Is anyone else going to this: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=26106447651 — it’s tonight (Wed.) at 7pm at Edge Offices (in Glenwood South area in downtown Raleigh).
& I are planning on being there…
Author: lintqueen
feeling oopy
I wanted cereal for breakfast more than I wanted to admit that the milk didn’t quite smell right.
This was a mistake.
(it was dated *tomorrow*, though).
Friend is Missing — Nancy Coooper — any info needed
A friend, Nancy Cooper, who lives in Cary, NC, went jogging Saturday morning and did not return as expected. Here’s a page with links to news stories and coverage… needless to say, we’re trying to get the word out every way we can: http://nancycooper.blogspot.com/
Deadly Sins for Southerners
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aklikins and I were discussing the Seven Deadly Sins and came up with six of them: greed, gluttony, sloth, lust, envy and pride and then got stuck.From a Southerer’s POV, I decided that the seventh deadly sin was probably “ugliness.” When Southerners say “ugly” in this context they don’t mean physical appearance, they mean “ugly” as unkind: “She knew he was trying to sit down and pulled that chair out anyway — pure-t-ugly.”
But then I thought that perhaps the Last Deadly Sin for a Southerner is Tacky, as it can be used in wide variety of circumstances, for evils large and small.
Besides which, “ugly” implies maliciousness, while “tacky” might mean they just didn’t know any better, so it’s less ugly to say something’s tacky than to say it’s ugly. ;-)
Powers of Thought
(sadly, not in any terribly useful way…)
The other night Adrian and I were watching the Barrett-Jackson car auction 1 and in the background of one of the long shots of the cars awaiting auction you could see an old blue Dodge Charger. I pointed it out toaklikins , saying “Look –a Dukes of Hazard car” 2
The *very* *next* *shot* was of Bo Duke . I swear. He was out in the audience, signing autographs (he apparently had a replica General Lee on the block that night).
I manifested Bo Duke.
1 I like watching Barrett-Jackson. Much like watching dog shows, I find it calming and non-brain-draining. The commentators usually have nice speaking voices and they sprinkle sufficient trivia throughout each description that I’m not bored (“1984 was the year that Mustangs made the switch from a single fold down seat to a 50/50 split fold-down seat” or “The puli, which was bred for herding flocks on the plains of Hungary, has a naturally corded coat”). Plus, you know, there’s the *shiny*.
2 I don’t know which is more scary — that I spotted a Charger in a pan over a parking lot full of cars or that I called it out as the General Lee-mobile (it wasn’t even the same color scheme).
Protected: le sigh.
That singing thing that I do
A cool article about the bluegrass jam group I sing with sometimes (and that aklikins now plays with): Follow-up: small world department and the marathon jam we do for charity every year.
quick question for my online pals
Can anyone think of a free online game where bunches (say 1000) people can join at once, play for 10-15 minutes and at the end, clearly see who won?
I’m not a gamer and am idea-free on this one. (I think something less shoot-em-up-y and more puzzle-frogger-tron-y would be good…)
My favorite earworm at the moment
I’m not even sure whether to admit this or not, but I’m rather madly in love with this song at the moment…
( I’ll put it behind a cut since I’ve gone whole hog and embedded a YouTube video
This weekendaklikins and I are heading to DC to do the first Washington Post Tropic Hunt, which is based on the annual Miami Herald Tropic Hunt (which I did — and throroughly enjoyed — back in 1994) .
The site explains the setup far better than I but suffice it to say that if thousands of people all trying to solve larger-than-life scavenger-hunt-puzzle-games sounds like fun, you’d probably love it.
If you’re already planning on going, let me know — I’d love to meet up!
Realm of the Lint Queen 