from Promise:

"You know that I want your loving, but my logic tells me it never gonna happen, and then my defences say I didn't want it anyway, but you know sometimes I'm a liar..."

to say that that was high school for me would be a bit of a stretch. but it's not all that far off. the Violent Femmes debut album is something that should be required listening for all students. they might not get it anymore, maybe they're more into Nelly or Pink, but --

I just found this in my mail archives, and it still struck home. something I wrote to my friends back home about mid-day, 9-11:

hey guys,

rest assured, to all my homeys, I'm still Cold Lampin with Flava. I was just reading my high school year book, and ShawnMC told me way back then to keep it real... and I just wanted you all (Y'all) to know that I am, in fact, keepin it real. All I need in this life on sin, is me and my girlfriend. Kizzow gets Carrie fever like a soldier, or something, I don't know -- we don't really even get HBO. Yo G, I think I came up with that rhyme all myself. Word.

explodingdog.com -- I like it.

this guy takes peoples random quotes and draws something based on it. ie: I am building a world for you

self-proclaimed BestPageInTheUniverse... this guy rules (he says so).

PunchDrunkLove was not my favorite movie, but there was a great scene where the main characters proclaim their love for one another:

"You are so beautiful. I love you so much I want to smash your face in with a sledgehammer."

"I love you so much I want to rip out your eyeballs and suck on them and then punch you in the nuts."

[Pause]

who laugh at Dilbert and don't realize that they ARE THE VERY PEOPLE that Dilbert mocks.

[see MushHead]

please, discuss among yourselves...

[pic: EdGrimley]

Today I have whispered, "please, just kill me" to my cubemates about a dozen times. I want to explain MushHead, but I don't know that I can do him justice.

He breathes through his mouth, I suppose because it's always gaping open. His eyes seem buldged, though they are usually half closed. Like a muppet. A muppet that's baked.

"Shut your mouth, you look stupid."

the other day on one of the news channels they were interviewing someone, and to a redundant/sarcastic question he responded, "yeah, not so much". it caught my attention because that phrase seems to be uttered dozens of times daily at work. we use it to emphasize sarcasm, but it requires the other party to play into it with a question of sincerity; example:

"well, I was just about to ask MushHead if he wanted to go to lunch with us today."

"really?"

http://www.vpnlabs.com --

so last week she asks me to track down "In The Year 2525". I return a blank stare, and she tells me it's a song from the 60's or something. so I hit alltheweb.com (the only non P2P site I could think of) and sure enough it comes up. I download it on her laptop, and she makes me listen to it. it was truly terrible.

interesting IP discussion at lunch. ms.BlackMarket was defending the right to download and burn everything indiscriminately, and doing a poor job at it. she has an insane amount of mp3s, and proudly claims that she hasn't listened to any of them. then of course we had a one of our managers, defending the right of corporations to make insane amounts of money.