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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
4:15 am	Journal Necromancy It Lives!!! So, we're getting married in June.  If you're reading this, you're probably someone who we'd both like to have show up, if you can make it.  So, let us know where to find you, and we'll send you an invite. More info about the wedding (a little bit, at least) is at www.geoffandmarissa.com . Current Mood: sleepy (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
9:38 am	Quote of the day : "Bush is the amalgamation of all the hideous and sad parts of the Republican Party. He is a Republican Frankenstein. He has the temperament of Barry Goldwater, the integrity of Richard Nixon, and the brains of Dan Quayle." (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
10:24 am	BLARGH Work is ungodly slow today. I think that, given that i've only seen one person other than the mailman today, we're closing early, like at noon. The biggest thing that's happened all day is that I noticed the ads gmail gives me when i'm clearing out my spam box - recipies for smoked spam! screw this. it's time to head home. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
5:02 am	/me remembers this wacky journal thing It's funny how little time I have even though i'm working half-time now. The minutes just burn away so quickly, and yet simultaneously slower than hell. I was up until 3AM last night (which is somewhat more unusual than it used to be), and I have no idea at all what I did with all the time. I'm pretty sure I played some video games, and I know I poked around looking at parts for the new computer that I badly need, but I got home from work at 5 and somehow forgot to eat until 2:30. I'm only employed for another 2 weeks (roughly). I booked my tickets for vacation to Hawaii, though. Jan 4th-16th. Hopefully, this won't hinder my finding a new job too much. Where do the years go? I was looking for a T-shirt the other day, and I found one of my old CTY shirts. The first one, in fact. From 1995. 10 years ago. On the one hand, it seems like just yesterday, but on the other one, I can hardly remember things from back then anymore. Bah. I'm entirely too introspective for work. Time to go read something funny instead. Current Mood: restless (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 11th, 2005
7:27 am	No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! "God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in His eye forever," Robertson said. "If they have future problems in Dover, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin, maybe he can help them." Pat Robertson. Why do they even let this guy out of the padded room? Rational people should know that he's batshit loco, and even his religious loony buddies ought to realize that saying things like this only advertises the extremity of their position. **Addendum : Then I come across this gem: "It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how the war began," Bush said in a Veterans Day speech... And yet again I wonder why I bother reading the news when it just makes me want to break things. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
3:38 pm	R.I.P. My Work Stool.... My work stool finally died today. It's been on life support for months (possibly since I inherited it from the previous employee), but as of today, it can no longer be restored to partial functionality: It's too bad, really. Now I'm stuck sitting on a chair which, while slightly more comfortable on my ass, puts me at an awful height for using my computer. Feh. For a good laugh (or cry, depending on how well you take this kind of thing), swing over and check out Newt Gingrich's Contract With America (1994). It's a laugh a minute. My favorite part was Item 2 on the list of things they were going to pass immediately when they came into power : SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse Yar! Current Mood: quixotic Current Music: Pink Floyd - Sheep (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
2:53 pm	blah It takes less than 1 hour of being at work to completely suck all the hope and optimism out of me. I find this completely amazing, since I've never been in an enviroment this depressing before - not even when I was depressed all the time in high school. That was just universal depression; here, I'm fine as long as I've been gone from work for more than an hour. I can't get anything done because all I want to do is leave. Feh. Spam of the day - "People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament." I'm starting to get curious as to where they're getting all these things from, and annoyed that they're not attributed. My dad, way back on our primeval 486, used to have a "Quote of the Day" program that would display random sayings, and this seems to be sort of like that, except that there's links to some guy's porn site mixed in with them. Current Mood: depressed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 28th, 2005
2:52 pm	Porno-Spam quote of the day: "A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one." This is driving me nuts... How did I get on this list? Current Mood: confused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
2:08 pm	Quote of the day : In 1968, there were fast cars, good music and free sex. In 2005, we watch movies about fast cars, good music and free sex. Discuss. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
10:55 am	California Special Election : I was reading through the official voter information guide yesterday, and for the longest time I couldn't figure out what bothered me about it. Then it hit me : it was the fact that the 'briefs' for the ballot initiatives were written by a 13 year old internet message board troll. I don't have it in front of me, so I can't cite specific examples, but aside from accurate spelling and grammar, about half of the briefs appeared to have been written by someone who believes that CAPS LOCK MAKES YOU RIGHTER. Support Proposition 73 (Parental notification for teenage abortions) because "it is needed to PROTECT our DAUGHTERS" or some similar garbage. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that the briefs were all written by different groups, which means that lots of people out there believe that this idiocy will make their arguments stronger. What's next? "OMFG teh UNIONS want to STEAL YOUR MONEY!!" ? "Dont vote Hillary for President, she SUX0RZ!!!!!1!" ? Ugh. What's worse is that some of the garbage briefs were for positions I think I would have agreed with without consideration had they been advocated more coherently (the rest of the guide was clearer, but realistically, who reads that part? other than me?). I'll probably still vote for them, since I agree with the principles behind them, but I'll have to hold my nose and hope they're not encouraged to summarize their positions like that again. It's a miserable, dreary day, and I gotta get out of here. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
9:43 am	reading spam... So, work is incredibly slow this week. I have time to waste, and I don't even have to feel bad about it because there literally isn't anything for me to be doing when there are no customers here. I've been reading my gmail archived spam, and now I'm reviewing it on Livejournal. Go life! Most of it is, quite frankly, illiterate and nonsensical. But the other day, I got a message with the subject line "Naked Whore fucked by monster cock", which consists of a pair of links I didn't click, and a collection of unattributed quotes and sayings : Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.</> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Bizarre, huh? It came a lot closer to getting me to click than most spam does, though. Today's message, presumably from the same source, wanted me to know that : Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never. If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenly, as never before, the absence of friends, or a sweetheart, or a wife, or children (.) In our society, the thwarting of these needs is the most commonly - found core in cases of maladjustment and more severe psychopathology (.) Love is not synonymous with sex. Sex may be studied as a purely physiological need. Ordinarily, sexual behavior is multi-determined - that is to say, determined not only by sexual but also by other needs, chief among which are love and affection needs. Also not to be overlooked is the fact that the love needs involve both giving and receiving love.</i> Bwa? I find myself with the peculiar and relatively unwanted feeling of gratitude towards spammers for amusing me this morning. I think I'll go have some gummy worms for breakfast and ponder this further... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
12:57 pm	Truer words were never emitted.... English is not latin. True, there are some superficial resemblances, like the indisputable fact that in both, the spoken words are emitted from the caudal orifices of the speakers. Reading slashdot is a good substitute for flogging the dying horse that is my current job. Occasionally one finds little gems like this one. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 17th, 2005
4:33 pm	weather? here? It's raining here. This is unusual, since I don't think it's done more than sprinkle a little since about june, and hasn't rained seriously since january. it's awesome, and i'm stuck sitting inside instead of wandering around out in it. It was even thundering earlier. God, sometimes I hate southern california. good news, though. I finally got an answer to my question about what they'll name the next hurricane - Alpha. Once they've run out of names, they go into the Greek alphabet. And, as of today, they've run out of names (Wilma, heh). It looks like it may be time to take up piracy in order to halt the non-existent global warming. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
10:40 am	Notice to be given! I feel as though a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders... well, sort of, since I haven't actually given notice to my boss (suprisingly, he's nowhere to be found...) , and I fear he may try his crazy voodoo magic on me to make me stay, but I've finally made an absolute decision on something I've been waffling with for weeks if not months. I'm not kidding about the crazy voodoo magic, either. I watched from my broke-ass stool as he convinced my coworker to stick around after he had a meltdown and practically walked out of the store. I'm going to be unnaturally reasonable about this - it's approximately one month's notice, and I'm potentially willing to stay around (a little bit) longer if there's a replacement who needs to be trained. I'm not taking bets on that happening, though. This was in my weekly United email: Los Angeles (LAX) London, England (LHR) $366 New York City (JFK) London, England (LHR) $414 Is it just me, or does that not make sense? Also, I wanna go, now... Current Mood: rejuvenated (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
9:40 am	Batman kicks ass --> Politicians suck So I was sitting here "working", by which I mean reading Batman comics and thinking about quitting this lousy job. I was reading the news earlier, but that just made me sad. I came across this little gem from one of the people responsible for keeping America safe : “The lesson is that when the storm hits, the best place to be is to be out of the path of the storm.” That would be the Secretary of Homeland Security, urging residents of the Gulf Coast portion of Texas to flee from Hurricane Rita, which went Category 4 sometime overnight. It could hit Category 5, just like Katrina. But don't worry, residents of our below-sea-level regions! Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has a plan! “We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens..." One of the big problems with this country lately is that we keep picking politicians to lead us. Once upon a time, we picked people who happened to have political skills, in addition to other useful traits (vision, intelligence, knowledge of their limitations, the ability to listen to experts when making decisions, etc.) Bah. Current Mood: pessimistic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 19th, 2005
2:17 pm	Yay Diebold! It's an old article, but I hadn't seen it before : Touchscreen Hack Effort Called 'Monkey Business' Highlight quotes : "He demonstrated how to change vote totals with a six-line program in Microsoft notepad" "...they showed video of a monkey hacking the system to prove it." I had managed to derail my misanthropic internal ranting after this morning, but there it goes again... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 16th, 2005
7:57 am	Headline of the day: From the front page of MSN - "Baghdad attacks kill scores" Is it just me, or does the word 'scores' make it sound like what's going on over there is a great big game? Lucky thing, some of our troops found the BFG spawn point and so we're winning. I walked past a bunch of fire trucks on the way to work today. It looks like one of the buildings down the street had a mid-sized fire - not big enough to level the whole building, but enough to make a noticeable hole in the roof and leave scorch marks around some of the windows. Nobody here again, as usual. I almost think I liked it better when I expected there to be nobody here, than I do now where there's theoretically people here to help me, except they're not *actually* here. Almost. Someone just called and asked if we rent pickup trucks. Yeah, guy, that's a fundamental part of the eBay/shipping business, pickup truck rental. He was rather rude about it, too. Asshole. Current Mood: working (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
9:46 am	Healthy breakfast followed by torturous hours of labor I had toast and gummy worms for breakfast today. I think this is the first time I've actually eaten breakfast since I came back from the wedding. I really need to do something about my diet before I lose even the little bit of shape I'm still in. Eating one meal a day = not good. Ever since I saw pointy111's haircut, I've been considering the evolution of my own hairstyle (if you can even call it that). I've been shaving my head relatively short since I was like 10, and I think at this point it's probably too late for me to try any other kind of style. Not only would it be extremely weird, but I just don't think about stuff like combs and whatever else it is that other people use to make their hair behave the way it's supposed to. I hardly bother with shampoo most of the time because by the time my hair is long enough to need it, I'm already planning to cut it all off. It's almost noon here, and my coworkers haven't showed yet. It's good that I'm relatively good at controlling my reactions to things, otherwise I might have burst out laughing when steve was telling me that he thought it was important that all the employees here focused when they were here, and didn't waste time reading news and hanging out. On the rare occasions when he puts in an appearance, it seems like that's mostly what he does; chats up customers and reads real estate news. I think I'll ROFLMAO in honor of my coworkers who aren't here. Current Mood: restless (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
9:31 am	My new favorite warning label: Fanboy Warning This film contains scenes that may be totally fucking awesome. Your favorite characters may be rendered in extreme detail as they take part in mind-blowing battles set in familiar locales. Futuristic scabbard/motorcycles might be depicted in a way that makes them appear sweet. Thank you, Penny Arcade, you have succeeded in making me spit soda out my nose YET AGAIN! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Police - Roxanne (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
9:45 am	workity work work Never. Never, once, in all my wildest imaginings, did I conceive that there would be a time in my life when I was the most punctual, responsible person at any company I was employed at. (1) One of our regulars came by last night as I was getting ready to close early so I could make it to class with Rissa. He ships things with us fairly regularly, and he also has some stuff he's put on eBay with us. He wanted to know where steve was. I had to tell him that I had no idea, since I haven't talked to him since last Thursday. Is it any wonder I sometimes have trouble getting motivated to come in to work or do any actual work once I get here, when the guy I work for can't even be bothered to let me know if he's showing up? What sucks about this is that I'm vulnerable to his persuasiveness. Even though I've heard it all before, I still fall for it every time he says "Things are going to be different. I'm recommitting to this business." What he really seems to mean by this is "You're slacking off and things are going to shit. Pick it up, asshole, so I can leave again!" Bah. One day, I came up with a clever plan to get him annoyed with me so I would have a reason to quit. I came in half an hour late, but he fooled me, because he came in a full 45 minutes after I did. 1 - Not even when I thought about being self-employed =) Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: Lousy work radio ads (Comment on this)