Archive for January 2005
gmail
January 29, 2005, 5:12 pmDoes anybody NOT have gmail? I have some invites, if you’d like one.
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New word
January 25, 2005, 1:35 pmgay·pa·ble (g
p
-b l) adj.
1. Having the ability required for a specific task or accomplishment typically being regarded as being “gay”; qualified: Why do I have to go look at swatches for the office? I’m not sure I’m gaypable.
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I am one with the night, by Jesus.
January 25, 2005, 2:50 amThere’s a Moncton Goth Meetup group. This makes me grin like an idiot. It has three members. I suspect that might be all of them.
I saw Lewis Black last night. I’ve been to a few comedy concerts over the years (I’m not counting comedy club outings) - Bill Cosby, Eddie Izzard, Yakov Smirnov (he was, well, kinda lame, but Mike McDonald opened for him and was hilarious.)
Last night I couldn’t stop laughing. Black was hysterical. As you might expect he had a lot of anger about the US government to get out. And superbowl half-time shows. The highlight was his tangent on gay marriage - his argument (and his show is a lot of very funny and very solid arguments) is that it’s a bad idea to insert a definition of marriage, as taken from the Old Testament, into the US constitution, because basically the religous right in American can’t interprt the Old Testament worth shit. It’s a Jewish book - gentiles don’t have the right historical perspective.
Best line of the evening (by Black) was his argument for evolution;
“Fossils! Fossils! Fossils! Fossils! Fossils! Fossils! Fossils! Fossils! I win!”
John Bowman opened for him - I’d never seen him before, but he was amazing!
I was compelled to buy an ablum of both of them. As a bonus, they stuck around after the show to sign stuff and chat. So, I not only saw Lewis Black, I got to meet the man. And that’s pretty cool.
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Abokado
January 23, 2005, 4:23 amI made maki today (maki being Japanese rice rolls). I woke up in the middle of the night, Saturday morning, with a huge craving for maki and at the same time could see the steps involved to making it myself. It’s not like it’s hard, but I’ve seen kits and it seems all complex, but for some reason I had everything worked out, right down to realizing the local corner market carried seaweed sheets - I’ve never looked for them, but I knew they’d be there.
I made kappa maki (cucumber) and abokado maki (I had to look up the Japanese word for avocado and there you have it.) Typically avocado is used in rolls with other items, like that fake crab made from white fish, but since the store doesn’t carry anything like that… It turned out awesome and we stupidly simple, not to mention a small cooked amount of rice will produce three large sized rolls, so I had left overs for a snack later.
The only thing missing, and I’m not sure why this wasn’t in my divine, middle of the night plans, was wasabi. I like wasabi in my soy sauce for bite and I didn’t get any. Next time.
And I found out that the cat will eat maki, and I found out the hard way (ie he shatters common sense about cats and will steal a slice of roll from the counter when you’re not looking.)
PS - oh yeah, forget those fancy kits, with the bamboo rolling sheets - I used wax paper and it worked like a charm.
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I makify words and phrases
January 21, 2005, 7:40 pmActually, I like phrases more. I usually adopt new words that I like, but making them up isn’t as fun as I’d like. Bing-bong for instance - taken from Penny Arcade. It’s another way to refer to your email. I have bing-bong. Or I’ve started using “hot dog” over “awesome” thanks to Eddie Izzard, thus leaving “awesome” available for its original sense.
Anyhow, phrases are usually whatever makes me laugh.
The first phrase I termed that others started using was “binary spaz”. It was a way to express the concept of how passive-aggressives (there are a lot in the computer world) deal with stress. They’re fine, they’re fine, they’re fine, FREAK-OUT! Hence, they only have two states, fine and spaz. A binary spaz.
Today I came up with another one; cluster contact. I don’t know if this happens to anyone else, but I find that I can go for hours, even days without hearing from many people and then all at once I get multiple phonecalls, instant messages, email, someone yelling from the other room, etc. It’s a deluge of human interaction that cancels itself out mostly, or at the very least requires me to play talky traffic cop.
So, I decided that type of event needed a term; contact cluster. It sounds very military, but I like it. “Everything was fine until I was headed out the door, then it turned into a contact cluster.”
I’m going rework the English languge to my liking and you’re all coming with me.
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