January 2012
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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!
rosieloveswords:
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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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WatchFamous Blue Raincoat (cover) - Jonathan Coulton
Someone at work said something about “living for nothing” today, and that was all it took for Famous Blue Raincoat to become stuck in my head. Once it’s in there, it takes a while to get back out, because the feeling and story of Cohen’s lyrics are so remarkable. You never know all of what he’s talking about in this...
Truthful Tuesday
I might have just revealed one of my pet peeves.
Hey look, Jenny McCarthy is on The Price Is Right...
She’s currently introducing the showcases. I can only assume someone will be bidding on a prize of dangerous childhood diseases that could have been prevented is you didn’t listen to pseudoscience-spouting loud-mouthed celebrities.
I got to work this morning, and my laptop needed to restart to finish an update that was being pushed to it from IT. It managed the shut down part, but now it won’t turn back on. Happy New Year!
WatchAziz Ansari talking about sheets. Probably NSFW, but it never fails to make me laugh.
December 2011
60 posts
Late to the party, but adding my two cents anyway
Sagging pants have nothing to do with homosexuality, in prisons or not. The link is made by people who want to denigrate those with saggy pants and feel that the best was to do so is by associating it with gay sex.
The style appears to have originated by being similar to what can be found in prisons (because belts aren’t often allowed), therefore wearing sagging pants could be used to try...
I’m at the pharmacy waiting for a refill and there is another man sitting here, waiting. He’s about 10 feet away from me and the smell of alcohol coming from him is remarkably strong. I hope he’s got the day off work.
We gave each other things we don’t really need, went out to eat at a Chinese restaurant and now we’re ending the day by watching the Doctor Who Christmas special. There may be no snow on the ground, but I don’t think this Christmas could get any more white.
You know what makes the holidays more enjoyable?
Being with people who actually want to be there.
Conversely…
Christmas #1 is complete
We opened Olivia’s present from my parents, my grandmother and my sisters (and their families) tonight via webcam since we can’t be with them this year.
We have Christmas with Melissa’s mom and sister on Christmas day then with her dad and step-mom some time after they arrive on the 28th still to go.
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Observing other (much younger) parents in line to...
Melissa: ...and did you see her tits?
Craig: Honey...everybody sees them.
