Is it wrong for me to sit here and gloat about the fact that not only are my taxes already filed, but that I’ve already received my refund?
Oh, it is? Well, I guess I shouldn’t do that, then.
Heh.
In other news, I’ll be in Seattle for the weekend. Behave yourselves while I’m gone. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, yadda yadda yadda.
Found at Lisa’s…
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 75% General American English |
| 10% Yankee |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
Alex was involved in his school’s Science Fair last night, and… well, why don’t I let him tell you how it went?
Yeah, it was great. To start, a lot of people looked at and commented on our project.
Secondly, we were one of the groups chosen to go to the District Science Fair on May 5.
And lastly, we got the PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD!
What happened was people were to go around and vote for their favorite projects from each section. We were one of the groups awarded.
The funny thing is that both of these awards came rather suddenly. My teacher just came up to me in the middle of it, put his hands on my shoulders, said “You’re going to district,” and walked away. The People’s Choice Award…we were the first ones awarded!
Oh, yes. It was fabulous.
Who knew that badly corroded teeth would be such a crowdpleaser? Heck, he even got baseball tickets out of the deal. Way to go, Spud!
Today’s award for “Mistake Made With the Best of Intentions” goes to whoever toggled the “load images for originating website only” option in Firefox on our sports station’s control room computer.
Have you ever seen ESPN’s site with no graphics whatsoever? I have. It’s sort of amusing, and a fair bit of useless as well. Were I more of a diehard webhead I’d go off on a usability rant, here, but luckily for you I can’t be bothered. Besides, you can’t swing a dead cat on the Web… actually, you just can’t swing a dead cat on the Web. Sure, you could make a Flash file or something that depicts the act of swinging a dead cat, but it’s just not the same thing.
Not, mind you, that I’ve ever swung a dead cat. I’m just saying.
Where was I? Oh, yes, rants about usability and accessibility are a dime a dozen, which should be making somebody a fair stack of money. Too bad that the “somebody” in question isn’t Me. Such is life.
Anyway, maybe I should install Adblock on that computer, since what I suspect the culprit intended was to stop having to look at all the damned advertisements…
I’m tired of being tired of being tired.
There’s always something. It’s my allergies. It’s a work emergency at 2am. It’s a disturbance outside. It’s the weather. It’s the temperature. It’s my brain being all fired up and unable to settle.
Usually it’s more than one of the above, and sometimes it’s something entirely different. But I. Am. Tired.
And I’m going to bed now. Maybe I’ll even sleep through the night this time.
In a fit of inspiration the roomie and I trekked out and bought some shelving, after I remarked this morning that I’d intended to replace my rickety old CD rack shortly after moving in. (That was a year ago, mind you.) Hooray for A/V shelving being on sale at OfficeMax.
Now I have one entire shelf unit devoted to storing nearly all of my music CDs, and the other unit is where most of our individual collections of videos sit. Before today, about 1/4 of my music was in a cardboard box, and very little of my video collection was on display.
Yes, I know it’s silly to be so excited by something as simple as having moved my audiovisual material around. It’s just one of those things, you know?
