CB and I were working some wedding-related topics this weekend when she brought up that the wedding was only four months away. Four months! Bah! Plenty of time.
Then she said 16 weeks (it’s actually 17), and the panic set in.
It’s amazing how quickly time flies.
Overhyping your product in direct to consumer advertisments may result in a primetime “We screwed up” campaign.
For your reading pleasure, someone called and catalogued all the 867-5309 numbers out there.
I’ve been trying the contacts (really, just “contact”, since I only need one for my left eye), and here’s the rundown.
Thursday (doctor visit) -worn
Friday – worn
Saturday – worn them with lots of frustration getting them in
Sunday – not worn
Monday – not worn; gave up
Tuesday – not worn; gave up
Wednesday – not worn
Thursday – not worn until doctor’s visit to check up on progress
Honestly, I love them once they’re in, but what a pain trying to get that little piece of plastic in my eye.
The standings are now in for the Big East, and what becomes immediately obvious to me is this. Had Rutgers had a swing of FOUR points in the Cincinnati game, Rutgers would be going to the Orange Bowl, not the Papajohns.com bowl.
The NY Times has now made TimesPeople an irritating overlay of their website, further restricting my view of what I actually go the NY Times website to do – read articles. Seriously, the website is becoming more and more like TV, where windows and scrollbars float and spin all around, reducing the actual viewable screen real-estate down to nothing.
Think about it – One skinny column of text, with another equally sized column of miscellaenous crap I may or may not be interested along the side, a whole slew of additional “stuff” at the bottom, and now another bar across the top that floats there all the time? What happened to getting the content I actually WANT?
We hear about them every day. Terrorist attacks, bombings, suicide attacks, etc. But while the description is usually scientifically horrific, what does it actually look like? What is it like to be there in the moment?
An embed photojournalist found himself caught up in a suicide bombing in Iraq on June 26th, where he was able to photograph the experience first-hand. He has posted some of his photos on his blog, giving you the opportunity (should you wish to take it) to view the aftermath through him. Caution: The photos are graphic, something you do not normally see on US TV.
Story courtesy of NPR’s On the Media.
Do deer make noises? I was driving home tonight when I saw two deer on the side of the road, watching traffic from the edge of a field. I couldn’t help but wonder, how do deer communicate with one another?
A few days back I woke up singing that old Toys R Us theme song. The one that went as follows:
I don’t want to grow up, I’m a Toys’ R Us kid
There’s a million toys at Toys ‘R Us that I can play with!
From bikes, to trains, to video games,
It’s the biggest toy store there is! Gee whiz!
I don’t want to grow, cuz baby if I did,
I wouldn’t be a Toys ‘R Us kid!
Here’s the question – do you think they really had a million toys at the store for sale?
Is voicemail dead? So argues this guy, and I find myself agreeing with him. There have been times at work I’ve let voicemail accumulate for days or weeks before emptying it, or even remembered to take down an out of office message. I rarely check it on my personal phone lines, either.
Do you agree? Do you still check voicemail regularly?