First, Friendster was the social network of choice. Friendster was fun for a while. Later, not so much ( Read more... )

Oooooooo.

There's something about Strictly Ballroom that inspires me every time I watch it. Call it the "a life lived in fear is a life half-lived" thing.

Familiar with Shirt Woot? They run shirt design contests almost every week. I've had ideas for shirts in the past. I've never taken the time to figure out Photoshop enough to get a design submitted ( Read more... )

Oh, sing an old piano
Oh wait, that doesn't make any sense

It's nineteen thirty-seven
No, that was seventy-something years ago

I'm totally irrelevant
That's why I'm on public radio

It's a common question that oftentimes demands an expedient, efficient response. My formulaic answer has been canned into the concise "work, work, frisbee, and flying." The question came up again last night while sitting at a coffee shop with penella22. I hadn't chatted with her (or much of anyone, really) for a while, and we got to catch up on our ( Read more... )

This would have been the best T-shirt ever.

(Not necessarily the one that LJ shows on the rollover. The one behind the link.)

Take some things that I like a lot.

• Montréal
• Los Campesinos!
• two-hour road trips
• poutine
• hanging out

Mix them all together over a Thursday night and a Friday. That's what I got over the past few days, and it was all good.

Take some of the ingredients and change them a bit.

• Frederick, Maryland
• my disunited sister
• twelve-hour road trips
• a potpourri of strip ( Read more... )

Watch my team get its ass kicked on video, courtesy of Seven Days.



We're the pink team. We're on the wrong side of that 41-17 score. Meh. There's always summer league.

"Your order number 23163045 for 1 Zombie Garden has been received by Woot on 3/28/2008 and your credit card has been charged $10.00."

I've pretty much ignored LiveJournal for two months.

I'm breaking my ignorance by announcing that I dissected a toilet this morning. I also successfully put it back together in working order.

The toilet no longer hisses.