4PM
What do I like most about women? I like when they like me.
-Stephen Colbert
What a coincidence! That’s what I like most about women too! (When they like me and/or Stephen Colbert).
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August212008
Laughter is the best medicine, that’s for sure. That’s for damn sure. Unless you’re a diabetic. Then, insulin is the best medicine. Don’t want to find you in a coma in front of a Three Stooges movie or something.
Norm Macdonald
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8PM
Looking at the channel guide. I thought I just saw a listing for Dude, Where's Thy Car?
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)
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6PM
Accents Are Fun
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.
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August182008
Sale at AllPosters.com
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!
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4PM
Does Roll Call Work?
rollcall:
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.
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9AM
To My Dear Friend Last.fm,
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
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August172008
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
A Wise Man
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