Monday, December 29, 2008
I scoffed at the woman at the Sprint store when she asked if I wanted her to walk me through my new phone’s basic features. I shouldn’t have scoffed.
I have officially become old: I couldn’t figure out how to work the infernal gadget (Samsung’s “Rant”) without consulting the instruction manual.
In my defense, not including the [...]
Saturday, December 20, 2008
A while ago I devoted a blog post to a list of my 10 fantasy jobs. Those were simpler times. Now we’re teetering on the precipice of The Great Depression II, and it’s time to scale back our fantasies. To dream smaller. To compromise.
To have to beg our parents for rent money (again) unless we [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
My old iMac DV has been taking up space in my bedroom for a while now. It barely works, and I really should have gotten rid of it a long time ago, but I suspected it might still have a few files on it that I needed to salvage.
Last night I finally got around [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
I feel like Hulu is sitting on a gold mine; giving bloggers the ability to post out-of-context clips (of their own choosing) from classic TV shows is genius. It’s just a little too clunky, at the moment. Personally, if anything embeds less smoothly than a youtube clip, I get annoyed.
Despite the clunky-ness, please [...]
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own personal ephemera that we fail to notice massive, tragic events unfolding around us.
No. Let me personalize that, take ownership of it.
I have been so cocooned in my own personal nonsense that I haven’t noticed a terrible injustice that has been done to me, to the [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
Full disclosure: I made two silly mistakes, now corrected, both times substituting a 2 for a 0.
Fuller disclosure: I have embraced the madness, and am now shooting for 1000 decimal places. Then I’ll stop. For sure.
Fuller disclosure, still: Unless it seems possible to go for 5000. Which, to my (slowly unraveling) mind, [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
You found me! Well done.
I transferred all of my old blog’s content to this, the Morgan Phillips Mega Site. Relatively painlessly, too.
Then I spent five hours updating and tweaking.
EVERYTHING MUST BE PERFECT.
As a reward for your excellent internet sleuthing skills, I present to you this amazing youtube video (h/t to bullet-proof glace). Enjoy. And welcome.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Q: Is it a bad sign when the grocery store’s response to a mysterious(?) odor in the frozen food section is just to spray a dizzy-making amount of air freshener everywhere?
A: Yes, it is a bad sign.
Q: Can we draw a life lesson from this?
A: Yes. If something “smells bad” in your “frozen food section,” [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Using techniques described by Harry Lorayne, I’ve been able to somewhat easily and enjoyably memorize the following number (broken up into two lines, so wordpress won’t freak out):
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
That’s 100 decimal places. And I generally dislike numbers. And memorizing things.
I think I’m going to stop at 100, for three reasons:
1. Checking for errors takes a really [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
1. There is an awkward dynamic at play in computer-less temp jobs, when it comes to downtime. It worries the boss if you whip out a book, because then other office workers will think, “Oh, look, a temp with no work to do. Somebody is wasting the company’s money. And that’s why we can’t afford [...]