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i've already been crushed, thanks.

Posted on October 15, 2008
the first panel of today's diesel sweeties MUST be made into a shirt:

stupid parent.

Posted on October 14, 2008
once upon a time, there was a guy. this guy married his wife, and his wife became pregnant. the guy and his wife discussed what to name the baby, and decided to name her ava grace. the baby was born, and the guy filled out the birth certificate. there was just one little hitch: the guy didn't put ava grace as the baby's name...

things that entertain me

Posted on October 14, 2008
today, the internet is for lulz.this picture of Secretary Paulson making a face that would be right at home on a northbound Red Line train was on the front page of the new york times website:cracked.com's piece on celebrities that were real idiots with money has provided the world with the undisputed king of similes in its description of Mark Twain: "The man hemorrhaged money like a hemophiliac breakdancing on a bed of machetes...

a public service announcement from black hat

Posted on October 13, 2008
today's xkcd should be required reading in every copyright class...and, really, for anyone involved in the sale, transmission, legislation, or regulation of digital media:

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calling the peabo bus...calling the peabo bus...

Posted on October 13, 2008
contrary to our popular belief, "he's old" is not the only joke you can crack about John McCain1:there's plenty more where these came from...thanks Taryn!***1 this is in no way intended to imply that calling John McCain "old" is old meme. in fact, it's still just as relevant as ever, and will remain relevant until he picks a less flamingly incompetent vice presidential candidate...

unit pricing. it works, bitches.

Posted on October 12, 2008
KFC's new ad campaign is stupid. anyone who can do math can tell you that. watch and feel your head spin:i won't belabour the obvious point that the fried chicken and biscuits you would make from ingredients purchased in a grocery store will doubtless be of better quality than the fried chicken and biscuits you purchase at KFC...

grrr.

Posted on October 12, 2008
i slept in until 2:30 today.my reward?a horrible crick in my neck from being in bed so long.it's kind of hard to enjoy the first time in weeks that i've stayed in bed after 9am when my head is hurting badly enough to impede my ability to think clearly.

it's like a senior centre across the street from a graveyard...

Posted on October 11, 2008
i'm generally distrustful of title loan and payday loan places, but i saw an extra-sketchy one today.i was standing at diversey and western, waiting for the bus. on the west side of western, just south of diversey, i saw what looked at first blush to be a run-of-the-mill title loan shop...

butt-o-nomics

Posted on October 10, 2008
last night, while i was on the phone with my co-conspirator, who shall remain nameless, i had an idea. the more i see the stock markets jumping up and down, the more i see companies like AIG and Barclays spending their respective governments' bailout money on rich trips for executives, and the more i read about people finally admitting that these financial instruments that helped to get us into this mess are just as ethereal to them as they are to us average joes, and their long-term effects just as unknown...

another state sees the light.

Posted on October 10, 2008
i officially bestow The Shiny upon the Connecticut Supreme Court.

questions? comments? grievances? catcalls?

Posted on October 09, 2008
i know i just posted that food meme a few days ago...but i am le tired. since i lack ze missiles to fire, this 50-question survey [rather inelegantly ganked from an old post of Rob's] shall do in lieu of actual content.1. What bill do you hate paying the most?student loan bills...

sad guys on trading floors

Posted on October 09, 2008
you like schadenfreude, right? i know you like schadenfreude.fengi posted a link to sad guys on trading floors...a site that's exactly what it sounds like. it's pictures of unhappy-looking financial traders with snarky comments accompanying them. it provides sweet, sweet schadenfreude better than any website on the internet except for possibly www...

moar debating!

Posted on October 08, 2008
lehrer/biden '08!in other news...contemporaneous commentary and assorted snark on Rob's blog, as always. ?

creepiest parent ever.

Posted on October 08, 2008
i can't decide what's most wrong about the allegations in this story:the mother was really, really insistent that her daughter's ex-boyfriend get back together with her daughter.the mother repeatedly called the ex, repeatedly e-mailed the ex, and sent 12,302 text messages to the ex over the course of six months...

game, set, match.

Posted on October 06, 2008
i knew the original maverick. the original maverick is a friend of mine. and you, John McCain, are no maverick.

a picky eater, i am.

Posted on October 06, 2008
alright...here's a meme that i took from Rob as well as agent alpo...it's about all kinds of weird food. several of them i had to look up since i had never heard of them before, but here goes nothing.Bold what you?ve eaten. Strike what you wouldn?t ever consider eating...

paradox

Posted on October 06, 2008
am i the only one who has always found it weird that even though it's the rich that care most about the stock index, one of the major stock indices is called the "standard and poor's"?>.

???

Posted on October 06, 2008
as if i needed more evidence that the stock market is a fickle, ethereal, and ultimately absurd thing...i just watched the dow plummet thirty-five points from the time i got on the elevator at ground level to the time i got off the elevator on the forty-fourth floor to go to my office.

a little thought on computer programming

Posted on October 05, 2008
coding: it's frustrating as hell when your program is buggy, but the feeling of *squee* at the end when the module finally works is so addictive. seriously, it's like crack. that little rush makes the hours of banging my head against the wall [or the table, or the book, or whatever the nearest hard object is...

good morning.

Posted on October 05, 2008
it's a quarter to eleven on a sunday morning.i'm eating an omelette, sipping coffee, and learning the ins and outs of cron jobs.it doesn't get any better than this.

*squee*

Posted on October 04, 2008
on cute overload this morning...a beagle with a solid bailout plan!

*facepalm*

Posted on October 04, 2008
Barney Frank on Bill O'Reilly..."your stupidity gets in the way of rational discussion":his stupidity, and his yelling, ranting, and not letting Frank get a word in edgewise.

now more than ever

Posted on October 03, 2008
mccain drove me crazy during last week's debate. he claimed that we were clearly winning in iraq. he claimed that a $5000 tax break is a better idea than actual government healthcare assistance. he couldn't put a finger on any way his policies would be different from those of george w...

why am i having bar dreams NOW?

Posted on October 03, 2008
i didn't have any weird, panicky bar-related dreams between the test and the results coming out. i freaked out enough during my waking hours, but my sleep was my own. the anticipation and the nerves never seemed to follow me into dreamland.it was only last night, after the bar results came out, that the bar first stalked me there...

vice weenies

Posted on October 02, 2008
i just finished watching the vice presidential debate. it was a far better debate than last week's presidential debate...as i didn't leave facepalming with a desire to elect the moderator.that being said, biden mopped the floor with palin. biden was pointed, and he clearly knew far more [and could speak far more eloquently] about both his ticket's policies and her ticket's policies than she could...

just a thought...

Posted on October 01, 2008
meat loaf rules.[yes, i mean the singer...not the food, although the food is pretty good too.]

we are pleased to advise...

Posted on October 01, 2008
i passed the bar!!!!!i passed the bar!!!!!AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!they didn't make it easy for me to find out. after that post about hoping to have stuff up by midnight, i got an email saying i had an "important posting" on the website. of course, i then kept trying to log in...

:D

Posted on September 30, 2008
SOX WIN!!!!!

YA RLY

Posted on September 30, 2008
i just saw this on the bar examiners' website: DELAYED RELEASE OF EXAMINATION RESULTS July 2008 bar examinees PLEASE watch your individual emailboxes rather than the website for news from the Board. Contrary to all expectations, the website was crashed by your attention this afternoon...

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Posted on September 30, 2008
i'm still waiting on bar results. they said late afternoon. i know it's not late afternoon yet. i don't care. i just logged into the bar website to check, just in case it was out and they just hadn't emailed me. of course, there was nothing. i just want to know.

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