...until this living hell - er - my current employment is over ( Read more... )

While on a business trip to the Big Easy, I read the following notice today:

"Warning: Consumption of alcohol while pregnant may result in development of severe mental or physical deformities in the fetus."

It must be noted that I read this on the men's room door.

Inside the men's room.

o.O ?!?

This, of course, raises an obvious question:

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Geez, it must have been fun being Stuart Townsend at the Oscars last night.

"My fiancee just won the Best Actress award - yay!"

...followed quickly by...

"Those poncy gits and their stupid 11 wins - who wanted to be in that bloody movie, anyway?"

Yup, must be fun to be ST, I must say....

OK, it may just be my "Awww, that thing's kinda cute" reflex going bonkers here, but is anybody else even slightly bothered by the fact that the Chinese actually eat civet cats? Or that the Chinese government is planning to exterminate 10 thousand of the creatures because of the SARS threat ( Read more... )

According to an assistant bishop of the Episcopalian church, newly-appointed (and openly gay) bishop Gene Robinson's "'chosen lifestyle' is incompatible with Scripture and the teaching of this church."

Hmmm. Seems to me that the only aspect of this whole thing (being Episcopalian, being a bishop in said church, or being gay) that does not involve ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm soooo tired, and now the Starbuck's near my office is closed. Why? I dunno. I really think I may have to trek up the street in the opposite direction to get my morning fix. The backup Starbuck's calls to me....

*user stares blankly into space as his morning mocha beckons to him*

OK, so I'm not exactly fully awake some mornings as I wait for the 5:30 a.m. Metro, but one of the things I do to pass the time is people-watch. I'm pretty familiar with the regulars who ride the same morning train every Monday thru Friday, and I've taken to giving folks names in my head just for fun (yes, I am weird ( Read more... )

Apparently Mother Nature is really pissed about something. Just read the following caption to a pic online and decided not to walk under any more trees today (note the emphasized word):

"A man passes a collapsed roof of the Kushiro public office's entrance in eastern Hokkaido island after a massive earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale ( Read more... )

John Ritter and Johnny Cash both died? I knew I should have stayed in bed this morning. Or maybe it was just the fact that I need more sleep than I've been getting lately. Stupid cold.

*user sticks fingers in ears, closes eyes, and starts mumbling to himself to keep the bad news fairy at bay...*

Notes from northern Virginia ( Read more... )