Unrelated

Please excuse us as we attempt to set records in the combined "longest period of time between blog posts" and "sorriest excuses for not blogging" category.

More Important Things I've Just Now Realized

I've read more books than I have friends ... by several orders of magnitude.

I MUST HAVE SILENCE!!!

So here's something weird that I just realized is a tic of mine. I just paused the music playing in the background to reply to a text message. And then I did it again to write this post. It's as though I treat music as a form of communication. Kind of makes sense, now that I think about it.

Yeah! I'm not the weird one! It's everyone else.

Gawd Bless Amuricah

Last week, Belgian company InBev acquired Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser (Yay, America!) to the tune of $52 billion.

“I’ll tell you one thing,” said a 21-year-old concrete worker during his lunch break at The Brick of St. Louis bar, in the shadow of this city’s storied Anheuser-Busch Cos. brewery, “if Budweiser is made by a different country, I don’t drink Budweiser anymore. I’ll go back to Wild Turkey.” (Wild Turkey, a Kentucky bourbon, is owned by French drinks giant Pernod Ricard SA.)

via ... well, WSJ, for one.

You Heard It Here First ...

Gvangelist: N. One who consistently and completely unsolicited, proclaims the greatness and overall superiority of all Google software products and insists on your switching everything over to them immediately, ad nauseum.

Full disclosure: I am, in fact, one such Gvangelist. Seriously, Gmail! What are you using? It's better than that! Hotmail? Well, maybe if Hotmail came with unicorns and rainbows. Yahoo Mail? Does anyone still actually use that? Honestly? Horde? Well, OK ... But ... built in chat!

What's that?

AOL? ...

I don't ...

I ...

You ... should go now.

Collected

Occasionally, I read or hear a phrase that seems so right to me that I need to write it down to ensure that I remember it forever. So why not put it here?

This, from Roger Ebert's blog at the Sun Times:

"... is so definitely not my cup of tea that, for me, it is not tea at all, and does not come in a cup."

Fantastic.

I Like This New Short Form

This commercial is fantastic!

Art Things

This is my latest freelance creation, a found-object, slightly steampunk inspired necklace. It actually ended up looking vaguely scarab-ish. Click the pic for more of the rest of the process and one of the completed, framed piece.

Great Review Of Reality

As though it were an MMORPG.* Go here



on Metafilter.com, via Kottke.org

*c'mon, nerd up. Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

Signs Of The Times

I got April-fool Rickrolled like 5 times today. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Just So You Know

OK, sure ... you may be doing your part to save the planet, but driving that Prius doesn't make you any less of an asshole.

Doppelthingies

Am I the only one who can't tell Cher and Anjelica Houston apart? Is there something more sinister going on here?

My Sentiments Exactly

Important Things I've Just Now Realized ...

Generally speaking, I don't like people who like Hunter S. Thompson.

This Just Has To Be A Metaphor For Something ...

Great article on fairness and Legos. Wow, this brings back a lot of memories.

Why We Banned Legos

Another Word That I've Been Looking For

Vegangelical

As in, "You know I'm never going to give up bacon, so don't get all vegangelical on me."



via Kottke.org, originally from the NY Times

Having Slept In ....

Holy shit! Is it 2008 already?! I ... uh ...

Shit!

I've got a lot of stuff to do.

Just saw this though, and thought it was important enough to share. So, um ... yeah, what he said.

To No One in Particular

Cheap Trick had it right, you know. I do want you to want me.

It'd just make everything so much easier on everybody. I'm not sure how the onus ever became solely on me in the first place. How fair is that? Not at all. So get wantin'.

Hypothetically speaking, of course ....

It bothers me a little that your smoking habit is perfectly socially acceptable, but I can't pick my nose in public.

Just a little.

CANADIAN DOLLAR EQUAL TO US DOLLAR! MASSES PANIC!

According to the AP, the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the US dollar for the first time since 1976. Just another example of far our economy has slid into the shitter.

Uh ... no offense, Canada?



Via Consumerist