I ordered two posters a little while ago. One is a recreation of the original CUBIC*cube image to make it 12" x 18", and it's top of cool as expected. It goes great next to my old Malta! board, Open Trench sign, and set of instructions of how to take credit for important scientific achievements in case I get sent back in time.

My other poster was probably a worse choice. It's a photo of Tim and Dan pointing with the caption "TURN UP THE VOLUME." Now every time I look to my right, there they are, pointing, distressed at my lack of loud, my dearth of decibels, my surplus of silence. And the parmesan... why the parmesan?

No one told me that I have tomorrow off! I was not mentally prepared for today being a pseudo-Friday. I mean, I'm happy that I have the surprise long weekend, but now my focus is all... krokused.

From So Random You'll Freak

Only a couple photos, but at least this time they're not all landscapes.

Long-term plan:
Retire at 55, move in with Greg, Ian, and Keith and play Bridge, Setback, Cribbage, and other old-people card games all day. Hopefully we'll be wearing suspenders.

Not sure what to do for the next 33 years. Ideas?

How to make a 22-year-old feel old:
Play Pearl Jam on the classic rock station. Seriously, 1992 is now "classic rock?" I was 5!

No explanation.

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They don't mean anything, they're just a product of boredom.

Got an interesting dollar bill at Harris Teeter. Along each edge of the back of the bill was something written.

Edge 1: Acts 2:38
Which is: Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

Edge 2: Romans 10:9-10
Which is: If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Going okay so far, not sure that someone would be convinced by those verses to start following Christ, but the thought is there.

Edge 3: Galatians 5:19-21
Which is: Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The point of the Gospel is not condemnation, but salvation. Why would you try to direct someone to that?

Edge 4: Research the "New World Order!"

Aaaaand you lost 'em.

Here are photos from the last week and a half or so. I hope you like them. I do.

From Whatever May Come

I feel like Alan.

I just got a huge shipment of puzzle books in today. Forty, in fact. Each with between 100 and 300 pages.

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I will never have to buy another puzzle book again.

I saw this today, and this one's for you, Mars.

MAY 19, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHNS HOPKINS! Born in Maryland in 1795, the Hopkins triplets, John, John, and John, were an eccentric trio. They always lived, ate, and dressed as one, and by their twenties they constantly spoke in unison and insisted that they be addressed communally as “Johns.” Their triple-brain made them prosperous businessmen, and it was their combined fortune that established the many Maryland institutions that bear their name, including Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins Triplet Research Center, which to this day is mandated to find a way by science or magic to fuse three personalities into one single body.

A year ago today was the start of Gamestravaganza, the last week of college where we played almost all the games I own. That was also the start of me logging my plays on BoardGameGeek. The link below has some gaming highlights of the last year, if anyone's interested.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/42263

I took a nice afternoon trip to Summerville, a few miles north of Charleston, yesterday, just as something different to do. Lots of street performers, lots of old people in amazing hats, and a frightening picture of a horse. Take a look.

From Summerville

So, I've got this friend at work. Let's call him Matt. (That's his name, Matt.) He's got this whiteboard at work, I've occasionally gone into his cube and drawn some things on it, like a little picture of Homestar saying that I "bwoke into your workybox" and suchlike. Haven't done anything in a while. He was out at lunch the other day, and so as I walked by and decided to go for a more classic cartoon: Doug. I went for the first quote that came to mind, one you can see on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0YwtVYYonI for instant comedy gold. Right? So I scrawled "THERE'S A BOMB IN THE LASAGNA" on the board and slipped out, no witnesses.

An hour later Matt comes into my cube and asks, "Do you know the old Nicktoon Doug?" I figured he rightly suspected me of the "vandalism", so I played dumb. "Oh yeah, I remember that, it's been a while." "Well, you wouldn't believe this, but there was a Doug quote on my whiteboard when I got back from lunch today." I pretended to try in vain to come up with a quote from it, saying it'd been a while. "It's an obscure one. I had to have Jake" (you don't know him) "look it up on his phone. But it was..." (he got quiet) "'There's a bomb in the lasagna.'" I laughed a little bit, and he said, "That could've gotten me FIRED. You can't write stuff like that in the workplace! I erased it right away, but that might've gotten me into some serious trouble."

Oops. That... that did not come to mind.

"Wow," I responded. "Do you know who did that? That's crazy." "No, most everyone was at lunch with me. I thought it might've been you, but you have nicer whiteboard handwriting. Unless you're some handwriting shapeshifter, I know it wasn't you." I had fun goading him on to guess and wonder who it could've been that did that, and we had some fun speculations, but I didn't fess up until today. We had a good laugh, but yeah... of all the randomly pulled-out-of-thin-air quotes to select, I probably did not make the wisest choice.

On the bright side, he's inviting me over his place next week to watch Doug among other shows.

I'm having my first soda in over a week. Iced tea and juice just weren't cutting it. I wish the vending machine had something better than Coke to offer me, but at this point I'll take what I can get. In the midst of my soda-less week I had some strange cravings, like for Hawaiian Punch and Runts. I also had a dream in which I was the lead guitarist and singer for a band that was playing Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" and I forgot the lyrics and a friend of mine (the drummer) got really angry and took the mic instead. In addition, I failed to muster the energy to practice the bass more than once, which will make tonight's lesson... interesting.

It feels appropriate to post the lyrics of Werewolves of London.

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From Carnival Booths

Check out the whole album! Sadly, my camera was dying at this point, so after booth construction I didn't take any more photos.

On a post about the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all," and whether "both" can be applied:

Poster A:
No, it's just y'all. Unless we're talking about a LOT of people, Then it's "all y'all." But, if there is a lot of people and you only mean two, then I guess "both y'all" might work. "Both of all y'all" is just wrong.

Poster B:
Except in certain rare situations where you have two groups of a LOT of people. Imagine floating in a zeppelin above two adjacent stadiums*, conducting experiments in applause volume.

Addressing Stadium #1, you'd say "All y'all cheer real loud!" Turning to Stadium #2, "All of you all cheer now!" Then, "Both of all y'all cheer now!"

"Now some of you in #1 are terrific cheerers, and some in #2 cheer all excellent-like, but most of all of both of all y'all are just fine!"

*Stadia.

Poster B rocks.

http://creebobby.com/timestable.html is excellent.