Sebbylite

So it turns out that I can blog from my phone. And that is awesome.

Other things I can do from my phone:

• Find where the nearest smoothie store is located.
• Stalk people on Facebook (not that I do this!)
• Never remember another phone number ever again.
• Keep myself mindlessly occupied with games and the internet.

So as they’ve said in the movies, let’s hope that this is the start of a long and beautiful relationship. Mahalo!

Yes, I have had plenty of time lately (due to the whole surgery thing, and not being at work), but I haven’t used that time to blog more. Why? Well, I could blame the painkillers, and I could blame the fact that my crotchal area hurts, but instead I’ll just say that I’ve been watching too many movies and TV to actually write stuff.

But, on the bright side, I do have quite a few links that I need to share because they are pretty awesome. So here they are, in no particular order:

• Hummer drivers are stupid.
• No more mail on Tuesdays.
• I want to live in Bulgaria.
• “Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”!
• Pretty cool user interface study.
• Parking: Fail.
• Lastly, a word to myself.

So that’s that. I hope you have enjoyed the fruits of my boredom over the last few days.

For your viewing pleasure.

So it turns out that Jeopardy is having online tests to get new contestants. Which is actually a great idea: it cuts down on costs for the show and the contestants, and it allows more people to take the test for the show.

The thing that pisses me off about it though is that I have a basketball game this Thursday during the Pacific Coast time slot. Eff.I bet I’d get my ass kicked at the test, but I’d still like to take it.

Anyway, if you are interested, here are the time slots to try out for Jeopardy!

I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s Resolutions (honestly, how can you improve upon perfection?), and only partly because I don’t feel like change is necessary just for change’s sake. While I agree that it is a good idea to take stock of yourself and how you are living your life, and then making the necessary changes for a better physical/mental/emotional life, why does it only happen once a year? Why wouldn’t it be a regular checkup, just like you do for your car? Every 3 months or 3000 miles, get an oil change and update your goals list to make sure that you remain on track and motivated. That sounds much better to me.

And that is also the reason that I like this site’s idea. Basically, instead of a New Year’s Resolution, you create an honest list of goals that you would like to achieve. And the list spans about 2 3/4 years, so you can add in goals that will take a little time to come to pass. Then every few months, you can update your list and see where you stand.

Probably the biggest issue for me is coming up with 101 goals that I actually want to accomplish. I know that they are out there, but coming up with them all at once is a little beyond me. Plus I feel like if you saddle yourself with a number (hmmm, “saddle yourself”…there’s something else I can add to the list), you’ll end up adding crap goals that are either too easy (wake up for work tomorrow morning), or so ambitious that you won’t be able to accomplish it even in the timespan (become President of the United States). So I’ll start simple, with this partial list:

1. Go back to Mars (Best. Tournament. Ever.)
2. Pay off credit card debt
3. Get new computer/laptop
4. Find a hotel and rent a room by the hour
5. 15 hikes in the Cascades/Olympics (2 done already)
6. Start yoga
7. Start writing letters to Ty again
8. Stay clean shaven for a month or more (started 1/20/08, finished 2/20/08)
9. Frame my duck
10. Go to more drive-in movies
11. Redesign and get my tattoo redone
12. Go see a live play, somewhere nice
13. See an opera
14. Defragment my laptop(did 2-3 times, computer is still slow)
15. Update my “States Visited” list, and try to finish that
16. No caffeine for 2 weeks
17. No alcohol for 2 months
18. Go to either Teatro Zinzani or Cirque de Soleil
19. Learn how to snowboard
20. Get a job I like and can grow with
21. Fix/tune-up/get a new bike, and ride it more
22. 100 push-ups in under 5 minutes
23. 4:30 mile
24. Get more flexible
25. Visit an art gallery during an art opening
26. Do the tourist things in Seattle that I’ve never done
27. Complete 2 of the things from my idea notebook
28. get 8 hours of sleep or more a night for a month
29. See more Sounders games
30. Take a boxing class/lesson
31. Design, develop, and implement a website for myself
32. Learn Javascipt/DHTML/AJAX
33. Learn Coldfusion
34. Deal with my crappy Wells Fargo IRA and retirement accounts
35. Take a dance class
36. Organize my music in iTunes
37. Start and finish 2 woodworking projects
38. Get laptop power supply checked out, then run sysclean
39. Clean out garage, and make it usable

As you can see, I’ve got a pretty good list started already, and I’ve even got a start on a couple of them. As for the rest, well, hopefully I’ll be back to update this list with new info every couple of months. And yes, I’ll take pictures to post of the “dance class” I take, because it’s going to be pretty amusing. I already feel sorry for my instructor.

In honor of our recent snow days, and because I think it’s funny:

Winter Is Coming (don’t worry, it’s not dinosaur porn, or anything like that).

Slap-a-Ho, which sounds like either a new version of Whack-a-Mole or a horribly offensive term for a transgender Native American, is actually just a phrase that is stuck in my head after reading through some archives of The Dilbert Blog. One of the more amusing rants that Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert and author of the blog) has gone on was a theory on why music should be illegal. You can read through it if you want, but my favorite part was:

“And then there’s the corrosive effect of hip-hop music. I enjoy a lot of it, but after hearing three tracks I have an urge to slap a ho. That can’t be healthy, especially for the ho.”

You have to admit that at the very least, offensive music has an effect on the language that the youth of today use. Have you tried to talk to a high schooler lately? Maybe the ones that I’ve tried to talk to have been special in some way, but they all seemed to think that the word “bitch” was more important to have in a sentence than a subject and predicate. That being said, I have to admit that I’ve had my fair share of swear word sentences (my favorite being: “Brrr, shit fucking brrr fuck.” Which was said when I still lived in Minnesota, and the heat had gone out in December), but normally I try to add at least two non-swear words for each swear word (less if I’m hungover, but those are special circumstances).