Blogging! Yeah, meh. Is it just me, or is everyone sort of wandering away from it? I've had so much problogging to do that I can't bring myself to log in to Movable Type these days unless I have to. (Oh that reminds me, have you seen my new site where…

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We watched Annie a few weeks ago, the one from the 80s with Carol Burnett (and Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters, how I wish they'd team up more often), and at the time I couldn't figure out why anyone liked it. That Annie girl was so squeaky and medicated; and every…

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I came home early from work today, and found James napping. His eyes opened as I came in the room: "you're a minstrel," he said, "not a minstrel. A wanderer. A wandering minstrel. Yes, a minstrel."

His eyes closed. "You came home early today," he said, still not yet awake. "You came…

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So, I went to the "Get Engaged" meeting at the LGBT Center on Tuesday night. It was part of a statewide series of town halls, designed to show off the data being gathered to fight Prop 8. A good time was had by all. Here, I think, was one of…

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Understood larger-than-usual portions! Recognized several major characters from previous films! Was not bored! Laughed three times!

I hereby declare this film a complete success.

Just got myself up with Google Voice. My new phone number: The Knit Elm. Yup. Just dial that. And it's me.

Today I was trying to figure out how to swap the contents of rows in Excel. (In Numbers, it's super-easy -- you just drag the row -- but if you do that in Excel it erases a bunch of data.)

So I typed in "swap" in the help-search-box. The first result? Instructions…

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"All these years you've been writing about Muni," James said to me after we were done talking to the police, "and now finally you have something interesting to say."

We had been riding the bus home from seeing Bruno (which I liked, but it was stressful!) on… Read full post »

So, Wednesday. I left my credit card at home, because I ordered a Wii sensor bar at Best Buy, and James was going to pick it up at the store but needed my credit card to do so. (Our original sensor bar was eaten by rats, I'm not making that up.)… Read full post »

Tonight I was trying to remember the title of the movie "Mrs. Henderson Presents," that one where Judy Densch opens a burlesque theater in London during WWII; but what came out of my brain was, "Mrs. Havisham's All Nude Review."

This is almost as bad as when I was trying to say…

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Over the last six months, we've spent about a thousand bucks on the rats. Admittedly, most of those costs are non-recurring fees, but still. That's a lot for two animals that would otherwise be used as snake food.

I am writing a post for Curbed that I think is one of the finest things I have ever written, but I need more puns about palm trees. I already have one about "eating out of the palm of your hand" and one about being caught "red-palmed" and one about "bidding…

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Oh here we go again. Maine just got the freedom to marry, but now they might be voting in just a few months to take it away again. Geez. <a href="http://www.actblue.com/page/mainefreedomtomarry">Open up your wallets -- they need cash.</a>

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Monsters: 095 Purple Copycenter from Volstok Telefunken on Vimeo.

Oh hey look my credit on the new Star Trek movie is finally up, hooray! Also: according to the star meter, my popularity is down 31% this week, probably because I joined the chess club./

Oh good grief I was so busy trying to get the word out about my Stop8 video that I nearly forgot to post about it on my own blog. For heaven's sake. Well anyway here it is. YouTube commenters are behaving pretty much as you'd expect.

They aren't going to kill you or your rats.

Awhile back, I was reading that almonds contain tiny amounts of cyanide -- not enough to hurt a person, but enough to sicken or kill a rat. So I've been really paranoid about keeping almonds out of reach of the boys. Of course,…

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You already knew that Jesse Helms and Orrin Hatch are snarling shitbags, right? Well, take a look at this little tidbit that I learned as I was reading about the dreadful origins of the song "Dixie":

In a widely publicized and controversial incident, Senator Jesse Helms deeply offended Carol… Read full post »

Christopher has had a bit of a sniffle for the past week or so -- have you ever heard a rat sneeze? It is peculiar. So we brought him to the vet today. It was his first time out of the house since he arrived back in January.

It was not a…

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Look at that, a #hashtag in a blog post! What strange times we live in.

Anyway, this weekend I went to the Courage Campaign's training event in Oakland. It's basically just a re-skinning of Camp Obama, with equality as the new campaign. It was pretty packed -- maybe 200 or so people…

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I got a bunch of flowers at work yesterday, which was a nice surprise. Even more surprising was the occasion: Secretary's Day.

Oh. Okay. Got it.

I wonder who at the IRS had to write this article, and if writing it made them cry: Topic 357 - Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children

Highlights:

• "The child must be presumed by law enforcement to have been kidnapped by
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Last night, I dreamed that I quit my job at the bakery/barber shop. This was difficult news for the Italian owner to take. "Whatsa matta you," he said, and hugged me. Then he got serious, and stopped having an outrageous accent. "Before you go," he said, "you must solve one more…

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IMDb entry for Short Circuit (2010):

Updating/re-imagining of the classic John Badham film where Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming tha… Read full post »