WTF?

Star Trek (2008)?

Kahn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Simple answers of looming dread

Hightouchmegastore writes:

1. Is there someone who's planning to take my Christmas tree down for me, or help me decide what to do about the poinsettias, or who plans to enfold my shiny little Christmas objets in tissue paper? Because I could use some help with that.
2. When will there be a movie (preferably a comedy) that I can watch without effort and still feel happy at the end of it?
3. Is Bruiser lonely? He seems lonely.
4. Am I missing something, or have I eaten at all the restaurants in SLC and now they seem stale and unimaginative?
5. Is the world more full of incompetent people than it was just a couple of weeks ago? Or is it that all the systems they have for doing practically everything have taken a turn and become really, really bad?
6. Why is it just pasta polenta rice polenta pasta around here?
7. Why did the people at Wild Oats let me leave without the butter, the cheese, and the mushrooms that I paid for?
8. Is it just me? Because it seems like maybe it's just me.

To which I respond:

1) Trust me, you don't want my help, unless you like a house full of needs and many broken shiny Christmas things.
2) Such movies have been banned.
3) All dogs seem lonely to me. I think it is in their DNA. Perhaps it is just in our DNA.
4) SLC Restaurants are dull and unimaginative. There is a mediocrity here that is completely unacceptable, especially for the prices that they charge. Ask lis, I'm sure she agrees with me.
5) Yes.
6) Sounds kind of a tasty routine, if you ask me. It could be worse: you could be on the pre-packaged diet that many people seem to be on these days.
7) See 5 above.
8) No, it is not just you.

India traffic cam

This is just hypnotic. (And you think your traffic is bad, where ever you are.)

Best use of space

I think I've written about this song before, but the video makes the best use of the spaces (empty) we inhabit. The dog just adds to the tension. PoMo melodrama for sure.

Learn Dutch Fast

Now how's that for a return to the Internet for you?

Well that was interesting

I can't say I learned much from not accessing the Internet for 20 days other than that email stresses me out far more than I knew. After day 2 I had totally forgotten about it and, in fact, t hat I have a job.

Accomplishments while being unplugged:

Books read: 5
Movies watched: 10 (!)
Songs listened to: over 1,000
Podcasts listened to: 0

I'm sure there's more to report, but I can't be bothered to think about it nor do am I compelled to Google anything.

Ah, vacation: now it is done. I have over 200 in work emails alone. Joy.

I'll probably keep the Unplugged website and post things to it on the off chance. I never really got into the swing of it.

Hero