Nice hat, dude!
(thanks to livejamie for the link)
(click on the guy’s horrified face for more awesome pictures of the Olympics, as well as visual evidence of why wrestling is a terrible idea unless you like having another guy’s balls pressed against your nose)
-Stephen Colbert
What a coincidence! That’s what I like most about women too! (When they like me and/or Stephen Colbert).
Miles Davis (with John Coltrane) - So What
Such an awesome song. Not only do you get a legendary musician bringing the goods, you get two. I love listening to this track while relaxing and winding down. Or, when I’m pretending to be sophisticated.
The Best of Norm Macdonald.
I just watched a video of Norm on the Saget roast and laughed nonstop throughout his entire set. I forgot how hilarious he is and I spent about an hour of my day looking up his videos on youtube. I’ve watched this compilation about five times now and every time it makes me laugh so hard that I am literally reduced to tears. His bits on Conan in particular had me cracking up to the point I had trouble breathing.
An understandable mistake seeing as how Dude Where’s My Car is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
(Title via onemoretimewithfeeling, Post via me)
Blind Melon - Three Is A Magic Number
I just dug this song up from my old computer’s hard drive and remembered how I couldn’t stop listening to it a few years ago. Hooray for cover songs from Schoolhouse Rocks!
As I mentioned in my previous post, there was a site review at my family’s clinic today. The purpose of the site review is to make sure that medical clinics and other healthcare centers are following proper policies and procedures to ensure safety and standard of care for patients.
There’s tons of guidelines that must be met, from the heights of examination tables to the way the physician documents patient encounters in their charts to the type of bleach you use. Most of the things that the reviewer checks for are understandable. Does the staff know how to deal with infectious patients? Does the doctor leave used syringes all over the waiting room floor? Does anyone in the clinic sell naked pictures of patients to make a little money on the side?
However, a few things seem unnecessary and arbitrary at best. One of those guidelines is the necessity for nametags that also display job title. I understand the need for nametags at large businesses, but our clinic is staffed by five people and all of our patients know everyone’s name by the end of their first visit. But, for the sake of compliance I made nametags for everyone.
Now, the nametags felt awkward enough, but now we had to put our job titles. I still think it’s kind of weird to call myself the office manager, but that’s the role I’m officially branded with, so I put it on my tag. The tricky part came when it came to my brother. He’s a jack-of-all-trades in the office and takes care of a little bit of everything. We thought “receptionist” was too boring and didn’t accurately describe his job description. After much deliberation we couldn’t think of anything that sounded right. So, we decided to come up with something funny (but not obviously a joke), and vague enough that it could fit all of his roles.
We settled on “Jon Nieva: Professional”.
He ended up liking it so much that he wore the ID all day. It resulted in some great reactions—mostly confusion mixed with mild amusement—from everyone he came across at a grocery store, bank, restaurant, post office and Home Depot. You have to admit, it’s a great way to let people know, “Don’t worry, I have everything under control.”
Today, our clinic went through a “facility site review,” which is just a nice way of saying audit. Unfortunately, we’re required to go through these reviews every few years to satisfy certain healthplans. Luckily, our reviewer happened to be a rather pleasant Scottish gentleman whose accent (“from the old country,” as he put it) was still going very strong.
Throughout the day I was asked questions about policies, procedures and our standards of operation. About 40% of the time I had no idea what the hell I was talking about, and the rest of the time I found myself so amused by his accent that I didn’t process a word he said. Throughout the day, he would refer to me as a “lad” and the girls in the office as “the nice lass at the front desk” and would comment about how he “dinna find any problems with the chart.”
As nice as he was, and as polite as I tried to be, the first six hours of my day were a struggle. It took every ounce of restraint I had to keep from bursting out in a terrible Sean Connery impression. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I had to hold back an impulse to loudly quote Braveheart or Scotty from Star Trek. Now that he’s gone, I’m going to purge all the things I had to hold in all day. So, for the rest of the night I’ll be talking like Mrs. Doubtfire.
Clearly, I’m a sophisticated individual with staggering knowledge of the world’s cultures.
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl
Whenever I listen to oldies, I tend to get caught up in the melody and rhythm and the lyrics usually just wash over me. In most cases, I’ve heard the song countless times since I was a kid and I don’t think too much about what the song is about. Also, I just assume that being an oldie, the song is about being in love with a pretty girl or some other enjoyable aspect of life.
But if you actually listen to the content of this song, it’s definitely not about sunshine and lollipops. In fact, off the top of my head I can’t think of any other songs that cover the same subject. So kudos, Gary Puckett. I can’t think of a finer song about being attracted to/seduced by a girl that is of a forbidden age, and the struggle to tell her to go.
At 24, I can’t completely relate to the song. But with that said, I’d like to dedicate this one to the US Women’s Gymnastics team.
I can’t be the only person who noticed this, can I?
And don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on Michael Phelps. I have nothing but respect for what he’s accomplished. I just can’t help but laugh when I look at only the top half of his newest Sports Illustrated cover picture. If I was good at photoshop, I would have shopped a hand covering his bottom half instead.
Not sure if anyone out there would be interested, but AllPosters is having a sale right now and posters are $4.98 each. If you get 3 or more posters, enter code “APCSHP” for free shipping.
Just in time for all the incoming college freshmen to get pictures of beer logos and girls making out to put up in their dorm rooms!
Roll Call, now 884 Tumblr users strong, was built to provide a new, inclusive way to discover people.
Does it work? Have you found new people to follow? Have new people found you? Do tell!
I’ve definitely perused Roll Call’s database on several occassions and I’ve read a handful of random tumblrs. I haven’t added any yet, as I’m trying to keep my following list to a manageable number. As it is, I have trouble keeping up, and I have less than a hundred (and only 40-50 or so that actually update regularly). I’ve definitely bookmarked a few though, and I’ll probably end up following them eventually.
As for people finding me, I’m not really sure. A couple of people did add me after I joined Roll Call—hello and thanks for the follow, by the way! Though, I suspect that they may have found me via Megan. Any time I find my followed by numbers increase, it’s usually because I’ve received onemorebumpwithfeeling. You like what I did just there with the clever phrase/tumblr username reference? Yeah, I liked it too.
Either way, I still think Roll Call was a great idea. Though, at the moment it’s a bit skewed towards those with icons featuring pretty girls. But then again, such is life.
We’ve been through a lot of music together. I appreciate you and think you’re a really great site. I think what you do is awesome and wonder why no one thought of doing it before you did. However, now that we’ve been scrobbling with each other for well over two years I expect that you’d know me a little bit better. It might be too much to ask from a website, but could you pay a little bit more attention, please? Don’t keep record when you see me play two video game soundtracks in their entirety in a row. By now, I figured you’d realize a pattern of songs like that would indicate I fell asleep and forgot to turn off my music. I know, I know. It’s my fault for leaving the songs running, but I thought you had my back, Last.fm. I’m sorry, but I’m disappointed in you.
Seriously though, two entire video game soundtracks, assorted tracks from Nintendo games and that crappy new Jack Johnson album? What the hell?! I don’t even remember getting most of that stuff! Are you trying to set me up to look like the world’s biggest nerd? It hurts me to admit it, but sometimes I feel like you and iTunes are trying to sabotage me.
-Shalom