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ROBOTS ATTACK!!!!

Posted on October 31, 2008
this 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, 2008
if 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, 2008
i'm going up to new york this evening to spend the weekend with Rob!!*squee* *squee* *squee*? ? ?

a little proof

Posted on October 29, 2008
postulate 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...

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OH...OH...YES!

Posted on October 28, 2008
there 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, 2008
a 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, 2008
today'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, 2008
ted 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, 2008
i 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, 2008
living 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, 2008
i'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, 2008
someone 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, 2008
paul 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, 2008
my 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, 2008
i 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, 2008
the 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, 2008
let'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, 2008
dear 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, 2008
i 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, 2008
this 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, 2008
i share with you quite possibly the most entertaining election snark ever, courtesy of metaquotes.

a musing about coffee and boobs

Posted on October 19, 2008
i 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, 2008
i'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, 2008
today 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, 2008
oh, 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, 2008
as 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, 2008
the 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, 2008
this 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, 2008
you 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*

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