May 2008
11 posts
Hiatus?
I think I’m done with Tumblr (and my blog-blog), at least for now. There are a few reasons, but the main one is the wonderful computer-less weekend I just had.
Anyway, it’s always been very cool/weird to see all the people following this Tumblr—thanks for reading! If you want to chat, send me an email to my first name at my full name dot com.
Different Tastes
Travis: What are you doing?
Matthew: I'm making cookies out of the extra dough from those feta pockets
[10 minutes later]
Matthew: Want a cookie?
Travis: Of course, thanks!
Matthew: Oh my God, these are terrible...
Travis: Really? I like them.
Matthew: What? These are, by far, the worst cookies ever.
Travis: Seriously? They're delicious! [he ate them all]
“Quoting the Dalai Lama on science is like quoting the Pope on birth control....”
– “Overheard”
Open Office 3.0 Beta →
Beta version of the new Open Office is out today. It’s “not recommended for production” at this stage (it installed and runs smoothly on my machine), but this is exciting. You no longer need the X11 environment to run on Mac OS X!
Around the World
hostileholly:
I found the Around the World link, but how to you see which tumblrs are from certain cities? When I try to click on the map, it doesn’t work—it’s a hand that zooms in and out instead of clicking.
I am so obviously not computer savvy.
Help. Please.
Once you’ve zoomed in enough, you can click on the red dots. They bring up links to the Tumblrs. Enjoy!
“Vancouver Multiversity
Faculty of Literature
Vancouver (TERRANOVA)
CANADA...”
– A letter with that address came to my office yesterday from Italy. From “Sender Lord Gold”. Inside was a double-sided photocopy of near-illegible Italian that talks about his intermediate laboratory, the Central Laboratory, someone named Stevé, and being scared of God (possibly...
Someone bought Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 through our Amazon Affiliates account at Canadian Literature. I can’t add anything to make that better.
“Just head lettuce, mayonnaise, and bread; it’s delicious. Next time...”
– Cashier at the grocery store. Anyone else remember that SNL skit, “KFC Shredders”?
“Did you want anything to drink? Milk, maybe?”
– Same girl as yesterday.
The radio station I listen to at the office just played Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”, followed by Extreme’s “More Than Words”. This has made my “stop singing so much at work” resolution extremely difficult.