Porn star -- you so rarely hear "porn actor" -- seems like stars are a dime a dozen. Why's that?

Who acts in porn? There's your answer, right there.

ION, I hate getting research projects with a short deadline, feeling like a failure when you don't find anything, and hearing, "yeah, didn't think there was anything to find, just wanted to make sure!" This one time everyone conspired not to tell me that four people had researched the same topic for a week, just so I wouldn't go into it thinking there was nothing to find.

Morton's is very old school steakhouse, all about the seared meat, the crisp white tablecloths and the attentive wait staff.

I've been to the one in Boston for lunch. Fork-tender filet mignon. Mmmmm, that's good cow.

On a related note, I sat there horrified as person after person I was with ordered their steaks and filets medium-well to well. shudder I can't even go medium on a REALLY good steak. I can't really do rare either, but a good, medium-rare steak or filet? Homer drool noise!!!

Who acts in porn?

Very good point.

I wouldn't go into it thinking there was nothing to find.

Fresh eyes! Fresh eyes! Time-tested thinking, here.

Okay -- at least ten more minutes before I can consider heating up my paltry lunch.

That's kinda evil, bon.

I've run across a project here that has me snarling. I have to stay all vague about it for various reasons, but...SNARL. It's a big fuckyou-type thing.

Sigh.

This reminds me that apparently a friend of mine came across some pornographic pictures of a hot classmate on the internet, and he's never sent them to me!!

Why is rare stake called "rare"? "well done" is relatively self-explanatory, but I don't understand how "rare" = "closer to the uncooked end of the scale than the well-cooked end."

ION, I hate getting research projects with a short deadline, feeling like a failure when you don't find anything, and hearing, "yeah, didn't think there was anything to find, just wanted to make sure!" This one time everyone conspired not to tell me that four people had researched the same topic for a week, just so I wouldn't go into it thinking there was nothing to find.

Oh, I freakin' hate projects like that. Not shockingly, they go on in the web/IT world, too. "See if you can get X to do Y."

It's almost always with an unsupported in house tool, and it's always wishful "maybe if one more person tries" thinking from the manager.

A nice rare steak, perhaps, with a dollop of pâté fois gras covered in bacon?

You would have had me if you stopped at "perhaps." As described, it's just too much muchness for me.

This reminds me that apparently a friend of mine came across some pornographic pictures of a hot classmate on the internet, and he's never sent them to me!!

A true friend will happily send you naked pictures of people you know. I'd cast this soi-disant friend to the curb.

I can't think about work. Too hungry, and also because my mail server looks to have hung -- I clicked send on my last work e-mail a couple posts ago.

I sat there horrified as person after person I was with ordered their steaks and filets medium-well to well.

Oy. That's just asking the chef to give you an inferior cut of meat.

We also have a Morton's, but right next to it is Murray's, which is teh awesome and teh yum and teh sooper old-skool. I start drooling just thinking about eating there.