april: and I’m burnt out on everything today – I need a vacation in a frozen tank a la mel gibson circa forever young

me: never saw it

april: well all you need to know is that he froze himself for ten years
and then had sex with jamie lee curtis
the end

me: sounds like what i want from life

april: Jamie Lee Curtis circa Halloween or now in the Activia commercials?

me: which halloween?  the original or h20?

april: she can’t poop
um… how about original

me: then sure
even h20, sure thing
now, not as much

april: maybe even the Freaky Friday remake

me: indeed

april: I love that movie

me: i never saw it

april: Oh god, get it quick

me: but id bone them both

april: it’ll change your life

me: and it would be the mother daughter switch
so that would be triply rad

april: I think it would be weird to have a young girl in an old woman’s body though
the flip side would be much hotter

me: pre switch then
true
so maybe never ll’s brain
nail jlc in her body pre-switch

april: exactly I mean it’s like swiss cheese anyway

me: then her in ll’s body post-switch
i now have a plot
this is seriously why i love you

april: leaky friday
tweaky friday
squeaky friday

me: and if you think im not posting this, you’re wrong

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Winking is weird. I never know exactly how to take it. I usually read it as flirty, so when it isn’t being used as a flirtation technique, my dense boy brain gets very confused. Three examples:

1. A new woman has started at work. She is married with children. She has winked at me a lot thus far, though I think every time has been after making a joke. Still, this isn’t enough to not confuse me.
2. My boss has begun using the ;) in IMs whenever our dialogue begins to get tense, to help keep things light and easy-going. This one doesn’t confuse me as much at all for a variety of reasons, all valid. Still, I don’t think I use that emoticon with my male friends.
3. Finally, at the wedding last week, the male bartender was winking at Mike every time he got a drink. Mike was confused and asked us if it was happening to us as well or if he was being singled out. It turns out the bartender was winking at everyone (or at least Mike, R and I) every time he served a drink. Weird for a variety of reasons.

There isn’t really a point here, other than that Tripp gets confused when people use devices differently than he is used to. No surprise there really. Winking is def weird. Unless you’re trying to slyly flirt with a girl.

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on instant messenger:

friend: good site

tripp: thank goodness

tripp: i have been needing this store for a whlle

tripp: now jesus wont care if i stick things up my butt

friend: as long as you’re married

tripp: oh wait

friend: then you can stick anything up your ass you want

tripp: “She said that the site did not stock anything to do with pornography or nudity, nor does it sell sado-masochistic or anal items.”

tripp: and the ‘tip of their day’ from their site is:

tripp: “A treasure hunt… with sex toys as the prizes and clues insinuating what will happen when they reach the end…. Which of course will be you hiding in a cupboard or somewhere similar….”

tripp: who hides in a cupboard as a sexy surprise?

friend: what’s “similar” to a cupboard?

friend: the dishwasher?

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moleskin hacks
so hipster, but id like to be able to find this page later.

dog gets stuck in a pipe
is it mean to laugh at this? cause that picture is damn funny.

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kottke linked to an article on how impossible it is becoming to tell the difference between the 20 year olds and the 40 year olds. and i sat here at work skimming it and i realized i am rapidly moving into this world.

people still card me. they still tell me i look 24 or younger. i just left a job at a game company in los angeles where i was one of the older developers, where guys came in with tats and piercings and holey t-shirts. i wear adias to work everyday. i still only shave twice a week at most.

let’s talk music. let’s not, actually. the point is made. im old and yet im still acting like im 6 or 8 years younger than i am.

i thought i had a bigger point than that. nuts.

in other news, we have the apartment all signed and paid for. i have an address for the next 6 months. this is good.

we move on sat.

also, it has rained a lot here since we got here.

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drop shadows not bombs
hipster, for sure. but entertaining. in a design nerd sense.

Mavis Beacon ate my brain!
typing of the dead is fantastic. and i want. for the mac. since i have it for the dreamcast. but i cant run it over the network. i dream of whole tournies with this game over the network. and my #1 challenger would be kurt, since he loves this game

The Typography of Girls’ Asses
man i hate shorts with words on them. im glad to see someone else doesnt understand it. yes, its an old article, but its still amusing. rip words on asses. you wont be missed.

Textile architecture (we make money not art)
carter, this reminds me of you. go figure. i want clothe brick walls! this seems really cool and almost practical even.

Yahoo Mail vs. Gmail: Contrasting Ideas About Web Application Design
nothing really new here, just a leftover link from last week. the most interesting part is: “At the same time I think Google ought to rethink its apparent disregard for user interface…”

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10 minutes later and will im’s me with the link above. we both agree that its a funny article, but more in the ‘yeah, so its true’ sense then anything actually worthwhile in it. which is exactly why, when i tried to comment on it, i realized i wasnt saying anything.

‘wow, it sure is surprising to realize that technologies and lifestyles are changing! that’s so unique!’ can you sense my sarcasm? i should start writing articles like this, that point out the obvious without actually saying anything.

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i got away and come back and people have posted! i always gets excited when there is a flurry of posting in a 6 or 8 hour stretch and today was one of those days.

petunia will hate me for saying it, but lost this evening kicked ass. can i get an amen andru? and honestly — who here on the site is watching it? i know andru, roxy, kurt and i are. petunia has seen season 1. i dont think carter is. or mike. so raise your hand if you are. just for my own knowledge.

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i walked away from my desk at work, only to return with the instant message from my friend meg:

“i am just a few hours off the plane from 7 days in paris (pics to come) and had to tell you about a dream i had while there – some friends of mine and I were at my parents house and for some reason were going to blow up a small bomb in the downstqirs bathroom. we had just lit the fuse and were counting down “6, 5, 4″ and at about “4″ your head pops in the bathroom window (which was down) – i didn’t know you were there even – and we were waving and yelling at you and you figured it out and jumped out of the room at like “1″. that’s when i woke myself up out of the dream. i think you made it though but you prob got real fucked up, sorry.”

perhaps i shouldnt be, but im pretty amused. it still amazing to me that i have direct impact on other people. im 29 years old and this still surprises me? im so weird.

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beastie boys, from 1983 to 2006, in pictures
this is cool — a picture a year. i’m impressed they have lasted so long, though i fear they are in danger of becoming an institution now. ‘license to ill’ was fifth grade for me — i almost can’t remember a world without the beasties in it.

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Student tries to spend spring break at Wal-Mart
the thing that makes me saddest about this is that i didn’t think to do it first. and how sick am i that i want to try this anyway?

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‘fashion’
not safe for work. my real question about this is ‘who decided this was fashion’? cause i gotta tell you, i should be designing clothes if this is par for the course these days. yowser.

Boing Boing: Stanislaw Lem reportedly dead at 84
one less genius in the world after today…

pimpstar
this is what happens when technology falls into the wrong hands. and no, i dont mean the eternally loading flash window. i mean the movie that plays afterwards.

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