "Fuck You" video. .. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmlbfyptLOM&feature=related Now, with karaoke-style...
• Commented on Ariel: post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery adventure that rocked my world
  I loved this book as a kid, fantasized about myself as the hero. I still love the book, even though I recognize that it's fundamental Mary-Sue-ness is why I like it. Gotta say I like the new cover better than...
• Commented on Celebrate Sysadmin's Day on Wednesday at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
  Sorry Tak, if I revealed the existance of the reptilian system-administrator underground to you I'd have to tear off my face, revealing my reptilian nature, and then eat you so you couldn't reveal our existence to everyone. (Please tell me...
• Commented on Celebrate Sysadmin's Day on Wednesday at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
  *bows* On behalf of your sysads, I'm sure they gratefully accept your thanks. I know I am overjoyed whenever anyone thanks me for my job. (and I have excellent users, they thank me much more often than one day a...
• Commented on Lord of the Rings considered as a D&D game -- webcomic
  I've loved this comic for a long time. It, and Darths and Droids, reallyl does an excellent job capturing the various personalities and interactions that arise at a typical gaming table. Maybe some folks games are nothing like this, but...
• Commented on Wails and Murmurs: Eating Couscous at the Chi-Chi's in Walla-Walla
  And here I thought punning was the lowest form of humor. I appear to be incorrect. -abs did admittedly chuckle, but come on...
• Commented on Cthulhu violates a Parsec science fiction award
  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OH HOHOHOHOHOH! HEEEEEE HEHEHEHEHE! *Gasp for breath* *laughs convulsively* Heeeheeee. Oh my. *wipes tears from eyes* That has got to be the best thing ever done w. a plushie Cthulhu that I've seen. *giggle* -abs is tremendously amused, as...
• Favorited Anonymous Message to Pastafarianism / Leaked FSM video on Boing Boing
• Commented on Speed Bong Bottle Opener
  Oh come on LightningRose, Guiness comes in cans. And it's definitely Real Beer. (In fact it's so "Real" that it kicks sand in the face of those wimpy "don't need a knife and a fork to drink it" beers when...
• Commented on Wine-cellar encapsulated in a staircase
  WANT!!!!! -abs is pretty convinced that the usage of multiple words and good syntax can not possibly convey the depths of his feelings on this topic as well as . . . well .. . . lol-speak does...
• Commented on 15-year-old girl beaten by sheriff's deputy
  I'll agree that almost all universal statements are wrong. I'm hesitent to agree that all universal statements are wrong lest I vanish in a paradox. -abs is perfectly willing to stipulate the actual statement in question as well, not all...
• Commented on 15-year-old girl beaten by sheriff's deputy
  Hi Greg, *waves* Technically I was post #180, not #178. And I didn't say "that all cops believe in the "blue wall", thanks. I know three cops personally. Two of them are what I would call "bad cops", one being...
• Commented on 15-year-old girl beaten by sheriff's deputy
  #164 posted by Takuan , March 2, 2009 9:12 PM the Mafia came into being because poor people could get no justice from the police. The Yakuza in Japan have a similar history. Very interesting, also correct. I knew...
• Commented on Idiot stuffs cat into bong
  Grrrrrrrrrrr. -abs would be perfectly content if someone points him to a news article in which it is related that this guy was murdered, but barring that he hopes the cat goes to a better home...
• Commented on Extinct bird rediscovered, then eaten
  I am so jealous. That little bird looks incredibly tasty .. .. -abs dreams of eating a species into extinction, why couldn't this have been him? Why?!?! KHAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!elves!!!!...
• Commented on Why the EVE Online industrial espionage econopocalypse is "fun"
  Not a Goon, nor a BoB, myself. But even to a carebear like myself it's apparent that the real effect of this was the hit to BoB's sovereignty. Sure, they still have all there defenses. Sure, they still have most...
• Commented on TED2009: Make Love not Porn
  The site seems rather repetitive, and several of us have already pointed that out quite handily, with examples. I'll note that, for me, the only really interesting part was the cutesy "signage" style illos for the topics in question. I...
• Commented on Masked man sticks up convenience store with a Klingon sword
  I think I'm in love. -abs has always had a thing for the pseudo-japanese klingons, and for the bat'leth, even if it is the 3rd suckiest fictional weapon evar...