Why make you sit through a long treatise on how I routinely kill email threads that my birthmom thinks are earthshatteringly important, when I can distill that essence into just thirty-two words ( Read more... )

I need to write an entry for tomorrow -- but I am discovering this a little too late. I need to get to bed, and I'll write something tomorrow. Maybe. For now, I have to go to bed.

Adieu for now!

Does anyone know ... who sent me a file via YouSendIt entitled "03 The Motivation Proclamation.m ( Read more... )

... wish you were here ( Read more... )

hey all!  long time no see.

There's a list thingy on LJ called "the Friday Five."  Link available on request.  Even though for me it is not really Friday until Saturday rolls around (don't ask -- work schedule) I'll answer them this time.  I've been on with the thing for a while, but just haven't answered yet.  I have been Extremely Busy and Such ( Read more... )

I really abhor laugh tracks -- which is why I'll be damned if I know how I got started reading about them. I started with the Wikipedia article on the subject. It made for a fairly interesting read -- "know thine enemy" and all that. At the bottom of the page is a link entitled "Why do sitcoms have laugh tracks?" When I clicked on it, I didn't ( Read more... )

Just found a rather interesting community ... foundphotos

I'm not associated with them in any way. But I find the psychology really rather interesting. As Robin Williams states in One Hour Photo "Noone takes pictures of things they don't want to remember." I paraphrase, of course ( Read more... )

No!  Say it isn't so!

"I promised," she [Anne Rice] says, "that from now on I would write only for the Lord."

OMGWTFBBQ?!

From this article, in Newsweek.

thanks magicfuzzball ... I think

It's 40 acres out 60 miles from nowhere, but there are amenities such
as an aboveground pool, flush potties, running water, showers, and
electricity for those willing to pay for it.

( instructions, if you care )