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A Taxing Year 1

Feb

8

2009

It’s one thing to say, “Boy, I really had a shit year financially last year.” It’s quite another have your tax guy explain to you that your adjusted gross income fell by over $14,000, particularly when you weren’t making THAT much money to begin with. And the icing on the cake is that I get ...

Link Dump

Feb

6

2009

A clearance of links I’ve been meaning to post, but haven’t had time to expand into full commentaries due to work/houseguest/laziness: Laz posted to his work blog a transcript of the most awesomely insane phone call I’ve heard of in some time. Courtesy of Weigel, a sampling of some really, really awesome audio excerpts from ...

When TV Characters Do Implausible Things 2

Feb

3

2009

Spoilers for the last couple episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and The L Word, in the unlikely event that anyone who gives half a shit about either show hasn’t either seen the episodes or heard about them. There are many shows that, for whatever reason, have their characters do things that are either entirely out of ...

There Can Only Be One

Jan

30

2009

I worked a 16 hour day and it broke my brain, so instead of anything coherent, please enjoy this video of a kitten pile on a Roomba: iRobot really needs to adapt my name for the Roomba as their slogan: The World’s Most Expensive Cat Toy. via Cute Overload.

Work Update 2

Jan

29

2009

I got home 20 minutes ago. I switched shifts with my boss tomorrow, so I have to be at work about three hours earlier than I otherwise would, which means even ditching the gym tomorrow, I have to be asleep in about 20 minutes. When do we wrap again?

Weekend Randomness

Jan

25

2009

Things are still batty at work, but at least I have a whole weekend this weekend. I have taken advantage of it by sleeping an enormous amount and swimming 3km this morning. So, in the continuing spirit of not really feeling like doing anything of substance, I present some weekend randomness. First, a video from ...

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Jan

21

2009

“rosa parks sat, so that martin luther king jr. could walk, martin luther king jr. walked, so that barack obama could run. barack obama ran, so we could fly” -The mural currently up on a building I drive by every morning on my way to work. As much of a cynic as I am, and ...

Yawn 3

Jan

19

2009

I’m tired. Really, really Tired. Worked until 2am Saturday morning then had to get up at 8:30 to drop off Chaplin to get his stitches out Tired. Passed out on the couch repeatedly all day Saturday because I didn’t have the energy to drag myself to bed Tired. Chaplin still bonking into things with his ...

Plane Crazy 1

Jan

16

2009

I was completely mesmerized by the insane events in New York today, with the plane that ditched in the Hudson after BOTH ENGINES got knocked out by bird strikes and somehow managed to get every last person out alive. I’ve been reading and reading and reading coverage, and I think I found one guy whose ...

Insanity Update 2

Jan

14

2009

Work is completely batshit crazy right now – we premiere in two weeks (Monday January 26th at 10pm, 9pm central after the return of The Closer) so we’ve got all kinds of publicity things on top of the usual insanity, and it’s driving my hours into the range of Completely Loony instead of just the ...