but don't let your guard down!
The government seems to know how to make a good looking diagram. Amazing, maybe this homeland security thing isn't so bad after all! Feel free to print these babies out and post them around your home, office, bunker or bomb shelter.
Please paint large red arrows on your walls to help indicate which doors will be the worst bottlenecks in the case of a massive evacuation.
There is no sex in the Champagne Room.
Most terrorists are known to helpfully label their weapons of mass destruction. If you are so inclined, you may want to avoid unlabeled materials. Knowning is half the battle.
If all else fails, the swiss will come to save you.
What with all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment,
it is worth reflecting on the almost-unnoticed death last week of a very
important person.
Larry La Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at age
93.
The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.
They put his left leg in. . . .and then the trouble started. . .
Here's some funny stuff to brighten your day...
The blowout's tomorrow -- so watch out everyone. watch out!
I'm excited, i sure hope a lot of people come. If not, oh well, we'll have a lot of things to snack on a fair amount of beer and wine to get put us well off our asses and way under the table.
I realized i don't have anything else to say right now. Except that computers have made media managment the most difficult thing ever. I used to just put my cd's in alphabetical order and that was good enough. Now i have to organize my digital files by keywords and genre, enter all kinds of metadata, and make sure i have backups. What a pain in the arse. I should really just go back to cd's.
So instead of buying a house, we got ikea furniture instead. It was a lot cheaper and still made us feel better. Amazing, the power of swedish design.
Anywho -- seems like some people have today off. Not me. So i declare it hate-people-who-don't-go-to-work day. It's a long title and you might have problems fitting it on your calendar so feel free to use the abbreviation: HPWDGTW Day.
If you can't seem to remember the abbreviation use this mnemonic: Happy puppies with doggie doo go to wash. See how easy that was.
I should be working.
PS: you might have noticed that i changed the way the comments work, due to popular demand to remove pop-up windows from all the internet.
So today Ryan and I happen to ask a bank how much money they'd lend us if we asked for it. Turns out it's a lot. I found this house that would be a good investment, and I don't yet know what's going to happen but it's a crazy time getting there. Buying real estate as an investment is a helluva ride.
So what would Ryan and I do with a $800,000 dollar loan? I can't imagine.
(more to follow)
So, for any of you who I haven't told (and since I am a slacker that is probably most of you!) I started a new job today. Yes, I finally found a full-time real job! Its with a printing comapny in Somerville called Mass Envelope www.massenvplus.com So, I am back in the working world again. Today was my first day - but it was really boring. I have 2 days of "training" which means that I sit and watch various people do their jobs. This isn't too exciting, and gives me a lot of sympathy for kids on take your daughter to work day.
I got this from my friend Justus - its the top 50 places to see before you die. So far I have seen 6. Makes me wish I could afford the time and money to travel more. I found a fare on Orbitz for less than $200 from here to Amsterdam - makes me want to just forget about my real life, and go have some fun and adventure. Of course, the last time I decided I wanted more adventure, I ended up moving myself and Josh away from all our friends - so maybe that doesn't work out too well either... Anyway, who wants to go visit the other 44 places I haven't seen with me? :)
Top 50
1 The Grand Canyon
2 Great Barrier Reef
3 Florida
4 South Island
5 Cape Town 6 Golden Temple
7 Las Vegas
8 Sydney
9 New York
10 Taj Mahal
11 Canadian Rockies
12 Uluru
13 Chichen Itza - Mexico
14 Machu Picchu - Peru
15 Niagara Falls
16 Petra - Jordan
17 The Pyramids - Egypt
18 Venice
19 Maldives
20 Great Wall of China
21 Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe
22 Hong Kong
23 Yosemite National Park
24 Hawaii
25 Auckland - New Zealand
26 Iguassu Falls
27 Paris
28 Alaska
29 Angkor Wat - Cambodia
30 Himalayas - Nepal
31 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
32 Masai Mara - Kenya
33 Galapagos Islands - Ecuador
34 Luxor - Egypt
35 Rome
36 San Francisco
37 Barcelona
38 Dubai
39 Singapore
40 La Digue - Seychelles
41 Sri Lanka
42 Bangkok
43 Barbados
44 Iceland
45 Terracotta Army - China
46 Zermatt - Switzerland
47 Angel Falls - Venezuela
48 Abu Simbel - Egypt
49 Bali
50 French Polynesia
Take the SF Quiz...
1. Zelda and Jane were given a rottweiler at their commitment
ceremony. If their dog needs to be walked two miles a day and they
walk at a rate of 3/4 mile per hour, how much time will they spend
discussing their relationship in public?
2. Michael lives in Los Altos Hills and has two abusive stepfathers
and an alcoholic mother. If his self-esteem is reduced by 20% per
dysfunctional parent, but Michael feels 3% better for every person he
denigrates, how long will it take before he's ready to go home if one
person walks by the window of the sushi bar every three minutes?
3. Sanjeev has 7 piercings. If the likelihood of getting cellulitis
on a given day is 10% per piercing, what is the likelihood that
Sanjeev will need to hitchhike to Berkeley during the next week to
renew his erythromycin prescription?
4. Chad wants to take half a pound of pot to Orinda and sell it at a
20% profit. If it originally cost him $1,500 in food stamps, how much
should Nicole write the check for?
5. The City and County of San Francisco decide to destroy 50 rats
infesting downtown. If 9,800 animal rights activists hold a
candlelight vigil, how many people did each dead rat empower?
6. A red sock, a yellow sock, a blue sock, and a white sock are
tossed randomly in a drawer. What is the likelihood that the first
two socks drawn will be socks of color?
7. George weighs 245 pounds and drinks two triple lattes every
morning while working on his laptop. If each shot of espresso
contains 490mg of caffeine, what is George's average caffeine density
in mg/pound?
8. There are 4500 homes in Mill Valley and all of them recycle
plastic. If each household recycles 10 soda bottles a day and buys
one polar fleece pullover per month, does Mill Valley have a monthly
plastic surplus or deficit? (Bonus question: Assuming all the plastic
bottles are 1 liter size, how much Evian are they drinking?)
9. If the average person can eat one pork pot sticker in 30 seconds,
and the waitress brings a platter of 12 pot stickers, how long will
it take five vegans to not eat them?
10. Todd begins walking down Market Street with 12 $1 bills in his
wallet. If he always gives panhandlers a single buck, how many legs
did he have to step over if he has $3 left when he reaches the other
end and met only one double-amputee?
Advanced Placement Students Only:
11. Katie, Trip, Ling, John-John and Effie share a three-bedroom
apartment on Guerrero for $2400 a month. Effie and Trip can share one
bedroom, but the other three need their own rooms with separate ISDN
lines to run their web servers. None of them wants to use the futon
in the living room as a bed, and they each want to save $650 in three
months to attend Burning Man. What is their best option:
a. All five roommates accept a $12/hour job-share as handgun monitors
at Mission High.
b. Ask Miles, the bisexual auto mechanic, to share Effie and Trip's
bedroom for $500/month.
c. Petition the Board of Supervisors to advance Ling her annual
digital-artists-of-color stipend.
d. Rent strike.
sigh
Things are certainly changing around here. Val was really busy with her visiting friend, Felicity. So Ryan and I had the house to ourselves a lot this weekend. I took it to be an indication of what things will be like in the near future with just the two of us around. It was comfortable, mostly because it was so familiar. At the same time, it was lacking something.
We've decided to spice things up by having a weekly event. We'll plan a get-together, dinner, games night, or movie for every week (not including weekends). This way we'll be sure to keep up the social activity and bring new people and friends around occasionally. It's a good idea.
Oh, this is fun: Fly UI