Okay, Friday, March 9, 2009 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is performing the score of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" (http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=3,11,6,1&EventID=9215) along with the film.  Who's up for this?

...and yes, while I do have second thoughts about seeing current $10 films at the theater, I still unflinchingly consider dropping $50 on ( Read more... )

Apparently this weekend my boss' kids discovered how to record a new ringtone on his phone in the office.  Now, whenever someone calls him, his phone emits this piercing shriek his daughters recorded.  It's absolutely hilarious, particularly as whenever anyone from outside is around someone invariably calls that extension.  The best part is that he ( Read more... )

Not even a month after I was jokingly bringing up Cold War nuclear drills ( http://zootsaxismyaxe.livejournal.com/24554.html), Russia is rattling sabers with a country petitioning to join NATO (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7550354.stm).  What a world we live in.

In the office, we were discussing where we would go in the event of a nuclear war ( Read more... )

Today, I had a bit of a rough go of it at work.  As the day wound down, my boss stopped by my desk and placed a pint glass of pale ale on my desk saying, "it looks like you could use this."  Needless to say, I could.  The last hour of the day made up for the rest of it.

When I finally left, I got on my train which was absolutely packed for some ( Read more... )

I had to work a little last weekend to hit a deadline, so because I had already worked my 40 for this week I had the afternoon off today.  Among other things, I decided to take a little 15 mile bike ride through a local forest preserve.

While I was en route to the path, I got bushwacked while waiting on a freight train by one of those hyper- ( Read more... )

I just watched Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" and it has some downright clever & rather well set-up moments (this gag with the red flag is among my favorite Chaplin bits ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQnkDR5wLI).  It also has the only time his tramp character ever has any audible speech...albeit in the form of a completely nonsensical ( Read more... )

In my office earlier I learned that a 23-yr old coworker of mine had no real memories of the Cold War and he didn't believe me when I mentioned teachers referring to the local tornado test sirens as the nuclear bomb alerts.  I remember being told specifically that the safety precautions at school were the same for a tornado as they would be for a ( Read more... )

I don't know why this commercial even exists, much less why it would sell beer to anyone, but it makes me smile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwupSE8zdO4&feature=related

(...and, yes, I'm too lazy to make a single extra click to find the embed code)

Okay, I'm bored, online, and procrastinating (in alphabetical order, no less).  Time to try one of these "meme" things I keep hearing about on the "internet".  Blame

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If you didn't know already, Rachel's going in for surgery today.  Wish her luck and or keep her in your thoughts/prayers/etc.

http://rachelranger.livejournal.com/77057.html