As a healthy consumer of lolcats I’ve always assumed ‘do not want’ was a lolcat-original phrase. Turns out I was as wrong at the Jehovah’s Witnesses that’ll never visit my house again. Wired magazine has finally given me the answer to the question, what is the origin of DO NOT WANT? Find out too with those fancy blue and underlined words.
Month: January 2008
More taste, less filling
As most of you know I don’t drink, much to the consternation of my family and Irish lineage but I nonetheless have a budding interest in mixed drinks. Diet beverages have been woefully under developed until the last 2 years and I’ve been searching for an improved diet creme soda and today I’ve done it.
20% Diet Orange Slice
80% Barq’s Diet Vanilla Creme
The day is mine
More taste, less filling
As most of you know I don’t drink, much to the consternation of my family and Irish lineage but I nonetheless have a budding interest in mixed drinks. Diet beverages have been woefully under developed until the last 2 years and I’ve been searching for an improved diet creme soda and today I’ve done it.
20% Diet Orange Slice
80% Barq’s Diet Vanilla Creme
The day is mine
Face/Off
The two brothers in Face/Off are named Castor and Pollux Troy, how dumb is that. If this is another stupid attempt to smart up an action movie I’m going to symbolically delete my digital copy and then immediately retrieve the back up.Probably some prick writer trying to prove his knowledge of Greek history, if so the last name Sparta would have been better, even better than that some sort of anagram (Traspa, Rapast?), but no couldn’t go quite that far Mr. Sweatervest-wearing, latte-sipping David Sedaris-quoting media whore. You will spend the rest of your life realizing you’ve never had an original or clever idea.
As you can see, this is a new section and I’d like to see what everyone thinks about it. Most of the one’s in this category will simply be me yelling at the inconsequential. Also, if you have your own, I’ll post it with proper credits. If you do a bunch you can be a contributor. I already have one other, Teejay Green. He’ll shoot out something eventually as his posts are like panda babies, rare but wondrous.
Torn is the new NWT (new with tags)
I previously purchased only private label/store brands from eBay to save money but after running into problems with their inferior quality purchased two pairs of Polo shorts marked as New Without Tags (NWOT). I received them today and felt like a bit of a Philistine as I couldn’t tell if the shorts had actually been used. The ends of the cargo tabs were frayed, the pockets were rubbed in and the webbing was a bit gnarly, but the tell-tale sign of fat-man-abuse of a damaged crotch and stretch marks at the knees weren’t present. They also smelled somewhere between sweat sock and springtime baby rain or some equally dumb smell. The front left pocket contained a small scrap of white paper that had a large 14 written in permanent marker. Either the seller’s trying to fake inspection or the inspectors are damn poor.
You have to use it because we gave it to you
I got an automated call today from Digital Services telling me there was a problem with my workstation install (computer troll setting up my desktop) and that I should use my system until the deficiency was fixed. I had nothing to do otherwise so I spent most of the day wandering around and avoiding eye contact with housekeeping. Around 1:00 PM after 5 hours a person from Digital Services comes by and drops off a mousepad. That was the deficiency, a mousepad. I USE A FUCKING OPTICAL MOUSE. To prove the point I started moving the mouse around on my face which kind of scared him and he left. I threw out the mousepad and set into making up time avoiding work by dicking around on the Internet.
Copyright Stumblings
The Economist, has done a wonderful article on Lawrence Lessig, (his personal website) someone I see as being on the Supreme Court should a Democrat president experience an opening between 2020 and 2036. In doing some follow-up about licensing options I discovered what may be the best licensing scheme evar, beerware. Should I start drinking or should my brother ever create something, I think that license may be used. I also believe some freeware distributors would be much better compensated by releasing their goods under this scheme
SuburbanAdventure now licensed under CC 3.0
SuburbanAdventure.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. I can’t really see why someone would want to do anything with my content, but on the off chance you want to do a mash-up of my misspellings or create a book of logical fallacies to give out for free, now you can!
5-Color, kids buying drugs, 5-Color
Pictures from Doylestown Extended 5-Color Night Owl Event
In the middle of the 5-Color event I left to go to Wawa and witnessed three teens bumbling around the check-out counter buying a single can of Skoal smokeless tobacco. Three guys, one can. It’s like women going to the damn bathroom, except here it’s in public and much more awkward.
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, tab, tab, tab, enter
I’ve added most of the Daily Highlights archives onto the new site and gaily started copying, pasting, adding a witty title and adding tags to aid in searching. Around January 07 the titles stop being as sharp and in March 07 I dropped titles totally. In May 07 I stopped tagging altogether realizing no one will ever search my archives. In October of 2007 I think I forgot to change the timestamp so there’s probably some month with between 30 and 120 days in it and finally in December of 2007 my cold had progressed to the point that I think I posted some entire entries into the title. Only the best for my readers.