Nothing's Free
The nail-biter OU game was purchased at a price: my Bears lost today to, amazingly, the Dolphins. That’s just humiliating.
The nail-biter OU game was purchased at a price: my Bears lost today to, amazingly, the Dolphins. That’s just humiliating.
As much as Corso is an idiot, it was pretty funny to watch him put on the Schooner cap and wave a fake gun around.
At the end of this weekend, I’m really going to have to hose off my English Composition shovel.
I watched just enough Scarface today to hear my favorite line: “One more qualude, she’ll love me again.”
Everything else is Scrubs, which took me by surprise in syndication.
So did my fried rice tonight, which I seasoned fairly successfully with Cajun seasoning. Yeah, it sounds gross.
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The new James Blunt single is all the paint-peeling harsh U.K.-ish accent with no saving grace of a hook with chick-friendly exhortations of beauty.
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I almost brained an extremely small dog on the sidewalk, who was towing its owner along with one of those sprung, adjustable-length leashes. I was doing my best to smilingly do the anti-ratdog-dance when the owner quite seriously assured me, “He wouldn’t do anything to you.” Maybe I need to work out more so the five pound dog won’t look as much like a threat.
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New Darren Aronofsky film on November 22!!! With Clint Mansell (Requiem!!!) score!!!
Meditating computers is the second-dumbest thing I’ve encountered this week.
Olive Garden gets the permanent ban. No illness, but I don’t want to talk about it.
…thieving rascals.
Ars Technica gives Rockstar’s Bully an IX (out of X… yeah, it’s a little dorky), which is kind of a medium surprise to me. It’s a $40 PS2 game, smothered in controversy, and I was expecting it to be a watered down GTA 5 or some such.
It sounds like the game has a lot of depth to it, especially in terms of questions like “Why do people bully? What are their real motivations? What caused them to be this way?” It might be worth a look as the price inevitably falls.
Breaking Bonaduce is one of the best shows on television. I’m settling in to the second season as I write.
Ubuntu Edgy Eft RC1 has been released.
It’s actually a pretty important release. Getting rid of SysVInit is always a notable accomplishment. I really hate init scripts (I would guess any Slackware veteran with server experience would), so maybe this will be better.
I think it might get a VMWare image sometime, or maybe even a coveted partition, as I’m pretty excited to see Gnome 2.16, Firefox 2.0 (!), and new artwork. Kermit may find it difficult to be green, but Ubuntu definitely has a hard time staying cool while being poo brown.
I’ve decided that the worst part about a men’s haircut is the inevitable sideburn trim question. The reason this is painful is that it mimics the dentist scenario, in which you have a skilled, practiced technician making you feel like an idiot for not exhibiting top-notch performance on a fairly sideline issue of life.
There needs to be a better question than “Should I trim them off or just straighten them up?” No, leave them crooked, knothead. This ain’t always a dichotomous world we live in. It’s a crazy world, and I like my hair to reflect that. Therefore, I painstakingly trim my sideburns crooked to show the imbalance and cognitive dissonance that typifies my life.
I’ve thought some amount to myself about the detection ratio for crooked sideburns. I’ve occasionally had some real starboard-leaners for a number of days. I would assume, a la Jim Gaffigan, that a detection of crooked sideburns would make you look like your spaceship is in for repairs. I would guess the detection probability is well under 1%, though, so all of us sloppy shavers are off the hook most of the time.