Weapons for the Cubicle Wars

From We Make Money Not Art, a collection of nonlethal weapons for winning at the office game: The Woodpecker! The Firefly! The Cateye!

Prescription Drug Safety Initiatives: Almost There, Guys!

I picked up my prescription yesterday and noticed that there is a new sticker on the bottle. This one is on the cap and describes the pill. It says:

THIS MEDICATION IS AN OBLONG SHAPED ORANGE CAPSULE AND SAYS "ADDERALL XR" ON THE FRONT AND THE BACK

The pills are indeed orange and capsules. They are not oblong, though, they're just rounded cylinders like other capsules. And they say ADDERALL 20 MG on one side. Since the information was wrong but not clearly horribly wrong, I just took my pill and wrote it off as the usual incompetence. In short, the whole effort was a net negative.

It's also totally great that they put this on the cap, so that when people who take lots of pills open up all of them to put their daily doses in the little pill reminder boxes, they'll put the wrong cap back on later and panic when the small round blue pill that says "HCD 1.6" on it is under the cap that claims large rounded white pills that say "Glucophage".

It's CHAZ! (consumer whore)

I was looking for a cheap pocket watch because my old one died, and bemoaning that there weren't any decent ones that didn't have Ye Olde Railroade engraving or some kind of paramilitary slogan. I went to Fossil's site and was poking around because they've done some okay ones in the past, and rumplestimpskin was looking too and found this awesome robot keychain watch!

Closeup below ( behind the cut )

Peppermint Patty Died For Your Sins

Go ahead and celebrate St. Patrick's day. Even if you're not in any way Irish. Even if you don't understand a thing about the politics of the celebration and its slogans and songs. Have corned beef and Guinness and try not to drive drunk, it's all good. Hell, the Japanese seem to enjoy Christmas, too. Holidays are fun.

But if you call it or spell it "St. Patty's Day" I'm going to come over to your house and beat you about the head and neck with "The Copy Editor's Shillelagh", otherwise known as a 1913 Webster's English Dictionary with cast iron covers and spikes, on the end of a chain.

She wants to touch your monkey.

Sometimes you see a news story or a link or whatever and think "Hey, this friend of mine would be interested. Other times you might see one and say "Wow, this is tailor made for this one friend of mine!" And then there's the time you see a web page and say "Holy crap! brianenigma is controlling the universe somehow!"

Combining Bettie Page and an inflatable monkey in one blog update. What are the chances, folks?

Salad anyone?

Tomatoes, beets, balsamic vinegar/olive oil dressing with dill and black pepper.