Hoo! Haa!
I cracked myself up in a dream last night. I woke up laughing, and laughed til I cried. Couldn't stop.
I was leading a resume writing workshop, and illustrating various structures and formats but using really sly subtle humor as the content. I didn't notice the jokes until I started reading my resume to myself. Every sentence, every bullet point, was poignantly funny.
Brendan was awake and reading next to me when I awoke convulsing with laughter. Of course, I couldn't explain the humor - it was very subtle, and the real kicker was that I made myself laugh and laugh and laugh. It made for riotous self-reflection. Go, subconscious!

Sunday, September 24, 2000

Eat like King Midas
OK, I'm pretty excited about this. This is like my favorite college professor(James Deetz, who I studied under at UC Berkeley)'s favorite work - manifested, imho, in a much more appealing way than, say, Colonial Williamsburg is today.
Fennel tart sounds really pretty strange. I'd try it.

Friday, September 22, 2000

Annoted Dennis Miller
This Britannica.com series - deciphering Dennis Miller's references during Monday Night Football - is actually severely funny. Check it out!

Thursday, September 21, 2000

Lego DJ
A Copenhagen inventor/Lego geek has invented a Lego DJ. I want one.

Sunday, September 17, 2000

Plague-time is play-time!
It's nearing that special time again - time to re-enact Biblical plagues! Let's get started!
1. Nile waters turning to blood --put red food coloring in the water glasses at the dinner table, in the bathroom sinks, in the dog's water bowl, and anywhere else you can think of.
5. Disease afflicting the Egyptian livestock--put stuffed animals in different areas of the house, upside down.
That is just so goth!

Saturday, September 16, 2000

But Mommy!
A Halloween costume that looks like you, a full sized adult, are riding piggy back on a babushka.

Thursday, September 14, 2000

Web Economy Bullshit Generator
visualize transparent mindshare!
seize synergistic action-items!
architect value-added paradigms!

Such glorious BULLSHIT!

Samsung Means To Come!!!

So Beautiful! Hooray! (Gratuituous use of Caravan, too!)

Saturday, September 9

Happy Birthday to This Weblog

It's been a year and a day since I started this whole weblog thing. Who knew?

A year ago yesterday, I loved Andrew enough and had enough free time at work to embark on what was, for some time, a very active little weblog.

Today, I've been at and very happily laid off of an entirely different job, the enervating nature of which kept me off the wires for months at a time but which has been uttering a death-rattle ever since we hired a new CEO and his corrupt filandering Midwest dwelling henchmen with a history of kill-'em-all-let-god-sort-'em-out-while-we-get-rich nepotistic endeavors... Whew! Sorry, I'm still a little worked up over the death of an inspired entrepreneurial venture and the rise of a multinational corporation from its still smoldering ashes, which MNC, being terrifically topheavy, with horribly mutated limbs, has a life span of (starting the pool) 18 months, tops... Where was I? Oh yes: I have free time, once again, a year later, so look out.

Saturday, September 9, 2000

Web Cop - Hanford's Finest

OK, this is seriously nifty: this Traffic Patrol officer in Hanford (Fandango!), CA, has a little web site from which he administers a shoulder patch collection.

But that's not the remarkable thing. It gets so much better - better, even, than the "Riders on the Storm" midi.

He's seriously a wired cop, doing his wired civic duty, and I can barely get over it.

See, I've been wanting to get my bitchin' little Miata outfitted with vampire teeth for some time, now - to fend off the Explorers and Navigators that try to engulf me in their wheel wells - but I couldn't find any documentation on CA license plate law.

Nick, the Patch Man, was so cool as to respond immediately with the URL and the code for license plate placement law.

So great! Go, wired police man! Thanks, Nick!

NPR on Gunderson

This is so gorgeously postmodern: a news media outlet reporting on the disgruntlement of a news media outlet, with the angle that the object of disgruntlement is now making its way around the Internet - on the Internet. Woot. What a hoot!

Friday, August 25

All thumbs (in the news)

What a week for thumb stories. Did ya hear the one about the thumb-eating deranged barber? Ooh! Creepy!

Wednesday, August 9

What Dalty died of

I hope this isn't already old by now, having been on Cruel Site of the Day for 2 days already.

Wade through Dalton's sister's notes, his mom's poetry, and the wishes of his parish folk to see what tragedy took him from his flock.

This just cannot be real.

Saturday, August 5

Cubelessness is Evil
that is all.

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