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Waiting For A Phone Call From The Fat Lady

Feb

10

2008

So as you may have heard, the strike seems to be just about over. Official voting will finish Tuesday night, and if all goes well, the writers will be back to work Wednesday. What that means for me personally is a bit unclear. Seeing as how it’s about 10pm and I haven’t gotten a phone ...

Hee Hee

Feb

8

2008

The best Onion Radio News in a while. Audio plays automatically on loading, so adjust your volume accordingly.

Let’s Never Fight Again Hugs Computer

Feb

7

2008

Hooray! My computer is back! What makes me really happy is that they didn’t wipe my hard drive, so I’m pretty much back up and running immediately, with the exception of a few files I had to move around from the external drive I was saving everything to while I was using the temporary computer. ...

Not Dead

Feb

7

2008

Just not doing anything terribly interesting, and have had a serious drop in motivation this week. After working for a couple weeks, to go back to doing nothing is awfully frustrating. I will note a few random things I’ve noticed in the last few days: – Chaplin falling asleep on my chest means I will, ...

Super Duper Bowl 1

Feb

3

2008

Now THAT was a great Super Bowl. Probably one of the few I’ve really gotten emotionally involved in since the last time the ‘Skins won, and that was a looooong time ago. But how could you not? After Eli Manning somehow managed to escape a tackle, put up a huge throw, and then have David ...

Free Stuff! 2

Jan

30

2008

The company I used to work for (not the show itself, but the much smaller company that technically employed me) has hired me for the week to clean out their old offices, which were basically unused by more than one person for over two years. They’re selling much of the old furniture to the incoming ...

Bad News/Good News

Jan

29

2008

I got a call from the folks at Apple about my computer today. The bad news is, because I have a matte screen on my MacBook Pro and will not even consider getting a glossy screen, they won’t have a part in until Feb 7th, and won’t have my computer back to me until Feb. ...

Inappropriate Historical Hilarity

Jan

28

2008

I saw this in a comment thread on Fark today, and I couldn’t stop laughing for about five minutes afterwards. I don’t know why I found this so goddamn funny, but it still makes me snicker when I look at it.

What Hath Transformers Wrought?

Jan

28

2008

It hath wrought the G.I. Joe movie. He-Man and She-ra, please call your agents.

Wow, There ARE Mountains Here! 2

Jan

27

2008

I was driving to meet a friend for brunch yesterday and saw a very unusual and rather breathtaking sight: The mountains behind Los Angeles, covered in snow, clear as a bell. Here’s an awesome picture of, basically, what I saw, (with a hat tip to LAist for pointing it out). Looks like that was taken ...