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Patty is home, and it's been super New York-y already: the other people in Terminal 8 were so excited to see their loved-ones they were blocking folks from getting out; the cab said his credit card thing was broken; the sound of the heating pipes woke us up; and there was some seriously creepy bird action this morning. Thumbs up.

Zuckerberg is Time's person of the year. How pissed do you think Assange is?

Meanwhile, the US Air Force has blocked access to news sites that have published the leaks. can someone explain this to me? Is it anything other than "these secret things aren't secret anymore, but we're going to pretend they are, even if it means you're working from a deficit of what is now common information?"

Someone is stealing New York's junked appliances.

On splitting the check. I understand the complaint. I don't understand why it's necessary. I've almost NEVER run into this, though. We all figure out what we owe, chuck it in, and since I've been over the age of about 25, we've usually had too much money, not too little.

A bill has been introduced in California to add historical contributions of LGBT people to school textbooks. A similar legislation passed four years ago, but was vetoed by the governor.

The academics I know keep posting this, but I still love it every time I see it: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense.

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[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i've never in my life (well since somewhere about the age of 15 when i started going out with friends) just split a check up even between ppl - we have always always just paid for what we ordered (approx.) and then all threw in whatever for the tip

or, more likely, someone would have a 20, and someone would only have singles - so the person with the 20 paid the check and the person with singles left the tip and paid the other person what they owed for their part of the meal

OR we ask the server if they can divide the bill up for us

granted, maybe they don't do that at super fancy places, but i'd still be all phoebe from friends and say 'um, no, i'm not paying $30 for that tiny salad i ate'