The Baxter is dropping Brick this week already! WHAT A SURPRISE. If you are one of the remaining few people I know in Louisville who didn’t get dragged to see it last Friday, let me know and we can go together. I will be seeing it again either tomorrow or Thursday.
Category: Angst
Hey Mom, let me know if you want this post to be #1 in the Google results for their names
There are certain words I never expected to see my mother use in print, and “pimped” is one of them. Just one reason why I’m happy to see her blogging again.
If you read Mo-Jo, you’re already aware that after years of mounting mismanagement, condescension and outright lies from the diocesan administration, my mother’s willingness to stand up for her school and her students finally got her fired. She has another job now, but (no offense to any booksellers present) she deserves a better one; if you happen to be aware of teaching or library-related jobs in central Kentucky for someone with an MAEd (but not an MLS), please let me know and I’ll pass the news to her.
I kind of wish we’d had Facebook lo, those many years ago when I was referring to coeds by pseudonyms (note that I’d already learned to fear Google).
I read Dr. Weston’s post above and was a little startled to note that people are using a pretty new website to provide that kind of (subjectively) important social function. Then I’m like, what were class rings? What were letter jackets? They weren’t totems, magically created out of pure student ardor; they were business items co-opted by people seeking to fill exactly the same gap.
Since I arrived here, our IT department has used XStop software to filter the naughty bits out of our workday. The only way it really bothered me was that it blocked the Onion (but left the AV Club unfiltered). I got used to it.
This morning we got an email informing us that they’d switched to WebSense, which has already proven to block nearly all my favorite webcomics, the Onion and the AV Club, IMDB and basically anything they categorize as “Entertainment.”
Awesome!
I assume the guys who installed this software (at the behest of the legal department–liability, you know) have passwords that will let them read Megatokyo; I’m sure they also know that getting around this kind of thing is startlingly easy when one has one’s own website. Then again, xorph.com is still listed as a webcomic in plenty of places. I wonder how long I’ll be able to keep tunneling out?
Update 1317 hrs: Oh, “Entertainment” has been unblocked. Cancel jihad, cancel jihad.
This is for Ken
So uh STEAMPUNK TRANSFORMERS.
I think the last time I bought a Transformers comic book was in 1987, but I think now that it’s been almost two decades, I HOLY CRAP I’M OLD
Apparently New York’s best bet for a Kentucky Derby winner is named Achilles of Troy.
Give it a minute.
Okay, for non-nerds: if you still don’t get the discrepancy, that’s like naming your horse “Aragorn of Mordor.”
Fuck the Olympics.
Tonight, pizza at 7, show at 8. Our place. You’re invited. Arrested Development: The Wake.
I’m trying to cut out the soft drinks at lunch, but it’s a calories thing, not a caffeine thing. Today, around 1:30, I started getting very annoyed with the headache I’d suddenly acquired, and I felt too tired to concentrate on anything. It took me this long to realize it’s because I forgot to chew my half-piece of Jolt! gum after lunch.
This is like trying to quit smoking, but lamer.