- I am not a Pennsylvanian barber. Just so you know.
- Well, it’s no Donald Glover for Spider-Man, but I don’t see how George Takei could do any worse.
- What if your favorite album was a book? A neat concept, if you ignore the sort of crappy slideshow presentation…and pretend the misspelling in Never Mind the Bollocks was intentional. [via]
- Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention. I wish I could say I was remotely surprised. [via]
- And finally, the world’s most expensive hot dog. I probably won’t be eating this — even though this place apparently is just a 15-minute walk away from my office — and I’m naturally a little disgusted by the excess of it. But I’m at least impressed they didn’t cheat, like a lot of “most expensive” chefs seem to, with gold plates or silverware or something else to artificially inflate the price. Well of course something’s expensive if it’s coated in diamonds. The parts you can’t eat shouldn’t count. [via]
This did, of course, also make me think of Heather.
Month: April 2011
Monday
I’m still not entirely used to the new office or neighborhood — have we seriously only been there one week? — but I think I’m growing accustomed to the commute finally. I don’t want to use that as an excuse not to move out, since long-term that’s really something I need to do, even if I’ve right now worked out a good strategy for getting to and from the office. When I moved back home in the summer of 2004, I did not expect to still be living with my parents seven years later. I love my parents dearly, and living with them has not been at all what I’d characterize as difficult. Nevertheless, I think it’s time to find a place of my own again.
Although I think, in the short-term, I’m going to focus on where I can go to get lunch near the office.
Song of the day
“Love in the Library” by Jimmy Buffett
Monday various
- Strange Horizons is looking for female reviewers.
- Where was the robotics merit badge when I was a Boy Scout?
- On the decline of The Daily. I lost interest almost immediately in the app. [via]
- Reinventing the Muppets.
- And finally, Sandworm Size Chart:
Sunday
So today I worked on the Sunday crossword, watched the first two episodes of AMC’s new show The Killing and saw Hanna with friends after our weekly writing group. I liked both the TV show and the movie, and the writing I did too — although with that, I’m not going to post it, since I think, with just a little bit of work, I could maybe turn it into a sell-able flash piece. I also finished listening to the audiobook of Tina Fey’s new memoir Bossypants. I also liked that.
It was pretty much just a Sunday of okay, likable stuff. Nothing wrong with that.