We Feel Fine! (via DRAWN.ca) is the bestest time waster I have come across in a while. It farms blogs from around the world and takes stock in our feelings. It’s beautiful, curious and somewhat frightening (search on harsh words and you will dredge up some scary stuff).
Category Archives: General
300 (or If You Look Close You Can See My Airbrushing)
I absolutely loved this Frank Miller comic. Seems it’s in preproduction. Look close at the abs.
Lordy I hope this doesn’t suck. 10 to 1 all the homo references are gone. Hollywood learned its lesson with Alexander.
Things That Have Enriched my Day, Webbically
Land on Titan with Phillip Glass (via BoingBoing). Why it’s Enriching: Eerie yet beautiful video of the Cassini-Huygens landing. How to Ruin the Moment: When it’s fully loaded, drag the slider back and forth… Landing!! Blast Off!! Landing!! Blast Off!! WEEE!!!
Of the US government snooping on it’s own, William Gibson says “What? This surprises you?” Why it’s Enriching: Gibson could spin a massive global computer virus as cool. I’m loving this scandal as much as as the Manwhore in the Press Gallery scandal. You Americans are WACKY! How to Ruin the Moment: Wake up and realize you’re not watching V For Vendetta. Oddly enough it seems Americans don’t mind losing control over this liberty.
Dainty Bastard’s Pic of the Day a few days back Why it’s Enriching: I love the harsh perspective and structure of the shot. How to Ruin the Moment: Have you ever been under that bridge? The aroma coming off the Don and the smell of pee is nearly unbearable.
Speaking of DB, the new Pugly contestants are up!
Pet Shop Boys (yes! they’re still around!) are releasing a new album and you can hear parts of it on their navigationally challenged site. I’ve heard it the entire album and if you’re even 1/10th a “Pet Head”, you’re going to be very very happy. Why its Enriching: I can’t bloody wait to see the video for “The Sodom and Gomarrah Show” How to Ruin the Moment: did I mention their dumb ass website? And no North American tour dates set yet.
Found this site buried in my favorites at work: Robot Gossip! This guy is in tune with mecca! Why it’s Enriching: Best robot feed I’ve found yet. He has some great photos. How to Ruin the Moment: Blogger site.
And finally, a quote from my RSS: A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. John le Carre
Still with the pee
Shave All of Him
Or you’ll miss the MTM ending. (via Stumble for Firefox)
On Your Knees, Showerboy!
It looked like another low-cal cocktail weenie party in the showers at the Y again this morning. Myself and four other guys were all washing and none of them had the minimum amount of desired body hair for them to blip on my radar. I note that there is a guy in one of the privacy stalls. I start my shower routine.
I turn to rinse my back and notice that the guy in the privacy stall is on all fours, forearms and knees, right on the hard shower floor tiles.
On.
All.
Fours.
Is he praying to Mecca? Is he looking for a contact? Is he ok?
More worrying is the thought: ‘Why aren’t we all reacting to this guy on the floor like that scene in Carrie?’ because no one else seems to be doing anything. Or they’re refusing to see it.
I shoot glances to the other guys. Two are extremely busy voicelessly comparing each other’s dick size that they haven’t noticed Crawly. One is right next to the privacy stall and probably can’t see Crawly from the angle of his eyesight to the bottom of the stall. The last is finishing up quickly so he is avoiding confrontation.
Typical nervous naked guys.
In my head, I am wondering if I should do something. He may very well be praying…
Plup. He goes down to one side and is lying on the tiles.
Oh ok. This isn’t good. Fast Finisher is out the door. The other three still aren’t moving. I’m about to walk over when he rights himself back up into the doggie position and slowly rises up. He draws the curtain back and I can see he’s a toned, healthy (?) guy. He gets shower bench and goes back into the stall.
He seems ok (as well as could be, I guess) and as I’m leaving I pass Fast Finisher informing the locker room attendant about crawly. He’s joking that the guy might be very hung over.
I think he was just having a bad moment with his meds.
Once, a while back, I nearly fainted on the subway. Between Dundas and Queen, the medications I was on decided that it was time to rob my brain of yummy blood. The car was full enough that there wasn’t any seats so I staggered over to a doorway to steady myself. I went pale. I knew I looked like a vampire. I couldn’t keep my eyes open and all I could think was:
“No. Not here. I can’t bear the embarrassment!”
It passed and I was able to get a seat and made it to the office, without further incident.
I felt for that guy on the floor. In one small way I bet he was glad I didn’t come forward with my goolies hanging out, trying to help.
Bukakke Kids!
From DFM via MSN, ok? (worksafe)
UPDATE: dont bother, it’s down. Quick reflexes at Hasbro!
The Fat Kid At the Party – Or 24 hours with IE 7
I’ve downloaded the Beta 2 of IE7 and I’m somewhat impressed.
After some fumbling (I had BETA 1 on my system and B2 insisted that I remove IE before continuing. Riiight. That’s like getting Catholic Church out of our bedrooms. Ba-zing!), I got it up and running. I don’t know what kind of Jedi Mind Tricks it’s using for fonts (I remember somewhere there was a make-fonts-crispy add-on a while back), but I’m suitably impressed at the clarity it brings to a page. This is pretty much the only we-didn’t-copy-Firefox feature IE has going for it.
I’m no techie, so I couldn’t tell you if it’s secure or speedier or if it will take care of your fish when you are on vacation, but I am impressed with the new stuff. The tabbed navigation, the smaller icons, calm colour scheme are all fresh. But wait. Oh yeah. Had that already on Firefox nearly a year ago. As for add-ons. ZZZZ. Hey did I show you my cool “BlackJapan” theme? It rocks!
One weird thing is the placement of the textual menu system, below the URL field as opposed to the usual top and to the left. Why do this? Just to be cool? Michael Jackson wore one glove to be different and everyone thought it was cool, for all of 6 seconds. Why change switch this around from oh… pretty much every single piece of software out there?
In all, I’m finding IE7 much like an attention starved kid at his brother’s birthday party: “Lookit me! I can do that! Lookit! LOOK IT!!!”
Staid
I’ve been called boring. I’ve been called nuts. Hell I’ve been called a fuck face. But staid?
Fly my minions, flood this witch’s blog with filthy comments! Fly! FLY!!!! AHAHAHAACahaha coff cofff….
Inappropriate
There’s a manager just behind me talking to a travel rep. saying:
“Yes. To get to Phi Phi island* you need to fly via Phuket.”
Trying not to laugh is just making it worse. I am not thinking in my head “They could fly via Wash Your Mouth Out Airlines”
* pronounced “pee pee”
