The Snook and I finally saw Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back last night. (It just opened here last week.) I left the film thinking, “That was the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.” But you know, that’s not even really a criticism, since they acknowledge it all throughout the movie. It’s supposed to be stupid. If you haven’t seen it yet, I can’t give you a whole-hearted recommendation unless A) you’ve seen all of Kevin Smith’s other movies, B) you enjoyed all of Kevin Smith’s other movies, and C) you don’t get easily offended by really, really crude humor. That said, the scene with James Van Der Beek was, for me, worth the price of admission. “You wouldn’t last one day on the Creek!”
Month: January 2002 (page 2 of 13)
Reason 513 I’m Glad I’m Not Still in Britain: 120mph wind storms
Reason 512 I’m Glad I’m Not Still in Britain: winter vomiting
“We are not talking about feeling a bit dicky and chucking up in the toilet bowl. I am told that people can vomit straight out for about a yard.”
Check it out! I have a webcam! That’s me wavin’ at you over there. I know it’s a bit crappy, but I haven’t played around with it very much yet so hopefully they’ll get better. And once we get ADSL – which should happen soon – they’ll be updated on a regular basis! Those of you hoping I’ll embrace the camgirl lifestyle shouldn’t hold their breath, though. I’ve promised the Snook that w-g will remain PG-rated, no matter what you buy me off my Amazon wishlist. 🙂
(Note: I know the image is a bit bloated, but I can’t fix that til I get a better jpeg compressor. Just turn off the images if you find the site takes too long to load.)
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. Stay tuned for details…
How many of the most highly rated theme park rides have you ridden? I’ve been on ten out of the twenty! (It helps that a lot are at Cedar Point.)
Three-month gym membership: $150
Cute blue water bottle: $3
New sports bras: $30
Stepping out of the gym into the bright blue sunshine after having finished my workout, ran two miles, and lost half a kilogram, and thinking, “I am so proud of myself”: priceless
Nearly getting hit by a car because I’m so entranced by the idea of running home and blogging this right away: pretty damn embarrassing
Huh. I knew that I was lucky to have lived through two palindromic years (1991 and 2002), but who knew that next month we’d actually see a 12-digit palindromic date? That’s right, at 8:02 p.m. on the 20th of February, it will be 200220022002. (Assuming you use a 24-hour clock and the European method of writing the day/month, of course.)
Remember in Microserfs when the main characters talk about the United States running out of phone numbers? All area codes used to have a 1 or 0 in the middle, but with the proliferation of mobiles, faxes, and ISPs, they’re going to have to bring in new ones. Which kinda sucks, because you won’t be able to work out how important your area is anymore. (With the old system, lower numbers were preferable to high numbers, since they took less time to go around a rotary dial.) Anyway, the point in talking about all this is that Northern Indiana, where I grew up and went to college, is splitting into three area codes. Everyone has six months to start using 574 instead of 219. Just a heads up, yo.
Advice needed.
I know some of you have green thumbs. See our little pineapple over there? Mama Snookums bought it for us for Christmas. Unfortunately on the way down to Sydney he was jostled and his little neck (i.e. the part holding up the fruit) broke. We’ve got him tied upright now, but I fear the worst. He’s slowly turning yellow, which Snookums believes is a sign that he’s dead and ripening. What do you think? If he is, how do we go about growing another one? Do we just cut him off and another will grow? Or do we have to dig up the whole plant and then re-plant the top from the fruit?
R.I.P., wee pineapple.