Don't pop it.

wearescott has an important message for those guys who are trying to go back to 1982 and be preppies. DON'T.

The people who dressed this way at my high school were the enemy then, and they're the enemy now. They bred, and their spawn are easily spotted. You all know what to do.

dirty and gritty

I spent the day sweating. Partly this was because it was over 80 F and unusually humid, although I have no right to complain; just about the rest of the nation had Suicide Weather.

I'm a sweaty guy to start with (helllooo, ladies!), and the happy helmet pills make it worse. When I was on Paxil it was almost humorous, and the current regimen is a lot less perspiratory. But wow, today. My alarm for "too sweaty" is when the waistband of my jeans is damp, and that hit about 1 pm.

I saw actual people I know tonight, which was nice. It was also really nice to get the hell out of the house and be somewhere with a breeze after making spaghetti & meatballs for 4, eating it, and then cleaning up the kitchen for a meal for 4. It's nice to see my brother & nephew, but I forget each time what it's like to be the cook for more than one or two people. My meatball-fu improved this time, though.

I just finished paying my Apple loan late (oops), on MBNA's website. I was annoyed by two things. First, the online payments are delayed a few days, so that even though I had it in time it won't be in time. It should be instantaneous, come on guys. Second, the slogan for the bank, which is the title of their webpage, is: If You're Into It, We're Into It. What. The. Hey? First Bank of Easy Rider?

He's baaaaack!

Yup, him.

nattering pettifoggery and raw linksmanship

Every Musician's Nightmare: a year lost to tendinitis. Also, MSNBC can't spell "tendinitis". Oh, I guess that's an alternate spelling. NOT WHEN I WAS DOING MEDICAL EDITING, IT WASN'T!

Honda made a business jet and claim it's 40% more efficient than others in its class.

Could you be a hobosexual? Or maybe you're just bum/curious? Think about it.

David Lynch is a cool filmmaker but I don't want Transcendental Meditation™ in the schools, okay? I didn't know anyone had even done TM™ since about 1980.

Pure unvarnished linkery without shame

You can hear an underwater recording of the big Indonesian earthquake; amazing.

The Japanese, kings of weird news, have got their banks doing things people probably should not be tempted into doing.

The Plantronics telephone headset people are giving away a trip to space. Really.

There's a whole ecosystem we didn't know about under the recently collapsed Antarctic ice shelf.

The current economic situation is best explained with a cartoon.

Watertown, WI has a tire fire going so big that you can see it from space.

How to deal with bad clients: 10 tips.

I know I won't be leaving here.

The Kidz Bop kids have done it again. Hoo boy.

Take Me Out (3.7M .mp3)

Not as insane as "Float On", but still.

Dear Portland Emigrés

vegemitelover just revealed to me that he's becoming accustomed to breastfeeding in public.

I am nonplussed. I had no idea he was even pregnant, much less that there was a child. As supportive as I am of breastfeeding in the early years, it's hard to see how he could get enough milk from himself to get any benefit. Has he read up on this? I wonder if he may be trying to fake it with a hidden bottle of some kind. I don't want to pry, or to appear too critical of alternative lifestyles, but one has to consider the health of the infant, here.

There's also some business about him doing this with bearded ladies at a computer fair. Is a circus involved? I really don't understand Portland life.

Hugs,

Conrad