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the last refuge of the persecuted crack smoker 
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five questions
Posted on November 17, 2009excuse me while i engage in a bit of blatant memery...it's a fun meme, though, so feel free to ask me for some questions. :)Instructions:Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."? I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity? Update your journal with the answers to the questions? Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions***Mark asked me these five questions:How did you get into hacking? -- i was really into computers as a kid...
law school fail.
Posted on November 14, 2009thank you, Above the Law, for speaking the truth:"At this point, going to law school is like starting to smoke. It?s expensive, it?s probably going to kill you, and it?s a stupid life decision. But some people just don?t care."
they fuck you up...
Posted on November 10, 2009i saw this poem posted in childfree hardcore today, and it put a knowing smile on my face.This Be the VerseBY PHILIP LARKINThey fuck you up, your mum and dad.They may not mean to, but they do.They fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you...
i can haz RAM?
Posted on November 09, 2009despite hemming and hawing for the last two years or so that my law school laptop was on its last legs, and that i wasn't going to pay to upgrade the RAM or do anything else to it, it has become pretty clear that this box is my primary computer, and will be for some time...
if you still care, don't ever let me know
Posted on October 30, 2009it has been a couple of months since i heard a new song that grabbed me and shook me.i heard "snuff" by slipknot for the first time today, and it was exactly what i needed. i was pretty shocked when i found out it was slipknot, since most of their stuff really doesn't do it for me, but this one just gives me goosebumps...
:P
Posted on October 18, 2009(warning: whiny, cryptic rant ahead.)i've been feeling really weird, really off, these last few days. i know in my head what i want and need to get done, but nothing's coming. i'm going through a time of banging my head against a wall repeatedly. there's no real reason why i can't get past that wall...
my ipod smokes crack rocks.
Posted on October 16, 2009i'm at the hackerspace reading through some 501(c)(3) documentation. a couple of other people are here. my iPod is playing over the speakers.it played "through the fire and flames" by dragonforce.....followed by "i want it that way" by the backstreet boys...
ad fail
Posted on October 04, 2009i saw an extremely infuriating ad for Chicago Public Schools this afternoon on the #152 bus.it was part of their "Just Go! to school" campaign, and the point of the ad is that if you went to school and graduated, you could grow up to be like the people on the ad...
twitter done right
Posted on October 04, 2009some tweets are good enough to re-tweet. few tweets are good enough to blog:"Last night's sweater smells this morning like the ghost of 118 hugs. All perfumes cancel themselves out and smell like a 747's bathroom."thank you, Douglas Coupland. you really are my favourite living author...
ohai
Posted on September 27, 2009it's been a while, i know. it seems the more that's going on in my life, the less i have to say about it.this weekend, i've been chilling out in DC. in fact, i'm still there...i leave tomorrow, early afternoon. it has been an amazing weekend so far...
i'mma let you finish...
Posted on September 16, 2009from kanye west douchebag, i present the first one of these crazy lolkanyes that have been taking over the internet that has actually made me laugh hysterically:what can i say? i'm a sucker for Lamarck references...
pride
Posted on September 14, 2009Mark takes people who couch their gay-bashing in religious terms to task wonderfully here.amen.
a year
Posted on September 11, 2009it was just over a year ago when i started my job at the law firm...september 8, 2008. it feels like that was longer ago than that. all the events of the summer of 2008 seem so far away, really: finishing law school, studying for the bar, taking the bar, starting the job with the law firm...
summer songs
Posted on September 09, 2009i posted today on my twitter feed, asking everyone what song reminded them of the summer of 2009. it's weird...i don't usually have songs that remind me of any other seasons, per se, but every single year i have a summer song. my summer songs are never the bubblegum stuff associated with the term "summer song"...
thoughts
Posted on September 06, 2009i just pulled out a very tangible reminder of the double life i used to lead: a little plastic business card case. one side, the side with the clear cover, was full of my business cards from the law firm. the other side, the side with the opaque black plastic cover, was full of my chicago flag business cards with my personal e-mail address and website...
unlike games, it has a real computer keyboard!
Posted on September 05, 2009it's william shatner.advertising the commodore vic-20.i can think of few geekier advertisements.
more tubes!
Posted on August 25, 2009i have a website now!no, i'm not moving this blog. this is for my personal rants. rogueclown.net, my new site, is a home for all of my computer and hacking projects. it'll be really nice to have a separate place for that.so...if you're interested in that stuff, check it out! i don't have a whole lot up there, since i just brought it up today, but it should get really interesting in the coming months.
zyzzx road
Posted on August 25, 2009"zzyzx road"by stone souri don't know how else to put thisit's taken me so long to do thisi'm falling asleep and i can't see straightmy muscles feel like a meleemy body's curled in a u-shapei put on my best but i'm still afraidpropped up by lies and promisessaving my place as life forgetsmaybe its time i saw the worldi'm only here for a whilebut patience is not my styleand i'm so tired that i gotta gowhat am i supposed to hide nowwhat am I supposed to dodid you really think i wouldn't see this throughtell me i should stick around for youtell me i could have it alli'm still too tired to care and i gotta goi get to go home in one weekbut i'm leaving home in three weeksthey throw me a bone just to pick me dryi'm following suit and directionsi crawl up inside for protectioni'm told what to do and i don't know whyi'm over existing in limboi'm over the myths and placebosi don't really mind if i just fade awayi'm ready to live with my familyi'm ready to die in obscurity'cause i'm so tired that i gotta gowhere am i supposed to hide nowwhat am i supposed to doyou still don't think i'm going see this throughtell me i'm a part of historytell me i can have it alli'm still too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gogo homestill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta go
i think i found the right song.
Posted on August 23, 2009"what you live by"by harvey dangermeet me up on ninety-ninebeneath the marco polo signi?ll be the one with a box of wineand a hundred dollar carwe could talk about the lives we?ve ledand count the reasons we?re not deador maybe we could talk insteadabout the ways in which we arealways nothing or too much to sayonly so many sides of the record to playand the song that got stuck in my headsaid you die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byevery timelike carnivores to carnal pleasuresso will we to desperate measuresmelting into stagnant puddlesbeat down by the suni went to schooli didn?t stayspoke right up when i had nothing good to sayand i said it to anyone who would listenlay me down in the bed that i madestarved for sleep by the shrill serenadesinging over and over:you die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byevery timeyou die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byevery time
?
Posted on August 22, 2009it's horribly unnerving when you can't find the right song for how you feel. there's no way my amalgam of emotions is anything new or interesting, but i'm still trying to find someone else on my playlist who has felt it and vocalised it.
i <3 bad puns.
Posted on August 21, 2009today's xkcd is amazing, although there's part of me that wonders what took them so long to make such a characteristically xkcd pun.
dispatches
Posted on August 18, 2009HAR was ridiculous, and ridiculously awesome.not much time for details now, since i'm still away (and don't want to get too sucked into the intertubes to explore Amsterdam some more!), but it suffices to say that i'm still alive, i'm still in Europe, and i really, really, really don't want to get on the plane tomorrow.
the jetset life is gonna kill you...
Posted on August 10, 2009i'm finally recovered from defcon. that's a good thing, since i'm heading off to yet another con this week.on tuesday morning, i fly out to new york city. i have about a day and a half to goof off with Rob...i'm not quite sure what we're going to be doing, but whatever it is, it'll be lots of fun...
testing...testing...1...2...YIKES!
Posted on August 07, 2009i love jokes with long, elaborate setup.i love when Black Hat does mischievous things.for these reasons, i declare today's xkcd to be full of win.
shame on you, North Carolina.
Posted on August 05, 2009recently, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law mandating that Governor's School charge a $500 per student tuition.this makes me extremely sad.if there had been tuition for Governor's School in 1998, i would not have been able to go. it was that simple...
how to go to vegas without gambling a cent...
Posted on August 05, 2009wow, it's been a while. but, then again, that's become my modus operandi here, right? it seems the more i get into computers, the less i blog. chew on that for a while...anyway, i'm just now getting to the point of having recovered from defcon. that was last weekend, and i was in vegas from tuesday, july 28 until monday, august 3...
wrong number...
Posted on July 27, 2009...seriously, this makes me wish i had a good bell system voice. really, the only good phone voice i have is a phone sex voice, and that's not nearly useful for this kind of thing.
there's nobody learning such a foreign word as fair...
Posted on July 23, 2009in his blog, squelch84 asked, What are you listening to this week? Give me your play lists.i don't so much have a play list this week, since i've been doing a lot of reading of the type that music distracts me a little more than i can stand to be distracted during such reading...
vanish
Posted on July 22, 2009vanish fascinates me.a group of researchers at the university of washington released it yesterday. it's a tool that basically puts an expiration time on any information you post on the internet. it uses a secret key to encrypt the data, and then sprinkles the key into many little pieces throughout the vuze P2P network...
Wesley Willis is the daddy of rock and roll!
Posted on July 17, 2009i did it!yesterday, i spent a little over an hour standing at the corner of Franklin and Jackson, blasting Wesley Willis from an iPod speaker and holding up a sign christening the Wesley Willis Tower! it was a blast...i got such a range of reactions, and it took far longer than expected for building security to kick me off of the premises...
rock over london, rock on chicago.
Posted on July 15, 2009the sears tower officially changes its name to the willis tower tomorrow.this, of course, means that it is the Wesley Willis Tower.i think i'm going to go over there, stand on the street, and blast some Wesley Willis songs to commemorate the occasion...
waiting in line with an accordion
Posted on June 26, 2009so, i did try out for American Idol on Monday. it was weird.i was up by 3:30am, in a cab by 4:00am, and at United Center by 4:25. im used to seeing these times on clocks, of course, but only *before* i have gone to bed. by then, i was still in the third corral of people: not one of the first there, but by no means among the last,, since we weren't told to be there until 5am, and were told that the absolute latest we could arrive was 8am...
HARdy HAR HAR HAR...
Posted on June 26, 2009...as if i weren't going to enough cons this summer, i finally came around to the inevitable. today i broke down and bought my ticket for this year's installment of hackers on a plane, and i will be going to HAR! ^.^i will not be doing the HAR and PlumberCon trip...
i dare you.
Posted on June 21, 2009i'm trying out for american idol tomorrow, and i was printing out and signing the release form that they make all prospective contestants sign. one of the passages cracks me up:"I understand that I may reveal, and other parties may reveal, information about me that is of a personal, private, embarrassing or unfavorable nature, which information may be factual and/or fictional...
news that is, in fact, not very useful to crack smokers
Posted on June 11, 2009there was a reporter at the 2600 meeting last friday, and apparently he found me interesting enough to write an article about me.this makes me happy. :)
stuff
Posted on June 08, 2009this morning's xkcd is made of win:by the way, i'm not dead. i've just been crazy busy with hackerspace-type things, since the geek prom is less than a week away. (eep!) today was the first day in a long time that i didn't make it out to the hackerspace, but i had a very good reason for that...
*bounce*
Posted on June 01, 2009my Jeopardy! audition is today at 3pm!!! i am already bouncing off the walls.wish me luck!(and then please, please come say hi to me at my first night as quiz-mistress at Chief O'Neill's tonight! /shamelessplugforsuperfuntrivia)
blago <3 geek prom
Posted on May 30, 2009i think Jeff just won the prize for Best Geek Prom Flyering Ever:speaking of Geek Prom, all of you in Chicago should come! it's on June 13 from 9pm to 2am, at the Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S. Morgan St.). it's a combination science fair and dance, and it's only $10 for a single and $15 for a couple if you buy your ticket in advance...
you may now call me quizmaster nicolle.
Posted on May 28, 2009do you live in Chicago? if so, i know what you're doing this Monday night, and each Monday night for the foreseeable future: pub trivia.a bunch of friends and i have been going to Chief O'Neill's, an irish pub at the corner of Elston and Albany, for pub trivia on monday nights for the last few months...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: May 26, 2009
Posted on May 26, 2009memorial day weekend is finally over. if you're like me, you celebrated the holiday with lots of tasty beer and meat. however, if you're like the target audience of this little feature, you probably paired your memorial day goodies with a fine crack rock...
crack smokers, overheard
Posted on May 23, 2009one of today's overheard in new york posts was too pertinent not to share:Annoyed commuter: Shut up, you jobless crackhead piece of shit!Crackhead: Fuck you, man, I got a job! I sell crack.--A Trainthe contributor didn't provide any information of what became of the crackhead...
the hazards of hackerspaces...
Posted on May 23, 2009the problem with belonging to a hackerspace is that it's such a rich fountain of projects to get involved in, and you wonder how you're going to have time to do them all.case in point...i'm already working on the twitter bot. my theremin has been on the back burner for a while, but i really need to carry it over to the space, troubleshoot it, and get it working before geek prom on june 13 so i can show it off...
you're a rorschach test on fire...
Posted on May 22, 2009proof that i'm not the only one who thought mathnet was the bee's knees:i
now that's thinking with your dipstick!
Posted on May 21, 2009according to the april 19, 2009 issue of news of the weird:Biologist Michelle Solensky, of Ohio's College of Wooster, reported late last year in the journal Animal Behavior that male monarch butterflies are such calculating inseminators that they even decide the optimal level of sperm necessary for reproductive advantage...
it's coming...
Posted on May 21, 2009i present: the most epic event in hackerspaces history:PPPWRS from Jeff Kantarek on Vimeo.that's right...it's the Pow-Pow-Power Wheels Racing Series! we're getting together in teams, tricking out Power Wheels, and racing them. i am so excited about this!!!and, if you're in or near Chicago, and want to start or join a team...
facebook weirdness
Posted on May 21, 2009a rather odd thing happened on facebook today.no, it wasn't the fact that one of my friends' accounts was captured by a phisher, and sent out messages to everyone on her friends list that they should check out some facebook clone site. sadly, that's all too common...
i'm speaking!
Posted on May 19, 2009who has two thumbs and is giving a talk at Defcon this year?THIS GUY.*bouncebouncebounce*i send in a proposal to speak about legal concerns in starting a hackerspace about a month ago. i thought it would be a timely topic, since hackerspaces have been popping up around the country quite frequently, and there appear to be a lot of groups in america interested in getting them started...
brain machine!
Posted on May 19, 2009i finished my brain machine this afternoon, and took it for a test drive. it works perfectly. i saw lots of pretty colours and shapes, and i was thinking far more clearly once i took the glasses off.in other words, i'm pretty glad i made it, and now i can take a little trip whenever i need to clear my head.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: May 18, 2009
Posted on May 18, 2009i failed at life last week, and was so tired from scavhunt and other non crack-related shenanigans that i did not provide the crack smokers of the world with any News. for that, i am sorry. however, i am back, and i have a few new suggestions for how to stay out of trouble...
???
Posted on May 16, 2009i'm at ps:one. showing on the projector is an old teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon...with german subtitles.i don't know what's more wtf: the subtitles, or the actual english dialogue.
back...
Posted on May 10, 2009i'm back in chicago from an epic road trip around tennessee and kentucky.more details later, since road trip judgment is in five minutes, and then regular judgment.wish us luck.
the south?!
Posted on May 07, 2009road trip rendezvous is in an hour.we're going to dress up in costumes that are strange hybrids of greek gods and southern characters, and take a ride down to kentucky and tennessee.the south won't know what it it.
this is [sic].
Posted on May 06, 2009if you've ever had to deal with the clusterfuck that is the blue book, today's courtoon is brilliant.
scav: the prequel
Posted on May 06, 2009it's the calm before the storm.it's 3:30 in the afternoon, i'm sitting at GASH HQ, and all is quiet. people are resting, working, meandering.in eight and a half hours, all will be madness. in eight and a half hours, the scavhunt list comes out, and it will be four days of focus on it--and detachment from everything else...
DEFCON mystery challenge
Posted on May 05, 2009the DEFCON mystery challenge sounds like it's going to be ten kinds of amazing. they suggest teams of five.of course, the question is--who's in on this with me????
enough of this swine flu crud already...
Posted on May 04, 2009the only excuse for kissing with swine flu masks on is if you're doing it ironically.otherwise...just stop it. far more people come down with normal flu than swine flu--and more people die of regular flu than swine flu. the whole "omgpandemic!" thing is media fearmongering, no more and no less...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: May 4, 2009
Posted on May 04, 2009usually i do about four stories a week. however, april showers bring may flowers, and this may, the true stupidity of the crack smoking public is flowering like never before. the seedy depths of the interwebstubes have provided a bumper crop of stupid things people have done this week in the name of crack, and i'm passing the savings [and edification!] on to you...
a notacon recap, finally...
Posted on April 29, 2009and, just in case that lockpicking video i posted a few days ago was not enough, i've got another video of shenanigans in which i partook at notacon. this time, it's me doing a speech at "whose slide is it anyway"...a completely improvised speech based on powerpoint slides i hadn't seen until i was in front of the crowd...
:)
Posted on April 28, 2009i'm hanging out at the space right now.tomorrow, i fly to new york city to see some weirdo.life is good.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: April 27, 2009
Posted on April 27, 2009the first heat waves of summer are descending upon us. that's the funny thing about crack...it's not seasonal. as much as crack smokers love to stay warm in the winter by smoking crack, the crack also helps keep them cool [or, at least, high...] in the summer...
gringo warrior
Posted on April 26, 2009hey, look! it's me! on The Youtubes! at notacon! attempting to pick locks and beat up mexican guards while blindfolded!
SQUEE!
Posted on April 23, 2009insertnamehere2 posted this on his blog this morning, and it's too awesome not to share.it's bohemian rhapsody.done on old-school computer equipment.*swoons*
News Crack Smokers Can Use: April 22, 2009
Posted on April 22, 2009never fear...i have not forsaken you, my dear crack smokers. between certain non-cracky entertainments of the weekend and the ensuing con plague, i have been delayed. however, i have not been stopped altogther...and, again, i have again scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done this week in the name of crack...
zzz.
Posted on April 21, 2009seriously...i'm still breathing.i was at notacon this weekend, which was amazing. there will be a full recap later when i'm not sleep-deprived and fighting off the con plague.likewise, there will be News Crack Smokers Can Use tomorrow, when i'm not half-dead...
best tax day ever!
Posted on April 15, 2009i have to admit...i kind of love tax day.sure, i'm a lazy bum who never gets around to doing her taxes until april 15th. but, once i overcome the inertia and actually sit down at the computer with my W2 and my supporting documentation, it's always surprisingly painless...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: April 13, 2009
Posted on April 14, 2009everyone says we can depend on two things: death and taxes. News Crack Smokers Can Use is here to tell you that there is a third thing we can all depend on: the silly exploits of the crack-consuming population. as proof ofthis, i have again scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done this week in the name of crack...
it's a hacker computer! oh no!
Posted on April 14, 2009as someone who has the gall to use her linux command line in public on a regular basis, i find this disturbing.
google searches crack smokers have used...
Posted on April 13, 2009for the first time ever, someone actually found this blog by searching for the phrase news crack smokers can use. this makes me inordinately happy. thank you, whoever you are! ?in other news, here are a few more recent searches that led here:why do crack smokers keep baking soda: that's pretty simple...
yesterday...
Posted on April 12, 2009yesterday was an awesome day.i got up early (9am? on a saturday?) to go to brunch at chief o'neill's with some of the pumping station: one people. that was fantastic...the company was amazing, and so was the brunch. something tells me this is going to be a weekly thing now, since the chief's is just a block away from the hackerspace...
zzzz.
Posted on April 10, 2009blargh. it's friday night...but i was out so late last night that i don't know whether or not i want to do anything tonight.i could be productive and do my taxes, but that's not going to happen.
:D
Posted on April 09, 2009i got my eyebrow pierced today. this makes me absurdly happy, since i haven't had my eyebrow done since i was eighteen.my face looks right again.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: April 6, 2009
Posted on April 07, 2009we have not yet reached the day when we have a widely available technology to make crack completely unpalatable to crack smokers. since we have not yet reached this pinnacle of science, i have again scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done this week in the name of crack...
this is jeopardy!!
Posted on April 07, 2009omg. omg. omg. omg. omg.i took the online test for Jeopardy a month or two ago.i just got an email today, informing that i passed the online test, and have been selected for a face to face Jeopardy tryout.*bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*yes...
ending my blogging delinquency...
Posted on April 06, 2009i'm not dead...i've just been insanely busy.wednesday, i had choir practice and then stayed out late, since chicagoland games was having their game night.thursday i went out to the 'burbs to go see Cold and The Killer And The Star...that was full of win...
moving on.
Posted on April 01, 2009i got laid off yesterday.for the last twenty-four hours, i've been stressing out about whether to post this on the blog or not, since i don't post a lot of heavy stuff here. but, i do post the good things going on in my life here...and, even though it may sound weird to anyone who hasn't spent a lot of time around me lately, this is a good thing...
opera in a nutshell
Posted on March 30, 2009i have a general policy of not publicizing youtube contests or the like...but there's an exception to every rule. this is it.the Chicago Opera Theatre is doing a contest, where people can make youtube videos about opera, and the one who gets the most people to favourite it will win a season pass to the opera...
is that really the best you can do, scammers?
Posted on March 30, 2009the subject of one of my spam emails today said "Facebook changes coming."the text of the email contained three links that said "Subscribe to Men's Health today!"the email links all point to a website called moraltangy.com.it's like the phishing scammers don't even try anymore.
it flies! it drives! i want one!
Posted on March 30, 2009i want one of these. it's a car...that turns into a plane...that you can park in your own garage.i have not been tempted to get any kind of license to operate a motor vehicle since i gave up my driver's license as a teenager. however...the terrafugia transition has brought such temptation...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: March 30, 2009
Posted on March 30, 2009monday morning has rolled around again. the students and the working stiffs are shaking off the cobwebs and becoming busy bees again. the crack smokers are still smoking crack, like they do on every day that ends in y. again, i have scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done this week in the name of crack...
weird.
Posted on March 30, 2009"drift" by forty foot echo has been ringing in my head all morning.i loaded up my favourite station on pandora this morning, and what was the first song to start playing?that one.
&:oD
Posted on March 27, 2009this article says that every clown gets their day, since governors are so happy to make proclamations.this leads me to ask the question: if every clown gets a day, when is RogueClown going to get hers?
the cream of the crap
Posted on March 27, 2009this song is so silly...and i love it.yes, i'll be singing it all day now. why do you ask?
more google searches crack smokers have used
Posted on March 26, 2009one of the best things about having a blog that talks about crack so much, other than talking about crack so much, is seeing what people google to get here. this week, i got a few more humdingers:is crack legal anywhere in 2009: it depends if you're talking about selling crack or smoking it...
seven months of fraudulent bagels?
Posted on March 25, 2009dear Bank of America,i've been buying a bagel at the Cosi by my office several times a week since i started my job in September, and you just now decided to freeze my card, make me call you, and confirm that those transactions were fraudulent?way to be quick on the uptake, bank...
>:-[
Posted on March 25, 2009what does it say about your life when you get profoundly entertained by the fact that a SRS BSNS newsletter uses the word "swag" in a headline?
News Crack Smokers Can Use: March 23, 2009
Posted on March 23, 2009another week has passed. a + b still equals b + a, each angle of an equilateral triangle still measures sixty degrees, and crack smokers are still smoking lots of crack. so, again, i have scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done this week in the name of crack...
i love my roomies.
Posted on March 21, 2009Foofy: hey, want some cake?Shaph and i each eat a bite of cake.Shaph: hey, why do i feel the sudden urge to suck a dick?me no, no...he didn't have to put that stuff in there. he's baking it for a gay party. they're already gay.Shaph: true, true.me: now, if he was baking it for the First Annual Convention of Turning Straight Frat Boys Into Gay Boys...
boring quiz?
Posted on March 20, 2009seen in my google ads:Am I Boring?Maybe. Take The Quiz & See If You Are Boring Or Not. Free Online!if you actually need to click on an ad like this to figure out whether or not you are boring, then i think you've already answered the question.
my spam folder has officially devolved into dada.
Posted on March 20, 2009i was just clearing out my spam folder, and harvesting a few more phone numbers for advance fee fraudsters to prank call in what little spare time i have. i came across this rather short bit of junk mail:subject: [SPAM:#] Sex Tips for People Who Don't Like Their Spousewhat is a pier...
stephen f. austin is okay.
Posted on March 20, 2009stephen f. austin is about to tip off against syracuse. stephen f. austin should win, just because they have the coolest team name i've seen in a while:the lumberjacks.
you're not the first girl I've blurred into something beautiful...but you're the only one who keeps coming back
Posted on March 20, 2009i'm so excited!!! shooting blanks! and after the fight are playing at the mutiny tonight at 9. if you're in chicago, you (yes! you! reading this right now!) should come! there's no cover to get into the show, and it'll be a night full of crazy punk rock and beer...
this should bring any crack smoker to their knees.
Posted on March 19, 2009A Crackhead's Prayerby TarynOur dealer, who's in the alleyand his hallowed crack cocaine.Thy rocks are funEven when crumbsand my pipe is a piece of heaven.Give me this day my daily fixForgive me my sins,but I can't forgive that asshole that stole my stash...
really?
Posted on March 19, 2009i saw today's post on the vintage web...and can't shake the memory of using that exact same font, colour, and wavy text when i was in high school.of course, i was using it on powerpoint presentations i made when i was bored, and not on websites that i was getting paid to develop...
tasty, tasty notacon goodness
Posted on March 18, 2009i bought my plane tickets for notacon today! i'm arriving Thursday night, April 16, a little after 10pm, and i'll be in Cleveland until a little after 6pm on Monday, April 20.so, if any of you happen to either live in Cleveland or have plans to attend notacon...
meta-scam
Posted on March 18, 2009i was reading through my spam folder this morning, and i stumbled across the ultimate meta-scam:AFRI-BANK PLCUNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.DIRECTORSIR/MADAM,REF/PAYMENTS CODE: AFB/06654 $100,000 USD.This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $100,000 USD each...
this is not how you promote your studies.
Posted on March 17, 2009i now present to you the most disturbing gmail "sponsored link" i've ever seen:Unemployed Toddlers? - babylab.uchicago.edu - Put them to work at the Center for Early Childhood Research!ummmmm...no. i can only hope that they are trying to insinuate that toddlers can do something useful in this study...
happy weekend...
Posted on March 17, 2009this past weekend was awesome. i haven't really had the chance to come down from it, since i got back sunday night and then had an epically long day at the office yesterday...but i *was* in new york this past weekend, hanging out with some Rob guy that i seem to enjoy hanging out with...
suck.
Posted on March 16, 2009i just reached into my inbox and got a fingerful of cactus spines instead.yeah, today's a great day. :-P
News Crack Smokers Can Use: March 16, 2009
Posted on March 15, 2009spring is coming. the weather is getting warmer, and more people are coming outside. some people celebrate by taking a walk in a park. some people celebrate by getting together a rousing game of baseball. some people celebrate by wearing one less layer of clothing when they stroll out to the local alley to buy or sell some crack...
making lemonade
Posted on March 12, 2009alpha delt: 1. westboro baptist: 0.U of C frat boys still can't dance, but at least they're trying...and doing a darn good job of making a mockery of those mockeries from the lunatic fringe.
sleeps rants
Posted on March 11, 2009i really need to start going to bed at a reasonable hour. my sleep schedule is completely out of whack. i stayed up until 4am saturday, thanks to daylight savings time rearing its ugly head. i got to bed at a decent hour on sunday, but then stayed up until 1am or so on monday night, since i was working on my theremin...
lock picking video
Posted on March 11, 2009this video was posted on the ccckc email list. as a beginning lockpicker...this is definitely something for me to aspire to: some of those kinds of locks i've been able to pick. some of them, not so much. eight locks of any kind that quickly? not yet.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: March 10, 2009
Posted on March 10, 2009i apologise for being remiss in my duties as a news provider. i am not dead, and crack smokers have not stopped smoking crack. [if you must know, i was inhaling noxious fumes of a non-crack sort: specifically, solder fumes, in the process of building an extremely shiny theremin...
is this what passes for "respecting life" nowadays?
Posted on March 06, 2009the catholic church keeps admonishing people to respect life. sometimes i want to give them the benefit of the doubt and think that this mantra extends somewhere past banning abortions and preventing the terminally ill from dying with dignity. then, i read things like this...
Google Searches Crack Smokers Have Used
Posted on February 25, 2009my dear googlers, you have outdone yourselves yet again.smart places to hide your crack cocaine: i'm glad you are thinking ahead, my grasshopper, and i shall give you a few starter tips. keeping your crack at home is always a good plan. if you have to have your crack outside of the house, like when you are taking it home from your crack dealer, it's probably best to hide it in a bag, like a backpack or a purse, preferably under a layer or two of legal things...
vampyre nation? *facepalm*
Posted on February 25, 2009jonathon sharkey is crazy. in his complaint for sovereignty of the vampyre nation he sometimes sounds hilariously kooky. sometimes, though, he sounds dangerously nuts--like when he threatens to execute his wife under vampyre law for being a traitor...
courtoons!
Posted on February 24, 2009i just discovered courtoons today, thanks to atl. it's loaded with silly legal puns, jokes, and wordplay...i love it! it's hard to choose favourites, but here's one of them that i found utterly brilliant, since ridiculous contracts doctrines always drove me nuts:and here's one that contains a very shiny nineties reference, in addition to suggesting something that i wish had been in my moot court toolbox during law school:needless to say, i'll be following this webcomic.
facebook addiction gone overboard.
Posted on February 24, 2009facebook is addictive. i know that better than most...i've been on the site for almost five years now, and spent more time on it than i would like to admit. however, if you are so addicted to facebook that you are going to starbucks and snatching someone else's laptop in order to check your facebook page, you should probably delete your account and contact a psychiatric professional...
yet another reason i love my boyfriend.
Posted on February 24, 2009Rob: if your iPod doesn't sync, you know what you could use it as?me: what?Rob: a boat.
sometimes, work doesn't suck
Posted on February 23, 2009i think they changed the office coffee this week. whatever the new stuff is, it's absolutely fantastic.also, i already have a replacement for the crackberry that i so boneheadedly lost in st. louis this weekend. i feel whole again.despite the yahoo radio fail, it's a great morning in the office so far.
>.<
Posted on February 23, 2009dear yahoo radio,it made me so happy to log onto you this morning and see that you work on firefox. my biggest gripe about you was that you only worked on internet exploder, and i was so excited to see that i could listen to the custom radio station that i had been crafting for almost two years now on a browser that doesn't suck...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: February 23, 2009
Posted on February 23, 2009based on what i have found while scouring the seedy depths of the interwebstubes...there are still people smoking and dealing crack. thus, the News is back. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
notacon isacon
Posted on February 23, 2009i just made my hotel reservation for notacon!i'll be at the Wyndham in downtown Cleveland, which is the hotel where the con is going on. i'm checking in on Thursday, April 16, and checking out on Monday, April 20.*bouncebouncebounce*
on hackerspaces...
Posted on February 20, 2009i know i talk about hackerspaces pretty frequently nowadays since i'm involved with pumping station: one, the chicago hackerspace. one of the most common questions i get is what a hackerspace actually is.if you're curious, and you want a really good explanation of what a hackerspace is, what a hackerspace does, and some of the ideas and ethics behind the hackerspace movement, listen to this interview with Eric Michaud, a friend of mine and the president of pumping station: one...
1up...
Posted on February 19, 2009you got me...i'm a sucker for People Playing Cool Stuff On Theremins:
some people are special.
Posted on February 19, 2009Legal Geekery has a fantastic post about a guy who is trolling dating websites for lawyers who will litigate his patent for free. that's right...he sent the writer of Legal Geekery an OK Cupid message complaining that patent lawyers charge money, and that there's nowhere but dating sites where he can turn to find "honest, constitutional types regarding article 1, section 8 of the u...
another letter to my faithful googlers
Posted on February 19, 2009dear googlers,you've outdone yourselves this week. i'm still getting plenty of you who ask if you can eat crack, and i believe that i have done the most thorough job of any site on the web of making the point that eating crack is a terrible idea. i can't fault you for being curious...
chicago 2600 is moving, to where i do not know...i kind of saw this coming, but i still don't want to go.
Posted on February 18, 2009does anyone know a good place for a bunch of geeks to hang out and chat, hack, give talks, and pick locks one friday night a month?it looks as though chicago 2600 won't be able to meet at the boys and girls club anymore after our march meeting. i'm not quite sure about the entire story, although i've heard that the one interim director who really liked us was not given a permanent position, and another person associated with the boys and girls club wasn't interested in coordinating our meetings anymore...
one year, already?
Posted on February 18, 2009it was a year ago today when i stumbled across phone losers of america.the way i found it was random enough: i was bored one night, and clicking my way through wikipedia. one of the random articles i stumbled across had something to do with telecom, and one of the links on that article pointed to the wikipedia page on phone phreaking...
show a little creativity, emo kids
Posted on February 17, 2009why am i not surprised that there's an emo band out there called Pencey Prep?*facepalm*
News Crack Smokers Can Use: February 16, 2009
Posted on February 16, 2009it is monday. i have drank coffee, i have drank some more coffee, and now i am finally awake enough to scour the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to discover the stupidest things people did this week in the name of crack. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
that holiday on saturday...
Posted on February 16, 2009[my phone rings]me: hi, sweetie!Rob: i was just calling because today's a very special day...i wanted to wish you a happy P.G. Wodehouse's birthday!1me: thank you! i was just about to call you and wish you a happy Arizona Statehood Day![conversation goes on as "normal"...
snuggie pub crawl fail
Posted on February 15, 2009sigh. they released a date for the snuggie pub crawl i mentioned a few days ago. it's on april 18th...right smack in the middle of notacon.i wish it could have been any other weekend than that...but hacker cons happen to fall on the short list of things that are cooler than running around town in a stupid looking blanket and drinking in public...
lessons learned the Hard way...or, even the Expert way.
Posted on February 14, 2009lesson learned last night: when inebriated, stick to singing Rock Band on Hard. yes, Expert is easy enough when i have full control of all of my faculties. but, when i don't, i just end up failing out of anything i try. on Hard, there's enough wiggle room with the pitch that i can easily not fail out...
midnight sweet midnight
Posted on February 13, 2009...and thus is taking place my first midnight sweet midnight at the office.yeah, it sucks.
Pirates Hyjacked Robbed and Stole Everything...and still managed to go bankrupt.
Posted on February 13, 2009i encountered the greatest case name ever yesterday:Pirates Hyjacked Robbed and Stole Everything, Inc. v.State Fair Park Exposition Center, 318 B.R. 502 (Bankr. W.D.Wis. 2004).now, when you read that, what do you think is going on? i don't know about you, but after reading the caption i immediately assumed that the contract with the convention center was for some kind of geeky convention, maybe cosplay or LARPing...
i'm shooting out your lights
Posted on February 13, 2009dear office lights,we've established that you are far too bright. i get a lot of sunlight in through my window, so i don't like to have you any more than halfway on. even if i am at work after dark, i almost never turn you all the way on, since your harsh fluorescence is a little overbearing to my light-sensitive eyes...
SNUGGIE. PUB. CRAWL.
Posted on February 13, 2009plusequalswho is going to go on the snuggie pub crawl with me?????
downs and ups
Posted on February 12, 2009after choir last night, i went to a bar to hang out, unwind, and watch the duke/carolina game. the game itself was a debacle...even though duke was winning when i got there, we ended up getting our asses handed to us on silver platters right there in cameron indoor...
shmoocon!
Posted on February 11, 2009shmoocon was this past weekend, and it was full of awesome. i spent most of the time playing around and socialising...i didn't go to all that many talks. the ones i went to were good, though: i went to Jaku and Zack's talk on the agreement [a.k.a. hacking your friends for fun and increased security...
o.O
Posted on February 11, 2009i was at the breakfast place around the corner from my office, waiting for them to finish toasting my bagel. while digging around for my office key card, i saw the little red light on my crackberry start blinking. like an appropriately pavlovian first-year associate, i immediately grab my crackberry and check to see what it is...
...we <3 ccckc!
Posted on February 10, 2009would you like a darn good shot at winning a macbook air? is that a yes i hear?you're in luck. cowtown computer congress, the new hackerspace in kansas city, is doing a raffle to raise money to pay rent on their superkickassawesome cave. raffle tickets are only $25, and there will be a maximum of 200 sold...
did somebody say theremin?
Posted on February 10, 2009there's cool.there's really cool.then, there's what could quite possibly be the epitome of cool: covering gnarls barkley on a theremin.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: February 10, 2009
Posted on February 10, 2009thanks to certain non-crack-related entertainments, i was a little late in getting this week's News up. however, while i was busy hacking, lockpicking, and hanging out with Firefly and friends, crack smokers were busy smoking crack and doing colossally silly things as a result...
i loved this song in high school, but didn't understand it yet.
Posted on February 10, 2009"work song"by caroline's spineit's another early morningsun came up without a warningi never do nothing til i'm showered and cleangot my pagergot my cuffsa matching tie should be enoughi never leave the house without something to eatan early riser by genetictake the stairs cause i'm athleticalways at the office before anyone elsei take my faxes to be copiedgrab a doughnutgrab some coffeepicture a diploma sitting on my shelfthe monotony is killing meand i try to deny this corporate lobotomyi need a suit of armor for a meetingknow i'm gonna take a beatingunderstaffed and my department's in a crunchbudget has become a hassleboss is ripping me a new assholesays he wants an answer on his desk before lunchafternoon things don't look betterphone machine is breaking recordsfive hundred messages from who knows wherestaying late 'cause i'm a beginnercall my girlfriend cancel dinnersays she thinks i'm having an office affairthe end of day there's no solutionface the traffic air pollutionput a smile on my face i didn't get firedback at home to clear my headi grab a drinkfall into bedforty more years until i get to retirethe monotony is killing meand i try to deny this corporate lobotomy
i'm not dead!
Posted on February 10, 2009i am back from shmoocon. it was amazing. i'll talk about it more later, when i'm not half-asleep.there should be News Crack Smokers Can Use today. i have been delayed in writing it...unlike the crack smokers, who have not delayed in smoking crack and doing stupid crack-related things...
xkcdftwredux
Posted on February 04, 2009math: it works, bitches.i think i have a new phrase for my lexicon.
clay! and beer! clay and beer!
Posted on February 04, 2009anyone in Chicago want to go to Cocktails and Clay on February 13? it's at the hyde park art center...and you can drink beer and play with clay! i think i've played with clay once since middle school, so this sounds absurdly exciting to me.there's also a dance party and some art exhibitions...
musings on kirk cameron
Posted on February 03, 2009more proof that i have weird friends:shaph: do trivia tonightme: i can't. i have a hackerspace meeting.7-9pmshaph: bah!k nicolleme: sorry, this isn't irc ;-)you don't have ops herei'd probably get a nice swift !k in the ass if i missed the meeting tonight, thoughshaph: you're getting a !k in the ass when you get home theni learned that improves relationships from "Fireproof"me: who died and made you Kirk Cameron?shaph: ...
stepping into bubble gum. worse.
Posted on February 03, 2009christoph niemann's lego renditions of various new york-y things are whimsical and brilliant.
it's not news, it's chicagotribune.com
Posted on February 03, 2009i saw this on the front page of chicagotribune.com today:WHY IS THIS NEWS????? this is a large public statue in a large public place. large public statues in large public places get vandalized. it doesn't matter how many cops the city schedules to walk around that pointless eyesore instead of to address real crime...
there's even seamen hanging from the chandelier!
Posted on February 03, 2009Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton are playing in Chicago on Saturday, February 28, at the Park West.i am going. does anyone else want to go with me and enjoy a geeky night of music and...geekiness?
super bowl ad goodness
Posted on February 02, 2009i don't care all that much about the super bowl. however, i always like seeing the ads. insertnamehere2 suggested that we post our favourite super bowl ads, so here go the two that i saw that made me crack up:first, we've got ed mcmahon and mc hammer's cash4gold...
dear lord, i pray to get the port right on my ssh tunnel...
Posted on February 02, 2009i saw this video linked off of hack a day today, and it was so WTF that i had to post it here:i went to the website, hoping that it was some kind of elaborate joke. the best part is that it is not: sunset.cc is, in fact, a church website.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: February 2, 2009
Posted on February 02, 2009every week, as i scour the seedy depths of the intertubes to bring you the week's stupidest crack smokers, i think i've seen it all. every week, i am proven wrong. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
back to the STL...
Posted on February 02, 2009i am going to st. louis later this month. i haven't been back there since i moved to chicago last may, and it has been way too long since i've seen everyone down there.i'm going to fly down there friday evening, february 20, and leave sunday evening, february 22...
another reason Rob kicks ass
Posted on February 01, 2009me: i'm printing another proof to see which ones i like better: the black bars, or the grey bars.Rob: [in his best Electric Six voice] i wanna take you to a grey bar!
i'm going to the science store
Posted on January 31, 2009foofy and i are heading out in about fifteen minutes to go meet up with a bunch of pumping station: one people and raid american science and surplus. i can't wait...i keep hearing how awesome this store is. i've looked at the website, and the store stocks a plethora of weird and wonderful items...
caving to the pressures of teh interwebstubes...
Posted on January 30, 2009the twenty-five things meme has been going around facebook like wildfire, and i've been tagged several times. here goes nothing--twenty-five facts about me.i won't tag anyone for it. if you want to share twenty-five things about yourself, go ahead. if not, then don't...
what bull.
Posted on January 30, 2009i love stupid exam essay humour. today, snopes discussed some of it, and posted a few quotes from a stupid exam essay book from 1946. there is a lot of funny stuff in there, but one of them is just above and beyond hilarious. i think i found my new favourite stupid exam essay quote:"Martin Luther died a horrible death...
please don't eat the crack.
Posted on January 30, 2009my dearly beloved google users,lately, i've been getting more hits than i can count for the terms can you eat crack. i have gotten at least three in the last day alone. the examples in News Crack Smokers Can Use must not be clear enough, so i'll address the issue in a bit more detail...
i won't cry wolf.
Posted on January 30, 2009i probably listened to this song about ten times at work today:it's "planets" by adema, and it's absolutely gorgeous. it's a lot softer than a lot of their other stuff, but i can't stop listening.
bleeping golden
Posted on January 29, 2009this is state senator James Meeks. a few moments ago, he just summed up the impeachment proceedings against Rod Blagojevich perfectly:"we have this thing called impeachment, and it's bleeping golden, and we've used it the right way."i could not have said it better myself, Senator Meeks.
blago speech liveblog
Posted on January 29, 2009this is my liveblog of rod blagojevich's closing argument at his senate trial. it isn't very coherent, but it's the random thoughts and rants that popped into my head in response to things he said.wow...Blagojevich just started his speach by saying that he spent the last couple days trying to "talk to as many as people as possible about my desire to be here and speak in front of you...
time's up...stand up...and face the muzak...
Posted on January 29, 2009according to the latest Standard and Poor's rating, Muzak Holdings LLC has a credit rating of CCC-, with a negative outlook. in non-finance terms, that basically means that they're vulnerable to start defaulting on paying back their debt, and are unlikely to stay current on their obligations if economic conditions aren't favourable...
yucky.
Posted on January 29, 2009last night, i dreamt that i was at work. i dreamt that a new lawyer was working in the office next to me as an Of Counsel--specifically, the lead singer of Duran Duran. in the dream he had gotten very old and weathered, but he still thought he was hot stuff and a consummate ladies' man, and was hitting on me to no end...
thanks, masturbation!
Posted on January 28, 2009i am reading a case about motorboats, and all i can think of are big, motorboatin' tits.and, no, that link does not go to the latest issue of juggs. sorry. it does, however, go to the "boobies" episode of midwest teen sex show. it's a podcast that's half sex-ed, half hilarity--and completely awesome and addictive...
suckers indeed.
Posted on January 26, 2009i'm in the chicago bar association choir. last week, we were practicing one of our songs, Abe Lincoln's campaign song from 1860. there's a line that refers to Lincoln as "the pride of the suckers", and the following conversation ensued:director: does anyone know what "suckers" refers to?[random babbling from the choir, but no answers...
europe != near me
Posted on January 26, 2009dear last.fm,you are playing me a song by The Rasmus, who i love, and then you tell me that there are "events by this artist near you." you then proceed to list three upcoming concerts: in copenhagen, berlin, and hamburg.in other words, stop being such a tease...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: January 26, 2009
Posted on January 26, 2009i've peeled seven more pages off of my Wicked Sweet Crack Cookie Of The Day calendar, which makes it time again to delve through the depths of the interwebstubes to find the stupidest things people have done in the name of crack. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
confluence
Posted on January 25, 2009this is a strange feeling. i have officially been too busy to blog. i've got a lot going on, lots of interesting things coming up and works in progress, but none of it is quite congealed enough to be blogging about at this moment in time.it's a good feeling, being so busy...
i'm doin it wrong.
Posted on January 25, 2009my eee officially has more RAM than my main box does.lol.
crack smokers do not have a complete monopoly on being stupid.
Posted on January 22, 2009this blog has a clearly crack-related focus. this makes a few stupid people who use drugs other than crack feel a little left out sometimes, and inspires them to do things that are so stupid that i will write about them anyway, despite the fact that there is no crack involved...
an open letter to bank robbers
Posted on January 22, 2009dear bank robbers,one of the most important steps to planning a successful bank robbery is the getaway. after you rob a bank, you need to get away from that bank as quickly as possible. of course, you can't overdo that. your getaway driver, be it yourself or somebody else, has to drive the getaway car fast enough so that you're far from the premises by the time the police arrive, but not so recklessly that you get pulled over for a moving violation before you hide the loot...
oh, internets.
Posted on January 22, 2009i saw this ad on the new york times website today:really? i can click on this cheaply slapped-together ad and read ann coulter columns? for free?if i really wanted to read her colums as they came out, don't you think i'd have already signed up for an rss feed by now? seriously...
stone, please explain why your silence makes more noise than thunder
Posted on January 20, 2009"iron flower" by k's choice has been one of my favourite songs for over ten years now, since i first heard it. i love sarah bettens' harmony line, and i can't listen to this song without singing along to it.it makes me so sad that there's no karaoke track to it, because i would love to be able to find a vocals-less track to it, find someone else who knows gert's part, and sing it that way, if only just once.
the author apologises for the crack-related contradiction.
Posted on January 20, 2009this blog on friday: "in fact, there is one and only one arena in which a crackhead will never disappoint you: you can depend on a crackhead to smoke crack."this blog on monday: "I just ate some crack. I'm really high."i screwed up big time.i should have said that you can only depend on a crackhead to use crack, ingest crack, or somehow introduce crack into his body...
inauguration.
Posted on January 20, 2009there won't be change overnight. i know that. all i expect to see are gradual steps in a better direction than we've been going.however...the fact that my optimism is very heavily guarded does not stop me from being extremely happy that our president is now Barack Obama and not George W...
programming win.
Posted on January 20, 2009connecting to wpa from my debian box [my eee] was a pain in the ass, and involved lots of messing around with configuration files. so, i decided to write a script this weekend to automate the process and make connecting to wpa-encrypted networks as analogous as possible to connecting to open or wep-encrypted networks using iwconfig, since that's what i'm used to doing...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: January 19, 2009
Posted on January 19, 2009another week has passed, which means i have again scoured the depths of the interwebstubes. as usual, those seedy depths contain plenty of Don't Be This Guy stories involving crack smokers. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
More News People Who Put Up With Crack Smokers Can Use
Posted on January 16, 2009dear person who found this little corner of the internet by searching the terms being disappointed by a crackhead,i'm not quite sure what kind of infrormation you were trying to find here. if you've been disappointed by a crackhead recently, i'm sorry...
i'm only eighteen, got a ruptured spleen, and i always carry a purse.
Posted on January 16, 2009i caught myself singing this song while i was doing some work a few minutes ago:weird.
brain...fried...
Posted on January 16, 2009you know you're losing it when you read "DishnetDSL" and wonder why someone would name their company "DishonestDSL."
COLD.
Posted on January 15, 2009my eyes were freezing shut. my scarf was freezing to my face. my toes froze to the point that it took about twenty minutes inside for them to stop hurting. the el trains were all running really late.i'm a cold-weather person, but there are limits. i'd be perfectly happy if it never got any colder than 10 degrees or so...
book memery
Posted on January 15, 2009meme stolen from agent alpo:Rules:*Grab the book nearest you. Right now.*Turn to page 56.*Find the fifth sentence.*Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.*Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual...
brrrrrrrrrr.
Posted on January 15, 2009dear office heater,stop turning into an air conditioner. you did it tuesday, and now you're doing it again today. when it's sub-zero outside, the last thing i want to be doing is freezing my ass off inside of my office because you feel like blowing cold air in here instead...
gingerbread man
Posted on January 14, 2009i grabbed a gingerbread man at a holiday party in my office building about a month ago. i don't particularly like to eat gingerbread men, but this one was so irresistibly cute that i needed to pick him up and take him back to my office with me.i can't bring myself to throw him away...
not so srs bsns
Posted on January 13, 2009file this away as yet another untrustworthy life insurance ad:
tallywhackers!
Posted on January 13, 2009dear penis pill spammers:i know that there are a million different penis pill spams that are clogging the interwebstubes right now. it's easy for yours to get lost in the shuffle, and you need to come up with a snappy subject headline to entice gullible folks to order penis enlargement pills from your email and not someone else's...
bailouts!
Posted on January 13, 2009the bailout game, with its "ask a greenspan" feature, is far more amusing than it has any right to be....and, i took great pleasure in letting both AIG and the auto industry fail, and still winning the game.
:(
Posted on January 13, 2009i left my computer charger at home. i left my pass to get into my office building at home. i slipped in the ice about five times on the way to the office. i paper-cut my thumb on a piece of card stock. my internet at work is not working reliably.today already sucks.
News Crack Smokers Can Use: January 12, 2009
Posted on January 12, 2009until people all stop smoking crack, or human evolution has reached a point that the brain has become immune to the effects of crack cocaine, there will always be crack smokers doing foolish things. none of this has happened in the last week, so i yet again have scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done in the name of crack...
give me book for hack a computer
Posted on January 12, 2009i can't help but to think that this post on binrev is the "how is babby formed" of hackerdom.
FINALLY!
Posted on January 12, 2009the cta announced today that it is adding the #22 clark bus to bus tracker.IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME.
celebrity look-alikes
Posted on January 11, 2009i did this once a long time ago, but i haven't done it recently. shaph and jabberwockeyes did it recently, so i decided i'd pull it out again. i remember Chester Bennington was #1 on my last one, so it's no surprise to see him again. still, i apparently look like Old Eastern European Politician Guys, given that my top two are the ex-president of Georgia and the ex-president of the Soviet Union, and i've also got Vytautas Landsbergis, an ex-Chairman-of-the-Parliament of Lithuania...
conly goodness
Posted on January 10, 2009i just bought my ticket to notacon! :D it's in cleveland, from april 16-19. it should involve a lot of fun chances to build things, break things, and hear talks...and there's going to be some hackerspace-type stuff going on there.SQUEE!i have a funny feeling that i am going to be attending a ton of cons this year.
yay! coroners!
Posted on January 10, 2009something tells me that fastballoons.com needs to pick a better exemplar for its custom mylar balloons:
an open letter to milt patterson
Posted on January 09, 2009dear milt patterson,i just read that governor blagojevich was impeached, and i just read that you were the only person to vote against it. that's your prerogative...there are always going to be people who don't support impeachment, and that's why these things are put up to votes in the state house, instead of just starting a senate trial when public opinion sways against the governor...
i love my googlers.
Posted on January 08, 2009two little bitty messages for the person who found my blog by searching the terms i'm giving into you finger eleven i'm dying tonight:"giving in" was by adema, not by finger eleven.it's "giving in to", not "giving into."one little bitty message for the person who found my blog by searching the terms can you eat crack:no...
east coast pictures!
Posted on January 08, 2009i know i'm several days late on this, but i have had a crazy-busy week. i finally got my pictures from my winter trip up, though, and here are a few of my favourites:me and c4bl3fl4m3 modelling our silly hats at baltimore airport.i'm not really a car person, but this car parked outside of RFD was really, really cool...
trash
Posted on January 08, 2009i am watching rock of love bus. if you thought the girls in the first two seasons of rock of love were trashy, you haven't seen anything yet. i have never seen so many comically large fake boobs, so many short skirts, so many tramp stamps, or so much badly highlighted hair in one place...
urban dictionary meme
Posted on January 08, 2009stolen from brianbot, it's a meme i haven't seen before!Answer the following questions. Then, go to urbandictionary.com and choose one of the entries for each of your answers.(and, because i am the consummate spelling bitch, i am also editing the urban dictionary definitions for spelling...
crackaoke
Posted on January 08, 2009last night can only be described as a karaoke night on crack.first of all, i went out to friar tuck to sing karaoke. the place wasn't very busy last night, so i got to sing five(!) songs:"my own worst enemy" by lit"amish paradise" by weird al yankovic"god bless the usa" by lee greenwood [and, unlike the last time i did this as an ironic shout-out to the demise of the right wing, i did not get a pack of marines mad at me! i'm moving up in the world...
naked crack smokers
Posted on January 07, 2009i don't know if i find it amusing or frightening that so many people find my blog by searching for the terms naked crack smokers. for the record, there are no pictures of naked crack smokers on this blog. sure, there's the occasional blog entry where i discuss a really stupid crack smoker who happens to be naked, but this blog will remain a better place for all involved if i refrain from posting pictures of naked crack smokers.
oh, those cheeky pornographers...
Posted on January 07, 2009this is a joke, of course, but enacting it would make me far happier than any of these bailouts of financial services industries or car companies. porn is a lot more entertaining...and can you imagine the production values on the new stuff if the industry got a $5 billion cash influx?well, maybe not, but the porn industry isn't known for paying million-dollar bonuses or sending executives on million-dollar retreats after narrowly escaping bankruptcy...
sigh.
Posted on January 06, 2009my brain is not working efficiently this week.first of all, i've slept like crap the last two nights. i got back to my apartment around 11 on sunday, but i was awake until almost three thirty in the morning. it wasn't too bad yesterday...i was tired, but i had that fake-awake that comes after one night of limited sleep...
red flags
Posted on January 06, 2009usually anything about finance bores me out of my skull, but this report is fascinating. even though it only leaked out into the news recently, it's a report that harry markopolos submitted to the SEC, pointing out a series of red flags that bernard madoff investments may have been a ponzi scheme...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: January 5, 2009
Posted on January 05, 2009the world is still turning, the sun is still shining, and crack smokers are still smoking crack. so, yet again, i have scoured the seedy depths of the interwebstubes in order to bring you the stupidest things people have done in the name of crack. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
when term papers get boring, see who's scoring
Posted on January 05, 2009dear Shaph,you were right. this video enriched my life, and i owe it to the internet to make sure it is as widely disseminated as possible.sincerely,the persecuted crack smoker
*struts around naked*
Posted on January 05, 2009last wednesday's chicago daily law bulletin had quite possibly the best headline ever:Wisconsin court: Nude people still have privacy rightsthe content of the article is actually serious and important--a court upheld a law preventing people from surreptitiously videotaping other people without their consent...
office space meets hackers.
Posted on January 05, 2009problem: my office door won't shut.solution: wedge a shim made of post-it notes between the door and the door frame.sure, someone will look at me funny if they actually come into my office, but at least the door shuts!
barcodes
Posted on January 05, 2009what i should be doing: sleeping, since i have to get up for work in five and a half hours.what i am doing: screwing around with a barcode-making program, since my barcode scanner arrived in the mail while i was gone, and this was as good an excuse as any to put a barcode maker on my laptop...
i r not dead.
Posted on January 05, 2009i'm back in chicago.pictures are coming later...although you can see a few of the shenanigans from friday night here on nyc2600.net, since Rob has already posted his photos from the 2600 meeting on friday night.
new york, so far
Posted on December 31, 2008i've been a bit delinquent on the blogging in the last couple days...but i have been up to lots of cool stuff since i got into new york city on sunday. sunday night i just lied low, since i was so tired from not sleeping much in DC, and then the bus trip up to NYC...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: December 29, 2008
Posted on December 29, 2008i am on vacation. however, since crackheads smoke crack and do idiotic, crack-related things whether or not they are on vacation, i will scour the depths of the interwebstubes to find the stupidest crack smokers of the week whether or not i am on vacation...
travelling...
Posted on December 28, 2008i'm on the megabus, travelling from dc to new york. this bus has wi-fi on it, which makes me absurdly happy. the megabuses in the midwest never had wi-fi...or, at least, not as of may of this year, which was the last time i took the megabus. traffic hasn't snarled up too badly yet, which is good...
best crunk parody ever.
Posted on December 27, 2008this song has been stuck in my head since i heard it last night.now, if i walk up to you and say something along the lines of "it's called speed stick! it's not expensive!", you'll know what i am talking about.
i'm gonna emancipate all over your proclamation, bitch! twice!
Posted on December 26, 2008there are no words that can describe the awesomeness of today's xkcd.
NEEDS MOAR WHIPPAGE OF THE LLAMA'S ASS
Posted on December 24, 2008i have 1.7 gigabytes of wesley willis on my computer.all i can think is...sigh. is that all? my collection is still seriously deficient.
News People Who Put Up With Crack Smokers Can Use
Posted on December 23, 2008i always get a lot of crack-related searches...this is, after all, the last refuge of the persecuted crack smoker. however, when checking my 100 most recent incoming links, i got two rather lengthy searches that turned up News Crack Smokers Can Use on the first page of google results...
one scary vajayjay
Posted on December 23, 2008Taryn linked me to a name-that-duggar game while i was on the phone with Rob. the conversation meandered to the family's tv appearances, and the following exchange ensued:Rob: i'm surprised they got her on tv. did they have to haul her vagina in behind her?me: nah...
kill the physicists...
Posted on December 22, 2008a href="http://xkcd.com/520/"this morning's xkcd/a is brilliant...and hearkens back to all the guff i gave the chem majors when i was a physics major:br /br /img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cuttlefish.png" title="Unless the CS students finish the robot revolution before you finish the cephalopod one...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: December 22, 2008
Posted on December 22, 2008it's monday...and that means it's time for another installment of News Crack Smokers Can Use! each week, i scour the depths of the interwebstubes to bring you stories of the stupidest crack smokers. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
winter is here.
Posted on December 21, 2008right now, it's -5 outside, with a windchill of -30.guess i'll be bundling up a bit when i leave the house.
clock the planet
Posted on December 20, 2008bwhat the guy behind me said:/b i got one of those big beds.br /bwhat i thought he said:/b i got one of those bigbens.br /br /clearly my brain has not yet recovered from the a href="http://www.xorph.com/clockers/"clockers/a reading at the party last week.
music meme
Posted on December 20, 2008i've done this meme before...but not in a year and a half, maybe two years...so i'm doing it again. :)br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Step 1:/span Put your music player on shuffle.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Step 2:/span Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing...
this is officially Duggar Day at the last refuge of the persecuted crack smoker.
Posted on December 19, 2008Taryn is a naughty, naughty Taryn. she sent me a link to the duggar family website, which i started reading out of a horrific sense of train wreck syndrome. sure, i have been on that website before, but not in a year or two...so, it's probably time go go back on there and see what sorts of things i had forgotten, or what sorts of things had been added...
a spouse!
Posted on December 19, 2008today's Dinosaur Comic is AWESOME.this is one of those gags that only the golden rule stops me from doing. it would be so, so, so, so funny to pull on someone else--and only the knowledge of how pissed i'd be if someone did that to me stops me from doing this.
telephone trivia...
Posted on December 19, 2008useless fact of the day: the word "ethics" and the name "duggar" require the same combination of telephone keys to type them.this is entertaining, in that oh-so-disturbing way.
galoshes!!
Posted on December 19, 2008everything's covered in snow! it's gorgeous and awesome, but it highlighted something that my wardrobe lacks: boots made for inclement weather. i was walking down the mostly-unshoveled sidewalks gingerly, hoping to get as little snow as possible into my work shoes...
faulty pattern recognition
Posted on December 17, 2008a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6480218amp;page=1"this article/a made me think of yet another Bad Argument in the a href="http://www.packetslut.co.uk/weblog/archives/00000053.htm"section of bad arguments/asup1/sup from the Dilbert book uThe Joy of Work/u:br /br /bFAULTY PATTERN RECOGNITION:/bbr /iExample:/i His last six wives were murdered mysteriously...
the notorious b.o.a.l.t.
Posted on December 17, 2008if this had existed in the fall of 2005, my Civ Pro grade probably would have sucked a lot less:br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qBTba2J6OKIhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www...
:-O
Posted on December 16, 2008it is so windy today that the snow is falling up past my office window.
the bisexual quiz
Posted on December 16, 2008i was watching the llama song this morning, and one of the google text ads below the video was rather ridiculous:The Bi Sexual QuizAre you Bi Sexual? Take the Bi Sexual Quiz & See if you are Biummm...we'll leave the bad grammar aside for now. the last time i checked, i don't think anyone needed to click on any little online quiz to tell them whether they're bi, gay, straight, or any other sexual identity...
eat them up, yum.
Posted on December 16, 2008this is one of the few things from the eighties that doesn't suck.
the operative word is crack.
Posted on December 16, 2008dear blog comment spammers,yes, i know i am openly soliciting content ideas for News Crack Smokers Can Use. but, the operative word here is crack. leaving me comments advertising some new medicine that will help cigarette smokers quit is not only annoying, but it's not relevant...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: December 15, 2008
Posted on December 15, 2008it's monday...and that means it's time for another installment of News Crack Smokers Can Use! each week, i scour the depths of the interwebstubes to bring you stories of the stupidest crack smokers. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...
i'm not a fed, but...
Posted on December 15, 2008i'm now admitted to practice before the United States Distrct Court for the Northern District of Illinois.yay, federal court!
reminiscing
Posted on December 14, 2008reading my really old blog entries messes with my head. i'm reading through stuff in 2003 right now...and, wow, i was an extremely unhappy person in late 2003. i remember being really frustrated with school, but seriously, i forgot how every single blog entry from back in that day was about how awful i felt and how many nervous breakdowns i was having...
i unnderstan...
Posted on December 14, 2008the answer to this picture is simple--because that computer is an eeepc, and is really, really shiny.
year in review, part one...
Posted on December 13, 2008stolen from Rob, murd0c, and the rest of the interbutts:Look at the posts you?ve made in the past year, and paste the first line of the first post of each month.january: happy new year!february: headline news is on in the lounge. most of it is boring...
facebook shakedown
Posted on December 11, 2008oh, facebook. first you take "pornographic" out of the choices for ad tagging, so i have to type it in the "other" box every time that i want to tag an ad for engagement rings or Oprah's Latest Acai Berry Diet.and, now, you've moved on from posting ads aimed at getting women to demand engagement rings and promise rings to ads aimed at getting people to satisfy that fabricated demand for fear of losing them:if this doesn't sound like a threat of "Buy Her Jewelry Or Else", i don't know what does...
halp!
Posted on December 11, 2008i'm going to a party this weekend, and it would be really, really cool if i could pull together something steampunk for it.given that i don't know jack shit about putting together a fun steampunk outfit...suggestions are welcome.
:D
Posted on December 11, 2008after work yesterday, i went to the chicago bar association's young lawyers' division holiday party. on the way, though, i had a very fun detour. on the way to the party, i passed by the Rock Records store, on Washington between Wells and LaSalle. they must be going out of business or something, because everything in the store was 70% off...
a hackerspace? in chicago?
Posted on December 10, 2008i went to a meeting for pumping station one tonight. i'm psyched. there are good people on the project, and hopefully we'll get even more on board in the near future.there's a lot of work ahead of us, but it will be interesting and rewarding work.....
it's like hunting cows.
Posted on December 10, 2008well played, Jon Stewart. well played..cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}...
a question of percentages
Posted on December 10, 2008i was reading this morning's new york times online, and got to the section of letters to the editor. the times had recently published an article addressing the issue of abortion, so of course there were pointed and opinionated letters on each side of the issue...
no more Rod For Us?
Posted on December 09, 2008yes, it's all over both the mainstream media and the blogosphere--my governor is a dumbass. he has already been under fire for corruption. he has been under investigation for corruption. he knew he was under investigation, since it has been all over the front covers of the newspapers for months upon months...
"aid for women"? really?
Posted on December 08, 2008crisis pregnancy centers offend me. they hold themselves out to be places where women can figure out what to do when they're pregnant, when in fact their agenda is simply to stop women from getting abortions, no matter what.in an entry he posted today, foofy attorney discusses the danger and tragedy of these places more eloquently than i ever could.
\O-O/
Posted on December 08, 2008i had my annual eye exam today. i always love getting a fresh set of contacts...and, even more awesome, i got new glasses this year as well! i hadn't had new glasses since 2002. they broke last year, but i never got around to getting them replaced...
what?
Posted on December 08, 2008in today's chicago daily law bulletin, there is an ad for a filing and paperwork procesing service with the following headline:With the high cost of gasoline and summer congestion starting let The Attorneys' Clerk do your road work...did anyone bother to tell her that it was December, and that gas in Chicago was down to between $1...
News Crack Smokers Can Use: December 8, 2008
Posted on December 08, 2008i've decided to make News Crack Smokers Can Use a regular feature on this blog. this is, after all, the last refuge of the persecuted crack smoker.what does this mean? it means that every week, i'll entertain you with the stories of that week's dumbest crack smokers...
a paean to clippers
Posted on December 08, 2008i am never getting my hair cut with scissors again.when i go to the salon, i always have the same thing happen over and over again:i ask the stylist to cut my hair to somewhere between .5" and .75" all around.they cut my hair with scissors.it's still too long, so i tell them that, and they have to cut all my hair again...
holiday travels
Posted on December 08, 2008alright, to any of you in DC or New York, this is your lucky day!well, maybe not today...but soon. and, it's only "lucky" if you enjoy such oddball things as "hanging out with me." :)however, i'm going to be in washington, dc from Dec. 24 through Dec...
doctors for jews for jesus
Posted on December 08, 2008i was reading the new york times this morning, catching up on all kinds of SRS BSNS NEWS, and i encountered the strangest ad i've seen in a long time. has Jews for Jesus finally decided that they're going to go for respectable-looking ads instead of those crudely hand-drawn pamphlets that the people were always handing out next to the University of Chicago bookstore back in the day? if so, that may help the perceived legitimacy of their cause, but i doubt that claiming that Jews for Jesus is "more important than a cure for cancer" is going to help much...
math-matic
Posted on December 07, 2008do you have a spare UNIVAC lying around your home or office? are you curious how to program it?today's your lucky day.even if you don't have a spare UNIVAC lying around, it's a pretty fascinating read.
an introduction to lock picking
Posted on December 07, 2008yesterday was awesome. i spent the afternoon picking locks in a spy shop in skokie.we've got a pretty healthy lockpicking contingent at our 2600 meeting here in chicago...in fact, the meeting is concurrent the chicago meeting of toool, the open organization of lockpickers...
we know we've all been there, and we know it never works.
Posted on December 05, 2008so true: today's xkcd.even truer: the alt-text of today's xkcd.
on karaoke
Posted on December 05, 2008there was an article on the new york times website today about karaoke rage. there was recently a guy who was killed in a karaoke establishment because someone else thought he was hogging the mike. every so often, there will be news articles about people who are severely beaten or killed because they butchered someone else's favourite song, or because they just plain sucked at karaoke...
i generally don't like salty things, but this is an exception.
Posted on December 05, 2008dear Chicago Transit Authority,i love you, but we really need to talk.over the last week or so, the weather has turned decidedly wintry. the temperature has rarely been above freezing for longer than a couple of hours at a time. snow has fallen, melted, and refrozen into ice...
chicago 2600
Posted on December 05, 2008i'm at 2600 right now. it's a small crowd this month, but cool people are here, and it's probably the most fun meeting i've been to since i started attending 2600 meetings.i'm frustrated because i can't ssh into my box at home. it's my fault for being stupid--i should have made sure the port was still open, and that the dynamic ip hadn't reset itself...
massages and strange phone calls
Posted on December 04, 2008it's only two thirty, and it has already been a weird day at work. not bad weird...just weird weird.i've had quite a bit of work to do today, which is good. i can't go into more detail than that for obvious reasons, but things have been getting busier, which is making me far happier at work...
say hello to mr. bolt gun!
Posted on December 03, 2008i put this together to post on wtf_stupid, but decided to put it here as well. it's something from the onion a long time ago--i know it's at least eight and a half years old because it existed when i started college. it was a running joke among friends of mine in the dorm back then, and we posted a copy of it on the wall in the hallway, next to our "quote wall...
why are you running away?
Posted on December 02, 2008i can now play "there's a hole in my bucket" on that toy concertina i bought last week.i'm cool.
More News Crack Smokers Can Use
Posted on December 02, 2008today, i have for you not one, but two items of News Crack Smokers Can Use:don't peddle cookie dough and claim that it is crack. first of all, an amalgam of cookie dough and orajel sounds downright gross. i can't think of a reason that anyone would want to smoke it, eat it, or have anything to do with it...
selling herself
Posted on December 02, 2008utterly brilliant: this woman is looking for a job, and she ironed excerpts from her resume onto her t-shirt.i would totally do this if i were unemployed...i need to remember this little ploy if i ever find myself in that position. sure, it probably wouldn't snag me a law job, but it would start some interesting conversations, and give people a laugh.
thanksgiving week picspam <3
Posted on December 02, 2008so, i took a few pictures during the time Rob was in town. :) wanna see?it's not a real visit unless we take snuggly pictures on the train.see Rob plot.see nicky plot.see Rob and nicky plot to dissect cow eyes.aren't we cute tumbling around in the plane engine?my favourite hacker in the whole wide world is plotting something again...
grrr.
Posted on December 01, 2008damn you, EBay, and your lack of keytars that cost less than several hundred dollars.and, no, toy keytars sized for a child do not count.
flights, revisited
Posted on November 30, 2008looks like Rob is on his way back to new york.i hope he's having a safe flight...and i can't wait to see him again for new year's.
flights
Posted on November 30, 2008Rob has left...maybe.his flight was running on time when he went through security and i went home. by the time i got home, his flight had been delayed. they boarded the plane, taxied away from the gate, and then went back to the gate and deplaned. they think it'll be an hour, maybe two...
lowered expectations
Posted on November 26, 2008Above The Law is trying its hand at matchmaking.despite the fact that i've given up on dating lawyers, i'd totally do this if i weren't dating Rob. yeah, it would be a massive train wreck, but it would make such a funny story.above the law? the legal gossip blog? matchmaking? i hope someone else in the blogosphere picks up the slack here, because this could be hilarious.
*flushes money away*
Posted on November 25, 2008Student Loan Payment Day is always bittersweet.it's happy in that i know i'm chipping away at the mountain of debt i incurred as a result of seven years of postsecondary education, and it's nice to see the balances of my loans go down little by little as i log in to pay them each month...
fingering: ur doin it wrong.
Posted on November 24, 2008i've been completely underwhelmed with bankruptcy bill so far, but have been giving it a shot since it *is* a comic that lampoons something well worth lampooning: specifically, my job.today's, however, made me cackle. a lot.[and, for the record, i *do not* get off on my regular fingering of BAPCPA1 provisions...
i'm officially the most annoying person ever.
Posted on November 24, 2008Rob and i were talking about Rob being a clueless n00b tourist here in Chicago, and the following exchange ensued:Rob: is that the Space Needle? next to Mount Rushmore?me: no...that's one of the rainbow-coloured boys town pylons, next to the drag queen supply store...
<3
Posted on November 23, 2008the bad news: my bloggity-blogging is going to be spotty for the next week or so.the good news: Rob is in chicago!!!! :D *squee*
move to the beat
Posted on November 21, 2008my printer hums along in 5/4 time.the machinery makes a quick "ONE-two-three-ONE-two" with each sheet that it spits out. it's mesmerizing...as i stand there waiting for the entirety of 11 USC 1521 jurisprudence to come flying out of the printer1, i just keep standing there, bobbing my head along to the rhythm...
I AM RIGHT
Posted on November 21, 2008it's not that often when you are reading a case where a judge is discussing the intent of a legal definition, and then footnotes to the fact that he helped write the statute in question.is it just me, or does footnote 3 of this case just seem like Judge Lifland's nice way of saying, "FOOTNOTE: I WROTE THE LAW...
poop!
Posted on November 21, 2008generally, i do not enjoy reading about children or babies. i don't like children, so i prefer to spend my internet-surfing time reading things that do not pertain to children. makes sense, right?so, i was extremely skeptical when taryn linked me to a blog entry where a webcomic writer was talking about her baby...
cohesion? what's that?
Posted on November 21, 2008foofy attorney makes a great point about DRM. go read.in other news...well, there isn't a lot of other news. i've been busy, and neglecting this thing the last couple days. it's been the good kind of busy, though; i've had interesting work to do. today is going to go by SO SLOWLY, though...
chocolate giggles
Posted on November 18, 2008hmm. i just realised my last post was the 2500th post in the last refuge. how about that?in other news, i'm drinking my first warm mug of hot chocolate this season. thanks to a story i heard at work last summer, i can't drink hot chocolate with a straight face anymore, especially at work...
ode to a useful book
Posted on November 18, 2008dear collier,i love you. i love you. i love you.love,the persecuted crack smoker
screeeeeeeech
Posted on November 18, 2008slow as it is running, at least lj is back up.i hope the slowness just stems from the fact that everyone is frantically trying to catch up on lj after the last couple of hours of it being down, and not because the new server is a piece of shit. if it's the latter, i'm going to have to find a different way to read all my blogs, because if it keeps grinding away this slowly, i'm going to have to find a new blog feed aggregator...
computer geeks
Posted on November 17, 2008wargames-related successories for the win.my favourite among them?:)
be busy, leave happy
Posted on November 17, 2008i had a fairly busy day today. it's quite a wonder, what a positive effect that has on my mood.
the weekend
Posted on November 16, 2008i've had a pretty busy weekend.***friday night, i went out with jabberwockeyes. we went to exquisite city, a really cool urban-themed art exhibit. it has various city blocks and window scenes, mostly made of cardboard. we spent over an hour in there exploring, looking at all of the interesting details in the scenes...
i know it will
Posted on November 16, 2008i try not to put too many memes on this thing, really, i do. but, there has been a confluence of two factors lately: good memes, and a dead nickybrain.thus, we have a music meme, borrowed from useless dicta:1. Put your iTunes [or your open-source player, for all you sexy linux geeks out there] on shuffle...
nationwide proposition 8 protests
Posted on November 15, 2008today, there are protests against proposition 8 all over the country.i haven't gone to a protest in years; i got so burnt out on indiscriminate signwaving my first year of college. but, there's something i find so powerful about the fact that so many people are being mobilized to get together in their communities on the same day, all through the country, in response to california's brazenly disgusting act of revoking the right of civil marriage from same-sex couples...
colours
Posted on November 15, 2008memeage, from butterflyfish:you are darkredviolet#600B40Your dominant hues are red and magenta. You love doing your own thing and going on your own adventures, but there are close friends you know you just can't leave behind. You can influence others on days when you're patient, but most times you just want to go out, have fun, and do your own thing...
return of The Criminal IQ Test!
Posted on November 14, 2008good afternoon, and welcome to another installment of The Criminal IQ Test!! unlike previous installments, this is a difficult one. this one has two questions instead of just one.1. imagine that you and a friend of yours are really drunk, and want to get from one place to another...
crime meme
Posted on November 14, 2008stolen from...well, everyone.If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for?Answer me, then post to your own journal and see how many crimes you get accused of.
"someday" by campfire girls
Posted on November 13, 2008i've loved this song for years, and i've never understood why.
shmoo part two
Posted on November 13, 2008it's all set.i officially have my flight to shmoocon, and the hotel room. i'll be in dc from the night of thursday, february 5 until the evening of monday, february 9. i'll be staying at the wardman park marriott, the hotel where the con is happening...
sanity in connecticut
Posted on November 12, 2008yay for connecticut, and congrats to all the happy couples!and, a message to the idiot in the article who said that this was a judicial coup and that there needed to be a referendum of the people on the issue? there was. if you remember correctly, sir, last week there was a ballot referendum asking whether there would be a constitutional convention in connecticut...
on love
Posted on November 11, 2008carnivalesque posted this in her journal. it's long, but worth watching...it's Keith Olbermann rather astutely commenting on the cruelty and absurdity of proposition 8.
this comic is pirate balls.
Posted on November 11, 2008today's chainsawsuit made me laugh hard. REALLY HARD. if you don't believe me, ask him. he will vouch for this fact.i want that shirt. i really, really do.
alarm clocks
Posted on November 11, 2008most of the spam e-mail i get advertises penis pills, government grants, and fake online degrees. so, you can imagine that it sounded like a breath of fresh air to see an e-mail in my spam box with the following headline:The best alarm-clock for your male friend that will wake him up easily...
i'm old. i really fooled that guy.
Posted on November 11, 2008i have business cards now.SRS BSNS CARDS.that refer to me as an attorney-at-law.:D
don't you mean...2?
Posted on November 10, 2008i was in line at the drug store this evening. near the checkout, they've got a fixture of one of the eighty million guitar hero knockoff games that have sprung up. the box proclaims that there are just three steps to rocking out:1. practice!2. rehearse!3...
a fortuitous mutation?
Posted on November 10, 2008this is cool. there's no other way to put it.sure, it's just one person so far, but maybe, just maybe, this may be a fruitful avenue for eventually treating AIDS.
i did stuff!
Posted on November 09, 2008this morning, i raided circuit city's store closing sale, and scored a digital camera [with a functioning flash, unlike my other one], a computer headset [with a wire that is fully insulated, and not shorting out], and headphones for my ipod [again, with wires that are fully insulated and not crackling in my ears...
for all you UChicago people...
Posted on November 07, 2008it's so weird seeing the GSB not calling itself the GSB anymore.
dumb dora was so dumb...
Posted on November 07, 2008how did i not know that Brett Somers was married to Jack Klugman? that's terrific. that's dynamite.in other marginally Brett Somers-related news, the Match Game party is tonight! :D i am playing Brett...i still need to figure out what i'm going to wear...
halloween pictures!
Posted on November 05, 2008i promised them, and here they finally are...halloween pictures! :)what does our friend Harpo [played by the awesome Rob] see?Harpo sees someone to mock, of course!*gasp*i bet Aragorn [Matt] never thought he'd have to swordfight against a guy with a honking cane...
proposition 8
Posted on November 05, 2008i'm reading a news article about proposition 8, california's gay marriage ban amendment. in the article, there are quotes from people on each side of the issue. from the people who support the ban, there are the comments about how we need to define marriage as one man and one woman to protect the broader morals of society, to protect the children, the same vagaries that are always spouted to gloss over the hard fact that this is an amendment that defines certain relationships as being more legitimate than others...
yummy yummy meme time
Posted on November 05, 2008[a little meme, borrowed from sexdrugszombies:]please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me. it can only be one word.no more.then copy and paste this in your journal so that i may leave a word about you. :)
state ballot initiatives
Posted on November 05, 2008california, colorado, connecticut, and south dakota? thank you. common sense prevails.arizona, arkansas, california, and florida? i'm disappointed in you for passing amendments that define certain people as second-class citizens.
election day
Posted on November 04, 2008it's tuesday, november 4...election day, if you're in the states.if you've already voted absentee, early, or you got up at the crack of dawn and have already voted today...awesome. ?if you haven't voted yet, make sure you do that today. do it before school or work...
OMG OMG OMG
Posted on November 04, 2008jonathan lee riches © sued sarah palin.and it's three pages of pure brilliance:"Palin stole Joe Biden's Wilmington Trust debit card and secretly built a bridge to nowhere to Russia to learn foreigh policy.""Since I been in prison, Sarah Palin used imminent domain and Todd Palin's BP working cronies to steal artifacts from my home and place them in the Alaska state museum...
excuse me???
Posted on November 04, 2008this editorial disgusts me more than anything i've read in an extremely long time.***first of all, criticizing america doesn't mean that people hate the country. it merely means that they admit that it's not perfect. there are oceans between pointing out the flaws in something and hating it...
where did i shove that lawyer...
Posted on November 04, 2008on eHow.com, there's a page discussing how to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy for a business. as on all of the eHow pages, it contains a list of necessary tools for doing the desired task. the list on this page entertains me greatly:Things You?ll Need:Bankruptcy lawyerRecords of debt and company assets i'm used to these "things you need" lists on eHow containing common household items like scissors, yarn, tape, paper...
my condolences.
Posted on November 04, 2008this section should exist at your local card shop:[from this week's New Yorker.]if i were the least bit artistic, and somewhat less mean, i would totally occupy this niche.
...
Posted on November 04, 2008president obama.he won't be a magic panacea, but i honestly believe that he'll point us in a better direction than mccain would. i wasn't convinced that a mccain administration would do anything much differently from the bush administration. whereas, we're more likely to have wider access to health care under an obama administration...
back.
Posted on November 03, 2008i'm back in chicago, after an amazing weekend in new york with Rob.more details in pictorial form soon, when i'm not half-asleep from being on a plane.
bad timing
Posted on November 03, 2008i just got my adorable black peacoat back from the cleaners...and, of course, it's going to be in the sixties and seventies all week.sigh. i was kind of excited to start wearing it.
what...?
Posted on November 03, 2008an "online patient services company" in Minnesota has a rather, ummmm, special idea for a mascot:that's right: Petey P Cup. their mascot is a walking urine sample.and, if that's not enough to get you banging your head against the nearest desk, wall, or other hard surface, Petey P Cup has a friend named Pokey the Syringe...
SHMOO!
Posted on November 01, 2008after ten minutes of frantic credit carding and five minutes of frantic loading and reloading before it, Rob and i are the proud owners of tickets to Shmoocon 2009!1SQUEE!!!!!see all you silly Phone Losers there...i hope you all got tickets, too!
ROBOTS ATTACK!!!!
Posted on October 31, 2008this video that the Obama campaign put out for halloween makes me happy:robot attacks? i approve of this mockery.
halloween shenanigans
Posted on October 31, 2008if you just so happen to be in new york city, and you just so happen to want to do something awesome for halloween...clearly you should come hang out with me.if you're not in new york city, there's still time to run to the airport, catch a plane, and meet us here for the parade...
:D
Posted on October 30, 2008i'm going up to new york this evening to spend the weekend with Rob!!*squee* *squee* *squee*? ? ?
a little proof
Posted on October 29, 2008postulate 1: users can now thumbs-up or thumbs-down ads on facebook. after rating, there's a a drop-down menu which allows users to flag the ad with why it was good or bad.postulate 2: at least two-thirds of the ads i get on facebook are for engagement rings, promise rings, or other similar objects peddled by companies to convince people that the only legitimate way to get a woman to keep loving them is to go into large amounts of debt to buy her something useless and sparkly...
OH...OH...YES!
Posted on October 28, 2008there are two completely awesome things about this incident:these are the best campaign calls ever. [no, really. they are. have a listen, why don't you?] having a sexy woman porno voice say that the opponent has been a "bad boy" and to "vote yes!" for the opponent?in the face of backlash against the campaign calls, the candidate is actually taking responsibility for them...
can we say judicial misconduct?
Posted on October 28, 2008a judge in north carolina, for all intents and purposes, commanded his deputy clerk to rob a defendant:The North Carolina Supreme Court removed Judge Mark H. Badgett from the bench after he ordered a Hispanic man accused of domestic violence to pay child support when none was requested, saying "you people always find a way," and, "I don't know how you treat women in Mexico, but here you don't treat them that way...
best. cabinet-level. secretary. ever.
Posted on October 27, 2008today's xkcd cracked me up so much.if they keep being this good, the last refuge will start to become indistinguishable from an xkcd rss feed.[and, something tells me they will be...this one is labelled "secretary_part_1", implying that there will be more...
i'm sorry. your tubes have been corrupted.
Posted on October 27, 2008ted stevens: the king of pork, the unwitting creator of one of my favourite internet memes......and now a convicted felon.i'd say he now has no chance of winning his election next month, but we *are* talking about the state who elected sarah palin as its governor.
i voted early. now i just need to figure out how to vote often.
Posted on October 27, 2008i voted today.i'm glad we have early voting here in illinois. it's ridiculously convenient, especially now that i have a job that has such unpredictable spates of work. instead of having to wait until election day and either get up crazy-early or hope that i can duck out of the office in time to hustle to my polling place after work, i could just go do it on a day when things were slow at work...
presenting an erudite discourse on sexuality:
Posted on October 26, 2008living with the foof is awesome, because sometimes stuff like this transpires:[i walk into the apartment. the foof is sitting at his computer desk in one of the common rooms.]foof: you're looking dykey today.me: yeah, i just got my hair cut. it was getting long...
this is what late evenings at work do to you
Posted on October 23, 2008i'm reading a case called intermet realty, and i keep reading "intermet" as "internet."never mind that the events transpired in 1982, long before the internet was something readily available to anyone but computer scientists and nasa folks.and, never mind that this case has to do with defaulted real estate sales contracts and not computers...
:(
Posted on October 22, 2008someone out here in the interwebstubes found my blog today by googling i failed character and fitness in illinois.whoever you are...my condolences.
paul and storm!
Posted on October 22, 2008paul and storm are playing at schuba's this friday night at 7:30.paul and storm are hilarious...i was first exposed to them last december when they opened for jonathan coulton. they are responsible for many, many hilarious songs--first among them, "the captain's wife's lament":now you can see why i am so excited that they're playing somewhere less than a mile from my apartment...
oh boy.
Posted on October 22, 2008my station on pandora is smoking crack this morning.i've got a station that is, for lack of a better work, straight-up modern rock. it was playing the kind of stuff it always plays...the last few songs were stuff like deftones, mudvayne, course of nature, endo, socialburn...
no, seriously: do the hustle!
Posted on October 21, 2008i mentioned yesterday that i would provide video of the exquisite awesomeness that is Warren Sapp doing the hustle?i deliver on my promises:darn you, foofy, for getting me into yet another reality show that doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. first project runway, now this.
what, me ethical?
Posted on October 21, 2008the illinois bar has just informed me that i have passed the character and fitness examination!that's right. i'm ethical enough to be a lawyer.how standards have fallen, when riffraff like myself can be admitted to the profession. the joke's on you, society!!!this means that i'm officially getting sworn in during the first week of november, and i'm going to get my law licence...
sheer brilliance.
Posted on October 20, 2008let's see. i'm addicted to twitter. i love burma-shave ads so much that i've read a history book about them [and wish there were more to read!], read a ton of websites about them, and i get a slogan in my email every morning. and, it drove me bonkers it when firefox 2 cut off the alt-text on my precious webcomics...
srs bsns?
Posted on October 20, 2008dear insurance broker,if you want me to trust you to advise me through an important financial decision, it would probably be well-advised not to post ads like this on the internet:Seriously yours,the persecuted crack smoker
do the hustle!
Posted on October 20, 2008i just saw Warren Sapp dance the hustle...and i now understand why people watch dancing with the stars.not only did his outfit rule [everything but the jacket of a grey three-piece shirt, with a REALLY SHINY blue shirt underneath], but watching him disco-dance was compelling and hilarious...
EXPATRIATE
Posted on October 20, 2008this should not amuse me as much as it does, given that my only exposure to doctor who is from the myriad references to it that certain geeky friends of mine have made over the years.but, i laughed so hard my eyes welled up with tears.
ronpaul SMASH!!!!!
Posted on October 19, 2008i share with you quite possibly the most entertaining election snark ever, courtesy of metaquotes.
a musing about coffee and boobs
Posted on October 19, 2008i find the assertion that drinking coffee reduces breast size a little hard to believe......well, either that, or i must not have the gene that leads to that correlation. i've been drinking at least two cups of coffee a day [and often far more...] since i was ten years old, and i'm scared to think of what my breasts would look like if coffee actually shrunk them.
a productive day
Posted on October 19, 2008i'm a messy person by nature. i hate cleaning. i leave everything lying around. i'm not the least bit organized [although i, like many messy people, usually know EXACTLY where any given object is in the awful pile of mess.] my room is usually a disaster zone...
<3
Posted on October 17, 2008today has convinced me that xkcd has a camera following my life and then commenting on it:(by the way, for all of you who commented on my last post--i will have my responses and questions tomorrow morning, when i'm not so tired i'm about to pass out. i promise!)
recursively awesome
Posted on October 17, 2008oh, randall munroe. this is the second time today that i've had to cite to you here. please stop doing things that are this awesome, or else i am going to have to find a doctor who can transplant your brain into my head, so i can become some fraction as awesome as you are:(yes...
:)
Posted on October 17, 2008as much as i'm not a holiday person, i have some pretty awesome plans for two of them that are coming up.for halloween, i'm taking a three-day weekend and going up to new york to see Rob.at thanksgiving, Rob's coming down to chicago to spend the whole week with me...
i'm going on a very long joyride.
Posted on October 17, 2008the chicago international film festival is showing wesley willis's joyrides tonight!of course, i'm going. :) anyone in town who wants to join me...leave me a comment, shoot me an email, or send up a smoke signal.
omgmeme!
Posted on October 16, 2008this meme is floating about the interwebstubes, and i ganked it from sidepocket.Comment and I will....a) Tell you why I friended you.b) Associate you with something -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.c) Tell you something I like about you.d) Tell you a memory I have of you...
permanent records
Posted on October 16, 2008you know how when we were all growing up, parents and teachers threatened that things would go on your Permanent Record? it had to be a joke, right? we all took comfort in the fact that there was no way that they would actually keep a file on us and keep it forever...
things that turn a sucky afternoon into an awesome afternoon
Posted on October 15, 2008[the office phone rings. the caller ID says that it's an outside number, so i have no idea who is calling.]me: this is nicolle lastname.Rob: i'm the law. practice me.*squee*
i've already been crushed, thanks.
Posted on October 15, 2008the first panel of today's diesel sweeties MUST be made into a shirt:
stupid parent.
Posted on October 14, 2008once upon a time, there was a guy. this guy married his wife, and his wife became pregnant. the guy and his wife discussed what to name the baby, and decided to name her ava grace. the baby was born, and the guy filled out the birth certificate. there was just one little hitch: the guy didn't put ava grace as the baby's name...
things that entertain me
Posted on October 14, 2008today, the internet is for lulz.this picture of Secretary Paulson making a face that would be right at home on a northbound Red Line train was on the front page of the new york times website:cracked.com's piece on celebrities that were real idiots with money has provided the world with the undisputed king of similes in its description of Mark Twain: "The man hemorrhaged money like a hemophiliac breakdancing on a bed of machetes...
a public service announcement from black hat
Posted on October 13, 2008today's xkcd should be required reading in every copyright class...and, really, for anyone involved in the sale, transmission, legislation, or regulation of digital media:
calling the peabo bus...calling the peabo bus...
Posted on October 13, 2008contrary to our popular belief, "he's old" is not the only joke you can crack about John McCain1:there's plenty more where these came from...thanks Taryn!***1 this is in no way intended to imply that calling John McCain "old" is old meme. in fact, it's still just as relevant as ever, and will remain relevant until he picks a less flamingly incompetent vice presidential candidate...
unit pricing. it works, bitches.
Posted on October 12, 2008KFC's new ad campaign is stupid. anyone who can do math can tell you that. watch and feel your head spin:i won't belabour the obvious point that the fried chicken and biscuits you would make from ingredients purchased in a grocery store will doubtless be of better quality than the fried chicken and biscuits you purchase at KFC...
grrr.
Posted on October 12, 2008i slept in until 2:30 today.my reward?a horrible crick in my neck from being in bed so long.it's kind of hard to enjoy the first time in weeks that i've stayed in bed after 9am when my head is hurting badly enough to impede my ability to think clearly.
it's like a senior centre across the street from a graveyard...
Posted on October 11, 2008i'm generally distrustful of title loan and payday loan places, but i saw an extra-sketchy one today.i was standing at diversey and western, waiting for the bus. on the west side of western, just south of diversey, i saw what looked at first blush to be a run-of-the-mill title loan shop...
butt-o-nomics
Posted on October 10, 2008last night, while i was on the phone with my co-conspirator, who shall remain nameless, i had an idea. the more i see the stock markets jumping up and down, the more i see companies like AIG and Barclays spending their respective governments' bailout money on rich trips for executives, and the more i read about people finally admitting that these financial instruments that helped to get us into this mess are just as ethereal to them as they are to us average joes, and their long-term effects just as unknown...
another state sees the light.
Posted on October 10, 2008i officially bestow The Shiny upon the Connecticut Supreme Court.
questions? comments? grievances? catcalls?
Posted on October 09, 2008i know i just posted that food meme a few days ago...but i am le tired. since i lack ze missiles to fire, this 50-question survey [rather inelegantly ganked from an old post of Rob's] shall do in lieu of actual content.1. What bill do you hate paying the most?student loan bills...
sad guys on trading floors
Posted on October 09, 2008you like schadenfreude, right? i know you like schadenfreude.fengi posted a link to sad guys on trading floors...a site that's exactly what it sounds like. it's pictures of unhappy-looking financial traders with snarky comments accompanying them. it provides sweet, sweet schadenfreude better than any website on the internet except for possibly www...
moar debating!
Posted on October 08, 2008lehrer/biden '08!in other news...contemporaneous commentary and assorted snark on Rob's blog, as always. ?
creepiest parent ever.
Posted on October 08, 2008i can't decide what's most wrong about the allegations in this story:the mother was really, really insistent that her daughter's ex-boyfriend get back together with her daughter.the mother repeatedly called the ex, repeatedly e-mailed the ex, and sent 12,302 text messages to the ex over the course of six months...
game, set, match.
Posted on October 06, 2008i knew the original maverick. the original maverick is a friend of mine. and you, John McCain, are no maverick.
a picky eater, i am.
Posted on October 06, 2008alright...here's a meme that i took from Rob as well as agent alpo...it's about all kinds of weird food. several of them i had to look up since i had never heard of them before, but here goes nothing.Bold what you?ve eaten. Strike what you wouldn?t ever consider eating...
paradox
Posted on October 06, 2008am i the only one who has always found it weird that even though it's the rich that care most about the stock index, one of the major stock indices is called the "standard and poor's"?>.
???
Posted on October 06, 2008as if i needed more evidence that the stock market is a fickle, ethereal, and ultimately absurd thing...i just watched the dow plummet thirty-five points from the time i got on the elevator at ground level to the time i got off the elevator on the forty-fourth floor to go to my office.
a little thought on computer programming
Posted on October 05, 2008coding: it's frustrating as hell when your program is buggy, but the feeling of *squee* at the end when the module finally works is so addictive. seriously, it's like crack. that little rush makes the hours of banging my head against the wall [or the table, or the book, or whatever the nearest hard object is...
good morning.
Posted on October 05, 2008it's a quarter to eleven on a sunday morning.i'm eating an omelette, sipping coffee, and learning the ins and outs of cron jobs.it doesn't get any better than this.
*squee*
Posted on October 04, 2008on cute overload this morning...a beagle with a solid bailout plan!
*facepalm*
Posted on October 04, 2008Barney Frank on Bill O'Reilly..."your stupidity gets in the way of rational discussion":his stupidity, and his yelling, ranting, and not letting Frank get a word in edgewise.
now more than ever
Posted on October 03, 2008mccain drove me crazy during last week's debate. he claimed that we were clearly winning in iraq. he claimed that a $5000 tax break is a better idea than actual government healthcare assistance. he couldn't put a finger on any way his policies would be different from those of george w...
why am i having bar dreams NOW?
Posted on October 03, 2008i didn't have any weird, panicky bar-related dreams between the test and the results coming out. i freaked out enough during my waking hours, but my sleep was my own. the anticipation and the nerves never seemed to follow me into dreamland.it was only last night, after the bar results came out, that the bar first stalked me there...
vice weenies
Posted on October 02, 2008i just finished watching the vice presidential debate. it was a far better debate than last week's presidential debate...as i didn't leave facepalming with a desire to elect the moderator.that being said, biden mopped the floor with palin. biden was pointed, and he clearly knew far more [and could speak far more eloquently] about both his ticket's policies and her ticket's policies than she could...
just a thought...
Posted on October 01, 2008meat loaf rules.[yes, i mean the singer...not the food, although the food is pretty good too.]
we are pleased to advise...
Posted on October 01, 2008i passed the bar!!!!!i passed the bar!!!!!AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!they didn't make it easy for me to find out. after that post about hoping to have stuff up by midnight, i got an email saying i had an "important posting" on the website. of course, i then kept trying to log in...
YA RLY
Posted on September 30, 2008i just saw this on the bar examiners' website: DELAYED RELEASE OF EXAMINATION RESULTS July 2008 bar examinees PLEASE watch your individual emailboxes rather than the website for news from the Board. Contrary to all expectations, the website was crashed by your attention this afternoon...
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
Posted on September 30, 2008i'm still waiting on bar results. they said late afternoon. i know it's not late afternoon yet. i don't care. i just logged into the bar website to check, just in case it was out and they just hadn't emailed me. of course, there was nothing. i just want to know.
i has a bukkit!!
Posted on September 29, 2008okay...well, i don't actually has a bukkit. but, this blog is on the first page if you google the words i has a bukkit. and that makes me happy.
the end of blissful ignorance
Posted on September 29, 2008apparently illinois bar results are coming out tomorrow. well, fuck. my stomach is tied in a knot, and i won't be able to sleep tonight.
more palin drama. sigh.
Posted on September 29, 2008my head is spinning. people are affirmatively hoping for a Bristol Palin wedding before the election? i was incensed enough when they stated in the abstract that "she will be marrying the father of the baby." it gave them an out...after the campaign, things could be reevaluated, and Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston wouldn't necessarily be pushed by the tide of public opinion into an ill-advised
the giant pool of money
Posted on September 29, 2008thank you, new york times. today, the new york times printed an article about an NPR show about the mortgage crisis. now, i don't regularly listen to NPR. i know this either makes me a bad liberal or a bad person in general, but i prefer music to talk...
surprise not-headsets
Posted on September 29, 2008i spent so much time talking on Skype this weekend that this morning, it feels like i have a phantom usb headset on my head. i reach near my mouth, expecting to find the microphone there so i can adjust it, and there's only air. i'm such a dork.
purity?
Posted on September 27, 2008okay, today must be meme day here...but that's alright. and now, we admire just how corrupt i am...thanks to this purity test that i shamelessly lifted from c4bl3fl4m3. Your Ultimate Purity Test 2.0 Score Is... Your Score:Average For All UsersAverage For All Bisexual Liberal Pink-Skinned 22 to 28-Year old Females(448 total) Dating7...
GRRRR.
Posted on September 27, 2008sigh. the white sox were in the lead most of the season, and this last week of the season...they're just crumpling. this makes me want to cry.
memery.
Posted on September 27, 2008alright...i like this meme. i'm curious to see your answers. :) 1. If you read this, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... you're on my list, so I want to know you better...
thought of the day
Posted on September 26, 2008Geek Like is knowing your girlfriend's myriad internet handles. Geek Love is recognizing her IP address.
don't forget poland.
Posted on September 26, 2008i just finished watching the debate. it was kind of a train wreck...really, the only one who came out there looking good was Jim Lehrer. i didn't live-blog it...but Rob did. it's got his contemporaneous commentary as well as mine, since we spent the entire hour and a half snarking to each other about what was going on.
the debate will go on
Posted on September 26, 2008santas pelotas. just days after saying that the debate needed to be halted because of the economy, we hear McCain saying this: "My strong sense is that the best thing that I can do, rather than to inject presidential politics into some delicate negotiations, is to go down to Mississippi and explain to the American people what is going on and my vision for leading the country over the next four
five-dollar words
Posted on September 26, 2008i learned a new word today: eleemosynary: of, relating to, or supported by charity. it's the first word i've seen in a long time that i actually had to listen to before i could say it. i'm going to have to find a way to work it into casual conversation.
or, shall we say, major general obvious?
Posted on September 26, 2008a headline from the Captain Obvious files, otherwise known as the Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review: S&P Says Wall Street Meltdown Will Cause Default Rate To Rise gee, thanks for the astute financial analysis.
wizards
Posted on September 24, 2008i posted some pictures from new york this weekend. my favourite pictures are the ones of Rob and me goofing off in the wizard robe: there's a pretty funny story behind the wizard robe. there was a yard sale at a house around the block from Rob's place...
419 meets wall street
Posted on September 24, 2008someone posted this to the e-mail group for the chicago linux users group, and i found it quite entertaining. [and, no, it doesn't have to do with linux...i know you're disappointed now, but it's funny anyway.] Your Urgent Help Needed Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude...
office funnies
Posted on September 22, 2008my office door will not stay shut unless i body-check it, or shove it really hard against the door frame. this is annoying, but strangely entertaining.
new york
Posted on September 20, 2008not dead, just busy. :) the conference went well. it involved me getting up very, very early for three days in a row, but at least i can navigate the bankruptcy code with some confidence now. thank goodness for small miracles. otherwise, i've been spending lots of time with Rob, which makes me the happiest person on earth...
YAYYYYYYYYYY
Posted on September 16, 2008this morning was insane...but the result of it is that i am currently sitting at O'Hare, waiting for a flight to New York. there's a bankruptcy legal education workshop [yes, as of last monday i am now a bankruptcy lawyer, by virtue of the fact that i showed up last monday and was handed an assignment to the bankruptcy department] up there that is supposed to be very helpful at explaining the
oooohhhhh...shiny!
Posted on September 15, 2008today's Dork Tower has me wondering...WHEN WILL IT BE FREE BRIGHT SHINY OBJECT DAY IN CHICAGO?????????
a geek with her mind in the gutter
Posted on September 15, 2008last night i dreamt that i was reading the algorithm of the human sexual response, coded in the computer language Python. pray tell, what does that say about me?
i fought the lloyds...
Posted on September 15, 2008someone else thinks Lloyds is pants...and they made a hilarious video airing their grievances:
not a morning person.
Posted on September 15, 2008i'm still not used to this "getting up early" thing. i know my body will eventually get on a better schedule, but not yet. on workdays, i have my alarm set, and i'm tired and cranky. this weekend, i've stayed up late [but not too late]...and slept until noonish...
AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Posted on September 14, 2008SQUEEEEEE!!!!! see this? i did, in fact, post this to blogger from the command line, from a program i am in the middle of writing! i still have a lot of work to do on it, since i want there to be a way to enter a title and post text from the program, have the program plug that info into the xml in a template text file, and upload it from there...
testing...testing...1...2...3...
Posted on September 14, 2008this is a test of the emergency blogger-from-the-command-line system. should this be a real attempt at posting to blogger from my command line, there would be actual content here. if this were a real attempt, i would also have finished coding a way to type the blog entries from within the program instead of just pulling this from the xml template file...
TAKE ME TO COUNTY!!!!!
Posted on September 13, 2008let's give a hand to Lewis B. Moon. he has taught us what not to do, no matter what your profession...and taught us that being an attorney is no excuse for a bevy of behaviours: being drunk and disorderly.operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.spitting in a police officer's face...
*seethe*
Posted on September 13, 2008i was looking through the cable channel guide for a show to watch. on WE, there's a show on called "9/11: Millionaire Widows." how tasteless. there's Bad TV, and there's TV That Should Never Have Been Made. that's what "Women's Entertainment" is supposed to be now? ugh...
zzzzz.
Posted on September 13, 2008i love sleeping in. sleeping until 11:30 in the morning only becomes more glorious when you've been getting up at 7am all week. all summer, sleeping until 11:30 was the norm. this morning, it was a yummy treat. i'm still surprised that i slept that long, since i fell asleep around 12:15 last night, but i really did need all that sleep...
worky worky work
Posted on September 12, 2008i've already discovered two advantages that being a real associate has over being a summer associate: i don't have to hang it all up and go back to the awfulness of law school in twelve weeks.no mandatory meetings at 9am every friday.alright, off to work...
i can tell by the pixels.
Posted on September 12, 2008Rob linked me to this video this evening. this wee bit of hilarity goes out to all of you who are frustrated with elections, politics, and all that jazz. it's a beautiful snark on all of it.
sigh.
Posted on September 11, 2008today's kawaii-not sort of summarizes how i feel right now: i need to get used to the fact that i'm a stupid n00b, and a few stupid n00b mistakes are not the end of the world. i expect myself to be perfect right out...i know it's unrealistic, but still...
still alive.
Posted on September 09, 2008i have officially survived my first two days of work. for obvious reasons, i can't go into any juicy details on these very public interwebstubes...i don't hold a lot back on this blog, but posting anything even somewhat specific about my work life on here is probably unwise, so i will refrain from doing so...
>.>
Posted on September 08, 2008i've got "eye of the tiger" stuck in my head. that's weird, but i'm grateful that i didn't wake up to my first day of work with something like "take this job and shove it" in my head instead. that would have been a bad sign.
O.O
Posted on September 07, 2008today's my last day of laziness. tomorrow i start my first day of work. the idea that i'll be working as an attorney tomorrow is really, really funny for some reason. even though i've been through college and been through law school and taken the bar [although i'm still waiting on results, grr], i still haven't quite internalised that i've made it to where i can work as an attorney and not a
O.O
Posted on September 05, 2008most Ann Rule XKCD ever. i only give you this because it is awesome.
who gives windows users a bad name? THAT GUY.
Posted on September 04, 2008i was googling for some bash scripting help, and came upon the funniest line in a forum post that i've seen in a long time. for those of you who don't spend inordinate amounts of time playing with linux boxes, "bash" is the name of the command line interface that's generally used on linux boxes, and "bash scripting" refers to the language of operating system commands used on such computers.
didgeriWHAT?
Posted on September 03, 2008this article makes my head spin. owwww, the ignorance! on a lighter note, if playing the didgeridoo really did make you infertile, my time would be well spent learning how to play that. i have a funny feeling a didgeridoo is cheaper than getting my tubes tied, and will involve having to deal with less medical bureaucratic bullshit...
*facepalm*
Posted on September 03, 2008i just saw this ad on tv: am i a bad person because all that ran through my head when i saw it was "MATT DAMON!...MATT DAMON!...MATT DAMON!"?
a little on music
Posted on September 03, 2008i'm sitting at the coffeehouse around the corner from my apartment, working on my program. they've got Tidal by Fiona Apple running from start to finish. i could not stand her back in the nineties. however, twelve years after that album came out, i must admit it's pretty darn good...
sigh.
Posted on September 03, 2008i have so much to do over the next five days: finish putting together my dresserfinish unpacking all of my stufforganize my roomgo shopping for work clothesget my hair cut and coloured the first three are just random home drudgery. i hate housework so much, but i know i have to get that stuff done before i start working...
Lloyds is pants!
Posted on August 27, 2008sometimes, customer dissatisfaction leads to hilarity. let me count the ways: guy is dissatisfied with how Lloyds Bank deals with a travel insurance issue.guy changes his account password to "Lloyds is pants."member of Lloyds staff notices guy's password...
walking
Posted on August 27, 2008i realised today that i'm finally back in some semblance of city shape. when i lived in chicago from 2000-2005, i walked all the time. half-mile walks were nothing. walks of a mile or two, even, were old hat. they didn't faze me...they were just a normal part of everyday life...
i'm in over my head...
Posted on August 27, 2008i'm doing research into the blogger API...and it's looking like the blogger section of my blogging script is going to have to create and send an XML file. this is a little daunting, as i've neither used nor even really learned about XML before. study time!
victory!
Posted on August 27, 2008yes, i know, i should be setting up my bedroom. instead i'm at a coffee shop near my house, getting some work done on my blogging script for the first time since i took the bar almost a month ago. [!] i had almost forgotten how nice it was to just sit, puzzle through a computer programming problem, and eventually solve it...
the president doesn't get a funny hat.
Posted on August 26, 2008i've been getting AIM spam from screen names with "Salmon" or "Trout" in them for months. some of them are boring. some of them are weird. this one is just historically inaccurate: OutOfSyncTrout: Pope Pius XII was a great President, don't you agree? >...
lazybones
Posted on August 26, 2008i have again been rather delinquent on putting together furniture. i haven't been as delinquent as yesterday, though. i put my chair together, and started on my desk. however, i thought it would be far more fun to finally set up mozilla thunderbird on this box, so i can have one place to check all my email...
more surprise buttsets!
Posted on August 26, 2008my blog is on the first page when you google the word "buttsets." awesome.
heehee.
Posted on August 26, 2008exchange between me and foofy_attorney, a few minutes ago: me: guess what Rob did this evening on the phone to cheer me up. foofy: sent you a lolcat with a penguin on it? me: no... foofy: sent you a penguin with a lolcat on it? me: no... foofy: sent you a lolcat with a penguin on it, compiling a linux kernel? me: no...
new york pictures :)
Posted on August 25, 2008i got back from new york yesterday after being there for ten days. i'll spare you the schmoopy rants about how i wish i were still there [although i really, really wish i were still there.] however, i did take a ton of pictures. views of Manhattan from Rockefeller Center, 8...
bedtime.
Posted on August 25, 2008i'm back in chicago. my flights ran on time, but the trip home was arduous, between the blue line shuttle between jefferson park and irving park, as well as the addison bus having stopped running by eight thirty on sunday. i'm not sure, though, how much of my tiredness is from the travel, though, and how much of it is emotional...
lirr weirdness
Posted on August 22, 2008i had the weirdest train ride on wednesday night. before the train ride was strange enough. i had been in penn station quite a few times before, but always during the day. it was always bustling, but never particularly weird. it was usually full of harried businesspeople on the weekdays, and full of confused tourists on the weekends...
no accounting for taste
Posted on August 21, 2008yesterday's dinosaur comic is full of win. so...much...win. in other news...well, i do have more that i want to say, but i'm running late getting ready and going into manhattan to meet my friend for lunch, so that will have to be written later.
jealousy, or the lack thereof
Posted on August 19, 2008i was at lunch today with a friend of mine, and something he said took me aback...and then made me think about how lucky i've been. we were eating lunch, and he asked me my plans for the rest of the day. i told him i was going to tool around manhattan a while longer, and be back on long island by the time my boyfriend got back from work...
whoo-hoo!
Posted on August 19, 2008i have messy, spiky emo boy hair today. it's going to be a good day.
hooray! the cactus hatched!
Posted on August 18, 2008the funniest thing happened at lunch today. early this afternoon, i was down near times square, having lunch with Jammie, and the hostess at the restaurant came over to our table with an extremely confused look on her face. the following weirdness ensued: hostess: excuse me, are you nicolle? me: yes, i am...
<3
Posted on August 18, 2008i'm still in new york, and will be for another week. yet, that seems like far too short a time.
paul and storm!!!!!
Posted on August 15, 2008omg. YAY. october 24, paul and storm are playing at schuba's...a bar about five blocks from my house. this is, of course, all kinds of awesome. paul and storm crack me up so much. who wants to go with me?
:)
Posted on August 15, 2008my stuff is all packed. i leave for o'hare in about three hours. in less than twelve hours, i'll be in new york with my sweetie. i am so happy right now.
furniture!
Posted on August 14, 2008my furniture just arrived! :D this is awesome. i probably won't unpack everything today, but my goal is to at least put it all together today so i can put everything away when i get back from new york. i've got a dresser, a desk, a desk chair, a night table, and a bookcase...
karaoke awesomeness
Posted on August 14, 2008last night was a really strange night out at karaoke. first, we started at victory. i sang two songs there..."ugly" by the exies and "my heart will go on" by celine dion. i had never done "ugly" before, and it went better than i thought i did. for some reason i thought the song was in a lower register...
:D
Posted on August 13, 2008i'm back in chicago. only two more days until i leave for new york, and get to see the awesome Rob T Firefly again. *SQUEE*
memery? memery.
Posted on August 12, 2008it's late, but i'm not sleepy yet. thus, methinks i shall do a rather lengthy survey, ganked from agent alpo. no rules were listed, but i'm working under the assumption that i'm supposed to be bolding the statements that are true about myself. if these are not the actual rules to the survey, then the survey powers-that-be can come and bite me...
<3
Posted on August 12, 2008haven't had much to say about the last couple of days. i'm in boise still...through tomorrow, and then i'm leaving at the crack of dawn wednesday. it'll be a crazy two days back in chicago, trying to see as many people as i can as well as spending time thursday unpacking and putting together all my furniture...
out late
Posted on June 15, 2008i love the hidden cove. i went there last night for the first time since i moved back to the city. it's a karaoke dive on lincoln, just north of berwyn. i had never been there on a weekend before, so i didn't know how busy it was going to be. i knew on the weekdays that it was always pretty dead, which is fantastic because i get to sing a lot...
infomercial wtf
Posted on June 14, 2008you all know who billy mays is...he's the loud bearded guy who does all the ads and infomercials for oxyclean, zorbeez, kaboom, and all those other crappy home products. i was watching fox reality channel1, and you'll never guess what he's hawking now: health insurance...
contracts crash course
Posted on June 13, 2008as much as i hate barbri, and as much as i hate contract law, the guy giving our lecture: David Epstein, from Southern Methodist, is an awesome, hilarious lecturer. not only are some of his hypotheticals [which i'll post later, when i have the book in front of me] are downright hysterical...
the wrong side of the bed
Posted on June 13, 2008i got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. literally. i woke up, and wanted to check what time it is. to visualise my bedroom...my bed takes up most of it, because my room's the size of a small closet. on one side of my bed is a wall with a window-ledge, and on the other side is my floor, which is mostly taken up by my computers, my printer, a bunch of wires...
i'd make a terrible wifey.
Posted on June 11, 2008-40As a 1930s wife, I amVery Poor (Failure)Take the test! a negative forty? i'm the worst wife ever...and proud of it!
barbri
Posted on June 11, 2008it's so weird...i am far more productive when i ditch barbri than when i go. if i go, the lecture fries my brain to the point that i can't do any more studying after i leave. if i don't, i always feel bad that i didn't go...so i always grab my practice questions book, take it to a coffee shop, and do practice problems...
computer store fail
Posted on June 08, 2008i dealt with the dumbest computer sales associate ever today. i was at microcenter, and one of the managers was talking to me about the eee pc. for those of you who don't know, the eee pc is a small subnotebook--in fact, tiny. it's got a small hard drive, and it's good for either people who don't do much other than websurfing and email...
music meme
Posted on June 08, 2008a. reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. b. list (and upload, if you feel like it) 5-10 songs that start with that letter. c. post that to your journal with these instructions. tagged by yumemisama for "g". "garden" by 39 reasons"gas hed goes west" by live"get famous" by kill hannah"get it faster" by jimmy eat world"get over" by the marvelous 3"gingerbread knocked me out" by wesley
success
Posted on June 08, 2008i have successfully set up my main laptop as an SSH server! this is awesome, as it means that i can remotely connect to it from elsewhere, from either my shiny new eee or any other box i happen to be playing on. i win! i know this is trivial stuff for you linux superusers out there, but it's super exciting to a narb like me...
karaoke overanalysis
Posted on June 05, 2008usually when i sing karaoke, i start with a warm-up song. i start with something easy...something that doesn't have a large range, something that will allow me to get my vocal cords working, figure out what kind of voice i'm in for the day, and whether i'm up for anything particularly ambitious later that night...
phew.
Posted on June 04, 2008two weeks later, and my boxes have finally arrived. all ten of them. thank goodness.
barbri fail
Posted on June 04, 2008i was on AIM bitching to my [non-law] friend about Barbri, and she made the best description of it ever: me: i am at lecture until five thirty. sigh. her: 5:30?!? good god woman! me: it's an extra long one today. full of fail. her: that's beyond fail...
i suck.
Posted on June 03, 2008i just saw that i have no barbri this friday...or this monday. super double awesome SCORE. sorry for the lack of posting lately...i just have so little to say right now. it's weird. it's not that life is bad...or even boring. i'm not spending nearly as much time studying as i should be, but it's not close enough to the test for me to care that much yet...
i need a new umber-ella...ella...ella...hey...hey...hey
Posted on June 03, 2008i left my Ginormous Vented Golf Umbrella in st. louis. this is proving to be an extremely stupid move. it's pouring today...raining cats and dogs. it was only sprinkling when i left the apartment; i thought my cute little umbrella with the duck on the handle was going to be sufficient...
a beautiful night
Posted on May 30, 2008barbri was terrible yesterday, but everything after was wonderful. i discovered the coolest intersection ever when i was walking to dinner. i was meeting my friend up in river north...which is a nice walk from the southwest loop, where my barbri class is...
a bright idea.
Posted on May 28, 2008this is fantastic. it would probably not be the greatest idea to have an orgy with current and future attorneys in a single legal market, even one as big as new york city. but, still...i appreciate the sentiment. two days into barbri, it's already pretty clear that it'll be almost impossible to get through the next two months without regular infusions of vice, vice, and more vice.
i love this song.
Posted on May 28, 2008radio wazee played "nobody knows" by addict this morning, and it made me think of another one of their songs. i saw "monsterside" by addict premiere on 120 minutes about ten years ago. i loved this song so much..and have only met one person along the way who knew and loved this song as much as i do...
there is HOPE after all.
Posted on May 27, 2008i don't know who other than the PLA folks would find this interesting...but it's final--i'm going to The Last HOPE on July 18-20. i've got my conference ticket, my plane ticket, and three nights in the Hotel Pennsylvania! i arrive in NYC just after noon on the 18th, and leave NYC around 7 on the 21st...
spelunking kitteh
Posted on May 25, 2008i don't know how i missed this one last month, but i love it: that about sums it up.
randomness
Posted on May 24, 2008full of win: being back in chicago: enough said. it's marvelous.trevelyn: he gave me a shell on his server and installed an IRC program on it, so i can chat on IRC from there. therefore, i don't have to worry about Comcast being full of IRC-related fail anymore...
screw you, comcast
Posted on May 22, 2008comcast, you suck. i can't stay on IRC to save my life. i can stay on the web, i can stay on AIM...just not IRC. since i'm addicted to chatting on IRC, this is a big problem. hopefully i'll figure out how to tunnel through SSH, and hopefully this solution will work...
<3
Posted on May 21, 2008all of my stuff is in boxes and suitcases. at 12:30, my friend is coming over and we are lugging the boxes to the post office to be mailed. at 4:30, my suitcases and i are getting on the megabus. at 9:30, the bus gets to union station in Chicago. and i will be back in my city for the rest of my life...
idol rant part deux
Posted on May 20, 2008Dear David Archuleta, i didn't think you could be worse than David Cook, but your rendition of "imagine" by john lennon had me curled up in a ball on my floor, shaking, begging for it to end. so much melisma. such a boring little crooner voice. my ears are bleeding...
idol rant
Posted on May 20, 2008dear David Cook, please to be not messing up one of my favourite songs ever. you took "the world i know" by collective soul and managed to sound like a cross between two of my least favourite Idol contestants from Season 5: Chris Daughtry's adult-contemporary-"rocker" style and Eliot Yamin's overuse of melismas...
smoke rock crack pig sex video
Posted on May 20, 2008okay...i really want to know what was going through the mind of someone who googled the words: smoke rock crack pig sex video ...and went 490 results in. ...and clicked on my blog. i thought i had seen it all, but this is the weirdest search string i've ever seen that led to this place...
an odd couple indeed
Posted on May 19, 2008my friend and i saw this ad on TV yesterday, and were flabbergasted...really? these two? on the same couch? was this some clever cgi? turns out...nope, no clever cgi. it's actually them. that's fantastic.
:(
Posted on May 19, 2008i'm very excited about moving to chicago...but i hate packing. i hate packing with a passion. i hate packing so much that i stayed in st. louis my 1L summer just to avoid it. i hate packing so much that all i took to chicago with me last summer were two suitcases full of stuff, as much as i could drag on the bus...
fully poseable talking jesus!!
Posted on May 17, 2008i saw an ad on TV for a talking jesus doll. go to that webpage and watch the ad...and please tell me if it's actually as creepy as i think it is, or if i'm just crazy.
shear panic
Posted on May 16, 2008i bought some hair dye for graduation...it was supposed to be blood red. i haven't washed it out yet, it's still sitting in my hair. but, it looks orange instead of blood red. this is disconcerting. i don't want orange hair. i want blood red hair...
to boldly go where several star trek fangirls have gone before
Posted on May 14, 2008this article cracks me up. it's not unexpected that trekkie girls [at least of the type that would go to cons and try and screw star trek stars...] would do that, do all the weird sci-fi talk in bed. it's not unexpected that it would get old to william shatner...
kansas
Posted on May 13, 2008thanks to eric, there is a fantastic slide show of videos and pictures of all the stuff i did for scavhunt in Kansas this weekend. enjoy!
scav! <3
Posted on May 12, 2008...scav is over, and i've gotten a good night of sleep for the first time since last tuesday night. the hunt went amazingly. as most of you know, i scavved for GASH--the shiny, new Graduate and Alumni ScavHunt team--this year. we were a small team this year...
SCAV!
Posted on May 07, 2008alright...time to hop on the bus and go to Chicago for the weekend. there is scav to be hunted. hunted where? i don't know. as of now i'm on road trip, so be prepared for some very strange stories from some very strange places, quite possibly tiny midwestern hamlets...
pretty nerd alert!!
Posted on May 05, 2008wow. the Caltech boy on Jeopardy today is really hot. i feel kind of dirty, since it's the college tournament, and undergrads = cradle robbery...but still. yummy eye candy for the win!
...at least i have my crack, i mean internet, back?!
Posted on May 03, 2008dear Charter, you suck. a lot. the internet went down a few hours ago. it was clearly a problem with my cable, as my cable tv had gone down too. it was clearly a problem on your end. so, i called you to see what was up. your automated system said it was a problem with my modem...
braaaaaaaaaaaains.
Posted on May 02, 2008dear John Kovalic, can you please ask next time before you go ahead and h4x0r my brain for the sake of Dork Tower? i can't think of any other way you could have tailored this comic so well to the aim of amusing me. thanks, the persecuted crack smoker.
:D
Posted on May 02, 2008i finished my last law school final ever this morning, and turned it in. law school didn't kill me. it's a wonder.
are you kidding me?
Posted on May 01, 2008wash u released a press release today, naming the six people to whom they plan to confer honourary degrees at commencement this year. one of them is Phyllis Schlafly. Phyllis Schlafly, of the Eagle Forum. Phyllis Schlafly, who said of feminists that their first commandment was: "I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that
scholastic apathy
Posted on April 30, 2008ugh. one final left. i've had one final left since last friday...and yet i haven't touched it. it's my last final ever, i know i should just get it done. i just don't care about it. i feel even more checked out on law school than ever. i didn't think that was possible...
linux!!!!!
Posted on April 29, 2008success! this sexy box is now running Ubuntu 8.04...with no Windows in sight.
a breakup letter
Posted on April 29, 2008dear Windows, fuck you. seriously. fuck you. we've had our ups and downs, mostly downs, during our eleven-and-a-half-year affair. we got together back in December of '96, when my parents bought a Windows box as the new family computer. the eleven years before that, since the time my family got a computer, i had been using macs...
NOT FUNNY.
Posted on April 28, 2008i went to Novak's tonight to sing a little karaoke 'cause i wanted to get out of the house. it was nice...i went, i read my book, and i was [generally] not bothered. okay, i had to blow off two skeezy men [WTF? i don't go to a dyke bar to get hit on by skeezy men!] and one woman who was a little too grabby and had about twenty years on me, but i rebuffed them all gracefully and managed to have
excellent...
Posted on April 28, 2008this morning's xkcd made me laugh. maniacally: re: the text that pops up when you go to the website and hover the mouse over the comic...i'm running it, and i haven't found that feature yet. back to tinkering. :D
:P
Posted on April 25, 2008i have never been so unprepared in my life as i am for this copyrights final today. it'll be a miracle if i don't fail.
lolcats: ur doin it right!!!!!
Posted on April 24, 2008from the always-awesome i can has cheezburger:
inevitable?
Posted on April 22, 2008overheard in chicago for the win this morning: Guy #1: "So you know when we inevitably get gay married out of boredom and loneliness?" Guy #2: "Yeah." Guy #1: "Will we sleep in the same bed? I mean we don't have to have sex or anything, I'm just wondering if we'll sleep in the same bed...
dog balls? no...truck balls.
Posted on April 21, 2008some people are special. an article on above the law this morning has convinced me that people are more special than i have ever given them credit for. weird: apparently, there is a fad down there called truck-nutz. that's right. people like to hang decorations from the backs of their trucks, decorations that look like testicles...
periodic table love
Posted on April 21, 2008my friend just sent me the best picture ever. a word to the wise: if you ever want my undying love, or if you just really, really want to get into my pants, make me this: i'll be putty in your hands.
noooooo!
Posted on April 21, 2008i want to cry. the website i wrote about back in november, with king wing the stl baby daddy, appears to be gone!! this can't be happening. that site was a masterpiece of unintentional humour.
i'm losing it...
Posted on April 19, 2008...clearly i'm going crazy if i get home after a long day of paper writing [and then a bit of post-paper beer drinking...], i take out my computer, boot it up, and say to myself: "yay, it's the weekend! that means i can boot into linux instead of windows!" *hides face*
earthquake?
Posted on April 18, 2008i woke up this morning, logged onto facebook...only to see status updates from friends all over the midwest talking about an earthquake. i slept right through it, but apparently there was a 5.2 quake last night, centered in illinois, and you could feel it in st...
llama!
Posted on April 17, 2008Wash U turned part of the quad into a petting zoo today. it was awesome. i was walking from the law school over to the undergrad library, because the undergrad library has very cozy chairs and i wanted to take a nap. in the grass by the library i saw a llama, a donkey, a calf, and a camel...
i refuse to be pecked to death!
Posted on April 17, 2008i saw this picture in cf_hardcore: i want this sign.
*squee*
Posted on April 17, 2008omg. the chicago location of Ian's Pizza is opening in june!!! i know, i know, it's not chicago pizza. it's a madison thing. but, the idea of being able to get macaroni and cheese pizza whenever i want, without having to truck myself up to madison, makes me super happy...
nothing in particular
Posted on April 16, 2008argh. i can't have a coherent thought to save my life. so...a few observations on a few unrelated matters. yesterday choir superlatives for the year were given out. i got two of them...neither of which are probably a surprise to any of you who know me...
happy tax day!
Posted on April 15, 2008i just filed my taxes. this makes me feel really, really productive. i know i should have done it before April 15th. i know i should have done it earlier, so i could have spent my mid-day hours doing things like "going to copyright class" and "working on my Research Log On Crack that is due on friday...
vital information
Posted on April 14, 2008if you google the more she drinks the better you look, this little blog [or, at least the LJ copy of this little blog] is the #1 hit. cheap! cheap! fun! fun! indeed.
bad puns for the win, always and forever
Posted on April 14, 2008i like this morning's Dinosaur Comic far more than i should.
advertising gone wild
Posted on April 14, 2008i'm watching Rock of Love, and just saw an ad for AT&T Wireless "GoPhone" pay-as-you-go service. the ad was a bad knock off of the "sleep on it" section of "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" by Meat Loaf. i wasn't looking at the screen, but looked up instinctively, just to see...
boring computer blather
Posted on April 12, 2008my computer likes me a lot more today than it does yesterday. i've had an idle curiosity for a while to screw around with linux on my computer...but i'm a total noob when it comes to computer stuff other than websurfing, email, and other common applications-type pursuits...
fantasy fishing?
Posted on April 10, 2008most of the signs they post near the student centre make sense. there are a bunch of ads for concerts, movers, student events...the usual bevy of advertisements peppered around a university campus. then, there are some signs with Hulk Hogan pointing forward with one hand, and with a bunch of cash clenched in his other fist...
ink geek.
Posted on April 10, 2008i'm fascinated by Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium. it's a blog created by a science writer that showcases different science-related tattoos. he aims to post a different one every day. some are cooler than others...i'm far more into the chemistry and physics tattoos than i am the biology ones, for obvious reasons...
crying
Posted on April 10, 2008it's been a long time since the onion made me cackle with laughter. they did it this week: I Can't Imagine Why Anybody Would Want To Stop Crying By Emmet Henson 2-Month-Old Life has so many wonderful experiences to offer. Like sleep. Or ingestion and evacuation...
the more she drinks, the better you look...remember to drink responsibly!
Posted on April 10, 2008this morning rules. why does this morning rule? becuase they finally have a Dirt Cheap ad on YouTube! i love Dirt Cheap ads. Dirt Cheap is a liquor store in the st. louis area. they run these hilarious Bad Locally Produced Ads on television, featuring the owner [Dirt Cheap Fred] and the Dirt Cheap Chicken...
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a letter to the MPRE
Posted on April 07, 2008dear MPRE, i know you like having power over me. i know you like making me feel stressed-out, confused, angry, and down on myself. but, you can do this no more. despite the fact that i was no more ethical in march than i was in november, i have passed you...
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Posted on April 07, 2008i was so busy this weekend that i didn't have time to write anything here. it was an awesome weekend, though...i was at college mock trial nationals. i saw two really good rounds: Ole Miss versus Northwood, and Chicago versus UMKC. i also worked in the tab room all four rounds, which was really exciting...
reemerging
Posted on April 03, 2008i'm finally starting to feel like a human being again, but i'm still not quite there. hence...more bullet points! environmental moot court is finally out of my hair. the semifinals were tuesday night...and i was worried we may make finals, because my team did quite well...
black hat for the win.
Posted on April 02, 2008YAY!!! he got his hat back. the world has regained equilibrium.
wtf?
Posted on April 01, 2008the preliminary rounds of the environmental moot court competition were last night. since i've got a midterm in federal jurisdiction due tomorrow, i was really, really hoping to be done after the preliminary rounds. i kept my hair bright purple. i read back over my brief and my notes, skimmed the record, and that was about it...
iHave an iPod, and other stories
Posted on March 31, 2008things that make me happy: having a functional iPod again. i'm sure you all remember my little rant last weekend about my iPod refusing to sync up with all the music i had on my computer. that made walking around and taking the bus this week really, really boring; i've become so accustomed to being able to listen to music and podcasts on the bus...
*swoon*
Posted on March 31, 2008Best. Pickup. Line. Ever. if someone even only somewhat attractive said that to me, i'd totally sleep with them. silly pickup lines made really, really nerdy are hot.
turing test
Posted on March 30, 2008wow. today's Dilbert strip was the first hilarious one i've seen in months.
a barely legal reflection
Posted on March 30, 2008barely legal is over. this makes me really sad. i always feel that way after a performance...after working so hard to get everything just right, it's suddenly over. i feel especially sad about this, though. it's my last barely legal. it was so much fun to be in, so funny to watch the other skits...
good bracket fortune
Posted on March 29, 2008i was just checking my bracket...and somehow, despite the Duke Debacle [which i'm still really sad about...], i got all the other teams in my Elite Eight correct. i nailed Davidson, Kansas, Louisville, UNC, Memphis, Texas, and UCLA. i don't think i've ever gone 7/8 in picking an Elite Eight before...
what would you do?
Posted on March 27, 2008pop quiz! you are Adolphus Busch V. you are seventeen years old, and related to some fairly well-known local beer magnates. it's a tuesday night, and you and your friends are bored. what do you do? A. make plans for a party on Friday or Saturday, and then call it a night...
bizarro world
Posted on March 27, 2008sad news: batman whooped Wesley Willis' ass. your mission, if you choose to accept it? whoop Batman's ass by googling Wesley's name. a lot. :D
field trip
Posted on March 27, 2008this is freaking sweet. Davidson is in the Sweet Sixteen. the trustees of the college are funding a bus trip, as well as hotel reservations and game tickets, for any students who want to go up to Detroit this weekend to go watch the team play this weekend...
MINNEAPOLIS!!!!!
Posted on March 27, 2008alright...this is a heads up to all you mockers as well as all of my friends who live in the Twin Cities. April 3-6, i'm going to be in Minneapolis for Gold Flight! ::dances:: so, if you're going to be at the tournament, tell me! if you're in town and want to harass me, tell me that too! that was a lot of exclamation points, but i'm really, really excited about this trip...
today's Rickrolling update
Posted on March 26, 2008this just in: Rick Astley is pro-Rickrolling! [and, no. the link is NOT a Rickroll, unless you count an article about an interview with Rick Astley as a Rickroll.]
graphjam!
Posted on March 25, 2008brought to you by the friendly folks at i can has cheezburger and i has a hot dog, we have a repository of something other than lolcats, lolruses, loldogs, and the rest of the lolmenagerie. presenting: graphjam! i'm sure you've seen the graphs making fun of songs, and completely dorkifying every song that has ever been on the radio...
BEER! B-EER!
Posted on March 25, 2008i was reading one of the newest members of my illustrious blogroll today, Awesome/Not Awesome. it's a hilarious blog, covering things that are awesome and things that are not awesome. anyway, it posted a link to something that would definitely only happen in Utah: root beer pong...
xkcd: ur doin it wrong.
Posted on March 24, 2008for once, xkcd got a bit of nerd life wrong. that's incorrect. sure, there are some songs that are inappropriate for sex. but, not the power rangers theme! not the lumberjack song, as referenced in the alt-text! hilarious nostalgic stuff like that coming on during sex only makes it more amusing...
this town: i hate it.
Posted on March 24, 2008i lived on the south side of chicago for five years. sure, hyde park wasn't the toughest neighbourhood, far from it, but there were plenty of sketchy things that went on along that fifty-third street corridor. there was drug dealer alley. but, nothing particularly scary happened there...
misappropriation of federal funds for the win.
Posted on March 24, 2008i'm in white collar crime class, and we're discussing a case that denotes a private company that has been sub-sub-contracted to dole out federal housing funding as a "public official" under the bribery statute. she then starts to analogize that to receiving federal student loans, and discussing whether we were administrators of a federal program because we got that money...
HATE.
Posted on March 23, 2008update: that sync didn't work. after an hour and a half, it loaded exactly two of my over four thousand files onto my iPod, even though iTunes told me all of them were on there. Apple's getting a very angry phone call tomorrow.
i want to break my iPod.
Posted on March 23, 2008my iPod, the electronic doo dad that has brought me so much joy since i bought it last summer, is now providing me nothing but grief. it started around the middle of spring break. i plugged my iPod in to sync with my computer, because i wanted to load the latest episode of the Savage Lovecast...
more news that crack smokers can use
Posted on March 20, 2008certain items that aren't normally green are customarily dyed green for st. patrick's day. we've seen green beer, green hair, and those creepy old shamrock shakes. even some things that are normally green get greener in the spirit of the holiday: case in point, the Chicago River...
oooooh, shiny.
Posted on March 20, 2008quick quiz! what do the following two videos have in common, other than making the persecuted crack smoker laugh so hard she can't breathe? 1. "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" by Lemon Demon: 2. [The Potter Puppet Pals in] "The Mysterious Ticking Noise" by Neil Cicierega give up? they're by the same guy! Neil Cicierega is Lemon Demon! he is officially a master of internet
hoops!
Posted on March 20, 2008in about fifteen minutes, Georgia and Xavier tip off. this is awesome...this means that March Madness has finally come again!! we'll see how well my bracket does. as usual, it has a few cracky upsets in there just for fun. as usual, i have picked Duke to win the whole thing, because i love them and hey deserve to win every game they play...
...i was just trying to run an errand.
Posted on March 19, 2008i went out to run an errand tonight, and it was my weirdest venture out of my apartment in a very long time. first, i got to the skinker metro station. i hadn't heard anything funny because i was listening to the wonderful bucket podcast on my ipod...
*fume*
Posted on March 15, 2008sigh. Duke lost in the semis of the ACC tournament today. i mean, we're still going dancing, but still. losing to Clemson? wtf? Duke has some really stupid losses this year...Wake, Miami, and now this. hopefully this means all this stuff is out of their systems, and they'll show no mercy through the NCAAs.
get off my lawn--or get off Ravinia's.
Posted on March 15, 2008they just released the Ravinia schedule for this summer, and a few of the entries on it are a hoot. for any of you who aren't from Chicago, or haven't spent enough time around there, Ravinia is a large outdoor concert venue out in Highland Park, one of the 'burbs...
???????. ???????. ????? ?? ??????????.1
Posted on March 15, 2008the greatest Weird Link To My Blog that i've seen in a while was not actually to this one, but to my other one, supergig. somebody used google translator to translate one of my posts a few weeks ago [a song-of-the-day blurb about "Shout 2000" by Disturbed] into Russian...
can dance for bukkit nao?
Posted on March 15, 2008this is why YouTube was invented, and why it's a wonderful thing:
happy ? day!
Posted on March 14, 2008happy ? day!! to celebrate this Day Of Dorky Awesomeness, i present to you...a web page with the first 32 million digits of ?. or, if a picture is more to your liking...have some cherry ?, courtesy of the wonderful Diesel Sweeties: in other news, there's a new pizza place opening today on Delmar...
msnbc sucks.
Posted on March 14, 2008i was at the bank this afternoon. while i was sitting in the waiting area, waiting for my friend to finish her business there, i saw something on msnbc that appalled me. they were in the middle of a piece about the mortgage crisis. they had some kind of housing market expert on, and the anchor was talking to him...
a beautiful afternoon.
Posted on March 13, 2008this afternoon was an awesome afternoon. i went down to the loop just to wander. i've been doing that a lot lately, but today my heart was really in it. i got some sushi for lunch, at Seki...i love going there for lunch. it's never busy, and you get the same sushi they serve at dinner for half the price...
giggles and body love
Posted on March 13, 2008the Diesel Sweeties print comic today is hilarious...for once, Indie Rock Pete isn't being a complete Cooler-Than-Thou. plus, the word zaftig is awesome.
chicago!
Posted on March 13, 2008i'm happy. i'm going to Chicago next weekend!! i'll be getting in early Friday afternoon [March 21st], and leaving that Sunday evening [March 23]. so, if you're there, and want to harass me, bug me, hang out with me, or do anything other than call me a goat...
*holds nose*
Posted on March 12, 2008reason #649 that i'm glad to be moving out of the Tiniest Studio Ever in two months: when your toilet decides to malfunction, it doesn't just make the bathroom smell awful. it makes the entire apartment smell awful.
i'm officially ashamed to be human.
Posted on March 11, 2008i know i've said several times before that we've reached the bottom of the television barrel. be it in this blog or just in casual conversation, i've referred to many shows as being as low as reality television could fall. rendezview? cheaters? moment of truth? forgive me, for i have misinformed all of you...
letter to my iPod
Posted on March 11, 2008dear iPod, please to be not going corrupt and erasing all your contents. i didn't lose any data, luckily, because it was all saved on my computer, but still. having to re-download all seventeen gigs of music to it is obnoxious enough. and, you decided to flip out on me right before i was taking public transportation down to fairview heights...
do you like coffee?
Posted on March 10, 2008i saw this on i has a hot dog, and it amused me to no end. the text, the picture...it's one of the few loldogs that has amused me as much as a good lolcat.
sick? again?
Posted on March 10, 2008the good news: it's spring break. the bad news: i think i'm getting sick. again. i had the flu in January, and a cold in February...and now i have a sore throat. i know that's going around. one of my friends was really, really ill with one about a week, week and a half ago...
i has a bukkit!
Posted on March 09, 2008jacked from siln, and proving i spend way too much time on teh webbernets:
the MPRE: part deux.
Posted on March 08, 2008i took the MPRE again this morning. [for all you non-law people, the MPRE is a multiple choice test on legal ethics that's required in most states--including Illinois, so i'm stuck having to take it.] i took the test in November and failed it. i studied a lot harder this time...
death meets its match...
Posted on March 07, 2008Gary Gygax, one of the creators of Dungeons and Dragons, died Tuesday morning. xkcd had a brilliant tribute to him today:
:)
Posted on March 06, 2008you know what's great? going to blue hill, having a few beers, playing monopoly, and then loudly and badly singing Jonathan Coulton songs. ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't get any better than this.
escort values
Posted on March 04, 2008the foof linked me to this amusingly absurd quiz. Powered By TheirToys remind me of why i give it away for free?
criminal aptitude quiz
Posted on March 04, 2008good morning, and welcome to another edition of the criminal aptitude quiz! imagine you're a carjacker. you carry around a shotgun with you. you try to use it to jack a car, but the driver resists you and drives away. what do you do next? A. get rid of the gun as quickly as possible and disappear...
the weather just flat out can't stop smoking crack
Posted on March 03, 2008yesterday we had a high of 79 degrees. today we're under a winter storm warning. we've had some really schizophrenic weather in St. Louis this winter. we've had days when it was sixty, almost seventy...and then snowing the next day. but almost 80, and then an ice storm in less than 24 hours? and then six inches of snow tomorrow? this is a new one, even for this winter...
your music sucks. who the fuck are you? opinions are like assholes and so are you...
Posted on February 14, 2008i love you, Black Hat. that's right, i said the L-word. and i mean it. i love you, Black Hat!
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