2007 Redux
Did I accomplish my New Year’s Resolutions this year, you ask? Well… Sort of: I visited some family Visited old friends stopped drinking sody-pop I didn’t get sick for the most part I learned how to build Web sites (sort…
Did I accomplish my New Year’s Resolutions this year, you ask? Well… Sort of: I visited some family Visited old friends stopped drinking sody-pop I didn’t get sick for the most part I learned how to build Web sites (sort…
The 20somethings question for this fortnight is: Would you tell you friend if you didn’t like his/her partner? (As you can see from the title) My tentative answer is: I would if I thought it would be funny. Otherwise, no. …
Who wants to blog daily for a YEAR? Because I sure as hell don’t… How long before I sign up, do you think?
Question for anyone reading this: I’ve hugged 162 people in 2007. Should I start over for 2008 or just keep going?
If my relationship wasn’t a joke, why was there a punchline at the end?
It’s not gay if you close your eyes and think of France.
Memo to Pixel Inc. Associates There is henceforth a new position available. This position shall be “Random Moof” and shall carry a yearly salary of one hug, which is not enough for any benefits friendly or otherwise, but is a…
Today, I broke my glasses and wrote a poem. I was going to post it, but then I tore it up, because life sucks and nobody loves me. Also, that cute girl at school I like looked at me, then—…
Memo to all Pixel Inc. Associates Due to continued time shortages and increasingly pessimistic economic projections, Pixel Inc. has decided to lay-off some associates. Therefore, we will be reposting all positions and asking current team members to reapply. We understand…
My ten-year high school reunion is coming up in five years, so I’ve already started working on my lies. As you may know, the secret to a good reunion lie (or lie in general) is that it has to be…
“GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” Grad school apps are not going well. Also, in case you were wondering, I registered temptationtoilet.com. I can’t believe nobody beat me to it! I’m thinking of turning it into a Web comic. My former co-writer and former artist…
After going through the whole process of applying to grad school, I’ve decided to write a ‘how to’ for people who are looking to get their Master’s degree… to look at while feeling destitute. Start early. I say this advice…
It’s a meme! A second generation meme, that is. I wish I’d thought it up, but as it is, credit goes to Ashley. And since I’m only against fifth generation memes and greater, here we go! There’s this girl I…
I got this idea from Abigail. Keep in mind that my phone doesn’t actually store anything in my outbox, so I had to reimagine these texts based on my inbox: Would you vote for Barack Obama if you found out…
Just a reminder, I really am boycotting NaBloPoMo starting……… NOW!! Update: Apparently MoFo was in November! My bad. I’ll start posting again on Friday. I need to work on applications for a while. Sorry.
A fool says what he knows, a wise man hugs lots of people and charts the rate, frequency and amount in an easy to read area or line graph to display his non-scientific results to his friends and blog readers.…
My friend Alethea took part in Ramadan with me because she shared the feeling I did. Now she’s writing a novel this month too, despite the fact that she’s a mommy and is going to school and working full time.…
1: My car broke down and I need $10 to get on a bus for Albuquerque, I usually don’t— 2: Wow, me too! What are the odds that the same thing happened to me?? Hey, let’s go ask that guy…
Why education makes jokes funnier Today I am thankful life isn’t… Calvinball! My friend Frank just proved1 that Calvinball is not a sport. See, a sport is an event where two or more people interact in order to secure a…
I’m at the Student Union, checking my e-mail. I have a message from a professor I really respect! I open the letter. My writing sample is attached, but it’s unmarked and barely read. The message is: “WTF?? We told you…
What if this was referring to this? Because the good reverend has proven it doesn’t refer to any real kittens in the world and we all know old adages are always true. Thus, logically: All kittens are either real or…
Coincidence: One commercial on two channels at the same time Looking like a stranger Having the same birthday as your best friend Wearing the same clothes as someone Running into your ex-girlfriend the day after you randomly think about her…
The Grandfather This is an older gentleman. He may try too hard to get you to like him or not try at all, you parents might regard him with dread or annoyance, but everyone agrees he’s an important figure for…
“Show me who you’ve hugged in the past year and in what order and frequency and I’ll tell you what your priorities are.” — Ancient Navajo saying Back in January, I posted my New Year’s Resolutions. I later gave an…
no im not, this is just a placeholder until i can write more posts in the wee hours of the a.m. umm… so how is life?
I’m going to make a meme, because I like asking questions more than I like answering them (see: What’s a little Questioning Among Friends?). This meme is in the form of Jeopardy. Ready? Go! Life Love Things that are Interesting…
I think my next check refills will be giant, novelty checks. Is it just me or has NaBloPoMo made blogging less fun? Today I am thankful for… black bean burgers. p.s. Why isn’t there an Anderson Cooper 360° podcast on…
I’ve had a swarm of e-mail, phone calls and sympathy packages over my poor lappy since I first reported its demise at the beginning of this month. The hours and days and weeks have been hard for everyone involved, so…
Youth Hair Your children Your parents Sex Zombies Glasses Hot water Water in general Heat in general Freedom Slaves… I mean maids The respect of your coworkers Health Anderson Cooper 360•1 Peace in the Middle East Your wife/husband2 Food Living…
really wearing a poncho and boxers. I didn’t think I actually did that! Is this art imitating life, or life imitating art?
Ask permission… nicely Dance Have a satisfying poop Not kill people for days at a time Keep my promises, even when it’s inconvenient1 Be giddy Play Halo with my friends Lose… at anything at all Share one of my Twix…
Have you ever seen Heroes? No, check these out. What about Afterworld? No? Ha ha, lookie what I’ve found. House? Ha ha, you get the gist.. I’ve had access to high-speed Internet before. 1 But now that I have it…
Early in 2006, Moofruot sent me her sock as per a prior agreement. I’ve mentioned that before. My friends think it’s odd that I carry the sock around in my backpack, but it makes perfect sense to me. I…
“Doctor Doctor Master Albright, my name is—” “Please, please, my friends call me Doctor Master Albright.” Albright interrupted. “Doctor Master—” “It’s actually Doctor Doctor Master.” “But you just said—” “I was making conversation. I was trying to be friendly, but,…
It makes me sad that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are on hiatus until the end of the writer’s strike. I mean, I like writers and I understand their anger against the studios, but damn… why punish Pixel?…
We have ice cream? That’s odd… better thaw it out and have some before it realizes we’ve neglected it for months …. oohhhh…. my tummy hurts. Ice cream=bad
While applying to graduate school, there’s a lot of stuff to not be thankful for: 1 the cost of official GRE scores, the cost of official transcripts, strenuous studying and worrying about GRE scores, worrying about your vocabulary worrying about…
A conversation I had with my friend Frank. 1: I know what you can do to fix your computer. 2: What? 1: Just get a new motherboard! 2: What? That’s like $800! 1: Yeah, isn’t that a great idea? 2:…
hugged 149 people now… who will the last one be? Nobody knows…
Albright was even giving his toddler-clone an in-depth education. His lessons were progressing nicely: he was nearing Algebra now. “I’m going to skip over dividing by percentages and go right on into factorials. Can you say factorials?” Albright asked. “’Torios!”…
“Listen,” he began in a wooden, rehearsed-sounding tone, “I sympathize with you, I do. My maternal grandmother was 1/16th Arab and she tried to jihad a dozen times before she finally just settled down and married my paternal grandfather. But…
Did you know there’s a commenting challenge going on for NaBloPoMo? There is, I know because a Final Fantasy VII character told me so. Not being one to trust RPG characters (I still haven’t forgiven Aeris for changing her name…
So I don’t break NaBloPoMo… Almost exactly two years ago, I had my laptop break during finals. As you can imagine, it was bad. That post seems eerily appropriate now as my laptop turned off on me and refused to…
Making a ‘top 8’ people I’ve ever met list. Are YOU on it? Because Trumpet Rob is..
RemCon came under new management. Berkowitz’s brief conversation with Albright made him popular for a few years, but it eventually faded. The new management made it explicitly clear that unskilled employees would be fired in favor of employees that could…