Southern Drunkitality!
My birthday present from Serge arrived yesterday and I thought it would be rude if I didn’t open it right away! He’d shown me the product page for the Firefly flavored vodka before, but I figured I’d have to wait...
Category: news
on metro: Reverse Psychology?
This could almost be viral marketing for the film What Would Jesus Buy?, except that it would be a little late. I saw this on the train this morning, stuck into a barrier near the train door. I would have...
video: machines know better than us
My brain has to jump right into work this morning, but I just caught a glimpse of an old Gizmodo article I missed about the LeaveMeAloneBox: I have plenty of auto-shut off devices, though perhaps not as many as I...
Every day at the office should be this much fun!
This morning when I hit the Starbucks the line behind me, instead of curling around and forming inside the place, kept on going out the door. People in the line were clearly people who’d been in before and knew that...
Feeling kinda broke down…
Since I’m visiting the DMV today, I thought that would be my main frustration today. Instead, this morning my PC isn’t booting up. Nothing’s changed at all, I was using it last night, but I’m really not in the mood...
There but for the grace of God, Gentrify I…
I can’t help but grin when I listen to the original or later remixes of the 1979 hit “There But For The Grace Of God Go I” by Machine: Carlos and Carmen Vidal just had a child, a lovely girl...
It’s health food. MENTAL health food.
What does one do when they’re feeling moody about an impending birthday? Make brownies, of course! This was really more the result of a kitchen cleanup, I found one packet of brownie mix left, a bag of toffee chips and...
tv: They never really get our accent right!
I just watched some short previews of ‘Little Britain USA,’ premiering on HBO later this month. It reminded me of the recent A/V Club article (list) of American adaptations of British television shows. Some examples, for better or worse: The...
politics: Signs and Portents
Apparently Miss Cleo moonlights as a photographer for Life magazine! From the Poynter Forums, Bill Shapiro, former managing editor of Life writes: When we shot this photo for the third cover of LIFE (the newspaper supplement version) back in September...
I liked this better as a “What If?”
Since it’s pouring down outside, not much to do except watch videos until the power goes out… and then watch videos on the MacBook and iPod and iPhone. 😛 First up was Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, a fun-filled straight-to-dvd...
