Random Access

Friday – 02 January 2007
So far, it’s shaping up to be a decent day. Despite this, I’m a bit… edgy… this morning. Hopefully, I’ll be in a better mood once the blood in my caffeinestream is thinned.

Last night in a nutshell:

• Coffee with
• CSI: with

Welcome to the second day of Black History Month.  I’ll refer you to this post for my thoughts on it.  In a related note, while at Borders with last night, I asked Jessi (one of the asst. managers, I think) about the Black History Month displays in the store.  She mentioned that there was one upstairs; I commented, “Yes, tucked away nicely.”  I noted that I had been a patron of this Borders location for five-ish years… and that I had seen the BHM displays relegated to less and less space.  I added that Utah’s Black population is… small, to say the least… but that the lack of presence of a decent – not even large – display in the store was one of the things that I thought was sad.  She thought about it and concurred.  She also said that there were a few locations in the store’s planogram that were alloted for “discretionary use” and that she would try to put a BHM display in one of them on the main floor.

Stray Toasters

• Who?  What?  Where?  When?  Why?  How?
  I can satisfactorily answer three, maybe four, of those.  I’m not happy with that percentage.
• Kevin Smith posted a list of his Top 10 Movies of 2006 this week; he used a list of movies, from IMDb, that showed all domestic releases.  Using that list, I saw 34 of the movies released last year.
• Doll on a Music Box / Truly Scrumptious
• Bump Keys
• Is anyone else amused/scared/shocked and awed or otherwise surprised by the Boston municipal government’s reaction to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign that went awry?

  I was talking about it with Eric yesterday – he said something to the effect of “But, you can look at it and tell it’s not a bomb…”  I reminded him that he has an engineering background and it’s easy for him to look at the LED device and tell that it’s not a threat-inducing device… but the average Joe on the street would just see wires, batteries and assorted electronics and not know what to make of it.  He agreed.  Then he said that this went hand-in-hand with his concept of “Zero Tolerance” policies: “Zero tolerance means zero thinking.”  After he elaborated, I had to concur: People get so caught up in “Issue X” that when someone comes along with a zero tolerance policy that they are perfectly willing to stick their heads in the sand and take an “I don’t want to think about that!  Just handle it!” stance rather than evaluate things on their own merits/demerits.
  

• Turn it up or turn that wild card down…
• Elish Cuthbert as Supergirl.  Not bad.  Not bad at all…
• *stretch*
• Exotic, Not Erotic: China’s Latest Fitness Fad

Namaste.

Thursday – 01 February 2007
I was apparently very tired last night – I hit the rack before 2:00.  I noticed that I was getting tired while patrolling Paragon City.  I wound up turning off the alarm this morning and staying in bed for another… hour, I think.  Despite the iPod pumping out The Crüxshadows in the kitchen.  *shrug*  No big deal.  I was still in the office – granted, it was the SLC office – a little after 8:30.

The race with the monkeys wasn’t bad, with one exception: One “I should have left ten minutes ago” monkey decided that the best place for him to be was two feet off my rear bumper.  Oh, well.  When I got out of that lane, he zoomed past me… only to be slowed by a much larger vehicle.  Poor monkey.

When I got in, I fixed a pot of coffee.  While I was waiting for it to brew, a couple of coworkers came into the break room.  For the fourth day in a row, I’m wearing a tie.  Coworker #1 finally decided to comment on this:

Coworker 1: You must work at a Wal-Mart in the morning before you come here….”
Me: No.  (very blank, calm expression; level tone of voice)
Coworker 1: Interview…?   (the typical office half-joking tone and expression)
Me: No.
Coworker 1: Just looking nice?
Me: Change of pace.
Coworker 2: Eastern upbringing.  (We’ve talked a bit about where I’m from and the East/West Coast differences.)
Coworker 1: Ohhh….
Me:  *mental facepalm*

And the morning rolls on…

Random Access
Last night,  and I were talking and the topic of politics came up:

[19:26] : Sup.
[19:26] : Not a whole lot here. You?
[19:26] : Watching Chapelles Show.
[19:26] : Just ate.
[19:27] : I need to eat.
[19:27] : So tell the servants to fire up the hearth, and slaughter one of your finest lambs.
[19:29] : But lamb is getting to be so… gauche.
[19:29] : Well, you could always order a pizza.
[19:29] : There is that option.
[19:30] : Not to change the subject, but what do you think of this Obama dude.
[19:30] : I was actually leaning towards either a burrito from Barbacoa…. or a Teriyaki chicken combo from Edo.
[19:30] : Honestly: I am not entirely sure that he should run.
[19:30] : No?
[19:30] : He doesn’t have the chops yet.
[19:31] : He’s been a senator for what…. five minutes?
[19:31] : lmao.
[19:31] : Honestly, I like Hillary more than I like him.
[19:31] : And really…I just cant see President Barack Hussein Obama.
[19:32] : I don’t have anything against him. I just think that he should get a little more political clout – and know how – under his belt first.
[19:33] : Right, I think that is how I feel. Nothing against him, but nothing really FOR him either.
[19:34] : The best thing, for both of them, would be to run as a joint ticket.
[19:34] : Yes, they will most likely lose….
[19:34] : Hmm. that would be historical.
[19:34] : …but the experience for both of them would be phenomenal.
[19:34] : The first female president with the first black vice-president.
[19:34] : And, it lines them both up for a run in 2012
[19:35] : Frankly, they will split the Dem vote if they run separately.
[19:35] : But they would still be running aginst each other.
[19:35] : I could support a ticket with him as Vice.
[19:35] : Actually, Edwards – Obama wouldn’t be bad.
[19:36] : That would be better.
[19:36] : But unless she screws up, I really see Hillary being the Dem candidate.
[19:36] : Not sure.
[19:36] : There’s still a bad taste in some peoples’ mouths, no pun intended, from Bill.
[19:37] : Oh yeah. He couldnt show his face anywhere NEAR Hillary during her campagn.
[19:37] : I need to run. Can we pick this up a little later?
[19:38] : Sure.
[19:38] : Exactly.
[19:38] : Albatross Bill.
[19:38] : Lster.
[19:38] : Namaste.
[19:38] : Later.

Stray Toasters

• Every morning should start with a conversation with .
  “I’ll take care of this.”
  I’m still laughing about this one…
• By way of : Don’t Shoot the Puppy
• Coworker Matt was running into a problem yesterday.  I deployed Cthulhu Assault Shocktroopers to handle it.
• By way of : Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?   “Try to break this record?!”
• X-Men artwork
• …speaking of the X-Men:  Below is a copy of the cover of Uncanny X-Men #141: The Days of Future Past (great alternate future storyline…. that has since been bastardized and abused).  Take a look at Wolverine’s hair.   Then, take a look at the poster behind him and Kitty, find Beast and look at his hair.

  

  They have the same hair.  Notice also that while Mr. Logan is running around – claws out, no less – Dr. McCoy is listed as “slain.”  My money says that Wolverine saw that Beast was trying to cop his style – and styling products – and had him offed.  Or did the deed himself.

• Derek showed me The Plain White T’s Hey There Delilah video.  Not bad.

Time to go pick up and put down heavy things.

Namaste.