See, Mom *was* right after all, you should NOT stay up all night reading comic books. Actually, that's not true. My mom used to let me stay up all night reading comic books (or whatever else I wanted) whenever I felt like it ( Read more... )

It's been a while hasn't it? The blogging thing, that is. It's not like I haven't had anything to say, I've just not been allowing myself time to say it. I've been taking work waaaay too seriously. Which is to say that I work non-stop without a break or stretch throughout my daily routine. It's kinda eating me alive. So, I'm going to make a ( Read more... )

So WTF? You buy a song from iTunes, you own it, right? So why can't I put it on a CD to say, listen to on my home stereo? After all, if I buy a CD I can take it anywhere there's a CD player, right? I can loan it out to friends. I can play it at work real loud so everyone can hear it ( Read more... )

San Francisco Values

"If (House Minority Leader) Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker of the House, [the term 'San Francisco Values'] will be on the Republicans' list of top five talking points every week," said longtime GOP media strategist and UC Berkeley political science instructor Dan Schnur.
Ugh. I happen to like San Francisco's value system, it's ( Read more... )

I'm currently laid up at home. My back is so full of tension that it's completely frozen up and I can barely walk without agonizing pain. It started yesterday. I don't mean to whine. It's not whining, I guess I've just got nothing else to talk about. I can't do much of anything. I've been reading a lot. Napping. Watching a lot of Comedy Central and ( Read more... )

Ugh.

Back.

Hurting.

Pain shooting throughout my extremities.

What the hell did I do to my back?

Can sitting on your ass all day be that hard on your back? Even in an ergonomically designed chair?

Does anyone have any morphine? Perhaps a good, stiff drink maybe?


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Still working like a madman -- trying to get ahead of a loosing battle so I can take Thursday off.

I've had about four hours of sleep. My head feels like it's filled with cotton batting and semi-congealed, room-temperature fondue cheese.

Rob AE turned me on to the Doctor McNinja comic.
( He's a doctor. He's a ninja. He fights Mexican banditos who ride velocaraptors... )

Is the US Military Illegally Testing a "Death Ray" on Iraq Civilians?

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What is it with clients wanting to water down concepts I agonize over for weeks until they're just plain ol' staid run-of-the-old folk's home corporate blandness ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while chilling at a bookstore, I came across this book and I covet it ( Read more... )