May 2009
111 posts
“Creationists believe every word Genesis says. I don’t even think Phil...”
– Jimmy Carr
Weird
Each of today’s meals had 58g of carbohydrates. In the 17 years I’ve been counting, this has never happened.
April 2009
85 posts
WatchNew Eels video - “Fresh Blood”
I can’t say enough about the Eels. I fell in love with Beautiful Freak in high school when I still drew on desks and wore Black Sabbath t-shirts. Starting the show on the upper level at Richard’s with a harmonica and a vintage mic, and then ending it halfway through the encore set when E got hit with a beach ball, still ranks as one of my...
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Beth: Do you know anyone who wants Aerosmith CDs?
Me: Haha
Of course not
Hannibal Rising
Nazis kill his parents and eat his sister. There’s also 320 pages of filler.
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
– Margaret Atwood (Very Short Stories)
Café Medina was excellent!
Thanks for the suggestions, guys!
You can't make cheese from breast milk →
“Somewhere between band shirt and tie”
– Advice from Travis when I realized that I have NO idea what to wear to my meeting at the bank
Travis: Girls should not wear fedoras
aaaaand she totally heard me
now everyone's laughing at me
some guy just gave me a thumbs up
WatchThe video is called “Jamie Hyneman is a Douchebag,” but this makes him an absolute hero to us neurotic types.
PDF to word
elainecorden:
does anyone have a program that will convert a pdf doc to a word file? The only one I can find for mac in UnPDF, which is stupid expensive for a one-shot deal.
Joke answer.
Real answer. If that’s no good, there are a ton of free online apps to do it. Good luck!
WatchMatthew: we’re listening to your fallout boy karaoke in the office Jordan: wow Matthew: http://vimeo.com/215586
full screen yeah yeah
apparently it was added to the “Karaoke Extraordinaire” channel Jordan: its going viral
crazy that was 2 years ago.
Downtown Vancouver Brunch Recommendation?
It worked great last time for dinner, so does anyone know of a great brunch restaurant? Requirements:
Downtown
Not Provence
~$15 entrées
Non-romantic date
Any kind of food as long as there’s at least one vegetarian option
Sunday, SUNday, SUNDAY!
No gay fish ([fist shake] you know who you are)
Thanks!
On Feminism
Melissa: [story about engineers playing with corn starch and water for the first time.] It was really funny because they were so excited. But I'm a woman, so I was born with that innate baking knowledge
Me: So how's that whole feminism thing working out?
Melissa: Haha! Yeah well, I'll bake the cake and sell it to Sara Lee, too!
Me: Pssh, figures that's the only author you'd know
Maureen Dowd pretty much insulting the creators of... →
v1100110:
Some people just can’t find any value in Twitter. I personally think it’s fantastic. I like how she says this “I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account.”
This reminds me of when you talk to people who so passionately hate Apple computers but have never actually used them.
Dowd is...
Are avocados sexy?
There’s (maybe) a point to this.
Natalie: I know you measure everything in pre and post matthew
Matthew: it's easier that way
if they can do it for Jesus, i can do it for me
Natalie: when were you a martyr?
Matthew: when WASN'T I?
Natalie: and rose from the dead?
Matthew: i'm not supposed to talk about that
NDA
One of my favourite things about my job is the frequency with which I get to use scissors.
Travis: [Susan Boyle, Twitter, 15 minutes of fame, the speed of news, blah blah blah]
Me: I know! And now it's all about Oracle and MySQL
Travis: [continues on about media, blah blah blah]
Me: You're not going to talk to me about databases, are you?
Travis: No.
