recycled

I’m a pack rat.
last week I recycled a whole bunch of paper-products cluttering the workspace.
I held up the packet of information from that firm — the one with their “Top 10 places to work” re-prints, the description of their benefits package, the business cards of the people who I interviewed with…  I evaluated the packet [...]

overheard

omg.  I’m dying here.
“he picked a woman for vice-president thinking we’re stupid and we’d vote for a woman.  and it was just a white woman.  I mean, why didn’t he pick… oh, what’s her name, uh… Conda-lay-lay”
and no, she wasn’t saying it like Condi is her friend, she said it like she really didn’t know [...]

game changer?

I know the night is early and there are a lot of votes out in California, but I’m looking at Obama 13,786,707 — McCain 13,533, 528 as the popular vote stands right now.
That’s Obama’s 49.9% to McCain’s 49.2%.
Sure, the electoral college is 174 (Obama) to 69 (McCain), but where is the big landslide?  Where is [...]

20M ‘extras’ in the next season of Lost?

that’s the only way I could logically interpret this AP headline:
UN: financial meltdown will create 20M lost jobs
I mean, why would someone create a lost job?  some kind of insurance fraud?  looking for a government handout?  “I swear, I just created a bunch of jobs, and now their lost — can I get reimbursed somehow?”
look [...]

W, what is it good for?

actually overheard this morning at the cubical:
Awww, W came out this weekend?
I wanted to see that.
What’s that about?
It’s all about George Bush,
aw yeah, I wanted to see that too.
What’s the “W” for?
[no response]
“W”… “w”…
war?
ugh ah, War, what is is good for,
absolutely nothing, uh huh…
I swear I was sitting beside a live-action episode of Get Your [...]

least original vanity plate ever

I drove past an IS250 today with the vanity plate: LEXUS.
why, WHY, would you waste the extra money to re-iterate the manufacturer of your car?  I know the word “Lexus” is on the car somewhere, and it has all the little (L) emblems; it’s not like it was a rare or customized/un-badged model.  odd.

“invest in college affordability”

this was something Obama said in the debates tonight, but I have no idea what it might possibly mean.
how do you invest in college “affordability”?  invest in technology that makes delivery of higher educational ’services’ more affordable?  or are they just talking about cutting the cost of college through some subsidies/loan-programs?
college has never been so [...]

Oktoberfest, part duh

I forgot to post the pictures yesterday…
This is the pumpkin painting areas for tots, directly in front of the stage.  I’d like to say it was far enough away to be safe on their tender ears, but it wasn’t.  Luckily it didn’t turn into a mosh pit.

To get a fuller appreciation, here’s the video of [...]

Strangeways, here we come

[maybe if I wrote this two weeks ago when it first occurred to me, it would have sounded half-way original.  but instead a quick Google brings up my exact thoughts as written by The Zone Blitz...]
the NFL network is using Morrissey’s “Everyday is like Sunday” to promote their “NFL Replay” service/option/channel (something).  it’s (almost) brilliant [...]

bizzarre. fascinating.

seriously, sometimes I marvel at how people stumble onto this blog.  here are actual search terms that people have used and then clicked through to st4rbux…

Search Engine Terms
These are terms people used to find your blog.
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witty photo album names on [...]