After eating at a restaurant (often chinese) or fast food place (especially Burger King), do you ever get that face-heat feeling, like the area under your eyes and down your nose is burning and going to sweat off? Sometimes it's accomianied by prickly feelings. And then the brain slowing to a "I can't really think well" crawl all afternoon.
Virgin mobile in Australia is going to begin offering a service that lets you set up a list that you can't drunk dial. Hmm... If I made a list, it would most likely be after I'd had a few and all my usual callees would still be on the "ok" list. Or I'd need someone else to make the list for me.
The survey also found that the morning after more people will first reach for their mobile phone to check who they had dialled (55%) instead of reaching for painkillers (8%).
Well, I survived the holiday with TCB's family and friends. The dreaded meeting of his mom's family was more hype than fact- it wasn't nearly as bad as a good drama party. We saw The Incredibles on Thursday night and it is, indeed, fantastic. That night, I went to stay at Aunt S's and saw a great show on Discovery Wings, Airport, about Heathrow airport, all the things that go on there, kind of like reality TV. But with all sorts of people, some of them really dumb. My favorite were the guys from Kuala Lumpur who thought they were in France. They were denied entry into the UK.
Mouse the bears! Endless (nearly) fun for a rainy (snowy) Thanksgiving Eve.
Also, I borrowed Al Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," from Abby, and I'm really enjoying it- it's very funny. And I'm glad that someone else thinks [certain writer] is a nutcase, too: Al devotes many chapters to her.
One more day until I head down to TCB's for thanksgiving. I'm a little apprehensive about it, being used to my mother's cooking, because his mom, apparently, doesn't cook with anything besides pepper and salt. Also, he says that maybe I should partake of the green jumpers before spending all thursday with his mother's family. Right now, however, I'm debating whether I should make tofu-spinach dip to take down or make apple pie, since TCB and his mom are both not fond of cooked apples.
I think I'll go with the apple pie, since I want to make sure that there's something there with spice.
I've been looking for this quote since I read it in TIME's special issue on fashion and luxury items (yup, that's what I like to read to kill some brain cells.)
'To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.' -- Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918
Australia has a new elite soccer competition, and The A-League is covering it all, from trades and signings to players and coaches.
This all looks terribly exciting and I'll definitely be following it, to see where it goes.
Of course the captain's drunk! But the real problem is...
For the past few days, I've been up in Ft. Wayne, helping Aunt M and Uncle D get ready for T-giving at their house by cleaning the first floor. I really did mean to leave yesterday, but I fell asleep while doing my laundry at 3, and then slept until 6:30.
They have a new kitty, Teddy, who showed up at the funeral home, probably from some family, realizing that they couldn't care for all of them, taking a box of kittens to the graveyard. Teddy, already a fan of bathrooms, toys and invisible spots on the floor, likes the vacuum.
By far, one of the most sugary, gag-inducing thingies I've seen: DaisyPath and Lilypie, counters that count down to your baby, baby adoption, wedding day, fertile days, anniversary and vacation. Yeah, that's right, if you're trying to conceive, you can tell the world on which days you and your partner will be doing it like bunnies. On the other hand, the author seems to know her stuff.
Earlier, I had a post on search engines and today, I'm trying out some new ones.
First up is alltheweb. It has a familiar, Google-like interface, the ability to search for news, pictures, audio, and video, and includes an "offensive content filter." Apparently, Ashamaley is somewhat offensive, because her site dropped ranking when I turned the filter on and off when searching for Palila piece of ass. Another good thing: if your search has several possibilities, depending on the aspect of the item, alltheweb comes up with those categories and lets you drop and add them. Example: searching for 2gether.
Next is Vivisimo, a search engine searches with Clusty. Clusty, appropriately, clusters results into categories, so you can view all categories, or just the ones you think are the most appropriate. For example, searching for Ghani blogging hangover brings up the categories "Ghani@ mischieftodata," "Circulars," "Black Kembara Special Edition," and "Other Topics." Also, you can categorize your search by searching in news, images, shopping, encyclopedia, and gossip, and offers customizable category tabs (search in blogs ebay and Slashdot, for example). There's also a Clusty Firefox toolbar.
Finally, the little turban-wearing imp at Kartoo draws me a map of my clustered images and draws relationships between them. Also, it gives me a pictoral indication of the relavency of each item and shows me a preview of the text when I mouseover each item. Example: Search for Joel Donkeys. You'll get a pretty picture of things and relationships, but the page with the [lots of pages picture] is the one I'm looking for. Plus, I can refine my search by clicking on things. It's not a very clear and accurate search, but it's pretty.
My pick: Kartoo, because the imp-genie rubs his lamp when you search for things.
Last night, I found you can leave a bottle of Dr. Enuf in the freezer for a good 8 hours without it breaking. Next on the list: find out if it's any easier to open now...
My phone, upset that it might not get to experience Cary Laxer's wonderful lawn, jumped itself right out of my pocket as I tiptoes through the wet grass, to spend the night. Guess it figured something of mine should wind up there.
So, you can go make your own superhero ID card, and they test you for your super ability, too. My Official Super Power- Flight. and my Official Super Hero Name- Fantastic Speedy Woman!
Well, besides working on my SoP for grad applications, learning about new aspects of Tri Delta advising and going over flash cards of vocabulary, I'm fairly boring with nothing to report.
I did get a part-time jorb as barstaff at the best bar in Terre Haute- Sonka's.
Well, through the magic of Audio blogging, I can drunk-dial my blog. And listen to it hungover, though I don't know if this one's from the election or from the vodka.
