For all you Seinfeld fans out there, I just found out that the place that Seinfeld based his Soup Nazi episode on is right across the street from where I work! It's called "The Soup Man" and apparently it's Zagat-reviewed and "World Renown."

Just thought it was an interesting fun fact. I gotta eat there before I go...

So the good news is that my laptop stopped fucking up on start-up. I tried disabling a few things from the start-up menu (most of which were disabled anyway) and now it's working pretty decently. While I might be eating these words in a week or so, for right now no new mac. Makes me a little sad since I was kinda looking forward to a shiny new ( Read more... )

... If only.


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I HAVE BEEN PRODUCTIVE TODAY! Finished the second draft of a grant proposal I'm working on and blitzed a project that was given to me today and needed to be done today. Woo ( Read more... )

1) Take Anne Marie to visit Scotland ( Read more... )

I know this is probably a reference to colonial-era English, but I thought this would be funny through the eyes of the un-indoctrinated.


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Mmm nothing beats procrastinating twenty minutes away before lunch after a good meeting with your supervisor, a considerably easier-looking week than you planned for, and a cold Boylan Root Beer in hand ( Read more... )

You know what's weird? Going to see Harry Potter 5 with your best friend from 2nd grade and his new girlfriend after having a dream where you and said girlfriend fall in love and start making out right in front of him during the movie. Still odd though I broke it off for his sake and for AM. Though there was that weird dream afterwards where I was ( Read more... )

Denise: You'll be long gone before the new phone system's installed. But you know, if you quit the whole "going-back-to-college" thing and get a job at the library.... *trails off* I don't know why he'd want to complete his college education ( Read more... )

I don't mean to offend or in any way condemn the use of patron saints (I'm personally quite fond of the practice), but I thought this warranted a chuckle, at the very least for the site's presentation.

Patron Saint of the Internet