Okay, so this computer is being a total butthead and it took me almost 20 minutes to actually connect with WordPress, but I’m gonna give this my best shot. First things first. I have had this song stuck in my head for the past three days, and now you do too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc] “She don’t eat […]
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Posted in Distractions, videos on Aug 3rd, 2008
A classic, classical Sesame Street bit: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-0_p_yefg]
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I’ve been useless today. I’m just tooo het up about Kanza to be any good to anybody. I think i have freaked out about 5 times an hour. I got some work done and all, but I am very thankful I was able to get off early as I was getting way too buzzy and […]
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Posted in Distractions, Lists, nostalgia, videos on Apr 3rd, 2008
The Internet Phenomenon of “rickrolling” has just come to my attention, which means the meme has probably been building for months and months now, and I’m the last person to know that “rickrolling” is misleading somebody to click a link which takes them to the music video of 1980s 1-hit-wonder Rick Astley “Never gonna give […]
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Why St. Edmund is my Favorite Saint (and why I quit academia while I was ahead) St. Edmund. Dudes, what’s not to like? The guy was pious and generous to such an extend that he was sanctifiable (is that even a word?) and my god, did he ever have a colorful martyrdom. Though to be […]
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I’ve been considering earworms just lately, because I’ve had one or another of them stuck in my head constantly for the past two weeks or so. It started with Morning Coffee, a sweet, wistful, decade-old Japanese bubblegum pop hit from the first incarnation of the wildly popular and enduring Morning Musume. The song is all […]
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10. Do you think it is rad to have alcoholism, Ray?” 9. Vlad speaks to Philippe’s mom on the phone “your…voice…it is the seeds of a thousant memories” and “until you are the nudest you are ever being.” 8. Ray offers technical advice upon the laying of the Transatlantic Cable. 7. Beef is too depressed to […]
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Have you ever set a coin on edge on a table and flicked it with your finger to make it spin like a top? If so, then you know how it looks when it loses momentum and falls over and kind of rotate/vibrates to a stop. Imagine you are in a 9:00 a.m. meeting, and […]
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I’m a nosy piece of work, and I dig other folks’ “what’s in my bag” posts and pictures on Flickr, so I thought I would do my own. Also, I had to clean my bag yesterday (Exxon-style glitter spill), so I figured since everything was out of it, I might as well take a picture […]
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And today I come bearing photographic evidence of the unexpected urban ungulates: Behold! The zoomed-in pictures kind of suck because I had to use my digital zoom which means the image quality suffers. But. Goats! I created a set and called it Goatography. I hope to get some better shots another day.
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