Yikes! My brother and his wife are on a diet. I’ve been fairly stable lately, not expanding or contracting, but I could sure stand to lose a few pounds. There have been a lot of goodies in work lately, though, and nothing resolves stress quite like a doughnut. I could probably lose a lot of weight if I could just retire from work, and spend all day reading comics.
How Krispy Kremes Work
weird
“We are strange, ageless, medically curious and vaguely Satanic Hollywood fossils who live underground, fearing the purging glare of daylight.” — from Inside the Hollywood Star Chamber: In Which Five Clones of Karl Malden Choose the Oscar Winners
Kenshin
The Rurouni Kenshin episodes running on Cartoon Network this week seem to be early episodes from DVD Vol. #02: Battle in Moonlight and DVD Vol. #03: Shadow Elite. Fairly good, but not as good as many of the later episodes.
SDCC
I just made all my reservations for ComicCon 2003. I can’t wait!
Rurouni Kenshin
Cartoon Network starts showing Rurouni Kenshin today at 6:30pm. Yay! This is my second-favorite anime series ever, right behind Cowboy Bebop.
CPU
Here’s a little hint, if your CPU is running too hot: Open the box and blow all the dust out. I did that last night, and it knocked about 5-10 C off the temperature.
layout
Note to self: look at the Layout Reservoir at BlueRobot when I have time.
Cameroon
“The Cameroon health minister has deemed it necessary to warn people that drinking urine may not be good for your health.” Story at the BBC site. And I thought Americans were stupid.
old cards
I’ve been putting old Christmas and birthday cards into a big pile for the last 10 years or so. Well, the pile has finally gotten big enough that I need to throw some away. I expected I would just be able to go through the cards and throw out most of the old ones, just saving a few that were interesting, or touching, or funny. It turns out that there were quite a few little memories in that pile. At the risk of embarrassing a few people, here are some quotes:
From a birthday card from 1995, from my Aunt Janet:
“Sorry this is so late. I always remember you coming home from the hospital with that little green cap on your head for St. Patrick’s Day, and think that is your birthday.”
From Mom & Dad’s birthday card, probably the same year:
“Don’t send any more payments on the Tercel.” (Thanks!)
A Christmas card from 1994:
“About 12 years ago, I considered you to be garbage. Now, you’re one of my best friends. Food for thought, for both of us.” (I won’t mention who this was from!)
Hey, I just reached the bottom of the pile, and I remembered why I was looking through it in the first place! I was looking for a picture from my old roomie Rob’s wedding. I scanned it in quite a few years ago on my old black & white scanner, and put it up on the web page. It’s still here, and it looks like crap! I wanted to scan it in again, in color this time. Lo and behold, there it was, at the very bottom of the pile. And here it is, in color now!