Mostly about my amusement
I think Charlie Brooker gets it. The news format is perfect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4
Now if only someone could get Stone Phillips to do this skit on the Daily Show.
So this morning I attacked the pile of snow in my driveway. The gas from last year became no good so the snow thrower was stalling like crazy. Crazy as in every minute or so. This is not news to me, I had just thought that the power of positive thinking would make the old gas more combustible.
When that was a bust, Lily and I took the gas container and filled it up. For our troubles we narrowly missed getting slammed by another SUV. The poor lady missed us and said “my brakes didn’t work”.
Funny thing that Isaac Newton and his laws. If only she watched Mythbusters then she’d understand better. I stepped on the accelerator and she passed behind me so it was all good. When I got home and put in fresh gas the snow thrower worked fine. Now the driveway is usable and I ache like nothing else.
Looks like I will have to use the snow thrower after all. Good thing it’s all gassed up. I started it yesterday before the snow came down.
At work Friday there was some discussion about what contingency plans will be for coverage on Monday. That’s not looking like such a bad idea right now.
This has been making the rounds but worth repeating here. Seeing this in HD is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
It gets really fun around 2:53.
At work I had offered months ago to walk over to Carvel on 2nd Avenue between 24th and 23rd streets. This was in return for the help I had gotten from the NOC. It was turning into an on going joke and today when I was reminded about it I said “It’s not too cold, why not today?” and took orders.
I headed out for the ice cream run and this is what I found.
Nice! They went out of business. Probably just to spite me. I took the photo because no way the guys were going to believe this. My timing is still perfect.
Heh, the 11/3 project. I don’t watch Glenn Beck. But from what I have seen from his interviews and clips, I can’t believe people are still watching the new Morton Downey Junior.
Auto-tune the news never gets old. Here’s #9.
Auto-Tune the News #6 is pretty good too.
Remember in Fight Club, the main character was addicted to support groups? Posting in the WordPress support forums is sort of like that.
You know how when you can’t sleep, your eyes sometimes wander to the digital clock on the night table? At some point everyone does that. It’s no good since you are not going to sleep, you are just watching the clock countdown. The whole night can go by that way repeating that same counter productive routine.
Last night I was trying to sleep along those lines. But being an overachiever, I was much more counter productive than that.
Yesterday evening Lily and I went swimming and we did 10 laps together. She’s a better swimmer than I am, since I don’t push myself too hard. My muscles will not cramp up because at the first sign of warning I slow it down. Even taking it easy I still get really tired.
Just like last week, water got into my right ear and I could not hear much from that side. We got home and eventually went to sleep. Or Lily did, I spent the night pulling, tugging and prodding my sensitive ear.
At some point around 3 AM I went to the bathroom and poked at my ear with a q-tip. Then in a pre-dawn state of mind, I poured some hydrogen peroxide in my ear. My thinking was that I had a build up of ear wax. This flat out did not solve my problem but my ear sure got sore.
Now, I do not know anything at all about the human ear. If I was not so tired and had slept, then I am sure my response to my idea for treatment would have been “Wow, that’s just stupid”. Normally I would expect that my ear would get worse from that plan but at 3 AM it seemed like a pretty good idea.
I did not get to sleep at all and when the alarm went off at 5:30 this morning I tried to go downstairs to have my coffee. I did not make it, I was just too freaking tired. I thought that if I went to the office in my nervous state of mind, I would have a psychotic episode. So I called in sick and kept my hands off my ear.
It’s now 12 hours later and still no sleep. And my ear is only a little better. I have to do a parent-teacher meeting tonight, it’s my first one this semester. I think I will let my wife do all the talking. Next week I have a scheduled doctor’s appointment so I’ll skip any further swimming till I speak with him.
I’m really hoping I sleep like a log tonight.
Saw this on Ngee Khiong:
It’s a scary diorama that anyone who collects and builds Gunpla can relate to. Not that I’m like that, no, no way…
