July 2009
64 posts
June 2009
62 posts
I just found out that “ability to use Netscape at an intermediate level” is in my job description. Awesome.
Mom's coming to visit. Have I mentioned that she's...
Mom: What are you doing up so early? [note: it was 9am]
Me: If you think this is early, you're in for a rough vacation
Mom: I have earplugs ;)
WatchMy brother bought me the weirdest and most awesome birthday gift ever (USB powered Whack-A-Mole).
Travis: Yeah, tonight's going to be a good night
Me: Oh great, way to set up... "that word I can't remember"s
Travis: Expectations?
Me: There we go
Sigh, that's not a difficult word at all
I wish I could just drop a class,
or get into a...
buy elliott smith's car →
jordanphiliphenry:
if this was in the vancouver area i’d almost consider it. then i’d probably just drive around all depressed about my life.
Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian...
A is for aisle
B is for bdelliums
C is for czar...
22% of you will understand this
Travis: Man, you're peeing a lot tonight
Me: I've been drinking a ton of water/tea
I really wish I hadn't made asparagus for dinner
We say these things out of jealousy
Greg: david adgey has obviously had ribs removed so he can go down on himself
Matthew: oh for sure
he's cloned a midget version of himself for those times he needs to work at the same time
WatchThirteen uncut, unedited minutes of God of War III’s E3 demo
“But sometimes it feels like we’ve become so obsessed with building...”
– Ze Frank at Webstock 09.
“What are you cooking, friend?”
– The pleasant middle-Eastern man at the Granville Island Market after I asked for, and then had to describe, a number of ingredients he’d never heard of. After explaining that I’m recipe testing for an upcoming vegan cookbook, we had a very nice conversation.
Matthew: he screams it out during sex
TOOOUCHDOWN!
then jumps up and spikes the pillow on the bed
Jordan: hahaha
Matthew: what an incredibly awkward image
Jordan: definitely
Matthew: i wish i hadn't typed that
Her: I want to get him some guitar strings, too... maybe you can help with that
Me: Steel or nylon?
Her: Um, if I show you the type of guitar could you figure it out?
Me: ...
Do you know what gauge he uses?
Her: Um...
Me: You don't know what gauge of strings your husband uses?
Her: No
Me: Then you're not buying him strings
that's worse than him not noticing when you get a haircut
30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppet Show! →
Watchpatrickcassels:
An old man telling a filthy joke is great, until you find out this particular old man was the head writer for Seasame Street and the creator of The Count, at which point it becomes awesome.
My niece calls me “Mah-Hu Ban-o” (Matthew Banjo). If this blog goes away, assume I melted due to cuteness over the weekend.
Buck 65 - Track 5 from Dirtbike 1
It starts with...
Me: haha
my coworker just forwarded me porn spam
subject, thinking of you
"I think she was thinking of you, birthday boy"
Travis: hhahaa
cue the "i love my job/workplace/life and it's better than yours" speech
How it began
Natalie: how's the hair doing for you now?
Matthew: still pretty :(
Natalie: but pretty hair is nice!
I likes pretty hairs
Matthew: je suis un boy
Natalie: boys can be pretty...?
Matthew: this one doesn't want to
Natalie: you want to be... ?
Matthew: not-pretty?
Natalie: ugly?
And this is why this exists...
Natalie: we have some pretty epic conversations
Natalie: worthy of chronicling
Matthew: i shoudl talk to my friend at harper collins
Natalie: about?
Matthew: publishing a shitty book about them
Matthew: that wasn't the obvious oke?
Matthew: *joke
Natalie: not really
Natalie: I was thinking more internet format
Natalie: but books do have the awesome covers
Matthew: natandmatt.com
Matthew: oh lame
Matthew: it already exists
Natalie: hahaha
Natalie: it's almost appropriate too
Natalie: except I'm not 30 and in southern georgia
Matthew: seriously
Natalie: and we dont have three very cute children
Matthew: well we have two
Matthew: it's close
Natalie: what are there names again? I keep forgetting
Matthew: Pablo and Stacey
Natalie: Oh I'm glad we went the mexican route
Matthew: well yeah... i'm still pretty sure Pablo's not mine
Natalie: He has your jewish hair though
Matthew: yeah, and a mexican accent
Matthew: explain that one
Natalie: he spends his entire day watching diego
Natalie: he learned it from the tv
My friend Natalie (natchats.tumblr.com) and I were chatting about my hair (seriously, it's doing this really pretty curl/flip thing that I'm not happy about) and she started a Tumblr! You should follow her; she's good people.
“‘His fascination with abstract patterns of sound, those thousands of hours spent...”
– Derek Paravicini is blind, autistic, and echolalic. He can also pick out every note of a 10-note chord, replay a song after hearing it once, and shift keys/tempo/styles at will.
Keeping the trifecta
Donna: Oh, you studied Communications?
Me: Yup, that was my college diploma
Donna: So you did Communications, Literature, and Psychology?
Me: Yeah, I thought about studying Sociology too, but figured I already had enough useless education
