I’m all tingly. Pretty grateful for a spine right now; it’s pretty much the only thing that’s keeping me from sliding down my chair to nap on the nasty, dirty floor.
But hell if nasty, dirty floor doesn’t sound good right now. Mmm, nap…
/girds self
Only 1 hour and 17 minutes left before I go home.
Most of the time, case law is pretty tedious. Once in awhile, though, the jurists break through their boring, robot-like (if robots practiced in circuitous, convoluted thought) shells and produce writing worth a smile or two:
Like a 19th-Century itinerant peddler, appellant Boot Hughston arrived in Mendocino County in the summer of 2006 to sell his wares. Instead of pushing a cart, he drove a rented Hummer, and in place of pots, pans and other dry goods, he sold illegal drugs.
Did you know today was
Curt loves me, and therefore I will not write my angry rant about Microsoft, or the state of the world. With a few balloons and colorful crepe streamers, my husband has single-handedly vanquished the world’s iniquities (as they exist within our tiny little demesne). Today I will not complain.
Happy evening, all! :)
Hello, and here is our turkey this year!
This year, we’re going with Giada de Laurentiis’ Turkey with Herbes de Provence and Citrus. We’ll see how it turns out! ;)
I realize this is old hat, but we’re finally getting around to watching the King Kong documentary. And yes, these guys are a little weird for loving King Kong so much, but none of us are completely free of ridiculous obsessions, are we?
Anyway, I just want to say it, because I cannot help not saying it: BILLY MITCHELL IS AN ASS. A big fat flaming ass. And he has bad hair. What a sad, pathetic little man. GRAR!
Not as scary as Fatal Frame II, but um, still darn startling. I would totally die in a zombie attack. I mean, seriously. There’s no way. In real life, I could not be bandaged by someone and get back to full functionality. In real life, I can’t set the game to Normal, or Easy. In real life, I’ve never fired a gun, and even if I could, I would probably be a worse shot than I am in the game.
Also, in real life, if there were zombies running around and leaping from buildings and swarming me, I would probably be terrified and therefore useless. I’d like to fantasize that I’d be all gung-ho and suddenly come alive, but no. No. I would just die.
Let me just say now, while the impending zombie menace has not yet reached our shores: it would suck to die in a zombie attack. I would opt out, thanks.
/shudder
Look… me and the McDonald’s people got this little misunderstanding. See, they’re McDonald’s… I’m McDowell’s. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
- Cleo McDowell from Coming To America
Xbox Experience launched today, and they have these super cute little characters that represent you that you can customize and stuff, which absolutely have no resemblance to the Miis at all. None. It was a totally independent thought process that brought about these characters, a totally different marketing strategy.
They are called Xiis.
Well, not really, but they might as well be. It’s pretty silly. ;) Although, I did have fun making mine, and she wears a pith helmet-type hat, whoo! There isn’t really anything in life that can’t be improved by adding a pith helmet…
One of modern life’s stupid inconveniences: anti-spam word recognition. I know there’s a formal name for them, but you know what I’m talking about. You know, those things where you type in what the jumbled words are in order to prove you’re human and not a spambot? Except, apparently, I am not human about 60% of the time. 40% is passing though, right?
Right?
I do. As soon as my Dell pre-installed McAfee ran out, I switched. My computer is running like, 1000% faster now. Go go non-invasive antivirus, whoo!
It’s still fire season in Southern California, even in November:
They closed the freeway down for awhile, and the fires are still burning, last we checked. We definitely need some rain out these parts. Any time now!
Back on track!