archive for June of 2005

kids I meant to post this when it happened, but I forgot.

Posted June 16, 2005 • Comments Off on I meant to post this when it happened, but I forgot.

One day last week I had my computer with me while I was over at Lisa’s. I was sitting at the dining room table, and Josie was opposite me. We were talking about fruit. I think she was being offered a banana, and did not want one. It is a known fact that she likes bananas, so we must have been talking about that.

On a whim, I pointed to the back of my computer, which looks like this…

Notebook Tpylab Zhengji 10304 Pic 20783423 3 Back 300

… and said the words one says most often to Jo: “What’s that?” (Josie is not quite two. Every word is new. “What’s that?” and “What’s this?” are the backbone of her conversations.)

“Josie, what’s that?”

“Apple.”

This amazed me. It’s not a photograph or even a drawing. It’s not three-dimensional. It has a bite out of it. It’s stylized. Most importantly (I think), it’s not red. But she got it. Instantly. “Apple.” Like, “ask me a hard one now.”

travel Hawaii, baby!

Posted June 15, 2005 • Comments Off on Hawaii, baby!

flickr Proving I’m on the train online talking to Deborah

Posted June 14, 2005 • Comments Off on Proving I’m on the train online talking to Deborah


Proving I’m on the train online talking to Deborah
Originally uploaded by kostia.

web Wonderful phrasing from boingboing.net

Posted June 14, 2005 • Comments Off on Wonderful phrasing from boingboing.net

Real-life Tetris video:
Cory Doctorow:

This “real life Tetris” video depicts a person in a cardboard costume resembling the L piece from Tetris, running around a grocery store, trying to fit overtop of appropriately positioned squarish objects.

12.6MB MPEG Link

(via Waxy!)

travel I’m at the Glindemans’ party, and everyone in the room just took this test.

Posted June 11, 2005 • Comments Off on I’m at the Glindemans’ party, and everyone in the room just took this test.

N…Nitrogen

You scored 25 Mass, 49 Electronegativity, 46 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!

Sweet! You’re quirky and non-confrontational… but you are also highly dynamic in relationships. You’re kinda that “anything to anyone” type, but you don’t demand that people love you for it. You very much do your own thing… and probably by extension you’re the only one who can do the things you do. You’re rarely found alone, but you’d get along great with other people like yourself. You’re probably the only element that should try to find a mate who is just like you. Oh, and too much of you in a high-pressure situation can make other people act drunk… or die.

My test tracked 4 variables
How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 14% on Mass
You scored higher than 91% on Electroneg
You scored higher than 34% on Metal
You scored higher than 0% on Radioactivity

Link: The Which Chemical Element Am I Test written by effataigus on Ok Cupid

general Mark

Posted June 10, 2005 • Comments Off on Mark

Mark said he wanted to build something out of clay. I said to make a pencil cup that looks like my uncle. (This is a reference to an EFO song.)

He made this:

Markwells Penciljar
Then he wanted to take more pictures. I assigned him to take four pictures: something blue, something that was a representation of nature, something asymmetrical, and something of his choice.

I got these:

Markwells Elaine Martinfrench
Markwells Elaine Nature
Markwells Elaine Asymmetry
Markwells Elaine Redhead

I want to play this game every day.

general brreeeeaaathhhhheeee

Posted June 9, 2005 • Comments Off on brreeeeaaathhhhheeee

So I was just doing my yoga dvd, as I am wont to do on occasion, and here’s what pisses me off about it.

The poses that are supposed to be hard, like tree, don’t faze me at all. I can balance just fine once I find my stability, and I can breathe good, and I can bend. My boobs get in the way with a lot of the arm movements, but that’s because I don’t have a sports bra to make them point forwards. That’s my cross to bear.

But the pose that hurts the most? The pose I absolutely cannot do? The last one. “Final Relaxation Pose.” LYING FLAT ON YOUR BACK AND NOT MOVING. I can’t fucking do that. It hurts my lower back like hell, and I can’t breathe.

That bugs me a lot. There’s something wrong with me.

work I DID IT.

Posted June 8, 2005 • Comments Off on I DID IT.

I just wrote to Jodi (the temp agency lady) and told her I will be available full-time starting Monday, August 8.

I’m really and truly going to quit my job.

I can’t stop giggling.

technology News: Aspyr: Sims 2 hits store shelves June 17th

Posted June 8, 2005 • Comments Off on News: Aspyr: Sims 2 hits store shelves June 17th

News: Aspyr: Sims 2 hits store shelves June 17th:
Aspyr has announced that The Sims 2 for Mac will hit store shelves on June 17, 2005.

yessssssssss my precioussssssssssss

media Enough about my phone.

Posted June 6, 2005 • Comments Off on Enough about my phone.

And sorry for leaving my best friend’s bra on the page for 24 hours.

We went and saw Eddie From Ohio at the Herndon Festival yesterday. I had an absolute blast. That band is just SO MUCH FUN. So much fun. We were jumping around and dancing barefoot in the grass. I wish I could do that sort of thing every weekend, all summer long. I felt careless and childlike, and I loved watching the kids dancing and singing too. They closed the encore with “Old Dominion,” of course, and I shrieked with abandon as soon as I heard Julie start to sing—like I hadn’t heard the song in years, like I hadn’t listened to it twice already that day. All night last night, their music was playing in my head, and I couldn’t stop smiling. So much fun.

—

You think you’ll find some mountains
In western Colorado
Fifty weeks of snowy peaks
Is where you’re gonna be
But, babe, the Rocky Mountains
Are gradually eroding
The hills of Coors are nothing more
Than Blue Ridge wannabes

When you’re talking home you mean the Old Dominion
Just southeast of heaven, to the surf and the hills
She’s the best of thirteen sisters and thirty-seven more
Sweet, sweet Virginia always keeps an open door

A turkey on its belly, a chicken on its back
Any way you look at it, you’ll find her on the map
She revels in the seasons, shakes hands with the North
Hugs the land of Dixie while dancing on a porch

You think that autumns in New England are the greatest of ’em all
But give me sweet Virginia for the fireworks of fall
The prettiest October in all the fifty states
Just drive up to the Skyline, park the car, and wait

So grow up, Colorado
Excuse me, Tennessee
If you don’t mind, North Carolina
Here’s where I want to be

When you’re talking home you mean the Old Dominion
Just southeast of heaven, to the surf and the hills
She’s the best of thirteen sisters and thirty-seven more
Sweet, sweet Virginia always keeps an open door

They’re fiddlin’ down in Galax, and pickin’ up in Floyd
And in the land of Patsy Cline, there’s songs you can’t avoid
When you’re walkin’ after midnight, I’ll fall to pieces too
I’m crazy back in baby’s arms with sweet dreams of you

They’re sailin’ down in Norfolk, and skiing up at Bryce
Climbin’ up the Devil’s Stairs against rangers’ advice
They’re harvesting in Loudoun to Shenandoah winds*
And in the land near Washington, they’re rootin’ for the Skins
(Fight for all D.C.)

So grow up, Colorado
Excuse me, Tennessee
If you don’t mind, North Carolina
Here’s where I want to be

When you’re talking home you mean the Old Dominion
Just southeast of heaven, to the surf and the hills
She’s the best of thirteen sisters and thirty-seven more
Sweet, sweet Virginia always keeps an open door

Pack up your Impala and make your move out west
Past the Blue Ridge Mountains, you’ll find you’ve passed the best
And when your dreams have ended
Where mountains are concerned
Me and sweet Virginia will await for your return

—

*Yesterday, they changed these two lines to “In the land near Williamsburg, they wear three-cornered hats, and in the land near Washington, they’re rootin’ for the Nats.” We went apeshit. 🙂

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