October 2008
58 posts
Dead Weight
So, Angela picked up my keyring tonight — she had a new house key made and wanted to put it on there for me.
“Kevin…” “Yes?” “What…” she began, pulling two keys aside on the ring, “…are these keys for?” “Umm…” I looked over, seeing the keys almost for the first time, “…I have no idea.”...
September 2008
91 posts
Just saw the “I’m a PC” ad that ends with “…and I make people bleed.” ?! — are we sure that M$’s ad agency isn’t “punking” them?
Observing the Election2008 stream, compare the quality of the anti-Obama posts with the pro-Obama posts. Paints a frightening picture.
Palin really is the ‘American Idol’ candidate — hand-picked for an ‘American Idol’ nation. Sadly, the strategy just might work.
Googling old classmates and acquaintances — feeling somewhat insignificant in light of what some of them have accomplished.
Apple's App Store schizophrenia driving developers... →
Angela made me some grilled cheese sammiches for dinner. Nom nom nom!
The Era of Private Space Flight Has Begun! →
[It’s a success: Valley billionaire launches rocket into orbit - San Jose Mercury News]
The first private space flight to achieve Earth orbit was launched today.
Huge news.
R.I.P. Paul Newman -> http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/09/66019/index.html (credit tumblr @sweettangerine for the heads up)
Get thee 2 a museum! http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/14080 <- 2 free tix to a museum TODAY ONLY. Thanks @fascinatingryan for the tip!
ONE MAN can’t run the country. It will take a whole cabinet. I already know the gang from whom McCain will choose, and I don’t trust ‘em.
While they both performed competently in the debate, McCain’s best days are behind him. Obama’s best days are yet to come. Fresh start time
Whoah. Can it be? Twitter is actually feeding into Tumblr in a timely fashion? *faints*
Unlike in ‘00 & ‘04, I don’t actively despise McCain as I did Bush. I think he’s a hero and leader, but I don’t like his party or vision.
Great deal of respect for McCain…I just don’t want him as President.
Palin-Biden will be a massacre. Should be some good watchin’.
I think I should write a children’s book entitled: “Good Morning, FailWhale”
ReTweet: @gruber - amen, brother! http://xurl.jp/1id
I need to find a more productive way to deal with these morning challenges. My nerves are shot by the time the bus picks the kids up.
My daughter will retire comfortably after having driven several husbands to an early grave, if she keeps this pace up.
ReTweet: http://twitter.com/amazonmp3/statuses/931868653 - Led Zeppelin IV for $1.99 today only!
wondersofbilly:
fringe fridge is my new favorite show appliance.
FTFY!
;^)
[nevermind me…just feeling a bit goofy and sleep-deprived.]
Watching “The True Story of the Internet” http://xurl.jp/1ed — good stuff!
I think both my 500GB Seagates are fried. And I can’t remember where I bought them to look for the receipts for warranty claims. GAH!
Damn. Body can’t hold out. Got 2.5 pages logged in about 6 hours. Not bad at all. Need to keep up this momentum. Sleep now. ZZZZzzzzz….
lunchin’ at work. Sketchbook at the ready.
Damn, whoodathunk that the act of holding a standard yellow No. 2 pencil and doodling in a sketchbook would rekindle the creative inside?
I’M. DRAWING. AGAIN! <— this may not seem very important, but for me, this is a HUGE DEAL. My muse has been MIA ~15 years or so.
This is so incredible — I’m floored. This is unprecedented in my adult life. I feel like a kid again. I can hardly contain myself.
Hindrance
At the risk of sounding egomaniacal, there is greatness inside me.* Inside my head. Ideas — lots of ideas — floating around aimlessly, doing nothing.
They could be out in the world, making people laugh, making people think, or just being even remotely useful. But they’re not out in the world, they’re stuck in my head or on any one of myriad sketchbooks, notebooks, or...
Good day today. Breakfast w/family; kites w/kids @ Trashmore; nice dinner w/Angela @ Yukai Byuffe — 38’s off to a good start. ;^)
“Windows is not the Mac’s rival or competitor. It is the omnipresent homogenizer...”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball: Digging Deeper
Alas, I’m findin’ that TLAPD quickly loses its luster when yer not a drinkin’ man. Oh, well….
Avast, ye Scallywags! It be TLAPD in mere hours, I be takin’ a might headwind on me piratical tweets!
Google (Pirate) →
Again with the crushing early morning headache. WTF?
WatchHulu - Palin / Hillary Open: Saturday Night Live
I missed this over the weekend, so I’m just now seeing this, but damn if this isn’t the funniest cold open I’ve seen on SNL as long as I can remember.
Awakened (Awoken?) by an invisible knife stabbing into my brain. Ow. Headache meds — STAT!
Gonna try to squeeze in another hour of sleep before getting the kids up for school.
Since I’ve forgotten about Talk Like A Pirate Day for the past few years, most of me tweets this week be as Piratical as possible…YARRR!
An imaginary conversation I have with a cat at...
This conversation happens as I’m walking. It doesn’t really happen vocally, but the interaction says about the same thing, if they could actually, you know, talk:
Me (walking): I’m heading to the bedroom to get some clothes. You might want to watch out. Cat (frozen in place, dumbfounded): OMG! What are you doing? Where are you going? Me (still walking, only slower and less...