I am a sucker for themed series. I am also a sucker for weird cultural investigations of porn. So it's not a stretch to realize I would be a huge fan of a book showing opening scenes from porn movies.

slideshow @ wallpaper.com or order the book. $34 bucks for 80 pages. I'm pretty tempted.

Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences: I want to do it with you.

The funniest thing you will read all day. I promise.

Related: I remember being young and my sister asking my father why most songs were about love. Since she was probably 5 or 6 at the time, he was most impressed with her noticing it. I remember just being slightly jealous, as I had never thought to voice such an obvious truth. That or I hadn't noticed.

Either way, this list is awesome.

you know, i usually believe i've seen it all. or at least more than i should have. but until today, i'd never seen a cow mounting a person.

Because now we see that eight years of dogmatic Republican insistence on "abstinence only" sex education really does work …

A friend dropped by last night. I have a little Mac Mini hooked up to my TV and the screen saver is set to my iPhoto pictures. A picture came up, black and white, clearly decades old and I said, "That's my mom on the left." She is maybe 6 in the picture.

My friend says, "Who is that on the left?"
"My mom's sister."
"She's hot."
"She's probably 13 in that picture."
"We will never speak of this again. And you aren't allowed to blog about it either."

I am ignoring that last request.

The second was this morning. A co-worker made a joke, which I followed up with a Minneapolis men's restroom joke. A few minutes later, this exchange:

Me: i only hate you because i love you
Him: wanna go to the men's room?
whoa, that even surprised me
Me: maybe later, i just went with mike

Sometimes, work is fun.

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.

I'm still sickly, but feel less miserable than yesterday. Today my throat is simply a sharp pain when I swallow and my head is halfway clear. Fever seems much more under control. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have been at work yesterday. Here's hoping I didn't take down half the dev team.

I have a bunch of links for your amusement. Mainly because I had zillions of tabs open from playing catchup on Sunday after being in Seattle.

• mightygodking linked to this msnbc article about calories being displayed on nyc food menus. I knew this was coming, but it is awesome to read that SF and Santa Clara are next up. Actually, as I stated reading about it, I wonder why/how we had escaped. I've already gotten freakish about food and ingredients the last several years (due to living here and things like "Omnivore's Dilemma." Soon I can prove I'm a little less crazy. In this area.
• How much banks have traditionally borrowed from the Federal Reserve. Yes, you're seeing that correctly. Maybe 5 billion in 1985, which was the most. Until this year. By a factor of 25. So far. Click though and weep, my friends. This is intense shit, something most people still seem to be failing to grasp. I read this morning that an attack on Iran could send oil skyrocketing, further wrecking the economy. The prime mortgages appear to up next for failure. More banks are going to close. None of this is a joke. And it is being said that we are "in the second inning of a severe, protracted recession." This shit has another 18 months at least.
• in lighter news, here is 100 and some pictures of drunk girls making out. (don't tell me I don't know what you expect.) also, much like 2 girls, 1 cup (but less traumatic) is cakefarts.com and puddingfarts.com. Don't do it. (Also, Lisa sent me these last week and I tried really hard to never speak of them again. But I failed.)
• I'm going to follow that with the most terrifying thing I have heard in weeks: the guy on the bus in Canada who beheaded the guy he was sitting next to. Seriously, this is beyond fucked up.
• This is followed again by some lighter stuff — 10 reasons to date a unicorn and postcards from yo mamma. I know you and you will find at least one of these amusing. Maybe both.

That's enough for now. Merry Christmas!