Archive for August, 2008

It’s 1983 All Over Again

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I’m at the PNC Arts Center at a Journey concert. Heart is playing. Cheap Trick finished a little while ago.
Question: Why did all my friends I just texted about this make old people and Geritol jokes?
Edit: I have never inhaled so much damn second hand pot in my life. It burned into [...]

Exam Rituals

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Studying Process:
1) Take a clean yellow pad with nothing else on it. Title the first page “List of Shit Shu Needs to Remember” Make study guide out of it.
2) Take Gingko everyday. It’s a load of crap, but I don’t want to jeopardize anything at this point.
Day of the Exam:
1) Wear the lucky [...]

Did I Mention I’m From California?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Bravo, our Timneh African Grey parrot, had lead toxicity that led to paralysis. The lead’s out, but he’s still paralyzed. We’re starting acupuncture treatments on him to hopefully stimulate his leg muscles. Today was the first of three weekly treatments. He got three little needles on each foot. He did [...]

Shut Up and Make Me an iPod

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

I purchased Songs for Tibet from the iTunes Store. Apple had the brilliance of featuring it at the start of the Olympics. That pissed off a whole bunch of people from China’s IP range, as evident from the reviews. Not only is it an awesome album (Imogen Heap, Suzanne Vega, Jackson Browne, [...]

WTF Indeed

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Wait… dude… what? From AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage

SALT LAKE CITY – A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon [...]