January 2011
December 2010
Odds are, if I'm happy, you can trace it back to...
nicky36 asked: You look BEAUTIFUL! I mean, you always do, but you look especially glamorous in that picture.
nicky36 asked: You look BEAUTIFUL! I mean, you always do, but you look especially glamorous in that picture.
ME: Wait, what? DAN: What? What? ME: Hold on, I’m reblogging something. DAN: I’m refreshing furiously!!
NEW COWORKER (who sits with her back to me): I just realized I've never seen your face!
ME: I have all the normal stuff that you'd expect.
NEW COWORKER: ...
"My brother-in-law 'paused' a live football game....
—a former colleague, during a discussion about technology
I can't believe how much I love my family!
Word to the wise
If your coworkers are flying a remote-controlled helicopter around the office, don’t complain to your boyfriend.
It’ll just inspire him to buy an RC helicopter. Daniel.
“Chairman Robert McDowell repeated those words in this morning’s meeting, saying,...”
– FCC Approves Net Neutrality Order: What Does It Mean? | GeekDad | Wired.com
City Girl
I’ve lived downtown for 6 months now. Having never lived in a city before, I’m noticing some changes in myself. The most upsetting one to date:
I live in a neighborhood known for its criminal element. Anyway, there are always squad cars on the street behind my house. When these squad cars sidle up at 1am they obviously don’t turn on their sirens, but they do keep their lights...
A bunch of people reblogged the toast scarf...
Which of you is making it for me, is my only question.
BRAD: How was your first day at home without Dan?
ME: I slept until 4.
BRAD: What? No margaritas and floppy hats with your best girlfriends?
ME: ...
BRAD: I know how you like that.
Solstice-eclipse overlap first in 456 years →
fuckyeahtheuniverse:
This year’s winter solstice — an event that will occur next Tuesday — will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn’t been seen in 456 years.
P.S. I don't have a porch.
“The fact that there are Social Security numbers involved makes it somewhat...”
– Ohio State Says Hackers Breached Data on 760,000 - NYTimes.com
…Wait, what?
“Apparently, if you’re going to flood a company with e-mails, you don’t use your...”
– Ohio State Says Hackers Breached Data on 760,000 - NYTimes.com
Apparently.
(h/t @prolix21)
WatchMy Pummelvision (by Erica)
My Pummelvision video just finished. I really like the concept of this service (www.pummelvision.com), but I worry that the only person who’s going to want to watch this video about me is… me. Does this have wide-ranging applications or even shareability?
ME: [Stargate:Universe is going to be canceled] DAN: !! DAN: AHHHH DAN: damnit DAN: i hate tv networks ME: Is that the one with guy who looks like the kinda-fat-kinda-hot cop from Heroes
ME: Argh, why isn’t this meeting showing up on my calendar? COWORKER 1: Probably because of something you did wrong. ME: Shut up! COWORKER 1: Do you even know how to uuuuuse your calendar? COWORKER 2: Awww, nerd trash talk! “You can’t even use HTML!” “I hate C++!”
COWORKER: I didn't tell you?! I had this dream last night, where I wrote a book--
ME: I dreamed that I got married but nobody showed up.
COWORKER: [...]
“Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a telecommunications network is...”
– Metcalfe’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I share this not because you haven’t heard of Metcalfe’s law, but because this is why I use Tumblr. My network is here.
It’s the same reason I hardly use Twitter at all (no one’s there anymore!), and why I’ll...
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Pandora considers Pearl Jam to be very similar to...
Ask me how I know.