January 2011
37 posts
Double Stuffed Oreos, A Morality Tale
Or, How I Lost The Weight
To begin with, I am a fairly large person. I come from a family of, as someone once said, Big Jews. At 5’9” I am the shortest person on either side of my family except my Holocaust-surviving grandparents.
Or, let me rephrase that, my family is built to survive the Holocaust.
Which also means that if I eat too much or too little, or if it gets too cold,...
Paul just sent me an email from work with a link...
It’s love.
Things I Vow to Not Allow to Go Undone While Unemployed
The dishes
My grad school homework
Getting on a regular workout schedule
Things That Will Probably Continue to Go Undone Despite the Fact That I Am Unemployed
Laundry/dusting
My grad school homework any time than the day before it is due
Getting on a regular workout schedule
Haters Gonna Hate.
“We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.”
– Something we missed over x-mas, Patton Oswalt’s article from the new Wired Magazine “Wake Up, Geek Culture, Time to Die”
My new blog! →
I started a new blog to try and get a handle on all of the tech news, new products, and unique promotions that come my way every day (partially for grad school, partially for my own reference). Follow at the link above for an unplanned piecemeal scrapbook of the internet landscape and occasionally some of my poorly articulated thoughts on the matter.
I met a guy called Jareth yesterday. I started to tell him, “Oh I’ll remember your name because that’s the name of the David Bowie character in Labryinth, and you look kind of like a floppy hipster version of that, but without the wig and the sparkles and the cod piece.”
But that seemed kind of rude and overly complicated so I just said, “Has anyone ever told you...
The Greatest Email of All Time
Over the holiday, apropos of nothing, I received the greatest email I ever could receive. The full text with names removed to protect the innocent. Typos, emphasis, and flattery his…
Dear Ms. Goldberg:
Good Morning. Please let introduce me.
My name is NAME and I’m from CITY, a city of COUNTRY.
At first, I want express my congratulations to your wonderful work into so amazing...
Me: (filling arrowhead water bottles because I forgot my nalgene at home)
Dude in the Kitchen: You refill your water bottles?
Me: Yep, it seems wasteful to only use them once when we have this filtered water, don't you think?
Dude: So, are you like, really conservative?
Me: (dumbstruck. Then,) I, um, don't think that word means that.
Dude: (embarrassed) oh yeah I mean, are you like, really conservation-y.
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I walked to the bar down the street.
lady88:
One of our absolute favorite spots. I’m meeting Natalie when she gets off of work at 10pm. We’re battling our opposite schedules with sleep deprivation and late night happy hours. Old school Stevie Wonder plays over my head. The candle in the mason jar flickers next to my beer. And I keep scooting the empty chair next to me closer and closer to me…I think I miss her a little. #in love...
New Years Resolutions for 2011
Short term: get back from the holiday wine/cheese/cookie/TV stupor.
Mid term: get married.
Long term: get a master’s degree.
Should be a pretty good year.