Just Another Letter From Cyndi (via garrettmurray)
The postman probably got a chuckle out of this one.
Today I happened to be walking in the door as the mailman was opening the building’s mailboxes and I got a chance to watch him in action. Basically, he feels his job is to take envelopes and magazines and smash them into little balls in the bottom of each box, even if there’s enough room to slide them in. I watched as he slid two envelopes into my mailbox and then—without curling it a little to fit perfectly and easily—smashed my Wired issue in on top, pushing and cramming and bending and tearing.
Ironically, from what I could tell, he saves no time using this method. In fact, I estimate it would have taken him only a fraction of a second to get the Wired into the box by curling it at the mid-point. Instead, he spent 20 seconds cramming. I’m constantly amazed my Netflix DVDs aren’t cracked, since they’re almost always torn out of their envelopes in the box.
Hong Kong in motion (via c.zwerg)
Last night I stopped at the little deli near my place to grab some milk and just as I was paying I suddenly decided I wanted a candy bar. I rarely buy candy bars, but I had an intense craving so I caved and bought a Milky Way. As I was paying, I thought, “I don’t need to be eating that.”
When I got home I looked in my bag and only the milk was there. The cashier forgot to drop in the candy bar and I didn’t notice. So I guess the universe agreed—I didn’t need to eat that.
2008-2009 TV Season Announced
Thankfully, two shows I was worried about (The Unit and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) are both returning. Smallville is also going to return, although now that Michael Rosenbaum is leaving the show, I’m not sure that’s such a good idea.
I was also glad to see Cavemen got canceled—I never watched it, but I was always pissed off that a show based on the Geico commercial was ever green-lit. Don’t get me wrong, they were cute, but not good enough to carry an entire show. Good to see ABC coming to their senses on that one.
Family Guy: Throwing a frog out the window (via fling)
If there’s one thing Family Guy does really well, it’s the long joke format. Just keeps going and keeps getting funnier.
For the first time in my life, I bought Office. Never once, going back to my first computer in 1990, have I ever bought a copy of Office. I always used borrowed copies or cracked copies or corporate copies or anything and everything to avoid paying for it. But today my copy of Office: Mac 2008 Home & Student Edition arrived, ushering in a new era.
Back in my Windows days I NEVER bought software. I think nearly everything on my computer was illegitimate, including Windows itself. But when I switched to Mac back in 2002, I started actually buying the software I used. Something about the higher quality of Mac shareware started me down the road and now here I am in 2008 and I own every bit of software on my machine legitimately.
My teenage self is screaming.