thank you mr. pink

Holy shit, in WA servers get state minimum wage with tips ON TOP, rather than $2+tips >=min wage like in, um, ever other state in the freakin' country. I am so never tipping more than 10% in Seattle again. Unless I've seen the server naked, I mean.

edit: For those of you who have never served outside of WA state, fed. min. wage is around $2.50 for waitstaff. If you make it up with tips, that is. Otherwise the establishment has to make it up.

edit2: NY is $3.85

in less cheap-bastard news

I read the second of the Foundation trilogy today. OMG. Gonna start the next one later.

edit: so that counts as two books as I read them both.

a summary of Oliver Stone's latest

well, just the first two hours

Alexander dies!
Forty years later, Ptolemy tells students in Alexandria all about his life::

After Val Kilmer married Angelina Jolie and she had Alexander, she teaches him how to tame "snakes", a lesson he finds quite valuable later in life.
Then his dad comes in and is about to fuck his mom when he sees the boy, and yells at his wife for keeping him in her skirts. He does this basically throughout the movie.( Read more... )