Tag Archives: Personal Blather

My wife is having too much fun with American Sign Language. Last night she figured out that she can combine the signs she knows into the phrases “Bacon juice” and “Making gravy.” For some reason this makes us both laugh (or as she says, “laugh like GOONS”). I fear what sort of reaction we might get from any deaf person who ‘overhears’ our vastly stupid conversations.

Anyone else out there remember the big deal about scissors in grade school? You used to have to use these extremely horrible plastic scissors with metal edges when you where in kindergarten. By first or second grade you could use the moderately horrible metal scissors with rounded ends. If you showed sufficient competence with them, you could graduate to the slightly-less-than-moderately horrible metal scissors with pointy ends.
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Stolen from too many people to guess, at this point:

Here’s how the game works:

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play!
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 15 or so songs that play!
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from! (Artist & title as best applicable)
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly!
P.S: no cheating and pasting the lyrics into a search engine.

This was a bit tough for me. I had to skip all the songs that came up that weren’t in English, mostly because I couldn’t figure out the lyrics well enough to type them in. And, obviously, the instrumental tracks were pretty useless for this too. There were a surprising number of both of those.

And now for the tough part for you all. With comments disabled, you’re going to have to e-mail me your guesses. Send ’em to quirkblog – at – gmail – dot – com
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Ah… How restful. No spam messages for the past few days, and all I had to do was break the commenting system completely.

Of course, that’s sort of like burning down a house so that you can rebuild it a different color, but that’s not the point.

The point is, I think, that I’ve set up an e-mail account specifically for folks to send me comments. It’s an idea that my Wife came up with that I’m blatantly stealing borrowing. If you’ve got something to say about something I’ve written, send it to me here and I’ll post it:

Quirkblog (big swirly ‘at’ symbol) gmail (little tiny dot) com

Replace the parentheticals with the appropriate symbols and it should all work fine.

What a very strange sensation… I’ve got an odd combination of tired and wired going on. I attribute it to lack of good sleep, shifting time zones and strange climatic changes. Long story short, my Wife and I zipped back and forth to Birmingham over the weekend. Short story much longer in the extended entry.
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It’s kind of a scary time at work. We’re expanding pretty quickly, and we’ve hired on some really cool people who are crackerjack computer programmers and a couple of awesomely talented designers. For me, that means I’m getting bumped up more toward a management role. Basically, instead of doing design and computer stuff I’ll be passing that work along to the new folks and coordinating their efforts. On the up side, that means we’ll be able to handle more projects and jobs. On the down side, that means I’ll need to get larger pants to handle the inevitable.
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My wife is organizing Christmas presents right now. It’s kind of disturbing. Two days after the annual Devouring of the Turkey and the presents are being prepped for dispersal. The really scary thing is that we didn’t even participate in the post-Thanksgiving shopping scrum. This is all stuff that she’s been acquiring for months, hiding it away in nooks and crannies, out of the public view.
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I’ve got a strange hunch that today is going to be kind of laid back here at work. It’s the day before Thanksgiving break and the place looks fairly deserted. On the other hand, it’s possible that we’ll be getting a slew of last-minute things in from people who have just now realized that it’s the day before Thanksgiving break and they need something for a talk they’re giving on Monday morning.
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We’re entirely moved out of the old office now. Nothing but dust & cardboard box fluff on the carpet are left to show our five year tenancy. Well, that and the holes in the walls from where the contractors took down our shelving. And the little loops of zip strip that we used to hang the sync cables for the flash system hanging from the ceiling tile tracks. And the odd dust smudge on the wall where the server has spent the last five years accellerating dust particles into the paint.

So yeah. I gues there are a few things left in the old office. But nothing that we’re particuarly going to miss.

Well, mostly back. And it’s not like I really went anywhere. I just had a bit of a problem with the laptop. Basically, I had some problems with file corruption that had to be taken care of by reformatting and reinstalling… Yes, it happens to mac users too. But I was able to backup all of my files and I’m going to be restoring them today, so what could have been a horrifying loss of all of my photos and writing is, instead, just a minor inconvenience.

Of course, it’s a minor inconvenience that’s taken two vital days out of my prep time for the U*Con Smithee show, but hey! I can work on that instead of sleeping for the next few days. That’s what caffiene is for, after all!