We're Not Unreasonable

09:42 pm - Where'd everybody go?

They're all gone. Who can say where?

Dammit, I don't want to be on the Face book...

::sigh::

Would the last one out please turn out the lights.

10:26 pm - Dear Lazyweb,

Hi, I know I've been out of touch for a while. So, hey, remember how one of the selling points of ad-blocking browser plugins was that the ads on a fairly typical web page were taking longer to load than the content? How the ads would sometimes block the content from loading, leaving you with a half-finished frame devoid of any content?

Have you noticed that social networking buttons are getting like that?

Do you know if there's a plugin to block them?

09:22 pm - MEME OH NOES

Seen while shoulder-surfing twilightsorcery:

1. Set your music player to random play.
2. List the titles of the first 30 songs to come up.
3. Append “In My Pants” to each title.

My results:

1. Espionage In My Pants
2. Drain You In My Pants
3. Black Dog In My Pants
4. Elm In My Pants
5. Bolero In My Pants
6. Bodies In My Pants
7. Fuck You (an Ode to No One) In My Pants
8. Eclipse In My Pants
9. Where Did It All Go Wrong? In My Pants — boy, if I had a nickel for every time I've heard that one
10. Machete In My Pants — actually, I'm just happy to see you
11. Estranged In My Pants
12. Long View In My Pants
13. (No More) Paddy's Lament In My Pants
14. Starz In My Pants
15. Ceremony In My Pants — w00t!
16. Summer - Tense (2) In My Pants
17. tourette's In My Pants
18. Waltz in the 4th Dimension In My Pants
19. Warrior in Despair In My Pants
20. Polaroid In My Pants
21. You Ain't the First In My Pants — that's what she said
22. Of Wolf and Man In My Pants
23. (Big) Wish In My Pants
24. Comedian's Gallop In My Pants
25. Curl In My Pants
26. Crystal Planet In My Pants
27. 1 Ghosts I In My Pants
28. Cuzco In My Pants
29. Californication In My Pants
30. Ultrasonic Sound In My Pants

08:38 pm - Crazy Ocean Monsters Ahoy!

I just got an interesting lesson in geography from onNYTurf's NYC Subway Google Map Hack.

01:31 am - ATTN: crashworks

They stole your idea, again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858486/

IMDb doesn't say, but I've heard it's about an alien civilization that gets invaded by greedy humans.

10:42 pm - The Only Way to Win is Not to Play

Everyone knows that. Hell, the website says: "Nobody wins. But maybe—just maybe —you can lose the least."

Still, I can't wait to be the first one on my block to play online multiplayer global thermonuclear war on my laptop.

12:34 am - Relocation assistance

arcessita and I will be moving across town this weekend. If any of y'all could come and help us out this Friday, Saturday, and/or Sunday, we would be very grateful and treat you to dinner.

05:10 pm

When I was in middle school, a friend of mine tried his hand at writing serial fiction in the school newspaper. If memory serves, the first part consisted of three disjoint scenes. Police are investigating the scene of the murder of Mrs. Goodperson (a weak pun on the name of our English teacher). Meanwhile, Mr. Goodperson is in a motel room with another woman. A man strides up to a couple eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe, and accuses one of them of murdering Mrs. Goodperson.

The second part would have revealed that Mrs. Goodperson was still alive, and these three scenes were totally unconnected, but I don't think my friend ever wrote it.

I'd forgotten about that story for years, but I just read The Da Vinci Code, and for some reason it brought that story back to mind.

ETA: On an unrelated note, is the Preview button broken for anyone else, or just me?

06:31 pm - Sing along...

I woke up this morning
I had a scone and a large house blend
And then a little conversation with my squirrel and chipmunk friends
I said I’m sick and tired of winter
And I wish that it was spring
And then a little fellow named Robin Redbreast
Began to sing

And he sang
Ooh ooh child, what’d you think the cold winter’s gonna last forever?
Ooh ooh child, now’s the time for all the people to get together
Outside

Cause it’s the first of May...

02:23 pm - I gotta start watching more TV

Or I might have missed Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, "and reality has a well-known liberal bias."

He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. "This administration is soaring, not sinking," he said. "If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg."

Colbert told Bush he could end the problem of protests by retired generals by refusing to let them retire. He compared Bush to Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" movies, always getting punched in the face—"and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world."

Video available here.

I can't say for certain how big Colbert's balls are, but I think the size could be expressed most tersely in AU.