After having a rough night and morning, I decided that I needed to get some food on the way in to work.

I went through a drive through, and my final total was $4.04.

When the clerk said my total was 4-0-4, I naturally assumed my breakfast was unavailable.

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After several rounds of referenda (pretty sure that's more accurate than referendums although my spell checker prefers the s-version), Seattle decided to ban single use plastic bags. This has had some non-trivial impact on restaurant to-go/carryout orders, but it was really aimed at the grocery stores. Basically, the city has banned grocery bags. ( Read more... )

Well, I just finished reading John Scalzi's much praised novel Redshirts.

As anyone who cares probably already knows, this is the story about a group of new ensigns on a starship. The problem is, they and their ship are in a Star Trek-style universe. Senior crew charge off on "away missions" (whether it makes sense for them to be there or not) and ( Read more... )

I was recently saddened to realize that the Internet is a twelve year old boy. Okay, perhaps "realize" is too strong a term. Let's go with "be reminded" instead.

I was watching the video for Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know". It's a duet with another singer, Kimbra, and both are in the video. The video - which is well worth watching - uses a ( Read more... )

On a coworker's t-shirt:
Haiku are easy
But sometimes they make no sense
Refrigerator

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We saw Avengers - excuse me, Marvel's The Avengers - on Saturday. M_'s been bouncing up and down for months about this one, and A_ wasn't far behind her. Had I suggested not seeing it opening weekend, they'd have dumped me so fast they'd have left afterimages in the air. None of us are 3D fans, so we found a nice, big 2D screen to watch it on ( Read more... )

Now that the Net has replaced most official and personal correspondence, my mailbox exists to collect junk mail. Every few weeks, I go through it all sifting out things that need to be shredded and the rare bill/letter/magazine that we actually want. I just did a ton of that tonight ( Read more... )

I found this charmingly amusing. I showed it to M_, and it went over like a lead balloon. In retrospect, while it tickles me, odds are most people will just go "uhm, yeah?". To have any chance of liking this you have to know Blade Runner and at least a little about the computer game Civilization, and even then it's no guarantee.

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And after a mere six or seven weeks, I have finished listening to all the songs on my iPhone in alphabetical order. I skipped the Christmas music but otherwise persevered through all but the very worst.

The last song should have been Tom Petty's "Zombie Zoo". Apple must be casting text to uppercase, though, because the numbers all sorted to the ( Read more... )

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