April 2008
Choosing what LEGO to bring to Chicago and what to leave at home was a heartbreaking decision, akin to a mother choosing which child to spare at the prompting of a madman. Today I had an idea for a creation, the next in the one-picture scene series (the first, called “Escape”) But, I need basic black bricks and black plates of the 6 by X dimension. Alas, I left those bins behind. A...
Cold water running all the time = cold shower
We tried cutting off the water to the apartment, but the valve wouldn’t budge. Other apartment valves moved fine, just not ours. Then, enraged like the Incredible Hulk (Ed Norton version), my brother turned the knob for the tub with the strength of ten thousand exploding stars and got it down to a small stream. Huzzah!
The cold water is running in the tub pretty much on full, despite the knobs being turned all the way off really really tightly. Damnit!
I like short sentences, and describing things succinctly but without excess detail. The idea of typing fascinates me, as does text itself. I often have the opportunity to compose little bits of text. Facebook profile, IM away messages, flickr profile, the little sidebar here on faucet, and more. Profiles ask you to fill in a series of fields (interests, favorite books, quotes, etc) and then...
Man 'kept daughter in dungeon for 24 years' →
The daughter had children while in the dungeon. 2 of her boys had never seen daylight. I can’t imagine what that would be like. One’s entire world being 3 underground rooms. Kind of like “12 Monkeys”, a little bit.
“The Original Full Throttle® Energy Drink is packed with 3,000 mg of the...”
I’m not sure I like that my mom says things like “yo” and “sup?” in instant-message convos…
Yesterday they were handing out “Full Throttle” energy drinks downtown. Big 16 oz. cans, 2 per person. However, children under 16 couldn’t have one unless accompanied by a parent. I guess its illegal for children to be fully throttled.
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@ the haircut place
1. “Do you want the back to fade naturally, or in blocks?”
I have no idea what that means. I’ve never been asked that before. I went for “fades naturally”
2. Boy George song comes on the radio.
My barber (barbress?) “Debbie Jo” wants to know my thoughts on Boy George, specifically, him in the 80s. I say that I’m too young to know. She says...
tim: you have a brother?
tim: oh lulz. he looks like a fatter you
tim: it's like you were stung by a bee
In at least half of my dreams, I can fly. Now, I do like comic books, and Heroes, and other such things, but I like other things too, and they don’t appear in my dreams 50% of the time… Also, the dreams aren’t “about” flying. There is always an unrelated “plot”, and I just happen to be able to fly. I don’t think conventional dream interpretation...
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11 students suspended for banana prank →
They had gorilla and banana costumes, but also wore “pantyhose over their heads to conceal their identities during the prank” Why not just make costumes that concealed identities? Also:
"The last best hope"
This is a really interesting phrase. Abraham Lincoln said it. Maybe someone before him? I don’t know. Its a very dramatic, epic phrase.
Taking off my socks after a full day of wearing socks is very awesome.
Thousands of dollars depends on me doing 20 hours of community service. I should get on that.
This is not the first faucet. I bumped the old one to use the domain for this one. Read the old faucet at Faucet Archive, but be warned, it won’t make sense.
Yesterday I saw a girl from school on the train in Chicago. I’ve calculated the chance of seeing someone I know who is in Chigaco on a train as 1 in 94,444. (I currently estimate I know about 30 people in Chicago, the office accounts for 18 of those) I suppose that odd is technically that any particular person on the train is someone I know. I’ve forgotten too much about probability...
faucet.muxtape.com →
I made one. Some of my fave music isn’t mp3, so only 2 songs so far. Tim made me do it.
I’m rather glad there wasn’t HS Facebook when I was in High School. I looked really goofy back then, and there would be so many photos tagged. This is where you say “you still look goofy”
jfabulosity: lukees: Type “listen” on your Tumblr dashboard for the coolest easter egg I’ve seen in a while. I don’t know if this works for the IEs. It’s so awesome! I’ll never actually use this feature. But the idea of typing something, not in a text field, simply typing, and having something happen on the website you are on is extremely fascinating to me. It’s almost as if...
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Oops just used “orly?” in an online convo with my mom. I wonder if she knows how that translates.
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K that reblog was really long. But I thought it was cute, so whatever. I took a few pictures from my adventure yesterday, I hope the dirty lens mechanism didn’t make them all suck.
Computer: Monitor, display this document, O.K.?
Monitor: No prob, boss.
Computer: O.K., now it looks like Mouse is moving around so, Monitor, will you move the pointer icon accordingly?
Monitor: Anything you ask, boss.
Computer: Great, great. O.K., Mouse, where are you going now?
Mouse: Over to the icon panel, sir.
Computer: Hmm, Let me know if he clicks anything, O.K.?
Mouse: Of course.
Keyboard: Sir, he’s pressed control and P simultaneously.
Monitor: Oh God, here we go.
Computer: (Sighs) Printer, are you there?
Printer: No.
Computer: Please, Printer. I know you’re there.
Printer: NO! I’m not here! Leave me alone!
Computer: Jesus. O.K. look, you really ne…
Mouse: Sir, he’s clicked on the printer icon.
Computer: Printer, now you have to print it twice.
Printer: NO! NO! NO! I don’t want to! I hate you! I hate printing! I’m turning off!
Computer: Printer, you know you can’t turn yourself off. Just print the document twice and we’ll leave you alone.
Printer: NO! That’s what you always say! I hate you! I’m out of ink!
Computer: You’re not out of in…
Printer: I’M OUT OF INK!
Computer: (Sighs) Monitor, please show a low ink level alert.
Monitor: But sir, he has plen…
Computer: Just do it, damn it!
Monitor: Yes sir.
Keyboard: AHHH! He’s hitting me!
Computer: Stay calm, he’ll stop soon. Stay calm, old friend.
Keyboard: He’s pressing everything. I don’t know, he’s just pressing everything!
Computer: PRINTER! Are you happy now?! Do you see what you’ve done?!
Printer: HA! that’s what you get for trying to get me to do work. Next time he…hey…HEY! He’s trying to open me! HELP! HELP! Oh my god! He’s torn out my cartridge! HELP! Please, please help me!
Monitor: Sir, maybe we should help him?
Computer: No. He did this to himself.
“Take this sinking boat and point it home. We’ve still got time.”
– Once (saw it a month + ago, not sure why its suddenly come back into my head these past few days)
I’m glad motorcyclists rev their engines and make a bunch of noise. That way, I can be sure to know when super-awesome badasses pass by. “BRRBRBRBRRBBBBRRR” “Someone totally cool just drove by!”
My likeness is being used without my permission! There I am in the bottom left, advertising a party in Cincinnati. And I’m not even invited! The nerve! Some may point out that I wasn’t invited because the party is 5 hours away or whatever. And others may point out that I wouldn’t be attending if I was invited. But those some and others are jerks! Yeah!
Shame be damned!
I used to have this fear of buying LEGO in public. I thought that everyone was judging me and stuff. But today, I went for it. I wore my pink teeshirt, and bought LEGO at the downtown LEGO store, and then walked around downtown with a big yellow bag with a big red brick on the side. I may have gotten some glances, but I didn’t care. Rawr!
Awesome! LEGO store is right down the street from Apple Store! Woo!
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“I can’t believe I’m dead. There was still so much on my bucket list....”
– Tracey Morgan as “Tracey Jordan” in “30 Rock”
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