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<< August 21, 2002 >>

every once in a while i get this overwhelming [ nagging ] feeling that i need a [ creative ] outlet but at the same time i don't have anything [ original ] to say let alone [ anything ] interesting.

i can't tell if i hold others to the standards i hold myself to, or if i hold myself to the standards i hold others to.

how many times in the last month have you said to yourself, "i'm glad we put a man on the moon"? how about for inventing nuclear weapons? what about building the great wall of china?

we put the meta in pseudometamerism.

someone was talking about a situation they had with their kids, which made me realize that either i'm not ready to be a parent or i am as ready as i will ever be. the latter may be the case since i can no longer stand watching mtv. it's just too annoying.

and the new old navy commercials. i used to think they had bad commercials, but i realized that the only bad commercials are ones which target you and don't make you want the thing. so old navy is not targeting me. they are in the abstract i-have-a-bank-account-and-charge-card sense but not the i-buy-clothes one.

i wonder how long a lightbulb could be powered by the energy an average person spends tying their shoes in their first 30 years of life. is it enough energy to cook a can of soup?

there are 15 bones in the human eye.

A LIST OF STATES WEST OF OHIO IN WHICH I HAVE LIVED:

it is scary to imagine a hybrid west nile / hiv virus. add ebola to taste.

the colour magenta was invented by hallmark.

if you have read this far, are you more bored than i am?

in the last year i have eaten an average of 14.3 pounds of paperclips a day.

the word pun was coined when i told joe a bad joke and for punishment he punched me.

PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY: [ ] I often wake up missing a finger or limb [ ] When I am sad I enjoy making blueberry pancakes and throwing them [ ] I will enjoy having invented electricity by the age of 29

[ ] This will be on the test

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the future of html lies in the <shock> tag. this tag gives webmasters the opportunity to shape users web habits by using negative reinforcement. to be fair, webmaster's will get shocked when their're spelling or grammer errors on there page.

english has 150 words for "donut" but only one for "hot dog".

learning backwards would be fun. "creative use of language is what makes us human," picked up in college linguistics classes, would have been a handy thing to know in 4th grade english.

i drew this:

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