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[Jul. 5th, 2009|08:17 pm] |
Jon and Kate were featured on The Soup this week. Joel McHale was talking about how the publication of Kate's cookbook has been pushed back. He said:
"The book was supposed to have been titled Love is in the Mix: Making Meals into Memories. When it is released, the title will most likely be changed to 'If You're So Hungry, Have Your 23-year-old Girlfriend Microwave You a Burrito'."
He then said, "I will buy that cookbook". |
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| "This tastes like burnt grease." |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|04:31 pm] |
I've spent my Canada Day watching re-runs of Top Chef. I love the Masters version they are running now. Last week had a French chef named Ludo who was going to break the stereotype of arrogant European chefs... yeah, like that was going to happen. Complete with the whole "If you want to be a real chef you must know food - I know how to cook hearts and brains and tripe, I can cook it all!" and waving his arms like a crazy person. He's based in Los Angeles... shocking.
I think I'd like to learn how to cook, these shows, combined with my radiation-cooked diet, are having that effect. |
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| It's okay except for the ungodly heat |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|02:07 pm] |
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Summer has struck here, meaning I can barely sleep and seem to live on pepsi and frequent showers. The cat and I spend our days napping under the meager shade and awaiting sunset on the savannah where we can go forth and hunt for cheeseburgers. Or something like that. |
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| Daily thought from Bill Hicks |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|08:00 am] |
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People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." "Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?" |
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| Happy Birthday to me! |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|09:37 am] |
And now I await the re-delivery of my check via fedex. All life hangs in the balance if this interferes with me going out for birthday waffles.
Edit: check arrived, but only because the fed-ex guy used his phone. Apparently things like building notes are not really passed onto the drivers unless it's the regular guy so if not for this sub driver paying attention I would have missed it again. Admittedly, the Benny Hill theme music applies to most corporations when it comes to such things.
Otherwise, I have strong Armenian-made Americano, and am about to go out for waffles. And I think I need to buy season 2 of Dexter. |
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| "They tore the labels off my shampoo, this is just like Guantanamo!" |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|10:33 am] |
If only there were a special re-education camp for the extremely vapid. Or maybe just an island full of carnivorous wild boars. But enough Heidi news.
The former Ms. California proves that you can be a defender of "Opposite Marriage" and a complete asshat without skipping a beat:
Carrie Prejean's Emails Reveal Poor Character, Spelling
This call-and-response is telling:
Carrie,
As we have discussed, there is proper protocol and we have not waived our rights in any way to your contract. I am happy to try and facilitate the request. Please forward over the information along with the proper contact and we will try and confirm the appearance right away.
Best regards,
Keith Lewis
From: cprejeanXXXXSent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:57 AMTo: Keith
You do not cooperate with me, and you pick and chose the the things YOU want me to do. That is not happening anymore. Stop speaking for me. I have MY own voice. What are u gonna do fire me for volunteering for the special olympics hahaha ur crazy No I am doing this appearance. You do not need details. Its for the SPECIAL OLYMPICS!!! You just need to know I will be doing it alright
You will not facilitate this appearance
Event planners the world over are presumably psyched that Prejean is now released from her contract, and free to bring her charm and politeness to other engagements. |
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| Scratches? We don't need no steenking scratches |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|12:39 pm] |
Ugh, my authorized Apple repair guy just put a pair of "one inch long scratches" on the lcd of my 24" iMac. He was apologetic but sadly, I know that's the sort of thing that will drive me completely mental so I'm going to have to be the bad guy and insist on a replacement. If it's the glass, that's $100, the lcd probably runs 5x that.
Oh, and Spain just won a judgment against a private treasure hunting company to get $500 million in gold and silver bullion restored to them. Despite not having been looking for this ship or having done any of the work to recover it. I think if the plaintiffs lose all appeals, they should dump all the treasure overboard in some random location and tend Spain a twitter saying they're free to find and claim it.
Also, Spain, the same country that won't return Montezeuma's mask to Mexico. |
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| The good, the bad, the ugly |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|05:56 pm] |
Good: my work contract will be continuing "for at least six months." This gives me time to get my shiat together and move while I'm still employed because rental places prefer that. September is my internal deadline.
Also good, business partner actually offered to drive his truck down the coast to help me move. He's not a flaky guy that way either - if he says it, he will do it.
In the 3rd tiding of good, I'm headed up the coast to wine country for Hilary's b-day this weekend.
Da bad: my brother had a lump in the back of his throat that was bleeding and was just removed. I'll know early next week the test results. Even saying the word cancer makes me want to clownpunch this cancer guy if I ever catch up with him.
The ugly: I'm strangely calm for someone who was up most of last night trying to resurrect my imac. I worked on it straight from 7pm to 1am, crashed, got up again at 3am and worked until 6. Not wanting to "get sodomized by Apple Geniuses" I found a local repair guy and it turns out that my hdd replaced for just over $200. I can live with that, so tomorrow morning, off I go. |
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| Spoke too soon |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|02:29 pm] |
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Sadly after many hours of annoying geekery, it appears the hard drive in my 24" iMac is dead. Bah. |
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| I feexed it! |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|08:53 am] |
Last night I decided to make another attempt to resurrect my iMcac. The problem has been that the disk utility found all sorts of OMG RED errors of doom but also kept coming back saying disk cannot be repaired, which pointed toward some hardware failure, likely the hard drive. But the hardware test came back clean. I couldn't even erase the drive, which was more worrisome.
The final solution involved running fsck from the command line. I should not be confused for a unix geek but apparently in this case I knew just enough to be useful and after some tense passes, the file system was fixed and Voila! just like new.
As much as I could cynically appreciate the Monkey Paw Wish-like quality of getting a bonus and the having to spend it all repairing the computer I earned the bonus on, I'm glad it didn't go that way. I also found out that replacing the hard drive on this thing involves all sorts of arcane processes to take the front flat panel off, etc. that I would have never managed.
Whew. |
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| One thing we can be sure about our domestic terrorist shooter... |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|02:23 pm] |
Is that he wasn't actually motivated by "the babies." The killer already had a history involving explosives and threats and it's obvious that he was driven by inner demons a lot more vehement than sentimentality regarding babies. No, this was about control. Over women, over the choices of others.
I've been reading plenty of "No True Scotsman" type disclaimers today, but if you or your organization ever used the term "baby killer" then you have to own the radical fringe taking that mindset to its extreme conclusion. Bill O'Reilly equated this doctor with Stalin.
If you find your blood pressure isn't high enough, then I suggest reading the comments at Free Republic |
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| And a happy Caturday to you |
[May. 30th, 2009|03:07 pm] |
Well day 2 of computer meltdown. I slept all right last night, considering. I did some work this morning and even got the all-important World of Warcraft more or less working on this computer. Though I look forward to phasing the computer more out of my life save for communication sorts of things.
Today I am having a boring day of strong coffee, New York style cheesecake, and tv movies. As Marduk intended.
P.S. The Governator is suggesting closing some 200 parks and beaches in California to save money. Terrible, terrible idea. |
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| Man and Cat have difficult day |
[May. 29th, 2009|09:32 pm] |
First, Mr. Fizzy was off to the nail trimming place. Admittedly perhaps my cat-stuffing-into-carrier technique was lacking, but he was not into it today and we had to wrestle a while.
Then I came home and my computer's hard drive died. Not all at once, but something is very wrong with it. Not having any backup of all my work files had me in a full-blown panic. And of course, Friday is my busiest work day. In a moment barely short of miraculous, I was able to transfer my user info over firewire to my old iMac just before the drive stopped responding. Hardware tests say nothing is wrong, intermittently I can get it to start but booting from dvd has been unable to repair it and about half the time it shows up as unformattable media. Good times, good times. My neighbors get to listen to some choice swearing. It's my way.
I found a mac repair guy in North Hollywood so after the weekend I'll see what can be done. Boo! Meanwhile, quiet night here. American Beauty is on. That movie makes me uncomfortable on a number of levels but for a while, I was Lester Burnham. Ah midlife crisis, so many memories I'd like erased. |
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| I gave up hope and died and it worked! |
[May. 28th, 2009|11:06 am] |
Or actually just busy with work and alternately dealing with hellish insomnia so I've been very tapped as far as creative energy goes. But work is starting to give me a bit of a break and I'm going to work on that fresh air/exercise thing that I'm sure will help the insomnia. I've also been doing some household fixes lately - dripping sinks and burnt out florescent fixtures from hell have all been defeated this week.
I still need to figure out where to live and how to start job hunting by region online. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
I'm being open minded about where to move to. I'm even considering Sioux Falls, SD. Something about liking four seasons, the Black Hills and thunderstorms. I just need a decent-sized city. And SLO is still in the running, I'm just concerned about cost of living/Vs. moving thousands of miles. I've crossed this country so many times I'm losing count. |
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| I hate when that happens... |
[May. 12th, 2009|01:21 pm] |
Lorenzo Lamas AND Debbie Gibson - clearly marking this as quality direct-to-video. |
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| On a brighter note |
[May. 12th, 2009|11:58 am] |
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Last night I had a wonderful Thai dinner and conversation, thanks to Jill, Carrie, and their menagerie of cats & corgies. And I think I will actually be social this Saturday and go to a party, assuming I can get a haircut so I don't look like my icon... |
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