4 years of hyperbolation, holidays, a new year
the holidays were a lot of running around and everything, but it was nice to see everyone. i was home for almost a week so i got to fully enjoy the break. good food, nice hot showers, movies and...
January 1, 2007 @ 4:46 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
velcro
eric: did you see that velcro pic? kara: YES kara: it is cool eric: too bad they can't make velcro that big eric: might be scary though i guess kara: that would be a neat art installation kara: giant...
January 1, 2007 @ 11:21 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
paying for the weekend via my sinuses
feeling sick, and only at work because we're interviewing our grant applicants today. there will be no shaking of hands. i totally overdid it this weekend and stayed out too late both nights and drank more than would be advisable...
January 8, 2007 @ 10:29 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
this is why she's my best friend
what meghan sent me for christmas: delicious green tea kitty ceramic teacup adorable puffy animal stickers - including a PIRATE MONKEY 'talk nerdy to me' tshirt which i'm totally wearing tomorrow; i'm not even washing it first this girl is...
January 8, 2007 @ 6:05 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
memory lane
opened up my giant javascript reference book to refresh my memory about objects, when out fell my old business card from my last job. weird....
January 9, 2007 @ 12:12 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
millions of college students and poor 20-somethings weep
Momofuku Ando, Instant Ramen Inventor, Dead at 96 ...After seeing people standing in line at a black-market food stall, he formed a strong conviction that "a life without enough food to eat is no life at all." He believed an...
January 9, 2007 @ 6:54 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
clothes make the (wo)man
katie: yay. saturday will be fun! you can wear my mini dress. kara: woo! kara: well we'll see kara: i might wear my usual uniform of tshirt and jeans kara: you know - like, this is me. as i...
January 10, 2007 @ 2:29 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
bus to nowhere
most likely a #49...
January 11, 2007 @ 8:21 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
lessons learned the hard way
it's damn near impossible to brush your teeth while crying. if you manage it and have to blow your nose right after, your snot is totally minty....
January 11, 2007 @ 10:52 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
le grand content
if you know me you know i'm a nerd. you probably also know that i really like charts and diagrams and floorplans and the like. 'le grand content' is a fun animation created by clemens kogler and karo szmit...
January 13, 2007 @ 1:51 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
papa pumpkin
my grandpa died on tuesday morning and i drove home that afternoon. today was the visitation, tomorrow is the funeral. i'm doing ok, considering how fast it happened, the manner in which i found out and that the last...
January 18, 2007 @ 10:04 PM | 6 comments | 0 trackbacks
the most free second largest by land-mass country in the world
alert: rant ahead! close browser window if you are offended by my political beliefs, which really - you should be familiar with by now anyway. off the AP wire: "The Pentagon has drafted a manual for upcoming detainee trials that...
January 24, 2007 @ 8:51 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
in my country kitchen we have a problem / and that problem is transport
please please someone get this for me. maybe you can go in on it with some of my other friends. i will make you delicious cupcakes and bring them to you IN THIS VERY DEVICE if you get me...
January 24, 2007 @ 9:56 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
anti-semantic
i can tell when i'm hitting a coding brain-block, because all of my comments become less semantic and more completely useless. so what was once: becomes more like: ...