Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. - Edith [...]
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Frack resolutions.
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2006
Going to try a New Years mantra instead of a New Years resolution:
“I want a steady, never-ending, constantly-unfolding path of new ideas and adventures”.
4+ Star Rookies
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2006
Found an obvious genius iTunes Smart Playlist today:
4+ Star Rookies
Match all of the following rules:
My Rating is greater than ***
Limit to 25 items selected by least often played.
Live Updating
Here’s another one that surprised me (as in “surprised I had 25 songs that met these rules”):
Deuces Denied
Match all of the following rules:
Track number is 2
My rating [...]
Another one down.
Posted in General on Dec 26th, 2006
Having used all of my vacation days earlier this year, I’m one of like 25 people at work today (vs. the usual 500). And since none of those 25 are from our network architecture group, I can stream music today without worries of getting a “bat visit”. File that under “Oh Snap”. [...]
In Soviet Russia, Amazon.com calls you.
Posted in General on Dec 20th, 2006
I needed to talk to amazon.com today about a shipping issue (as in DHL said they couldn’t deliver the package that I had a tracking number for because amazon never gave it to them to deliver). They’ve got this cool system now where they won’t give you their number, but if you type in your [...]
Damn penguins.
Posted in General on Dec 20th, 2006
shoes. bitch.
Posted in General on Dec 19th, 2006
Um. Yeah. (see if you can at least make it to the part where the video starts — bonus points if you hang in til the flaming hula-hoops appear)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYnn51C3X_w]
PETA at its best
Posted in General on Dec 17th, 2006
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjIcLDaWLs]
62 mph wind gusts and lots of rain last Thursday/Friday, huh?
Sounds *exactly* like the weather here on the day that we moved. I guess our area is somewhat used to it as the power outages were minimal (at least compared to ya’ll).
Nothing like driving a 26′ U-Haul with a standard transmission and a broken defrost [...]
Optical illusion.
Posted in General on Dec 16th, 2006
If you stare at this picture for about 10-15 seconds, you should see a giraffe. It’s really weird.