Ugh. I feel like ass - out of it and ill. When the soft drink machine at lunch started convulsing like Santa Claus having a seizure in a giant, off-balance laundry machine, I figured something was up - indeed, the second half of my Mountain Dew was all syrup. Instead of doing the rational thing and dumping it, I decided I would Be A Man1 and ( Read more... )

I've been doing this agency-wide computer upgrade project at work, and one of the side effects, is, of course, a bunch of obsolete computers1. Still, one man's "obsolete" is another man's "hey, it beats the cardboard computer that came with my desk." And one day a co-worker asked, on behalf of an ex-employee, if I had any systems available to ( Read more... )

From a test on a glorious waste of time1 (and free dating site, for those looking for love and/or sex ( Read more... )

Rampant fanboyism, nothing more(?) Went to one of my favorite venues, Slim's, tonight, to see Fall Out Boy headline a show. Discovered them through happenstance because they were playing a show with Dynamite Boy, which ended up being one of my current favorite accidents. Their bassist/lyricist does a lot of webupdates and I am pretty sure that ( Read more... )

I've been in a generally lousy mood, on and off but mostly on, for a week or two now. That sort of ultra-blah that whitewashes everything with ambivalence, leaving me feeling soulless in a Pablo Neruda sort of way. I couldn't, and still can't, put my finger on why. It happens. Sometimes I escape more readily than others ( Read more... )

My thoughts swirl, as always, and none of them sees fit to slow for a moment, to take pause, to give my mess of a mind, running behind, a chance to catch it, hold it, snap its photo and release it into the wild. Well, I've got my net held out, camera poised, ready to capture the . . . whatever they are; neurons, electrical impulses, undefinable, ( Read more... )

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So this week, my body has been crying out for meat. Not man-meat, I've got enough of that. Just good ol' regular hot-flesh-of-dead-animal-covered-in-sauce-and-sucked-into-my-mouth. When I put it like that, it sounds like I enjoy giving hamburger head. Anyhow, my trip to Cho's for potstickerlunch yesterday apparently presented my stomach with an ( Read more... )

So the word on the inside is that there's a good chance that I will acquire the remaining 10% of the law, and this office I've been squatting in will become mine. This actually comes as a huge surprise to me (the move wasn't even my idea - I'm squatting out of necessity), and speaks to the enormous importance of developing good relationships with ( Read more... )

Dear Coca Cola Corporate Overlords ( Read more... )