Fortune

Jan 26, 2004 | You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Fortune Cookie

People find it difficult to resist your persuasive manner.~From tonight’s Chinese dinner.

You can start sending your checks to me any day now. 🙂

The Missing Link

Jan 25, 2004 | You Can't Make This Stuff Up

The Missing Link

Between loads of laundry and scratching off chores completed on my “needs to be cleaned before the next semester starts” list, I have been rebuilding my list of links. This is no small feat, considering two years of links disappeared with the new operational install. Compound that with my faulty recall and there is a whole lot of “google-ing” going on. Slowly, but surely, I’m finding them. If only the same could be said of my memory.

For your consideration I offer the following conversation:

me: IZ? What’s that thing in the bathroom called that you weigh yourself on?
IZ: A scale?

Alzheimer’s can’t be far behind.

This brings up a interesting conundrum for me regarding the new site which should be going live in the next week or so. To Link or Not to Link? At present moment I do not have a reciprocal linking list. While, it’s an unwritten law in the blogging world among the equally qualified hacks out there: You link to me, I’ll link to you–I’m not in the mood to play by the rules. However, it gets me thinking about how best to organize all these links. And even though I’m still leaning towards “NOT” (as I am with dumping Haloscan and commenting) I’ve compiled a few category suggestions:

1. I know them, but they don’t know me: People I stalk.
2. The Twenty-somethings: People who don’t know any better but think they do.
3. Obligatory links: People who know where I live and will hunt me down if I don’t link them.
4. Classics, Standards, and Jason Kottke: this is obvious right?
5. Everything you ever wanted to know. AKA: Google.
6. Everything I pretend to read but really don’t.
7. “Pining” for home: People who post from Seattle
8. You know you want to…(some things are best left unexplained)

I’m sure there are more… but I want to scratch off “Laundry” from the list, so I’d better get. ~~Wen

Guidlines

Dec 27, 2003 | You Can't Make This Stuff Up

“They’re more like ‘Guidlines,’ really.”– Jack Sparrow.

tip of the day: Don’t know what to do with the last of the bubbly? Can’t finish that 5th bottle? Never fear… next time you open a bottle sparkling grape juice, just reserve the plastic cap. The caps are universal and will fit snuggly on most Champagne bottles. This way, your bubbly is ready to go when you wake up the next day at 2pm. Can you say, Mimosas??? –W e n.

Revenge of the Nerds

Dec 15, 2003 | You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Revenge of the Nerds

So, I am going to be down a few because my lovely sys-op is working on installing Linux on my system. Why, I have NO idea,  considering my computer is “learning challenged” to begin with. IZ mumbled something about “sticking it to the MAN” and then I heard evil chortling about how he is making Microsoft pay for Lindows. Whatever. I’ll explain later when I actually can type from my own computer. It may be warped, but it’s mine. A hard-drive only a mother could love. (that’s soooo wrong) In the mean-time… I’ve told my beloved computer boy, “No SOUP for you” until he gets me online. I’m going to resist to pun terribly here.  You do the linguistics. (think… On and Online,  for those of you who also find yourselves a bit “challenged”) Not like I will follow through. I’m so easy. However, I have stolen his keyboard and have sent him the following email:

Dear Object of My Affection:
Get me back online NOW or the your Keyboard gets it.
Yours. . .

Ok… enough about my computer. *wink* *wink*.

In other news… how about that Saddam? Ok, that’s all I have to say about that. Really. That’s it.

Party for small child is done… which makes it a success in my book. Whew. Now all I have left to do is crank out the Christmas Cards. In a fit of pure evilness, IZ and I have decided to send out a “tabloid” version of our lives this year. Which, if you are really really good (that means you leave comments…again, for those of you who are challenged) I will post it online later this week.

OKIES… off I go. Be good. Not too good… but good enough.
*poof*–Wende