One last thing before I go. My dear old mother, while doing some of her geneaological researchiculating, came across this link to a Brooklyn newspaper from 1898.
It’s a fun read if you stick with it, the wrting style as well as the look at what was newsworthy in the past are well worth it.
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Rob
2. RTF
3. Roo
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. My mind
2. The people around me
3. My singing voice
THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I could stand to lose weight
2. I’m a procrastinator
3. I’ll fill this one in after I’ve eaten more Reeseses
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Italian
2. Portuguese
3. That’s it, unless you count Long Island
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Being drugged
2. Stinging insects
3. Elijah Wood when he was a kid
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Orange juice
2. Water
3. A bathroom
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Blue trousers
2. A grey t-shirt
3. Striped toe-socks
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. Information Society
2. Insane Clown Posse
3. Ella Fitzgerald
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Eric Prydz – Call on Me (remix)
2. The Kleptones – Plan
3. MC Chris – Geek
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. Karaoke
2. Nuclear Fusion
3. Regeneration
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Honesty
2. Humor
3. Lack of drugs
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no order – guess which are which?)
1. I’m on a DVD you can find at any video store
2. I’m in a Norwegian documentary film
3. I’m on an album released by a major record label
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Smile
2. Eyes
3. Not running away
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN’T DO:
1. Drive
2. Enjoy MTV
3. Tolerate Jennifer Lopez
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Artwork
2. Website tweaking
3. Making people laugh
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Play in the snow
2. Stare at the moon
3. Upgrade this PC
THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. Artist
2. Web Designer
3. Comic (wow, surprising…)
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Sleep
2. The Moon
3. Illinois
THREE KID’S NAMES
1. Colin
2. Onomatopoeia
3. 934 Texas
THREE MUST-WATCH TV SHOWS
1. Sealab 2021
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000
3. Doctor Who
THREE FOREIGN PHRASES YOU USE
1. Chotto (Japanese, literally “a little,” used casually to negate or reduce what was just said to you)
2. Jawohl (German military affirmative)
3. Half-inched (Cockney rhyming slang – half-inched/pinched/stolen)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Be born (check)
2. Live (working on it)
3. Get ready to do it all over again if necessary
I had to leave work after only a few hours, because my eye was bugging me. I went to the doctor, and discovered I’ve got pinkeye. Craptastic.
I’ll be home from work tomorrow.. the upside being I’ve got a lot of updating to to on my various sites. Please feel free to say hi to me on AIM (or call me if you’ve got the number) any time tonight, or after 10AM or so tomorrow. I’m not too proud to admit when I could use cheering up.
A stirring can be felt in the mid-Atlantic ocean. A particular spot on the ocean floor..
Where there was previously only a decaying hulk of a long-destroyed research station.
Vibrations. Subsonic, too low to hear, but easy to feel.
With a rumble that stirs up sediment for miles in all directions.. a single pod rises from the muck.
A few sputtering lights can be seen in the portholes, slowly turning on in an uneven sequence.
Slowly.
Surely.
I’m thinking of doing the Times Square thing for New Year’s.
I went once before, in 1994-95, and I dug it. Since it’s now ten years later, maybe I can start a decennial tradition.
Anyone wanna go with? It’s cheesy overcrowded touristy fun, and you don’t even have to endure the terrible musical acts and that thinly disguised android Dick Clark that thinly disguised android Regis Philbin gibbering on about whatever.
My pal Ilya has just informed me of something to plan ahead for. Friday the 13th, indeed!
Tom: It’s quiet in the cold of our own little orbit, starless and bible black. And as I look down on the big blue bean we would call home I think it so near, yet… oh, I wish on that star and I hope that in a little snow-covered house with a warm hearth and a loving family, maybe some kid is looking up tonight and wishing upon us. Oh, and how I hope sweet Santa will fly by tonight, because if he does I’m gonna reach right out and hug that big guy. Oh, for the sound of hooves against the steel hull of the ship. Oh, to see the rosy face of Santa in the porthole, offering me a Coke and a smile…
(gradually becoming upset)
…of course, his cheeks WOULD be rosy because it’s a VACUUM out there! I mean, Santa’s HEART would explode!
(becoming hysterical)
But HE wouldn’t feel it because the capillaries in his brain would pop like little firecrackers
(Joel tries to calm him down)
due to the blood boiling away in his face like pudding in a copper…OH THE HUMANITY!!
(Now both Joel and Crow are trying to calm him down.)
And his jolly old belly would start bubbling like a roasted marshmallow, eyes bulging and popping out… AND THE REINDEER–OH THE REINDEER!!!–keep floating like holiday floats and in turn exploding in a hail of blood and entrails! Prancer–BOOM! Dancer–BOOM!
Joel: HEY!
Crow: Tom!
Joel: Tom, take it easy! Santa’s gonna be okay, buddy.
Tom: You sure?
Joel: Yeah, give him a little credit, okay?
Tom: Phew, what a relief!
Does anyone know of a decent postnuke module to use for an episode guide? It’s very needed.
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If anyone needs me, I’ll be off having a total convulsive geekout, 80s style.
I found out this morning that a friend of the family passed on. Yet another smoker is lost to lung cancer.
I didn’t know her very well, but my mom grew up with her. I’ll accompany mom to the funeral home tomorrow evening, shortly after getting home from the holiday party at work.
In other news, as much as I love Winter, the associated holidays are always guaranteed to bring some sort of huge upset or drama to the surface, usually family-related. Had a big one play out over the past couple of nights, which is now out of my hands. The newest one is just beginning tonight.
And I’m still trying to wrestle a cranky PostNuke install into submission, teaching myself CSS along the way. I publicly set myself a deadline of the 26th to go live, we’ll see how that works out…
You are a normal rock!
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