I need to find a way to get myself a job as an Apple saleschick.
Long story short, I have a decent amount of influence over a certain population of high schoolers around the world with high IQs and upper-middle-class parents. And over the past couple months, my geeky self has (at least partially) persuaded a few of these kids to get shiny new Macs.
I should at least get a punch card–convince ten kids to go Apple and you get a free iPod, eh? Or at least an upgrade to Tiger? Pretty please?
This is like being hooked on crack, but more expensive.
Posted: 12:12 am ·
Category: Geek ·
Comments: 4
Alright, let’s be honest. I’m incredibly picky about food.
I keep everything segregated: no touching, no mixing. I don’t really like red meat all that much. I hate onions. I like things that only require microwaving, but I’m entirely random about what’s “too processed for me.” The rules go on and on.
But I’m getting desperate, this last week in the house. We need to eat up all the scary old crap in the freezer so we don’t have to throw it out because…well, a summer of financial independence (uh, mostly) has taught us the value of frozen food.
Reaching deep into the freezer, behind all the million kinds of frozen chicken my roommate has accumulated over the last several months, I felt something individually wrapped. I pulled it out to find what resembled a Hot Pocket, but longer, thinner, labelless, and more sinister looking.
So I nuked it.
Lesson learned: never, ever, ever, ever, ever nuke something when you can’t really tell what it is. And if you do, and it actually looks worse heated up, for god’s sake, don’t take a bite of it.
It was, as best I can tell, not frozen chicken. But that’s all I’ve eliminated.
Posted: 12:01 am ·
Category: Apartment ·
Comments: 4
By Kirk Cameron’s logic (presented in a spiffy flash app), I’ve broken every single commandment. Neat!
Posted: 8:39 pm ·
Category: Links ·
Comments: 1
I am getting up early tomorrow morning, my only Saturday morning this week, to make my roommate banana pancakes because after another week, we’ll move out and I’ll probably never see her again. At least she will remember me as her lunatic roommate who made banana pancakes for her.
Posted: 9:01 pm ·
Category: Apartment ·
Comments: 4
If I were to take a girly road trip to Dallas, with an emphasis on shopping while I’m there, what sites should I hit?
I promised my sisters a road trip next month and we’re looking at alternatives to the typical Wichitan’s annual Kansas City pilgrimage.
Posted: 11:07 pm ·
Category: Random ·
Comments: 5
If you see one irreverent, musical flash movie this election season, make it This Land.
Posted: 8:48 pm ·
Category: Politics ·
Comments: 2
I kinda always thought it’d be cool to be angry about something locally-relevant and go to the city commission meeting and say something really smart-sounding and influence local politics.
So when I had to attend a city commission meeting last night for my reporting class, I thought, “hey, this can’t be too bad.”
I have never been more wrong.
All of the local issues that seemed almost interesting when I read about them in the paper turned out to be at least ten thousand times more boring when they’re not filtered through a reporter who’s picked out the only parts worth listening to.
City Hall does have wireless internet, though, so I ended up spending the whole time surfing PC manufacturer’s websites seeing if I could figure out just how much money the commission spent on their fancypants tablet PCs. My estimate is way too much. I can’t wait until I’m actually paying taxes here so I can be legitimately annoyed.
Posted: 5:44 pm ·
Category: Writing ·
Comments: 1
