My downstairs neighbors have decided that the right way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to play rap music with the base cranked up to floor*-shaking levels.
Food poisoning would be too good for them.
*(My floor, that is.)
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Archive for November, 2008
Turkeys
Posted in Apartment life, Holidays, Music, tagged jerks, Music, neighbors, Thanksgiving on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not quite what she planned for the wedding….
Posted in Humor, tagged Disasters, weddings on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think this ring-bearer would rather face Sauron himself than what this bride will do to him:
Should have had my camera today
Posted in Miscellany, tagged rainbows on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was a beautiful rainbow over the spires of Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA this morning. Drat.
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What they don’t mention about Brett Favre
Posted in Sports, tagged Brett Favre, drama, football, Green Bay Packers, retirement on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I’ve just turned off tonight’s Saints-Packers game. The second half turned into a blowout and it lost interest for me.
One thing struck me about tonight’s commentary: Tirico, Kornheiser, and Jaworski talked again and again about the controversy surrounding the decision to let Brett Favre go to the Jets this last summer.
“Controversy?” Hello? What none [...]
Apple and DRM
Posted in Computers, tagged Apple, DRM, HDCP on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New Macbooks prevent DRM-protected movies from being played on unauthorized monitors. Has Apple taken a stupid step backwards?
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Quote of the day
Posted in Observations, tagged quotes on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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If they want to do it right
Posted in Disasters, Earthquakes, tagged Disasters, Earthquakes, Preparedness on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We supposedly had a drill to prepare for a massive earthquake today where I work, a major West Coast university. It caused quite the flutter among staff as we went back and forth over what signage to have, whether we should get under our desks to practice “duck and cover” for this pretend temblor, whether [...]
What’s "Commissioner Gordon" in Turkish?
Posted in Weirdness, tagged Batman, comics, lawsuits, Turkey on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Daily Variety, the Mayor of Batman, Turkey, is suing Warner Bros. for royalties:
Batman has a new adversary: Batman.
The mayor of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, which has the same name as the Caped Crusader, is suing helmer Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser “The Dark Knight.”
Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish [...]
Hope in a loss?
Posted in Sports, tagged 49ers, football, NFL on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight my 49ers lost 29-24 to the Arizona Cardinals, yet I’m not upset. Why?
Because, for the first time in six losses, they actually made a game of it and had a chance to win in the last couple of seconds. Yes, the players blew it at the end and Coach Singletary’s call wasn’t the smartest [...]
A silly idea
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Daylight Savings Time, DST on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Daylight Savings Time ends tonight. I’m glad; I’ve always thought it was annoying.
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