The Slippery Slope into Full-blown Word-Nerdism.
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11:43:39 AM,
Wednesday 13 July 2005
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A picture of the Japanese man-in-the-moon: a rabbit pounding mochi.
My ideal sweatshop would pretty much be rabbits pounding mochi. Hopping up and down on giant bellows, like the laborers in Princess Mononoke. It would be awesome.
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06:35:49 PM,
Monday 11 July 2005
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Ziggy Stardust: Dog Mode.
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03:09:10 PM,
Monday 11 July 2005
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Wonderful things happen when you google raccoon pride.
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05:41:24 PM,
Friday 8 July 2005
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Recently I heard someone praising person A by damning person B and I must say it grated on my nerves. It reminded me of a guy I used to date who would compare me -- always favorably -- to his ex. I still don't quite know how to articulate it -- it's like meeting someone at a party who says, "You're so much better than all the other losers here." Just want to shudder and walk away.
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05:16:00 PM,
Thursday 7 July 2005
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Why are animals wearing clothes and cussing automatically funny? Did I read too much Beatrix Potter as a child?
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11:54:13 AM,
Thursday 7 July 2005
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A mostly theoretical question: Now that it's commonly accepted that douching is stupid and unnecessary, is it ok to use "douche" as an insult? Or does the original meaning of "you are disgusting, like women's genitalia and things associated with them" still hold?
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01:41:42 PM,
Wednesday 6 July 2005
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I am Weird: In an IM conversation I just found myself adopting the role of the Ghost of Salads Past. Did you know salads can be spooky? I did not.
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01:36:13 PM,
Wednesday 6 July 2005
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Oh fuck.
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11:18:47 AM,
Friday 1 July 2005
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CNN launches new network to exclusively cover missing white women. Snerk.
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11:41:41 AM,
Thursday 30 June 2005
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Just found out through Friendster that some guy I went to college with has come out. (Yay!) Apparently homosexuality does wonders for the complexion.
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08:02:33 PM,
Tuesday 28 June 2005
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Damian, look at this. (The rest of you can look too, I just wanted to get his attention.) Via Cassie.
ETA: Especially this one. Also this.
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03:58:53 PM,
Tuesday 28 June 2005
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Oh my darling burrito al pastor, you are the best burrito ever!
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03:51:02 PM,
Tuesday 28 June 2005
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Coralie Clement is great if you can't get enough of women whispering in French over a nice pop song.
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12:05:06 PM,
Tuesday 28 June 2005
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Every damn morning.
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11:52:09 AM,
Monday 27 June 2005
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I feel like a rabbit's ass. (Or I would if rabbits didn't have such cute, cottony asses.)
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05:37:36 PM,
Friday 24 June 2005
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Stabley McStaberson:I often become fixated on words and phrases and find myself unable to stop saying them -- as anyone who was privy to the Great "Yeah Brah" Scourge of 2002 can attest. Sometimes it only lasts a day -- a week ago I spent about twelve hours using "bitchin'" as my go-to description for things I found good. ("And God looked at what He had wrought, and found it bitchin'".)
For the past several months I've been enamored of the word "stab". Used to vent my mood: Someone annoys me, I mutter it under my breath. If someone asks how I'm feeling, and it's peevish, I say "stabby" or "stabbish". I've even altered the cute-ass pet names I call my boyfriend to include the word.
Anyone care to share their word obsessions?
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01:53:29 PM,
Friday 24 June 2005
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I love it when the easiest fix is the one that works. Hooray.
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12:31:33 PM,
Friday 24 June 2005
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A hilarious messageboard thread, found via mimismartypants. It's such a fine example of irony (situational irony?) that I wonder whether it wasn't written by a performance artist.
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12:22:24 PM,
Friday 24 June 2005
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Moss and Salon set me off learning about peak oil. My own prejudices -- not to mention my psychological quirks -- make me susceptible to the idea anyway, but it's plenty credible all on its own. Ohhhhhhh Shiiiiiiiiiiit.
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12:41:43 PM,
Tuesday 21 June 2005
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So I've listened to Welcome Interstate Managers twice now and what really jumps out at me is how successfully derivative it is. I keep noticing unconsciously-stolen riffs and aside from thinking, "Wow it's like they're frenching George Harrison's corpse" every so often it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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08:05:28 PM,
Thursday 16 June 2005
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I take out my transit card instead of my keys when I get home.
I take out my keys instead of my transit card when I get to the fare gate.
Yesterday, as I got to the front door of my office building, I pulled out my transit card instead of punching in the entry code.
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02:59:20 PM,
Wednesday 15 June 2005
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Linguist-people: Is it true that in English "-tch" is the same sound as "-ch"? This is asserted by the literacy program I'm working with. I always heard "-tch" with a "t" sound, but I wonder whether that's not my reading interfering with my speaking.
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05:54:21 PM,
Tuesday 14 June 2005
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"This is the same old 'I'm only REALLY sure of my own consciousness' argument, only sexed up with the living dead!"
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11:26:51 AM,
Friday 10 June 2005
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I broke my glasses across the bridge this morning and now that they're poorly held together by duct tape I keep getting this funny feeling. I was just walking down the street and felt like I was way too far from the ground. Odd how much of a difference a few milimeters can make.
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04:10:02 PM,
Tuesday 7 June 2005
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So I found a place to live with a nice roommate. I feel a little odd talking about it before I've paid a landlord or signed a lease, but anyway.
Anyone know about the creation and use of a dummy wallet? ETA: By "dummy wallet" I mean the wallet which you carry so you can avoid giving your real wallet to muggers. I think the trickiest part would be not panicking and giving him what he wants.
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04:22:58 PM,
Monday 6 June 2005
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Why I am dumb: Last week I decided that my periodic intestinal disturbances (ahem) may well be caused by ingesting milk. My brother is lactose-intolerant, I already know milk makes me all phlegmy anyway, so I thought cutting back would be a good idea. I even bought some rice milk.
Monday I managed to fuck it up by eating a breakfast sandwich with a big old piece of cheese in it. Damian turned to me when I was two bites into it and said, "That has cheese all over it, you know." I ate it anyway but vowed to be more attentive in the future.
So last night I stopped by the Smokehouse on my way home from chatting up some potential roommates. I order a hamburger deluxe -- not the cheeseburger, because cheese is made of milk. What do I order to go with it?
A strawberry milkshake.
It wasn't until I started drinking it that I figured it out.
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06:55:28 PM,
Friday 3 June 2005
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Just now I remembered that a year ago I was paying $50 more per month to rent 1/2 of a (very nice) two-bedroom apartment. Now I'm not considering anything that isn't below my current rent. I could get used to this market.
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06:44:39 PM,
Thursday 2 June 2005
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Cassie comments that I have just crappy news to post lately. In good news:
-My boyfriend is awesome;
-I've been seeing a lot of good friends in the past week;
-It looks like I should be able to find a nice place to live within the next week or so, and for less than I'm currently paying;
-The new Sleater-Kinney album is amazing. If you've liked the direction they've been taking in their live shows you will probably dig it.
So there you have it. It is not all bad -- it is probably mostly good -- although I do like to complain.
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01:45:13 PM,
Thursday 2 June 2005
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On Saturday my roommates and I got a letter from our absentee landlord telling us we needed to vacate the house by June 30th so he can sell it. I was in Reno at the time, so my roommate Mike called to let me know. I think I thanked him for telling me in between the cussing.
As we were driving back we saw an exit for the town where my landlord lives. I asked Damian if he had a gas can in the car and some matches.
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08:00:11 PM,
Tuesday 31 May 2005
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Since my cellular service provider was bought out, I can't upgrade my plan without entirely switching providers to the company that now owns it. But I can't switch providers without incurring a $200 cancellation fee, even though I'd be switching from what is now part of Cingular to... Cingular.
Let me know where the executives live so I can stab them.
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04:12:52 PM,
Friday 27 May 2005
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I think I was a little harsh on Revenge of the Sith. I completely forgot to mention how completely fucking awesome the giant lizard is. That and the mask lowering sequence were my favorite parts of that movie. GIANT LIZARDS REPRESENT.
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02:04:37 PM,
Friday 27 May 2005
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Last night's dream involved fifty kinds of hard-boiled eggs.
Not I am NOT ovulating.
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01:57:15 PM,
Friday 27 May 2005
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Sars of Tomato Nation disses on Sith (hella spoilers): "Lucas is a great cinematographer, and it's a pity he didn't figure that out and hand off the screenplay to a great writer, because I wanted to love Sith, but: 'Nooooooooo!'"
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01:15:03 PM,
Tuesday 24 May 2005
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To the woman who was "shush"ing me throughout Revenge of the Sith: I'll stop laughing when George Lucas stops writing such laughably bad dialogue.
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11:51:06 AM,
Tuesday 24 May 2005
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Strange dreams:
Inside a warren of a building with a large group of women there was an earthquake. We all crouched under a table while the building shook. I prayed aloud for Christ to have mercy on our souls.
I had broken into another woman's house to find shelter. She seemed sympathetic when she got home from work to find me there, but by the next day she was getting rather peevish as I marshalled my friends and family to help me move out all my possessions.
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04:45:07 PM,
Monday 23 May 2005
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