Like Obama, I’ve been a bit despondent since Battlestar Galactica wrapped up. The bad thing about watching TV shows as they air, as opposed to on dvd or on the computer, is that you don’t get to decide how fast it goes by. They do. So with BSG taken from me before I was ready, [...]
Category Archives: Distractions
Mean Nerds vs. Deep Pretty Girls
10-Apr-09Hello, Dummy! See you tomorrow, Bijoux!
01-Apr-09A few random items, because that’s how my mind rolls on a Wednesday: Last week’s episode of 30 Rock was pretty stellar. Not only do we get the return of the Beeper King, but we also learn a new term for laughing so hard you pee your pants: “lizzing,” as in laughing + whizzing. Btw, [...]
PARTY AT JULIA’S 2NITE
18-Mar-09Wandering around with my London houseguest Bob last weekend, we encountered two hacked digital roadwork signs. Did anyone else see these? On Houston, we found the friendly invite cited above in the header. The other, on Broadway in front of NYU — photograph below. Nice work, people!
Live Blogging Jury Duty
25-Feb-09(It’s no Oscars night or VMA, but how else am I supposed to pass the time?) 10:20 — The halls of justice are really over-heated and dry. 10:28 — The halls of justice have internet! 10:34 — Have updated FB status three times. 10:46 — Man in charge of my jury selection room is inviting [...]
My eyes have melted into my skull. This year I’ve vowed to get a handle on my information flows. (“Vowed” somehow sounds more compelling than “my New Year’s resolution is” … those words are the death knell for a plan if ever there was one.) After heeding this helpful advice and purging my inbox of [...]
This Week’s TV Reportback
04-Sep-0890210: Totally boring, and a weak rip of Gossip Girl + South of Nowhere. Annie Wilson, you’re no Spencer Carlin. John McCain: Even more boring. Sarah Palin: Less boring than McCain, maybe in a tie with 90210. Weak rip of every late 90s neo-con talking head + first-person “It Happened to Me” stories from Ladies [...]
3 paper jams, and 2 paper cuts. But I love my Mother, so I carried on with printing on the back side of scrap paper despite such obstacles. But more importantly, after clearing the second jam, as printing resumed, I thought to myself: Did somebody let a horse into the computer hub? Or did someone [...]
Not Proud
26-Aug-08I just did a quick read-through of this blog so far, and there are three mentions of hot dogs! I had no idea. I need to go to the farmer’s market and get some vegetables, stat. You would be able to do a search for “hot dogs” if this theme had a search bar, but [...]
Awesome
15-Jul-08Via the always resourceful Wicked Anomie, I discovered Wordle, which will create “word clouds” out of pasted-in text or a blog feed. Here’s what it made of an article based on my dissertation: That basically does say it all. We should be able to submit dissertations in Wordle format, don’t you think?
M.A.S.H.
09-Jul-08Greg and I just took a study break with a quick game of M.A.S.H. Remember that game? Well it looks like I will be marrying Greg’s boyfriend Ted, who apparently is going to make a lot of money, because we will be living in a mansion in Peoria and I’ll be driving to my job [...]