A Buddhist walks up to a hotdog vendor, and says: Can you make me one with everything?

ha!

that skank Yves Adele Harlow needs to keep her hands off my man.

i have an obsession with binder clips. i don't know what it is, but everytime i get a report with a binder clip, i replace the clip with a regular ol' paper clip. i have binder clips stuck all over my cubicle on everything small enough to be clipped. it's like hundreds of black and chrome metallic butterflies have invaded.

i don't want Tara to be brain-sucked.
(it's technically not a spoiler since it's something from the End o' Episode teaser)

i haven't had anything to say today. what's wrong with me?

i meant no offense to any Alabaman...or Alabamese?... 'baman?... uh... redneck¹... who doesn't use phalanx computational methods.

darn² Max to heck² for taking away his permalinks.


¹ i can say that. i live in a state with a high redneck population.
² i don't want to be fined for profanity.

in Oklahoma, Sabbath-breaking is a crime, and so is profane swearing. profanity is punishable by a fine of $1.00. even wearing a hood or mask is illegal (unless you're going to a masquerade, are a kid on Halloween, or part of the circus).

I can count on my fingers and toes how many paid staff people there are in Alabama working on the environment," said Kristen Bryant, executive director of the Alabama Environmental Council

the real challenge would be for her to count *without* using her fingers and toes.

god bless Alabama.

until then, here's an article on off-shore drilling that has Florida and Alabama disagreeing, and Presidente Bush left to choose between his brother and his petroleum industry interests.
[from the NY Times. registration required. it's free. do you think a cheap bastard like me would pay for it?]

it's never good when a VP calls a suprise meeting with all the non-executive people, and it's even worse when he begins the meeting with "Some of you will be going home early today. for good." today is Downsizing Day 1. i'm going to hide under my desk until it's all over.

to commemorate Robert Downey Jr.'s monthly arrest, i thought i'd point out that Encore Avenue (Canadian) will be showing Less Than Zero next week.

quick Buffy review: good episode. good vampire and leper hobbit butt kicking. Spike gets his butt kicked. sweet ending. tantalizing teaser for next week. but why is Dawn pilfering earrings?

quick Angel review: such a sad start. One-handed Lindsey can't tie his ties or play his guitar. very sad. Cordelia sees something terrible and spends a couple of days crying. very sad. definitely not the madcap Evil Hand adventures i was expecting. Angel has grown a sense of humor, though he's not very good with it yet. Lindsey can sing. very well. but instead of pursuing a career touring the great demon karaoke bars of LA, he left town. adios.

also: what she said. (Spike did look good with his hair all mussed up).

you'd think this guy would learn to stay home.

7:00pm is approaching too slowly.

last night, a friend (who i rediscovered Saturday evening after he disappeared for 5 months) called. he'd received some worrying news and wanted to know if i'd stop by for a while to talk. i did so, and we talked over a case of MGD (blech!) until the wee hours of the morning. this morning, i was, again, two hours late for work.

being late usually isn't a problem because the rule in the office has been "as long as you're here between seven and nine, it's ok." that was the rule until this morning. the boss made some changes during my tardiness. i was given a "stern talkin' to" and even scored a follow-up reminder email about being late. from this, i have concluded that work sucks. in fact, i have decided that'll be the basis for my thesis, if-ever i actually get myself back at university.

the Supreme Court has ruled in Atwater v. Lago Vista that people may be arrested for minor traffic offenses.

O'Connor, writing for the minority, said Atwater's arrest was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. It does not make sense for the majority to say both that Atwater's arrest served no state purpose and also to say that it passed constitutional muster, O'Connor wrote.

"Because the court's position is inconsistent with the explicit guarantee of the Fourth Amendment, I dissent," she wrote.

i knew she still had a sensible bone or two left in her.

who told Jennifer Lopez that she could act?

Hamill, Brown Voice JLA

"Stop the guy in the blue shirt. He's got a gun."

yeah, i know i'd make an effort to stop someone if i heard that.

i thought i lived in Geriatricville, but my neighborhood keeps getting more exciting all the time.

having been found by a search asking 'how many grams in an ounce', i'm wondering how proud i should be that my blog supplied the correct answer.

A cancer doctor who treated the late Cardinal Terence Cooke is accused in a lawsuit by a dismissed employee of loaning samples of the prelate's blood to patients as the "relic" of a possible saint.

it's a good idea. the world needs more holy relics.

ack. Buffy is leaving WB, so there will be something to watch on UPN afterall.
[network moving van provided by Jean]