I love my rice cooker

oh, the joy of the Sanyo 1 liter neuro-fuzzy rice cooker. It is now cooking steel cut oats for my tasty work at home breakfast.
(yes, yes, the zojurishi induction cooker is apparently the shit, but  they only sell a gigantic 1-liter model in the states and the thing costs too much.)

Genious!

contemporary gallery and surroundings 025
Originally uploaded by ryapapaya.

oh I so love the Dashr widget.

house arrest ... er WFH

WFH again. though I was planning on going in today. I am sore sore sore from Aikido. Fortunately, I was able to borrow a cup of ibuprofin from the neighbor.

she's off squeezing birds

wifeykins is at the SPCA feeding baby birds or somesuch. 

I cooked dinner for her. and she is not home. 

sigh.

chicken hats!

PMP
Originally uploaded by trfcnte.

porch couch day

nice sunny day. fantastic fried-chicken-coleslaw sandwich from Bakesale Betty. 

now, time for DBG

1984

1984
Originally uploaded by you_only_live_twice.

sigh

time to make the donuts

..er I mean update the spec.

and wait for other people to do their work.

*sigh*

(completely forgetting some bit of deeply insightful vitriol occurred to me yesterday.)

ugh. monday.

monday?

it's fucking thursday night.

oof. what a week.

productive!

this weekned:
* painted over stripe on wall
* moved silver cabinet
* new shelf layout in kitchen
* broke settler's losing streak
* lamps upstairs
* L's sock drawer dresser
* lots of spackling

sarcastic vs sardonic

apparently quite similar..  most usages of sarcastic would be improved by using 'sardonic' instead. according to this sarcasm is more about the meanness, while sardonic is more about the humor.

origins: sarcasmos from sarkazien 'tear flesh'
of Sardinia--used by Homer to describe bitter or scornful laughter. 

summary: 
sardonic: wry++
sarcastic: insulting -- an insult wrapped in a lie hidden within a joke

accidental sniglet

anachronym: a historically innacurate word formed from the initial letters of other words

television keeps you down

Eugene Young, the producer and schill for "American Inventor" was just on NPR's Science Friday. The asshat says "for most of the contestants, this show is their one chance to do something with their inventions". Auugh. 

Welcome to modern america. They will tell you that you have no chance, but through them. 

Assmonkeys. 

reiTopic -- outfitters for the collapse of civilization?

wifeykins wrote about a dream with a store that was half hot topic half rei. that could either utterly suck or be utterly genious, depending on who you are on which half of which they take. 

Some REIs look like sears, but with more expensive clothes. Or I guess, what sears used to look like when they had everything--in particular, sporting goods. 

Bad version: cheap crap that references the outdoors. cars in lot: mom's brand new saab.

Good version: like REI but without the muted earth tones. cars in lot: old, rusted out trucks with winches in front, converted to un on biodiesel, and BMW offroad motorcycles.

squall-y

ten seconds ago it was raining like all heck.
now, no rain, but lots of wind.

the AccuWeather.com weather-widget says 54°, partly couldy. Ha!

5PM

joyous WFH day, today's tasks: localized strings, memory leaks, plugin architectures. joy.

it goes well, just not quickly.

the real reason nolley had to leave

the pressure of being glared at every time she says 'Cali' finally got to her.

withSpiritGuide

withSpiritGuide
Originally uploaded by drink nerd.

wifeykins has been posting composed images of herself and random animals.

here's my first.

china in sun

china in sun
Originally uploaded by drink nerd.

after looking at 'this is not my cat' for a few days, I realized that I had to put up a good picture of my kitty.

updates:
work: okay, though there is wierdness on the horizon
aikido: good. dojo workshop is saturday 10-2
home: messy, but will get better.

obligatory update

about to go next door for one, maybe two games 

this is not my cat

Bruno
Originally uploaded by Häufchen.

in some ways the world is very large. there's _another_ cat that is cute like china.

oh.. and here's one that's FAT

fire clouds

damn, I need to get some shop space. and time. I've got the jonesin' to get these babys up and running again.

they always swim to the left

picked up some swedish fish from the checkout maze at the emeryvile 'best buy' -- wifeykins won't touch them, but they're the real deal.
Oh, the anguish and disappointment of eating even a single fish shaped item of incorrect texture or flavors. Oh, the memories of the candy counter at the exceedingly lowbrow sears of my childhood in middle-middle-class (lower-middle-middle-class?) near-suburban detroit. 

Oh, the not quite natural, not-quite-raspberry flavor, slightly lemony, possibly lingonberry?

And the texture -- how to describe it? somewhere between a quality gumdrop and a gummi bear, with a very thin, almost waxy surface.

These, which I personally vouch for:
* actually say 'swedish' on the side of the fish. I never noticed that before.
* packaged in a yellow bag saying the original Swedish Fish, with a printed scaly (scales running sieways, as if on a fish swimming to the left) texture
* ® Registered trademark of MalacoLeaf, AB, Sweden
* manufactured (under license) in Canada
* distributed in USA by Jaret International (CS) Inc., of Iselin NJ

update: many photos at flickr

hit the wall

too much settler's. and too much drinking while playing settlers.  that said, last night we wifeykin's night. 

the tally:
T: one
S: one
L: one zillion

aikido this morning

lemon bar obtained for wife
ginger pear scone for myself

eggs obtained

wifeykins got eggs also

but neither of us got TP

pseudorgonized

when your attempts at organization cause things to be missing.

the numbers

1) laura
2) scott
3) alysoun

stuff that checkCard firmly up your ass, thank you.

for whatever reason (I supect co-marketing and kickbacks) banks send out "Visa CheckCard"s or "Gold MasterMoney" cards instead of regular ATM cards. 

this is  a bad thing. as in This is a giant fucking security risk. so if someone gets your card info, they can use it like a regular credit card, but you don't get any of the protections of a regular credit card. Instead, your account immediately getd debited. It is then up to you to (a) cover the disputed amount, and (b) sufficiently dispute the amount. 

Wifeykins is currently experiencing this discomfort with Smells Margo (okay. Wells Fargo. if someone wants to google for Wells Fargo, they deserve the chance to see my rant on the 500th page of google results.)

energy crisis averted

we will provide the world with limitless power by attaching a generator to orwell's spinning corpse.

sectarian violence isn't quite newspeak for civil war, but you'll notice that the closer Iraq gets to civil war, the more the media uses the term. wifeykins claims to have not heard the term until this week. 

today's remedial term: Salvadoran Option, which (imo) is the root of this.

coffee on empty stomach = bad

oof. not enjoying the feeling of whatever-it-is-that-coffe-does-to-an-empty-stomach. Felt okay for a while, but now I'm queasy and lightheaded. 

Toast to the rescue!

Testify!

supporting the replacement-shoe-hypothesis:
I have about 15 pairs of black shoes alone. I think the majority of mine are "dress" shoes I never wear. Some acquired for work. Others acquired to replace the uncomfortable shoes acquired for work. -- zombiegrrl

WFH day

werkin from home. 
I will accomplish many good things codewise today. And then I will run errands. And then I will once again code frantically.

what? you want insight? ranting? oh. it will happen. just not yet. 

p.s: Spin has resurfaced. I will write him an email soon.

yahoo dashboard sucks

I understand that it's closer to the 'original' confabulator... but it's so not quite as cool as Apple's dashboard. 

For whatever reason, the widgets for Apple's dashboard are "better" -- or rather, the official Google/Blogger widget just isn't available on yahoo dashboard.

*sigh*