I see many horrors pushed on the American consumer... yet somehow I manage to feel shocked when I find things like the Barack Obama Chia Pet at Walgreens as I did today. ::shudder::

So I'm shopping for credit cards when Citi's Solaris based webserver tells me it doesn't want to serve its pages to my non-XP/OSX host. Sure I have access to plenty of Windows machines, and even have a virtualized XP box I could have used, and after two more such warnings it did let me view the site... but wtf ( Read more... )

While eating my sammich, I heard this 'pop' sound.

I didn't know it was even possible to tear your lingual frenulum without violently stretching it...

Sorry if this was TMI, but it's not gorey or even really very painful... I'm just a little sore and much with the freaked out.

edit: Not painful when I wasnt talking. Talking is cruel and

Gmail just started giving me a 502 error... I hope it doesn't last long.

http://www.converse.com/index.aspx?mode=pd&sku=106027F#productdetail

Is this going to be backdrop for the ad campaign?

I left work on Friday to a darkened sky. A few minutes into driving I noticed it was no cloud, it was a swarm! The biggest swarm of anything I've ever seen. For at least a mile, maybe two, (all around O'Hare, and at least to River Rd) the sky was filled with what I thought were dragonflies. They looked like they had long slender bodies with ( Read more... )

For as long as I can remember, street cleaning was announced on orange signs tied to trees. Today's was announced by green signs, tied to green lightposts. My ticket was still bright orange.

:(

My contradictory mood so easily described:

G'dammit it's cold! :(

but

W00t! Radiators just emitted their first belch of steam.

Thank you responsive landlords.

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Had a great time at Duckon last weekend. It was a little strange for me since I can't really say what I did for the weekend -- I didn't make any panels, I went to parties only on Friday... I helped the Capricon party and registration table, but that was such very minor help as to not really be worth mentioning (sorry guys!). I guess I just ( Read more... )