Then you'll love this NPR piece about the musicality of a BOCA ticket printer

Almost six months ago, I mentioned in my LJ that there was a helicopter hovering over the house. I thought at the time that it must have been the police, but looking over Windows Live Local's new birds-eye aerial shots, that would have been about the time they were getting those shots. I can tell by our house's half-painted state and that there ( Read more... )

Things what I learned today ( Read more... )

Insert contact lenses, THEN apply antiperspirant.

Funny how they can sometimes capsulize my entire life. Today it was TMBG ringtones, homeschooling resources and ticketing software. If tomorrow they're for beer, theater and online poker, well that'll about have it covered.

Anything oddly appropriate showing up in YOUR Google Ads?

Shook off the funk today by getting out shopping at Trader Joe's and Barnes and Noble. Having dinner comprised of lots of little frozen doodads from TJs (tacquitos, vegetable samosas, dumplings, etc.) it dawned on me that we've never bought a single food item there that wasn't delicious. They have the freshest-tasting salsa of any grocery I've ( Read more... )

What a fucking week... we put our cat down Thursday morning, found out about Paul on Thursday afternoon, and just a couple of hours ago found out that one of my best friend's son just had surgery after falling and fracturing his skull. I've been moping around all day today, just refreshing Brunchma to read the tribute posts and feeling an odd ( Read more... )

We lead our lives, and when they end, sometimes we leave a little of ourselves behind.
Sometimes we leave money, a painting...
Sometimes we leave a kind word...
And sometimes we leave an empty space
-Dead Like Me, Season 1 episode 5

When I was in college 20 years ago, I had a Sears credit card, which I used to buy clothes, a typewriter (yes, it was 1986 so a computer wasn't even a thought) and other stuff to the tune of about $700. A good portion of that balance was probably charges racked up when I stopped paying it off ( Read more... )

Two reviews of the show came out today - one savaged us and the other was much kinder. Both acknowledged what everyone knows - that I have absolutely no problem playing an evil prick on stage.

"Brian Pedaci as Cornwall adds a layer of malevolent intensity, especially when he's performing non-elective surgery on Gloucester's eye sockets" - ( Read more... )