Happy Birthday, Aldous! Had cruel fate not swept you away from us, you'd be a be a youthful 113 years old.

In my Senior year of high school, Brave New World shocked and challenged me, quickly becoming my one of my favorite books of all-time. Still, I read no more of his works for about a decade. It was only by the prompting of the imaginary ( Read more... )

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I declare tomorrow to be JACKPOT DAY!

If only I were closer to Vegas. Ah well. At least it's an excuse to throw a party. Anyone want to come? Bring chips: potato, corn, or poker.

Do you know what is the worst day to have a head cold in the U.S. of A.? The Fourth of Frikkin' July. Last night, all I wanted was for the Nyquil to take effect and put me under. Karis wanted to come down and take care of me, but I didn't want to get her ill and only really needed to get to bed. Instead, I heard wave after wave of pops, bangs, ( Read more... )

I had Last Comic Standing on for background noise last night while playing a game.  One of the guys said something about how marketing tries to change the names of things to sound better.  The example that stuck with me is that they now always call used cars "pre-owned".  (I actually did laugh a few times while listening to the show, although that ( Read more... )

I just got back from getting some water from the office cooler.  The first several drops hitting the bottom of the plastic cup made a very familiar sound: the descending chromatic xylophone of the Filmation logo.  I recognized it in time to added the mental *ding* at the end and haven't stopped smiling since.  The He-Man intro continues to play in ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at my desk at work right now.  I'm going to keep right on sitting.  No trips to the water cooler for me.  Nope.  I wish I could say this was because of my diligence to my work.  But if that were the case, would I be on LJ right now?  No.  However, I will get back to my work shortly and will continue sitting here and working until lunch ( Read more... )

At the office...

"Gary, can you get me that paper from the printer?"
       obstinate pause
"Please."
     "Sure!"
"We need one of those of bank tube systems."
     "Yeah, that'd be handy.   Of course, I'd be continually sending you squirrels."

...when the first thing you put on after your morning shower is your SanDisk lanyard with matching Flash drive pendant.

P.S. Doctoral Dissertation + Throat Infection = Wheeee*hack*cough*ick* Hoo
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Life is considerably better now. Not great, and not how I'd like it to be, but it's good.

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