puttered out

*sigh*

momentum has been lost. hunger has set in.

puttering will cease until .. whenever. or something or other. 

last night's settler's binge results

scott: 1laura: 2
tim: 2
barbara: 0

+ I'm guessing 2 or 3 hangovers

off on the mission!

wifeykins says: it's the beginning of the end!

he's telling his blog things.

(hey.. .this does look a bit like ichat with this fancy widget and shit)

today: smog, bank, tap-plastics

43 things --> 43 places

while looking for a good list widget, I wound up on 43 things. oh. it rocks. but from there, I wound up on 43 places. ooh. it's like crack.

lazy saturday

brought to you by an unhappy knee and the supercool google-blogger dashboard widget.

oh yes. hit f13, and then spew directly onto free storage and hosting. woot.

between being tired and having the excuse of a knee that's still unhappy from hiking wednesday, I am skipping my usual saturday morning Aikido class to putter and prepare for the running of errands.

for the 'home stuff' list -- one notch above the 'kinda want' list: good tripod, flat file

fuck fedex

today is a WFH day for me. It's been reasonably productive work-wise... well, aside from waiting for the build. finding the build didn't work. doing a full build, doing a full sync, start a build... rinse repeat.

but the big disappointment of the day is that fedex is supposed to come today. I was expecting them around 10 am. That's what time they'd show up if I tried to run an errand in the morning.  but NOOO, I had to stay home today so that I wouldn't miss them, and it is now 3:15 on a friday fucking afternoon, far too late to effectively run any errands without getting stuck in heineious traffic.

fuck fedex. 

extra organic milk

the milk went bad. that's not news. 
What's funky is that organic milk seems to go bad in a different way than chemical milk does. Oh. It is so much worse. Not sour as much as unacceptably savory.
One part of my tiny mind asks how that could be. But, if I accept that "organic milk tastes like milk used to taste when you were a kid", which I do, then I can also accept that when it goes bad, it goes bad differently.
Oh. And the KitchenAid™ garbage disposal is stuck and full of Cheerios™ and spoiled  Organics™(by Safeway™) milk. 

orwell hates mixologists

cosmetologist : barber :: mixologist : bartender ?

 or is it more like

cosmopolitan : gin & tonic :: mixologist : person with liquor cabinet

yes. the second is more apt, as the first would be disparaging of those who make their living by working with hair and skin

the big shoe collection hypothesis

(if this gets crossposted by anyone I know, they will pay)

------  the big women's shoes hypothesis ----

(narrative omitted to protect unnamed co-conspirators)

Why do they buy so many damned shoes? 

Revised: Why do people (clearly not all women, and clearly not 100% of women) that buy a lot of shoes do so?

The inspiration was when the question was paraphrased to: Why do they need so many shoes, while we have maybe four pair? 


We (those without a shoe habit) have maybe one pair for each utilitarian category (N shoes). They (gender-neutral but with a monkey on their back, or foot, or each foot) have shoes for each style (M styles) , possibly duplicated for each utilitarian category (N uses) --> (M times N shoes).

But wait, there's more. Why have four pair of seemingly identical shoes?

1) Because they're the best shoe ever, but was discontinued.  

2) Because I needed a pair of shoes that looked like this, but they aren't comfy, so I had to buy this other pair because they look almost the same but I can actually wear them. 

3) They're not the same. You just don't get the difference.

----
*sigh* I have the fear. the fear of catching flack . the fear of coming across as inarticulate. the fear of being crushed under a mountain of seemingly identical shoes.

maybe its time for breakfast.

company and product names

why is it that blogger types l33t-sp33k all the product names?

what? they don't want someone accidentally finding out that they're talking about flickr, amazon, and clerasil?

woot -- widgets

oh yes. I now have the google widget, which will hopefully fucking work. to spew directly onto the interweb.