Tag: general discussion

Sometimes someone’s reminder to bring origami to work just calls to be morphed into a haiku.

So Brad didn’t do the asking?  My mouth gaped a bit and then I waited for him to “take back the proposal” as happens on the rare occasions when women in TV and movies propose to their men.  But so far that hasn’t happened.

Have the advertising departments at Fred Meyer (ad on the left) and New Seasons (ad on the right) outsourced their design process to the exact same guy in China?

That little black thing on the right is what I was after when I started opening the package.  It took a bit of work, but I was eventually rewarded.  When I look at its tiny size and its 8 GB of storage I think back to my first flash drive in 2004 with its amazing 56k of storage space.  Good times.

We don’t have so much of a winter wonderland right now as we do a very thick frost.  I wonder if this was the same kind of killing frost that the horse Wildfire was lost, in that song.  Wildfire always kind of struck me as a dumb horse.  I mean, who gets lost in a frost?  But anyway, happy new year.

My definition: something available to only a select few people or for a limited time or in a limited place. In my view, the movie theater world would use the word “exclusive” when the film was only playing at one location in the city.  So I found it rather befuddling when I saw this tag line:

It’s playing exclusively at 15 theaters? How is that exclusive?
 

But then I looked around and I saw more use.  This is how I would use the term.  “Exclusive Engagement.”  Meaning y’all have to go to Cinema 21 if you live in Portland and want to see the movie this week.
 

Then there was this “limited engagement” crap. Seven movie theaters is not a limited engagement.

Here’s the dictionary.com definition:

Oh beginning of school, you torture me.  This corner of my desk was clear just twenty minutes before.  But then all the families walked into school and handed in their massive paperwork packets and I’m back on the paperwork bandwagon.  Back-to-school paperwork keeps me busy through October.
 

And yet there are still things to do that aren’t paperwork.  This is why I wrote all my September essays over the summer.
 

This is sad, yes.  But also Springer-esque enough for me to read the headline four times before I felt I had the family structure straight.

I don’t have a cell phone and the amount of fine print I’m going to have to read in order to get one is overwhelming, thus perpetuating my cell phone free status.

Things I like about the Olympics:
Weird sports get their every-four-year moment in the sun.
It’s really cool, all those athletes coming together to compete.
I read somewhere that there is a lot of sex happening in the Olympic Village, given that there are a lot of people in peak physical condition who, once their events are over, spend time hooking up with other people in peak physical condition.  I find this fact delightful, and the reward an excellent payoff for all that boring training.

Things I absolutely cannot stand about the Olympics:

• News organizations’ weird need to package every single athlete into a “top story line”
• The annoying fixation on how many medals the US is going to win.
• The “horrible anguish” the announcers launch into when someone who was thought to win gold “only” wins a silver medal.  They won a medal at the Olympics!  That’s a very cool thing, man.
• The asinine commentary in general.
• The fact that the events I want to watch are surrounded by 42,000 commercials, idiotic commentary, “heartwarming” stories, and events I could care less about.

Sadly, the things I cannot stand about the Olympics outweigh the things I like about them.  So I will not be watching the Olympics this year, but I send well wishes to all, especially that woman from Bulgaria who isn’t even going to place in the finals, but is going to have a lot of sex with a lot of different guys.  Well done, lady!