Louis CK

Big John Palmer sent me this link for the grumpy old man residing in my 31 year old body. It's funny because it's true.

http://barefootmeg.multiply.com/video/item/56

The eyeballing game

I stole this from Josh Bearman's site, but check it out:

http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

Kindle 2

I love books. I love reading them. I love going to bookstores and perusing the shelves. I love buying them from Amazon.com and waiting for the package to arrive. I love the feel of the paper. I love the way they smell.

But, I have to admit, the Kindle 2 e-reader is pretty damn cool. It's expensive and I can't imagine you feel the same satisfaction as you do seeing your bookmark travel through the pages of a tough read, but it has one feature I like. If you come across a word that you don't know, it has an Oxford dictionary tool.

I'll admit it, I sometimes gloss over words I don't know if I get the gist of what's being said. Sometimes I'll write them down and look them up, but more often than not I forget. Will I get a Kindle 2? Probably not, but the next generation model might have me thinking.

Dude?!?

Yeesh... Steven Cojocaru's dad must be one miserable bastard.

It's a real mustard-tastrophy!

Mark from the Land of Cleves sent home some of the world's best mustard (from Jacob's field I believe) with Lindy. When she got home last night, I hadn't eaten dinner yet so I cooked up a couple of brats ( the sausage things not naughty kids, they're better with horseradish anyway) and used said mustard. I must say, it is quite delicious. So a thank you goes to Mark and his family for making putting weiners in my mouth that much more enjoyable.

Single dad

Lindy has been in Cleveland for a couple of days for training and gets back tonight. She was supposed to get in at 6:30 but her flight was delayed. Neat. The kids have been good, but we're ready to have her back home.

On another note, Logan and Connor are apparently the experts on Star Wars race relations. For never having seen the movies, they are remarkably fluent in Star Wars lore. Logan and I play Lego Star Wars on the 360 and he's getting the original trilogy for his birthday so the Star Wars jibber jabber will only increase. Anyway, back to their race discussions. I think Connor meant to say that he was Darth Vader, but he called himself Darkie. "I Darkie with a light saber!," he would shout. I had to tell him that there wasn't anyone named Darkie in Star Wars and Logan followed this with, "Yeah Connor, you're Whitey with a white light saber." Happy Black History Month.

A tragedy

30 years of work, right down the shitter.

More of the octomom!

So we've all seen the photos where it looks as though the nutter is trying to be Angelina Jolie. Apparently she sent weird letters to Jolie over the past year. Also the link has a pic of her prego belly and it's not good.

Salma

I saw a few mentions on the interwebs about a video showing Salma Hayek breastfeeding. It turns out she was breastfeeding a starving child in Sierra Leone. Personally, I think it is a great and beautiful thing. I don't know if she was inspired by the final pages of The Grapes of Wrath or not, but damn, that's caring right there. It might be weird to some, but she saw a starving child and helped.

Why the Northside sucks

There is a study that shows rich people to be ruder than lower income folks. I've worked retail and dealt with rich assholes and been to restaurants with work people who have more money than most and I'd agree with the study. You can go to the Northside of Indy and feel it too. It's not a universal truth, but I think the stereotype fits.

Jack and Meg on Conan

In other news concerning another of my favorite bands, the White Stripes will be performing on Conan's last show on Feb 20th. Set your DVRs people as this is the first live performance by the Stripes since 2007.

Doves new one

Doves is one of my favorite groups. Their last album was released 4 years ago, but a new one is on the horizon. Apparently it will be called "Kingdom of Rust." You can download the new track here:

http://www.doves.net/home/download

2009 swimsuit issue

The new swimsuit issue picks are up on SI.com. It's a bright spot in a gloomy workday.

The lady with 14 kids

Holy crap! I didn't realize that the octuplet lady was only 33 and single. How the hell is she supposed to take care of all those kids by herself when they're all under 7? She says that she holds each baby for 45 minutes a day. That's not enough for a newborn. What a whacko.

Christian Bale going off

This has been everywhere, but it's fucking fantastic! So put on some headphones and enjoy the palpable tension. How great would it be to be able to go off on someone like this at work? The media folks are acting shocked, but I think it's awesome. It sounds like the guy had had screwed up scenes before by walking in during filming, so maybe he deserved the reaming.

Phil

Well Groundhog Day is here and the fat rodent saw his shadow. One day we will see this event first hand.

Also, today I'm trying to go the whole day without swearing. I've said hell once. If that's all I say today, that's about a million times better than usual.

Autism isn't funny,

but this picture is.