In case you haven't seen it, this guy really makes me wish I had a cat.

For the 3 people I know who might actually want to read the whole 9 pages about the history of graphics cards.

In other news, I'll be back in Portland in two weeks, from Monday thru Wednesday this time though. See you guys!

I miss the comics.

*cough cough*

Have you guys ever had mono? What does it feel like?

I've been sleeping 10 hours and waking up tired, which is really unusual for me. And I've been napping a lot more. But the only other symptom is a mild sore throat. No fever to speak of, and lymph nodes feel large but not swollen. And my appetite is steady, as always.

Watching the occasional House only fuels the hypochondria...it's African Sleeping Sickness that I got while cheating on my husband with a neighbor!

Today I wrote an email and then carefully went back and took out the words "omg", "totally", and "awesome".

Baby steps.

Short for Car Service Announcement, instead of the Community Supported Agriculture I'm usually raving about.

If the ebrake light and your battery light come on at the same time, the internet thinks you should already know that your car alternator is shot and your battery is going to subsequently die on you at some point in the near future.

Thursday I was driving an hour down to work to catch a flight up to Portland when all the warning lights in my car flickered on and off, twice. This plus a whine that had been going on for 2 weeks caused me to worry, but I got to the airport fine and flew away, and it was only on the drive home Friday that I started noticing my car really acting funny. On the offramp to my house, also after an hour of driving, my radio started to fade (also an obvious sign of impeding battery failure) to off, and then all of a sudden the brake light and battery light were on and my car was not responding to the gas pedal - lucky for me it was rush hour traffic and the lane was creeping at 5 mph anyways. So I put my emergency blinkers on and limped home for a grueling 10 minutes at 2 mph - the engine would skip a lot so i would have to tap the gas and wait for it to engage before slowly keeping my foot on the gas and crossing my fingers that the gas would keep working. Lucky I made it home, lucky it lasted as long as I did, and lucky I have AAA to tow it to my favorite garage for repair (thanks Car Talk!). I'm incredibly lucky. I keep thinking about what would have happened if it had died any earlier on 101N in the mist at 80mph...whew!

Once you see Idiocracy, you never see life in the same way. For instance, this summary or the full video about 1:50 before the end. Mountain Dew as a childrens' anti-depressant.

Brawno, anyone?

Got a wii - Amazon had them in stock for 3+days! Is that a sign that everyone who wants one has one, or another harbinger of the poor economy?

Is there any accessories/games you guys can't live without? I was thinking:
Wii
Wii Play (extra remote + more sports)
Nunchuk
Rayman's Rabbids (Rabbit bonking here I come!!!)
Zelda

Additional thoughts:
Charging Station?
2 more remotes eventually
Games - Lego Star Wars, Mario Kart, TV Party once i get the Wii Fit...

I agree. Though if you're a guy fewer options lead to ice cream.
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I loved reading Twilight. Helpless lead female character not-withstanding. There's just so much drama! I'd forgotten what it was like to be a teen-ager, with the emotions and the feelings and everything being so damn intense! Ahhh! It's like a drug! I can't wait to read the next one once Ali makes it up to the house again or this snow subsides so that I can leave it.

I swear, feminism just took a 3-decade step back.

For a button masher like me, the artistry in this Soul Caliber dance is pretty sweet. My favorites though were 2 (a better-Britney nostalgia?) and 3 (better choreography).

See y'all and the snow soon!

Since Patrick hates lolspeak so much, I thought he'd get a real kick out of lolcode.

kthxbai!

So I was all looking forward to reading the Twilight series (aka vampire harry potter) until Thanksgiving, when a friend told me that it was written by a Mo and is therefore all about the abstinence.

Does anyone else know? (Apparently this issue is treated differently in the movie, but I refuse to see that before I've read the book.) Like, I'm all for using abstinence as a plot development device where they can't give in and get it on for fear of one spinning into a murderous blood-drinking rage ala Buffy, but I'm not so cool with it if it's abstaining for the sake of some higher cause. Because what? is the point? of reading freaky vampire books if there isn't some freaky vampire sex too??? I'm thinking a bunch of couples flying around like the Blue Angels and references to necrophilia fetishes and declaratives of how nice it is to not have to get out the bathtub filled with ice and yes, it's possible that I'm exaggerating for the sake of humor. But when some eight-year-old fan of the lead actor asks him to "bite me", I gotta throw my hands up and say, wow, the potential for this to be a force of good in shaking up society and it's rules on sexuality is huge.

I blame it on Anne Rice. Who used to write some pretty raunchy erotica as A.N. Roquelaure, at least before turning her back on lusty heathens forever and going back to the mother church. She was all about the vampires and the openness to new possibilities and spreading that goodness around. My hopes for Twilight can't possibly live up to that if they're not even dancing.

I thought this video game was interesting. I shouldn't have read the hype about it though - just play thru once or twice and then read the creator's statement. It doesn't take up that much time or space, but there's a thoughtfulness to it that I really appreciated.

The creator also has a page on simple living that I identify with - not necessarily wanting to take it to that level, but with the basic ideas behind it.

A belated picture from the prop 8 protest in SF that I thought y'all would enjoy. And yes, that's me on the left.

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