Protected: Stolen and genetically modified, as is my wont
•March 12, 2008 • Enter your password to view comments.CSL
•March 11, 2008 • 22 CommentsIt has been quite awhile since I’ve posted about CSL. Today, though, I want to strangle.
Crazy Secretary lady is not just slurping and attempting to draw me into her “internal” monologue, she is also transcribing cassette tapes.
*SCREEEECH* “mumblemumbleMUMBLE.” *SCREEEECH* “mumblemumbleMUMBLE.” *screeeeech* “mumblemumbleMUMBLE.”
I must escape.
“I don’t suppose you know how to crack a back, do you?”
*shakes my head fearfully*
“My ex used to have a way of wrapping his arms around you, and it would just go! Just about the only good thing about him. Haven’t been able to find anyone else who can do it, since.”
note: if any of you ever tell her that I can crack backs, I will hunt you down. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.
Two more things
•March 11, 2008 • 24 CommentsMad Science: Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood
I think the fact that I’d be perfectly sanguine (get it?!) about injecting the blood from the umbilical cord of my child into myself in order to keep from getting my all-time terror, Alzheimer’s Disease, probably excludes me from the likelihood of being allowed to breed. :D
I’m off to L.A. now, as well! The latest itinerary:
NY Auto Show: Tuesday, March 18th – Friday, March 21st
Nissan 240 Video (L.A.): First week of April
NAB – Post Prod World Conferece (Vegas): Friday, April 11th – Thursday, April 17th
Good times.
Two things
•March 11, 2008 • 30 CommentsI got a lovely little note in my last bill from Verizon saying they’re making changes to their New Every Two program. Now you have to spent over 80 dollars a month to get the 100 dollars off – you get only 50 if you spend between 40 and 80, and nothing if you spend less than that. Thanks a lot, Verizon, it’s good to see a little consistency in your grand plan of “Offer a good discount, then gradually reduce the number in a way that’s not advertised”.
I find it fascinating that the fee for text messages out of your plan is now 20 cents. Fortunately, I have the unlimited plan, because I barely talk to anyone outside of Verizon these days, it’s mostly just sms.
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In other news, I’m really enamored with the smartkey lock (can’t be bumped due to a non-tumbler system). Specifically that you can program all your locks to use the same key, and change that key as often as you want. It makes me wish I had a door of my own to lock. :D
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Bonus thought: I wonder if the sharp rise in the cost of corn will reverse the U.S. trend of using High Fructose Corn Syrup. The reason we use it here over regular sugar is that it is cheaper. If that ceases to be, I imagine the market will change.
I was reading it first, Resk! So Nyah!
•March 10, 2008 • 5 CommentsSo for months out, we had organizers in these caucus states, and the Clinton campaign had . . . nothing.” By contrast, says Figueroa, “the philosophy of our campaign from the beginning was to compete for every vote. Not cede any precinct, any county, anywhere. And it got us to where we are now.” Clinton has since complained that caucuses are “dominated by activists” who “don’t represent the electorate.” But that bellyaching, says Trippi, “is pure cover for ‘We blew it.’ If you can win a precinct just by getting ten people there — and that’s true — then why the hell didn’t she get ten people there?”
Adds Moulitsas of Daily Kos, “I don’t know how a candidate can say she’ll be ready to lead on Day One, when she can’t even organize a simple caucus.
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“As Hall’s well-honed operation makes clear, the Obama campaign has succeeded not by attracting starry-eyed followers who place their faith in hope but by motivating committed activists who are answering a call to national service. They’re pouring their lifeblood into this campaign, not because they are in thrall to a cult of personality but because they’re invested in the idea that politics matter, and that their participation can turn the current political system on its ear.
In reality, it already has. “We’re seeing the last time a top-down campaign has a chance to win it,” says Trippi. “There won’t be another campaign that makes the same mistake the Clintons made of being dependent on big donors and insiders. It’s not going to work ever again.” ” – Inside the grass-roots field operation of Barack Obama
Excellent!
•March 10, 2008 • 82 CommentsThere’s a video (you can find by clicking directly on this video) called “1-900-nerdgirl” which was amusing but, I’m sure you’ll agree, wildly inaccurate.
It’s nice to have that set straight. By a cute red-head.
So say we all!
I picked up Smash Bros today
•March 9, 2008 • 22 CommentsI called Gamestop and said, “Do you have Smash Bros in stock?” And they said, “Yes! Do you have a pre-order?” “No.” “Oh, sorry. We’re out. Maybe Tuesday morning.”
That happened twice. Fuck you, Gamestop. You are not conditioning me to pre-order from you like you want.
Instead, you are conditioning me to always go to a Meijer or a Target, like I did today, casually walk up and buy the wares, no muss or fuss.
Now if only I had someone to play it with …
*giggle*
•March 7, 2008 • 1 CommentI love when you hear one guy say, “The hole in your logic is fairly obvious!” and you hear another say, “No it isn’t!”
•March 6, 2008 • 4 Comments
Anyone out there willing (and able) to help me move a couch tonight? Seriously, it’s just one couch, but it’s heavy enough that Kevin and I shouldn’t do it alone, and our third’s got an emergency to contend with.