February 2012
20 posts
Watching the last Good Eats special
I’m glad to see it, but it makes me a little sad to know that this is the end.
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danfaust asked: 25
13: Doing it this way because you can only answer...
13. That depends on how this is intended. Is this what I want if someone were shopping for me or a more serious desire? Right now, what I really want that I’m not getting is recognition at work for the fact that I’m functioning well above the level of my job title. Some people realize it. Some people don’t. It weighs on me, because the right people don’t realize it, so...
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I was working with and talking to a youngish (i.e. recent college grad) new person at work recently, and she was talking about taking dance lessons. She had taken some East Coast Swing and later took West Coast Swing. Another coworker asked her about whether she had a preference between East Coast and West Coast, and she responded with some info about each and their differences. Thinking I’d...
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As many of you discussed who would play you in a movie or asked us who would portray you, I realized something. While I know I do not have prosopagnosia, because I can easily recognize and identify faces, I have no idea how to answer those questions. I cannot look at myself or any other person and say who they look like. If the similarity is so high that pretty much everyone sees it, I’m ok...
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Then everyone laughed, but not enough to counter...
FemaleCoworker1: *Talking about seeing a specific Great Dane and how gorgeous it was*
FCW2: Oh, Great Danes are so big, though. I just don't know.
FCW3: Yeah, Great Danes are really big, but they're gentle, too.
Craig: Like me.
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Last night Melissa went into the other room to do our taxes (She’s always been the one that does them. I don’t know why, but I’m certainly not going to complain.), and I stayed in the living room playing with Olivia. At one point, she was bringing me different animal toys, and we were talking about what they say.
“This is a lion. The lion says ‘ROAR!’”
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“I don’t think that’s appropriate for you to watch at your age.”
– Melissa to Olivia, who had just taken the remote and run across the room squealing (as she is wont to do) and pressing buttons, eventually changing the channel to Strange Sex on TLC.
I’m reviewing some raw data at work and just came across a place where someone chose an unfortunate abbreviation, resulting in a sentence talking about where they “wrote BS results.” I’ve read plenty of papers that included those, but people usually aren’t so up front about it.
January 2012
39 posts
Learning to Talk to Project Managers
Coworker: I know you said you wanted to talk with some other people about the situation, because it will cost a lot of time and money if we have to throw this away, but we're on a really tight schedule. Is there any way you can let me know now?
Me: Well, if I have to make a decision now, I'm going to tell you to throw it away, but if you give me a little time, maybe we can come up with a way to save it.
CW: Ok...Why don't you talk to them and then let me know.
Me: That sounds good.
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I've had the Gummi Bears theme song in my head for...
I wish I had someone I could blame for that…
Good news: My boss approved my vacation request.
Bad news: That’s about half of my time off for the entire year.
Yeah, first world problems, I know.
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I’m not sure how many times I saw the trailer for The Vow and thought Josh Hartnett had gained a bunch of weight before realizing that it was Channing Tatum, but it was quite a few.
In my defense, I was usually too focused on mocking the plot.
Talking about the Family Feud app
M: I keep trying to finish the Fast Money round you started, but I keep getting zeroes, so I quit and start over.
C: I didn't do much better. I couldn't come up with decent answers for some of them.
M: Yeah, like "Name something women would miss about men if they were no longer around." I guessed penis and companionship, but they weren't there. I don't know what else to try.
C: Opening jars, maybe? I don't know. Why do you keep us around?
A coworker brought some cookies she had baked to work. When I first saw the pale blond-colored round cookies covered in cinnamon sugar, my first thought was that she had brought in biscochitos. Then I remembered that I no longer live in New Mexico and probably don’t work with anyone who has had biscochitos, much less would have a recipe for them. (And let’s be honest, they’d all...
In the past week, Olivia has sent a text, written a tweet (and saved it as a draft) and started an episode of Sesame Street for herself on the TiVo. She also runs to the Kinect any time the Xbox comes on and waves at the camera to try to get the game Once Upon a Monster to start for her. I’m not sure if I should be impressed, embarrassed of my parenting or just very worried about what this...
Sherlock
How are all of you people who aren’t in the UK watching the new episodes of Sherlock, while I’m convinced I have to wait until it’s on PBS in May?
Realization during Beauty and the Beast today
During the opening narration, the enchantress casts a spell on a prince, turning him into the Beast. The spell will become permanent on his 21st birthday, when last petal from the magic rose falls (which, if you’ve seen it, you know happens not long after Belle’s arrival). However, during “Be Our Guest”, Lumiere says, “Ten years we’ve been rusting…”...
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Mostly Shuffling
1. Fire Fly - Childish Gambino
2. It Won’t Be Like This For Long - Darius Rucker (I think I like him better as a country singer than with Hootie, and I loved Cracked Rear View when I was a freshman in college. Ok fine, I would probably still like it if I listened to it now. Also, this song about his daughter really gets to me.)
3. Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton (The first of two zombie...
Roll Tide
Roll
Roll Tide!
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Yep.
We’re watching Family Feud, and the last question they asked was “Name a part of your body that’s stiff when you first wake up”.
Yeah. That was my first thought, too.
8 Things I’ve Done That Most of You Haven’t. Probably haven’t anyway. And just most, not all.
Ok, I think I’ve weasel-worded the title enough that I can think of a few things.
1. Was a co-author on a published article about sequencing an organism’s entire genome. (My contribution wasn’t huge, and I was one of like 20 or 30 authors on the paper, but it still...
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