April 2012
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Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
salvadorian:
John and Mary meet. What happens next? If you want a happy ending, try A.
A.
John and Mary fall in love and get married. They both have worthwhile and remunerative jobs which they find stimulating and challenging. They buy a charming house. Real estate values go up. Eventually, when they can afford live-in help, they have two children, to whom they are devoted. The children turn...
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On Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs vs. Peanut Butter...
While eating a Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg (purchased at a deep post-Easter discount!) just now, I had an epiphany about why I don’t like them nearly as much as I like regular ol’ Peanut Butter Cups.
You see, Cups are distinguished by their crimped outer ring, which lends them a pleasing taste/texture juxtaposition: soft chocolate-and-peanut-butter innards vs. harder...
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HELP COMPUTER
I’ve been getting a lot of BSODs on my three-year-old Asus X83Vb-X2 laptop lately. Like, multiple times per day. Yesterday was the worst: I could barely use the computer for an hour at a time before every program would start to hang, and then Windows would crash. I ran chkdsk.exe overnight because it also seemed like there might have been some errors with the hard drive. It hasn’t...
