The Bananaverse

Heroes and Villains in the Maciverse.

Interesting. Even if you’re just interested in the history of Apple as a computer company, this is interesting.

You know what else is interesting? Wired blogs on TRIPOD. WTF?

OMG.
My favorite author interviews one of my favorite artisiz.

(in that voice Margaret Cho uses, you’ll know the one I mean) I read all yer books, and I heard the new Morrissey album, ah can dah now.

seriously. I thought my head would asplode.

ranodm aside: I have the SlothCam widget pointed at a Las Vegas Wedding Chapel and they are vacuuming. Just seems weird to see a vacuum cleaner in a place where I usually see an Elvis impersonator and sometimes showgirls. huh.

I just figured it would be Jolt or Red Bull or someone who tried to capitalize on bloggers, but I guess coffee makes some sense. But they couldn’t come up wtih better names? Late Night Log In? Bitch please.

are you fracking kidding me?

tell me again why a bj gets you impeached, but shit like this doesn’t?

I have some podcasting to record.
I have a meetup with my fellow Metrobloggers.
I am going East to hang with the fam for the weekend.
I have a work event to attend that I don’t have to plan.
I have a work event to attend that I am working on planning.

Did I mention that this ALL goes down between now and Sunday?

Yeah. I’m glad at least two of those events involve liquor. Woo!

…especially the Confetti Cut kind!

So what if it’s just a quiz?

Modern, Cool Nerd 73 % Nerd, 86% Geek, 21% Dork

For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)! Congratulations! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you’re interested in any of the following: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Professional Wrestling Love & Sexuality America/Politics Thanks Again! — THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

New season of Sopranos starts TOMORROW. I’mma miss it I think because The Hatter isn’t back from Florida yet. But I can’t find Season five ANYWHERE to catch up! Dammit. If you can help, PLEASE let me know.

just now at work:

1: “Works like a charm? What does that even mean? Do charms really work?”
2: Hello, MAGICALLY DELICIOUS!

hehehehehe

I just had this conversation on IM:

12:43:14 PM Nivlac: hey
12:48:33 PM verso: hey
12:50:00 PM Nivlac: Hey, guess what Verso? It is fracking AWSOME to be me! I (didn’t) just win the lottery and I’m going to do fabulous things anyway… I (didn’t) ask my sweetie to marry me yet, but I will someday and they’re sure to say ‘yes,’, and I’m having a pretty good hair day and my belt ALWAYS matches my shoes AND my handbag (when I carry one, which is never) and the sun WILL shine again soon!!
12:51:38 PM verso: 12:51:41 PM verso: thanks, Nivlac.
12:51:47 PM Nivlac: Sure. Bye! —

That was the whole conversation. I have some good friends.

* Miz Verso has been a crocheting fool lately. Lotsa scrubbies for the kitchen lately. I think it’s because A) Nylon netting is super cheap, and B) they only take like two episodes of hour shows to make. I feel like I’ve accomplished something. On the upside, a couple of those have motivated me to get back onto long term things I was forsaking, such as J.Ro’s blanky.

* My aunt died. Well, she was my dad’s aunt. It was sort of sad but not unexpected. I feel bad for her being gone but I’m glad she isn’t suffering anymore. I feel bad for her immediate family and worse for my dad-he had coffee with her every Saturday morning for like, ever, and now she’s gone. What will he do instead? Is he gonna have to take the paper now? It was just another “Jeez Verso, your family’s kinda far from here, tick tock tick tock” and all of that loveliness.

* I got really sick just after my aunt died. I thought I had the Sars, I swear to Gord. I coughed bad bad bad, and I was seeing stars and got bruises around my eyes and it sucked. I drank TONS of water and it was reason number two why I had to flake on going to Vegas and I had to flake on going to my dad’s wife’s surprise bday party.

* How fantastically awesome is Battlestar Galactica lately? OMG OMG OMG OMG OMGWTFBBQ!

* J.Ro got super sick and got like some sort of awful disease on top of the ailment he already had, so his tonsils are just the phlegmy icing on this germy cake. Teh Scoot got what I had (oh yeah, I was unbelievably sick) and was home Friday from it, he was so sick he got in bed Thursday night and didn’t get out till Monday morning and he’s not a stay at homer at ALL and he missed a Friday knowing it would make his sucky Monday suck even more. Knowing all this, I am pleased every night when I come home and my house has managed once again to not be quarantined.

* I got a Spud Trooper recently. It’s terribly exciting. I couldn’t find them anyplace so to get one downtown and not pay shipping was fabulous! SW nerdy types who are local, get your butts to Toy Bliss on the top floor of Pioneer Square (the old side by Cingular). PLUS they haave Lego bulk bins. Let me repeat that. LEGO. BULK. BINS. Yeah.

* I don’t know what to do about my work sitch. It’s a long story, but I don’t really want to get into it right now. Basically I’m burned out on answering the phone, but I haven’t been there long enough to go “yeah, this whole ‘thing you hired me for’? Not so much.”

* I can’t seem to get tables to do what I want to do in this web project I’m working on at work. I don’t seem to understand wtf all these things do, and because of that I don’t know what I’m doing wrong that makes them not work. It’s pissing me off.

* Last night I had this moment after Teh Scoot and I had a tiff, where I was laying in bed thinking about how frustrated I am on all these different fronts, and how I’m just barely hanging on by my fingernails. Then I scratched an itch on my arm and realized one of my fingernails was broken. I don’t know how to NOT take that as some sort of cosmic sign. “Gee Verso, you’re hanging on by your fingernails here-and now one of them is broken.” Damn.

* There are two words that make my week tolerable. Those two words are: Margarita Mondays.

* Surreal Life 4 or whatever starts in like two weeks. I went and looked and it’s Sherman Hemsley (still think George Jefferson is movin on up?), the lead singer of Smashmouth (his name is Steve right?), CC DeVille (from Poison), Tawny Kitaen (from the hood of Whitesnake’s car), Alexis Arquette (the one that used to be a boy), Andrea Lowell (wtf is that?), Florence Henderson as the in-house therapist, and a mystery guest, ooooh. I guess they get to vote on who will live there with them. I wonder who the options are. I vote naked survivor guy or a Project Runway loser-I wanna see a full on catfight and the newly minted girl and the catty fashion designer could really make that work. That’s just me.

* Oscars were interesting. I can’t believe they cut off the best picture folks, and I can’t believe they were cutting people to play those montages. There’s only one montage each year that counts people, and that’s the People Who Died Montage. But fundamentally better than most of the shows I’ve seen lately, I have to say. I adore Jon Stweart so I thought he was fab, but others are giving him good reviews too. Hell, he had such a good sense of humor this year I think George Clooney should co-host with Jon in 07!

* Everyone I know is currently having some sort of crisis. Sickness, finance, transport, romance, it doesn’t matter. I really need someone to go “Hey, guess what Verso? It is frackin AWESOME to be me! I just won the lottery and I’m going to do fabulous things and I won the day after I asked my sweetie to marry me and my sweetie said yes and I’m having the BEST hair today and my belt matches my shoes AND my handbag and the sun is shining!!” Or something like that.

* I have decided to join a Flickr group which means you might see some photos up in hyah soon. We’ll have to see.

* I’m about to start SERIOUSLY budgeting my time. I hope if I’ve neglected you I won’t continue to, but I gots ta get ta bed sometime, you know?

* As of now I think that’s all. I hope this wasn’t boring.

I’ll make an exception for this one.

I feel like getting it and walking around town taking pictures of things. But that’s just me.

It really IS a small world after all!

great nonstandard use of pieces, attention to detail, and care to be seen here.

My only complaint is I don’t know if there are pictures of any of the other stuff there, it looks like quite the production…

is it wrong for me to be unhappy that in all the time I’ve worked at this place that not one time has a cow-orker invited me to lunch?
(note: I’ve been here seven months now)
I do not view it as some sort of tragedy, mind you, I’m just sort of sad that it never happens.

it’s happy fun flashback time kids!

This was the day the Net was forever changed. While I buy their “if it wasn’t us someone else woulda” argument, that doesn’t mean those folks would have done it quite so soon.