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Oooh, $100 is a lot, but I'm betting Rio's left angular gyrus region is worth the price of admission.

You know, I don't mean to be ungrateful, but my friend having the cookout today just told me it starts at 6ish. That's not when you do Memorial Day! I was hoping for more like 3. I have to work tomorrow!

That's just wrong, Jesse. I think you should show up at 3pm with beer and burgers and tell them to START GRILLING!

I'm not wrong, am I? Memorial Day cookouts should be afternoon type affairs?

Hee.

Hee.

Huh. Somehow my reaction to those was more, "eff that shit, and stay the hell out of my drawers while you're at it."

YChastitypantiesMV.

I don't even get what those underwears do. They tell someone where you are and...your temperature?

Nice:

My wife and I bought our Sarah several pairs so we can watch her around the clock, and if we see her temperature rising too high, we intervene by calling her cellphone or just picking her up wherever she is. My only comment is it would be great to have a video camera, maybe you can work that into V.2.

You're not wrong, Jesse. 6 pm is at least two hours two late.

There was only one place in my neighborhood (or at least, on the three blocks nearest my apartment) open for brunch this morning, and it was a friggin madhouse. The place was packed, and they only had two waiters, one of whom was clearly just experienced enough to think he was being helpful when in fact he was not. (He kept trying to serve people not in his area, and seat people without telling the host, and so they had to spend time figuring out what he'd done and to who, instead of taking care of their own jobs. And because he was running around doing everyone's job but his own, his tables weren't getting served at all. It was chaos.)

Good food, though.

And it just gets funnier the more we talk about it.

After being pressed by the interviewers to provide deeper meaning, "the patients often came up with elaborate, even ingenious interpretations, that were completely off the mark," Ramachandran remarks. For example, patient SJ expounded on "all that glitters is not gold" by noting that you should be careful when buying jewelry because the sellers could rob you of your money.

See now this doesn't seem particularly elaborate to me. Also, it's not completely off the mark. It's basically exactly what that saying means, just a little bit too specific. But apt.

Actually, we here manage to both LOVE metaphor, and revel in being overly literal. Clearly, the two conditions are not always mutually exclusive.