February 2012
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Truthful Tuesday
The same thing happens every time we watch this episode.
Amy Wong: You should try homeopathic medicine, Bender. Take some zinc.
Bender: I’m 40% zinc.
Amy: Then take some Echinacea or a St. John’s Wort.
Professor: Or a big fat placebo. It’s all the same crap.
At this point, Melissa looks over at me and points. “That’s you.” I keep laughing, never bothering...
Draw Something
CraigK1976. Go on. You know you want to play.
Edited to add: Be warned. I suck at drawing.
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Social Anxiety test. →
melonk:
danfaust:
zgulliksen:
Mine was 42. So I have a solid amount of Social Anxiety. But we all knew this.
47. That sounds about right.
39. Correctamundo.
Is it bad if it had to express mine in scientific notation?
TT
I’m in a really bad mood and need to figure out how to cheer up. I’m feeling undervalued and unappreciated.
And now I hate myself for being whiny. Sorry.
Totally kicking myself for not taking a picture after only one bite of that and calling it Pąc-Man.
Does “Fan Mail” ever work for anyone else? I’ve gotten an error message every time I’ve ever tried to send one.
I often hear people bemoaning being pulled into a wikipedia rabbit-hole or youtube or TV Tropes or any of those places that you can find one thing that links to another that links to another and another and another. While I understand that, it doesn’t seem that odd to me. I feel like that’s a fairly accurate description of how my brain works. As anyone who has had an extended...
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My car was at the dealership for some work yesterday, and, along with the rest of the what they were doing, I asked them to look into why the driver’s side door no longer worked with my smart key. It wasn’t a huge deal, just a bit of an annoyance.
Later in the day, I thought about this more and had to laugh at the absurdity of it. I was having them investigate a problem because it...
Coworker: Hey, we need your help with testing on this product. It isn't needed often, but when people need it, it's life or death, so we have to move quickly.
Me: Great. What do you need?
CW: We'll need you to do XYZ. Can you tell me how many samples you need?
Me: Sure, just give me a minute to do some calculations...*keyboard clicking*... Ok. Here you go.
CW: Ummm...That's more than all of it in existence together.
Me: Oh. Oops, I guess that won't work. Let's see if we can find another way around this then.
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WatchOlivia was dancing to her Pandora station, but when a Yo Gabba Gabba song came on, she had to go grab her stuffed YGG friends to dance with them. (She only has Plex and Muno here, because it’s hard to hold five of them and dance.)
After the Grammys there was discussion of which was worse: tweets saying “Who is Paul McCartney?” or women tweeting “Chris Brown can beat me if he wants to.” I found this a little frustrating because I feel that the answer should be extremely obvious. While I am surprised that people can be so completely culturally oblivious that they don’t have any idea who Paul...
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Never Let It Be Said That I'm Not Romantic
Sure there were no flowers or chocolates, but I left work tonight and headed to pick up dinner. Not just any dinner, though. A heart-shaped pizza from Papa Murphy’s. Then I got there, saw the massive line and decided to just skip it.
Sorry ladies, I’m taken.
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The automatic dog door needs new batteries
Craig: It's only been what, a week, two weeks?
Melissa: Two weeks at the most, yeah.
C: How can they be dead so fast?
M: If this is how long they last, we're going to have to get rechargables in that size.
C: What size are they?
M: I don't remember. Double D's, maybe.
C: *pauses then laughs* Yeah, that's definitely a good size.
M: *sighs then looks at batteries* I meant D.
“Yeah…I’m calling “not it” on the next diaper change.”
– Me, as Olivia downed her ninth asparagus spear at lunch. (Seriously, what kid likes asparagus that much?)
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.
gretchenalice asked: 29, 41, 50
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...
anindependentguinevere asked: 20, 38, 16
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.