absolutely nothing

i need a topic.

Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 11:16AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments17 Comments

miles and miles

after my recent drive north this weekend, i have decided that although they are lovely and i have no quarrel with them... all these hills really get in the way of the view.
Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 at 07:17AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments18 Comments

perfect

sunny, pleasant, low 80's, no rain in sight. yes, i picked a good weekend to take the five hour trip "home" [for the first time in over six months, no less]. i LOOOOOVE driving in weather like this.
 
o 5:00, where art thou?
Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 at 09:23AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments6 Comments

quotable 2

so i was catching up with joy and an old college housemate of ours this weekend, who relayed this story. apparently she has developed a bee sting allergy, and has to carry an epipen around in case of a reaction. as a bonus, she also gets to tell co-workers about it and explain how to use it, in case she can't inject herself with it. she tells us how she is explaining the process to her sort of bizarre co-worker/superior -- basically, take off the cap and jam it into my upper thigh. joy and i wait breathlessly for her co-worker's reaction, and we are not disappointed. his response, and our subsequent running gag of the afternoon:

"do you have to take your pants off for that?"

Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 12:21PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments10 Comments

sending an internet

wtf?

[found at linkateria]

it turns out al gore must have invented a series of tubes. huh.

Posted on Monday, July 3, 2006 at 12:10PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments10 Comments

cranky

- one-ply: seriously, WTF?

- stupid double x-chromosomes.

- the people with the driving and the slowness and the gggggrrrowwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

- hey, everybody come by my office on fridays when i'm the only one here and ask me random things!

- happy fiscal new year's eve... now, where the hell am i going to find room for next year's files and binders?? 

Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 01:45PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments3 Comments

iSurprise

so i downloaded itunes here at work yesterday. i wasn't really planning on loading any songs onto my workstation, i figured i would just use it as my cd player. [yes, i'm so old school]. lo and behold, i open itunes today and someone's playlist has shown up. with 2097 songs, 6.1 days, 11.63 gb worth of music.

this should be interesting.

[note to lana: i am currently listening to great big sea!]


update: looks like a few people have itunes running loose. could be an interesting way to expand my music horizons. it's rather amusing to see the eclectic nature of others' libraries.

Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 08:44AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments5 Comments

out-of-context

"need a quickie?"

- my co-worker, referring to me wanting to interrupt her never-ending copy job 

Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 03:39PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments4 Comments

love. this. movie.

"It doesn’t matter whether you’re selling Jesus, or Buddha, or civil rights, or 'How to Make Money in Real Estate With No Money Down.' That doesn’t make you a human being. It makes you a marketing rep. If you want to talk to someone honestly, as a human being… ask him about his kids. Find out what his dreams are. Just to find out -- for no other reason. Because as soon as you lay your hands on a conversation to steer it, it’s not a conversation anymore. It’s a pitch. And you’re not a human being. You’re a marketing rep."
 
- from The Big Kahuna (1999)
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 at 11:50PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments6 Comments

closeup

so i got a new [to me] monitor today. it's larger than my old one, though not extraordinarily so. however, given its size, it sits far closer to me than my old one [yeah, it's an old school crt]. i now feel like my head is actually INSIDE THE SCREEN. i could take my contacts out and probably still be okay seeing this thing. i think i'm getting a headache.

Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 at 01:09PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments2 Comments