wtf?

"hamid karzai vowed to tackle corruption" ... is that something you can rig too, you know like an election? awesome.

or maybe this is a job for his brother/CIA. geez, could this situation be any worse?

unhealthy america

i think this is a great article.

go health reform!!!! pretty please with cherries on top...

and i too, have nothing against slovenia, except maybe jealousy for their health care.

dramatization

i'll probably get swine flu just for saying this, but whats the big deal folks? the normal flu kills thousands of people every year! thats why people get flu shots! but people are freaked, clorox stock is rising and people are going crazy. today's news straight from CNN, "boyz II men singer has H1N1" another celebrity falls victim, (insert expressions of shock and gasps to boot). how is this newsworthy people? seriously? do celebrities not get sick? do they not share the same air? i'm pretty sure my US weekly has a segment every week with "stars they're just like us!" so whats the big deal?

i don't care what celebrity gets swine flu or the regular flu for that matter. the only bright side to this is that i am at least relieved that america doesn't give celebrities flu shots before the rest of us measly, regular, ol' folks.

oh just espionage

ok so its been awhile. i may or may not have suffered from what happens to a lot of amateur bloggers, but whatever i'm not too afraid of failure. really i think my life got too interesting that all the normal stuff i had been blogging about seemed lame. regardless i'm feeling inspired.

so yesterday news broke that an american scientist was being indicted? investigated? i don't know what they do, but he commited espionage, or thought he was committing espionage but really it was a sting operation by the fbi. anyways, pretty interesting story as it is. well this morning on the bbc's global news podcast they were talking more about it and they asked a very good question, how did anyone know to target this guy for a sting operation? like who decided to approach this guy and offer him money for satelite infomation? i don't know much about espionage and how it usually gets instigated or whatever, but it does seem kind of messed up to approach someone and offer money for what may or may not be all that delicate of information. but i digress. the guy they interviewed said that espionage is, i guess, a more common thing for middle aged men, like its a symptom of a midlife crisis. weird!

this, of course, got me thinking about all sorts of weird things, like is there something comparable for women? or does female espionage happen at some other time for women (the mars return or whatever happens at 28-29)? i'm definitely in need of more research on this topic.

an update, attached the article above and am now totally disturbed. not only is this guy some sort of genius in a midlife crisis, but also a total sucker! he's probably gonna spend the rest of his life in prison for "attempted espionage" and all he made from it was $11,000!!! thats the worst midlife crisis ever!

fresh air

i tend to believe that blogging is dangerous if you've been in bed for a week with very little human contact, as such i have not blogged for nearly a month, eeks. instead i've gotten hooked on mucinex, ondemand movies, and crochet (oh puns!).

anyways i really wanted to post a video from the lovely rachel maddow show about bush senior's birthday sky-dive and w's super classy puke joke, but alas i was too late to grab the clip, perhaps i will continue trying. it reminded me of how sometimes at the end of a bad relationship we look back and glaze over some of the bad stuff when really hindsight should give us the wisdom to accept how bad things really were. presidential barf jokes.

i'll try to get back in the swing of posting, but with a disclaimer that i have a vacation and post-surgery patient to tend to all within the next few weeks. july perhaps? we'll see.

oh the guilt

i did not vote in today's special election. bad bad sunshine!

i will say that this is partly because all my news sources spent the last few days reporting on how people just vote no when they don't know what they are voting for. if sfgate had posted the measure explanations three days ago instead of three minutes ago, i would have been one of the super cool and smart people that took a stand about something to day.

but not me.
instead i ate at burma superstar and it was a-m-a-z-i-n-g! the tea leaf salad really is a party in your mouth. it was so good that i kind of feel like i should shirk all my responsibilities and eat there everyday.

oops

dear mr. president,

please accept my resignation for using your super swank air force one for this totally sweet analog photo shoot over manhattan the other day, it may have been a little insensitive in our post-9/11 times, but man did you see those pics?

peace and all,
the dude that gave the ok

dear future...

dear future child of mine,

i sincerely promise that i will never hold a pox and/or swine flu party in order to give you a potentially deadly virus in the hopes that if i know it is coming it just won't be so bad.

your loving future mother,
plentiful sunshine

p.s. for more of this ridiculousness, here are the experts

in response

so the press conference was lame, ktvu had an awful position and the feed kept cutting out, oh well at least you could her (yup the daughter of) and saw my friend charlie (a zodiac know-it-all).

here is the sfgate article, but all in all i'm not convinced. at least it made for a fun day. and it was great pr for the upcoming documentary about her, fun stuff.

insert dark and ominous music

the truth (?) behind the zodiac killer(s?) will be revealed today.

crazy!

swine?

not to make too much light of the potential swine flu epidemic, but i can't help wondering if they are calling it swine flu because pig flu sounds too hilarious and fake, like pig latin. sometimes i think weird things though, so it might just be me.

fiscal?

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oh the hilarity! i'm not quite sure who gets the urban reference, but i bet the good folks at urban dictionary know whats up.

happy thoughts

seriously though, the recalls have got to stop. eggrolls? what is happening to the world?

on a side note, if you live in the bay area and haven't been here yet, you are seriously missing out. can't wait to get home and listen.


thinking happy thoughts.

oh monday

i'm adding recalls to the list of events that seem to be eventing more often than i have ever paid notice to. i suppose that is an integral part of this observation. since finishing school and joining the tedious and banal work force, my attention has been directed more outward to the world and greater events beyond myself. this results in a whole new level of anxiety in foods, planes, and all sorts of once comfortable thoughts.

spinach! peanut butter! now pistachios! eeks

the world is round, people

stuff like this really freaks me out. the argument that teaching creationism in high schools encourages critical thinking is the largest pile of poo. critical thinking is not ignoring evidence. someone needs to seriously mess with texas and get on the freakin evolution train because, like robert kuhn says "two plus 2 is not five".

i have never understood why believing in god means you can't believe in evolution, its beautiful people, and any god would be proud.

the sky is falling?

is it just me or is there a lot more plane crashes happening these days?

final reel?

even though i had mostly forgotten about the fisher price view masters, their slow demise makes me sad. i don't think i ever had one personally, but they were always a blast for a few minutes at other people's houses.


thanks economist for the 3-dimensional journey back to my childhood.

oh carnitas

i really dislike line jumpers. with that said, if i was smart enough to phone in for my delicious burrito at the fancy burrito place with a 15 person line then, by all means, i should be able to jump ahead in line, right? i mean, if my burrito is sitting there getting cold while 15 people are trying to decide between black refried beans and regular ones, then that doesn't really make me a line jumper.

regardless, the anxiety of deciding whether to be a sissy and wait 20 minutes or literally stall the line 20 seconds nearly gives me an ulcer every time.

heartbeats and wintery mornings

the recent snow storm allowed me an extra day of vacationing in new york this past weekend. so how did i spend my extra day? playing in the snow in central park of course! it was the first time i've seen snow in probably over ten years, so like a good grown up i tried to disturb any pristine areas of snow, and although i didn't have a companion to snow ball fight with, i lived vicariously through those that did, in a totally not creepy but with a really huge smile kind of way.

2/19/2007

preface; i'm taking advantage of this rainy sunday to do a little early spring cleaning, which means making a huge disaster mess, then carefully putting things back in a (hopefully) more organized fashion, while throwing out things i will surely regret doing so later.

the gem of this rainy day is that i happened upon my old muni diary from 2007, when i was doing the trek to school twice a day a couple days a week, i.e. living on muni.

2/19/2007
president's day is the worst holiday ever, only jackasses get it off and muni is the slowest thing ever.

two years later and i am one of those jackasses, thus able to spend an entire saturday rummaging around my room in pajamas. go figure.

p.s. i'm likely to include more entries from my 2007 muni diaries just for hoots.

a pause

sometimes when automatic doors don't open quickly i totally freak out and wonder if i've forgotten a horrible accident (straight sixth sense style) and then when they finally open i am super relieved. is that weird?

headline of the week!

does michael phelps' lung capacity allow him to take monster bong hits? and Olympic-Size Bong Hits; Michael Phelps has extraordinary lung capacity. Does that mean he can get extraordinarily stoned?
Thank you slate for adding humor to a situation taken way too seriously.

crumbling

alright, so everyone knows the economy is bad, recession, layoffs, etc. and with obama saying he's putting science up where it belongs i've felt pretty secure and mostly unphased. until today. first, the realization that i've taken getting my mail six days a week for granted. poor tuesday might get pluto-ed. now even thin mints and dosidos are getting cuts! please oh please don't skimp on the samoas.

and all of this info dropping on a wednesday, sure feels like a monday to me.

do the twist!

the brits really know how to flash mob! for reals.

ok so its a commercial, but its the best damn commercial i've seen in a while.

holland township, nj

this poor kid and his sister aryan nation are gonna have it rough. thats all i'm gonna say. alright, i'll say one more thing, people are crazy.

happy new year!

it must be a new resolution, because there is a woman who does tai chi at the bus stop in front of my work every morning. its adorable. i keep on wanting to tell her, "get it girl. get it!"