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Eat This....

Pythagoras was a vegeterian!

Gleek...




To Gleek...

gleek v. to squirt liquid (including saliva) through the teeth or from under the tongue; less commonly, squirting saliva directly from the saliva glands or expelling liquid through the sinuses.

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iCrap...



I may get cyber-stoned to death for this one but I am unsure of the quality of the new iMac the boy bought me. While it looks pretty and has tons of cool / fun stuff on it, I am not convinced that it is my dream machine. I want to love it like a five year old loves a big wheel but it hasn't given me much reason to, yet. The other day I was working on it and went to restart it. When it began to boot up the screen went a ghostly white and the hard drive did nothing. I turned it off and tried again. I turned it off again and tried again. I looked to the boy in despair and he took over. After a half an hour on the phone with Apple support, it was determined that my two week old iMac was "broken." Needless to say, this did not instill much confidence in me. The boys tattooing Atlanta trip turned into an early morning jaunt to the Apple store where he and the customer service person joked that now that the computer was there it would most likely start right up. The two week old iMac started right up. Apparently, the computer didn't want to synch up to my iPod. Once the iPod was unplugged, the computer decided to work. So now I have an Apple computer that may or may not want to hang with my Apple iPod. I am bothered by this for several reasons:

1. The iMac and the iPod are made by the same company, right? You would think they could work their differences out.

2. If it came down to it, I would chose my iPod over my iMac any day. It loves my Dell workstation the office and the two of them could continue on marital bliss.

3. Honestly, I don't know the first thing about Macs so when this sucker crashes it sends me into a tizzy. I don't know how to trouble shoot it. Half the time I don't know where my files are stored. For all it's bells and whistle I need it for email, internet, occasional word processing, and photo storage. That's it! Plus, Apple online support is a joke. You have to wade through ten pages of comment crap before you find anything useful.

The boy has reassured me that these troubles are fleeting and I have reassured him that if there is one more glitch we will be getting his money back and buying a PC. I noticed last night he has a new nervous tick.

Listening to: Mastadon

Thinking....

I am thinking about stealing the boys idea and starting a photo booth photo project. What the project entails is going to a photo booth every day, 365 days of the year, and taking a photograph of myself. I personally HATE having my photo taken. I can't stress enough how much I despise having my photo taken. The boy recently bought me / the house a new computer. It is a lovely new iMac which happens to come with "Photo Booth" a program that allows one to take photo booth type pictures in the comfort of your own home. This would make the project much easier for several reasons:

1) I have yet to find a photo booth that is operational in town
2) I could wake up and do this project in my PJ's
3) I can delete really awful photos (P.S I am not all that photogenic so this is a kick ass option)
4) It is free

I have yet to decide what format the project would take. I am thinking either a blog or a new flikr page but suggestions would be welcomed. Most likely it will just sit on my hard drive and collect dust because I will be too weird about actually plastering a daily record of my appearance on the internet.

Troubling....

"Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria."

- President George W. Bush

Will the American public buy this line again? Most likely.

Listening to: Fugazi

Words...

In an effort to increase my vocabulary I have begun to keep tabs of words I hear during the day when I don't know what they mean. This has led to me adding www.m-w.com to my internet favorites, Google to my cellphone addresses, and NPR's "A Way with Words" podcasts to my iTunes. In doing this I have learned several things about myself:

1) I am a terrible speller
2) I am surprised I can read
3) I am shocked that I finished grad school with the 10 words I know
4) I can't believe I graduated high school

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