Illogical

Are auditory hallucinations a symptom of hyperthermia? It is super hot here, and the air conditioner at work has picked today to finally conk out for good (given the way the building management works, we can maybe expect it to be fixed by October). So I have to do some errands, which means getting in my car that has been sitting in the sun all day, and is thus somehow even hotter than the office. And I'm flipping around the radio, and three different stations are all playing Supertramp at the same time. Three! And three different songs, no less. So I'm thinking heat stroke, because there is no other possible reason why that should be happening in 2009, is there?

News of the WTF

Did you hear Kenley Collins, everybody's least favorite designer from Season 5 of Project Runway, was arrested last week? For assaulting her (now ex-)fiance. With a cat.

WTF?!


Rejected titles for this post:
"I Don't Think That's What They Mean by Catfight"
something something "Fur Flying"
"I've Heard of Girls Using Their Pussy as a Weapon, but This Is Ridiculous."

A Modest (Sales) Proposal

I spent all day yesterday in a sales training class. In the 8 years that I've been here, this is the third exciting new method that will completely transform the way my office works that has been rolled out. Maybe fourth - they all tend to run together after a while.

The culmination of the day was giving a full presentation to your partner in front of the entire group. Since we were the last ones to go, by the time it was my turn I had spent the last 90 minutes listening to essentially the same script over and over again. So I went gonzo. Ludicrously over the top. If a salesman tried this spiel on me, I would laugh in his face.

They loved it.

I don't even know what to make of that.

What, No Hello Kitty?

Apparently there is a South Korean company making a Barack Obama 12" action figure.

It is unclear whether the daisho is included or not. However, it will allow me to construct a diorama showing what will happen if Dick Cheney is investigated for any sort of wrongdoing during his term as Vice President (although, it looks like someone has already beat me to that).

So That Was Christmas

It just wouldn't be a holiday at my house without some form of sickness. This time, it was "only" a cold (and thus, much better than Thanksgiving), and Susi and I were the only ones seriously affected by it. So I guess that is better?

On the gift-reception front, Christmas was pretty geek-friendly for me. My parents (with some help from some pretty specific hinting) got me Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan. I had played each before, but not recently. I figured that they qualified as new classics, though, and should probably be part of my collection. From Susi and the kids, I got The Dark Knight (plus, Corry got Iron Man) and Lego Batman for the Wii. The game that is getting the most play, however (even though, technically, it was a gift for Corry) is Guitar Hero World Tour. Some day I will master you, drum part of R.E.M.'s "The One I Love." On Easy, at least. Maybe.

Maddie, my older daughter, and I took Carcassonne for a spin last night. It was as easy to learn (and teach) as I thought it would be. Too easy - she won the second game we played even though stole one of her farms away from her.

Also, since last report, I have played 3 more games of Pandemic and won them all. The first was a game with Maddie and Corry, and amazingly we didn't have a single outbreak the entire game. The second win, with all 4 of us from game night, was much closer and came only 2 turns before the game would have ended due to running out of cards to draw. The last win was with Corry and I in a 2-player game where we tried out the Normal setting (5 Epidemic cards instead of the 4 in the Easy version).


Edit (12/31/08): Now that the Geek is online again (thank heavens!), I can can provide links for the games.

Helpful Holiday Hint

For anyone that doesn't do all of their holiday shopping online, wandering through crowded malls with only a vague idea of what to buy for the people on your list can be a stressful event. But have you ever considered the stress on your feet? Here's a helpful hint I learned recently that may be of some use to you - don't break one of your fucking pinkie toes the only weekend you have to get all of your goddamn shopping done.

It sounds so simple, I know, but it really does make a difference.

Blogging Under the Influence

So it turns out there's this place in my neighborhood where you can get Vicodan pretty cheap. Or at least the generic equivalent. Hydro-something. You have to know a guy, though. In my case, the guy was an oral surgeon who just got through yanking a tooth out of my head.

Apropos to nothing, I found these online a while ago. I have no idea where they are from, or why, but I though they were funny.

In conclusion, why am I so dizzy?

They Are Also Back

It's almost as if people are imagining the last 8 years never happened.

He's Back

And he brought the pain train with him. Wooooooooo!

Are You Kidding Me?

My personal email is now being blocked by the firewalls on my work computer. Apparently, the fact that I use webmail means I am at risk of downloading a virus. Thank god we have Microsoft Outlook, which is completely safe and in no way extremely vulnerable, for our official email client.

Given that Gmail, Yahoo! mail and the webmail from my ISP have been blocked for some time, I guess I've only been able to access my mail for this long due to obscurity. Now to figure out a work-around...

OMGWTFVP

What would happen if the Democratic Vice Presedential hopefuls had an IM chat? Probably not this, as hilarious as it is.

Good Grief

One of the trailers shown before Dark Knight was for the upcoming Watchmen movie. I still I have my doubts that a big screen adaptation is workable (or necessary, for that matter). I was relieved to find that they had gotten away from some of the early concept art I had seen, though:

Going Nowhere Faster

Google Reader is a pretty amazing tool. I'm wasting time like 200% more efficiently now.

Inappropriate!

Do you have a weird reference that you do? A throw-out to something nobody has ever heard of? Well, here's one of mine:

So if you've ever seen me screech "Inappropriate" then wail on an imaginary guitar and/or throw down some devil horns, now you know why.