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packing candy
A little over a week ago I broke down and ordered a digital SLR and a couple of lenses. Everything showed up last week save for a lens hood for my main lens. The lens hood just showed up. Now the thing is basically a small little piece of plastic. It showed up in a huge box stuffed full of Styrofoam packing peanuts. I'm glad that they were ( Read more... ) -
advertising gone awry
Today I've had the Ramones Beat on the Brat stuck in my head. I could not figure out why, then Katie pointed out that it had been used in a commercial we saw the night before ( Read more... ) -
leave my tree alone
When I got into the office today there was a guy hanging out outside my window. Which did strike me as a bit odd as there are normally not many people milling about on the outside of the 5th floor of the building. After the obligatory double take I realized that guy was a tree surgeon working on the big tree in the front of the building ( Read more... ) -
good news
As of this morning I have confirmed that thanks to a little visit to the auto glass place last week, when it raining outside of the car it is no longer raining on the inside of the car.
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in other news
Actual CNN headline: Justices hear 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' caseApparently there is an interesting first amendment/free speech debate regarding this case, but I am just not mature enough to read an entire article that has the words "bong hits" and "supreme court" in the opening sentence without laughing. I couldn't do it. I tried. I just kept ( Read more... ) -
musical ADD
Mostly because I was bored with all of the music in my car or on my ipod I was listening to the morning radio idiots while driving to work a week or two ago. Yes, I do listed to this crap from time to time. Anyway one of the idiots made the comment that for most people, the type of music (bands/genre) that they are listening to from 18 to 24 is ( Read more... ) -
the number you have dialed
I got a call on my phone the other day that turned out to be a wrong number. The funny bit was that there is someone with my first name at the number he was calling. So he called my by my first name and asked me to put my mother on. I think it is safe to assume that my namesake at the other number is quite a bit younger then me ( Read more... )
