Author: Adam (Page 108 of 224)

What I Learned Watching “The Ring”

Televisions are evil. It’s as simple as that. They are portals for all kinds of havoc, and will eventually kill you. (And I’m not even talking about “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”) Destroy them now.

Of course, if you have one of those large plasma TVs, it’d be easier to just donate it to me. I’ll take my chances with the evil.

My Weblog Recruitment Project isn’t going so well thus far. I’ve set up weblogs for Lisa and Amanda on my mightyforces.net domain, and so far they remain unused. I still hold out hope, though.

If you have any new favorite weblogs, let me know about them in the comments. I need some new stuff to read online.

Do you watch “Alias”? Let me know in the comments. Thanks.

Word of the Day: staunch

Sybil Fawlty (on the phone):
“Is it getting on the bedspread?………Well, call me back when you’ve staunched it.”

I was watching “The Anna Nicole Smith Show” tonight and wondered out loud, “Am I going to hell for watching this?”

Rarely has philosophy and pop culture intersected in such a vivid way.

Sure-fire appetite suppressant: Watching people in an eating contest on the Food Network try to choke down six-pound (!) hamburgers, covered in lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and pickles, inside a bun the size of a giant loaf of bread.

I may never eat again.

When you look up at the night sky in American McGee’s Alice, you see hundreds of small five-pointed stars, like what a child would draw.

Little happy surprises like that give me hope.

I’m thinking of redesigning my business site. I had a potential client tell me she couldn’t figure out how to subscribe to the newsletter, even though it’s right there in the righthand column. That got me thinking that maybe I should go with a white-background, minimalist, almost-all-text design. I advocate it, so I should take my own advice.

I don’t really want to redesign this page, though. I like it.

“Barking Up The Wrong Tree” Spam E-mail of the Month

FROM: The Super Special Sales
TO: Friend
SUBJECT: Friend, Show your support for George W. Bush!

There are so many things wrong with that, I don’t know where to begin. This is all probably because of my dad. After all, elephants never forget.

A JOKE (stop me if you’ve heard this one):

Two elephants are standing in a jungle clearing, both wearing party hats. Around them is strewn the remnants of birthday party decorations – horns, banners, confetti, etc.

Elephant #1: “Wow, that was a great party. I can’t remember when I had a better time. ….Of course, that’s just a figure of speech.”

Have you seen the toilet paper commercial that consists of close-ups of various people wagging their (thankfully clothed) asses in your face? Set to the jaunty music? Where they are all smiling and engaged in fun activities like bowling and dancing and gamboling on the beach? Except, with the ass closeups?

Kill me. Kill me now.