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Thursday, July 24, 2008 Random I thought I lost the remote for my iPod. A 3rd-gen, it's unique, because it connects to the player at the top, with a specialized connection point at the headphone jack. They don't make them anymore, either.  Went on eBay, found a seller with just the remote cord in Hong Kong. The price is okay; with shipping it's $10. That's almost $20 cheaper than when I bought the first replacement (they get twisted up and the wires come loose). After I bought it, I found my cord in my luggage. But I'm not bothered at all. Now I actually have a replacement for when the remote finally does fail, something I probably wouldn't have done until it actually failed and then it might be even more rare. *** A series of thunderstorms rolled through last night. At one point, it was directly overhead. Lightning and thunder almost at the same time. The house actually shook with the thunder. So loud, my initial reaction was that some kind of massive car wreck had just occurred. Oddly, TheBoy never woke up. *** The local news goes nuts over weather events. We don’t get freeway chases (called highways here in the east, because nothing is "free" here), or bank, hostage holdups, or demonstration riots (not since the 70s anyway). But we get weather and it's always treated like the outbreak of WWIII. They issued a tornado warning and, at that point, they just throw out common sense and just start repeating things over and over, ad nauseam. Even after the warning is canceled, they just can't help themselves. I didn't dare turn on FOX. They'd probably blame it on the Democrats. *** We watched Ghost Story. Weirdest sighting ever: The girl in the film played the Borg Queen. *** Everybody at work watches baseball. Why am I always on the outside of things? It's not so much I want to watch baseball, it's more along the lines of: Why does everything I enjoy only serve a niche market? *** Looking for a light bulb a couple of days ago, I found this:  It's a panel from a Mad Magazine spoof of Outland, which, after all these years, I still find funny--and is an extremely odd thing to find while looking for a light bulb. *** I have orthostatic hypotension. Which is a fancy way of saying I get dizzy when I stand up too fast, just like millions of other people. Could be a salt problem. Fun Fact: Your leg muscles act like pumps to get blood back up to your heart. *** We do technical publishing at work. It's all books on either radar, biomedical, or process management stuff, sometimes with ridiculous amounts of math or nano-medical terminology. This, however, is an actual footnote: 6. Bullwinkle's alma mater. I have now officially stopped asking questions. *** It's down-pouring again. I hope it lets up enough after work, there's a NELUG meeting. I hope Sullivan remembers the Paranoia book (if he goes--slacker!) posted by Evil Wayne | 1:45 PM 4 comments 4 Comments:
To be fair - there actually WAS a tornado in RI. And a warning in NH. And mysteriously a swath of damage just north of sullis' place:
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You talk about RI like it's a real state. Although I did hear about the NH thing. I'm going with BigFoot until otherwise corrected.
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Boingboing had a garden yeti the other day - almost as cool (but somewhat less scary) than the garden zombie i posted about:
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boo! I am so crying. |
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