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[slipjig3]

Work: The corporate head of our department showed up today for a little Q & A session with our operators. And by "Q & A," I mean, "rabid hyenas at a barbecue." I'd almost feel sorry for the woman, if she weren't so devoted to the art of backpedaling.

Computer: Please, everyone, think happy thoughts toward our hard drive, which is at the repair center right now, where trained Mac Yogis are attempting to exorcize our entire music collection from the host body (i.e. the comatose goat-felching Maxtor drive) into the Blessed Firmament (i.e. a drive that, y'know, works). Remeber, your prayers will be answered in the form of mix CDs.

The 100 Videos Project: 100videos has reached the top 40, but I'm starting to wane in my energy. C'mon, Adam, keep it together....

Food: Had garlic-basil couscous with peas and a glass of Riesling last night, and told everyone who'd listen. Comfort is good.

Comments

[chiara607.livejournal.com]

*sends get-better vibes to the hard drive* The Mac Yogis are wise -- that's why they're yogis.

Also, and I probably don't want to know the answer to this question...what's felching?

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Ummm....no, you don't want to know the answer, but if curiosity gets the better of you, try here... all of the definitions are pretty much the same except #14. Either way, adding a goat to the mix... eh, you get the picture.

(apologizing in advance)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon, please don't ask.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

Ok wow... that 100videos project looks awesome. If I got pulled in this morning I'd probably end up late to work... so that'll be a project to enjoy next week during my time off!

And you know that I am pulling for the hard drive.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*beaming* Thank you! It's been a blast doing it, but I'm starting to run out of interesting things to say. Just need to hold out for another month and a half....

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

*sends bytes of good computer juju your way*


mmmmmmmm garlic-basil couscous with peas and Riesling. Definitely sounds nummy!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

It was not only a happy, it was a spontaneous happy, which is a double-happy. Or, um, something.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

*browses project far enough to have to do backreading and stops to comment)*

This does look interesting.In fact, the name sounds very familiar.
Did I see this somewhere else before? Weird:D. And it has stuff I have never heard of on it too! hee hee!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Glad you like! I've since found at least one other person doing something similar, so that might be what you saw. Anyroad, do continue reading, since this really is just a sad bid for public attention. *grin*

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Your Q&A sounds like a lot more fun than ours when I was working for The Evil Empire. I was the only one who ever posed "hard" questions to the CEO when he came, and eventually they stopped letting me ask questions. ;)

Not that he ever actually answered, mind you. It was always, "That's a very good point you've raised. Now, allow me to circumvent the topic entirely by twisting what you've said in such a way that it makes me look good. [blah blah blah] Does that answer your question?"

Me: "Not really."

Him: *beaming* "Great. Next question!"

Me: *headdesk*

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Oy, does that sound familiar. I think that was how the higher-up wanted to handle it, but my cowokers are not even remotely shy about speaking up, and doing so as often as necessary. (Then again, we're unionized. Loud disgruntlement is par for the course.)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Re: 100videos: Refresh yourself by, at least at first, posting a video described solely with "0MG 0MG OMFG this rocks like the r0xx0r." And post a serious description later.

Seriously, just write whatever; it might help you restart. I was stuck on an article lead once at my newspaper job, so I started writing out a bit of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. So under my byline ("By Christopher Walsh of the Hermiston Herald") was "There I was, alone in Las Vegas, completely twisted on drugs..."

And one time my reviewer friend leonardpart6 posted a short-short review of the film The Transporter II that was three lines long: "I'm pretty sure The Transporter II is the dumbest movie I've ever seen.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

"And I've seen a lot of dumb movies."

...and he wrote a fuller review later.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Might have to try that. Actually, a few of the final reviews, you may have noticed, really do sound like that: "Okay, look, I don't know why I like the clip for "Hush" by Kula Shaker, okay?! I just do! Back the hell off, vultures!"

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/mango/

You have to see this, Adam.
Somehow this could work as a background to that Q+A session in my twisted melty little brain:D.......

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

...

Okay, note to self: clicking on weebls-stuff links this late at night is a bad thing. Bad, bad, bad.... *staggers off to soak his brain for a while*

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Don't look at the rest of the weebl-n-bob archive:D.
It's even weirder.
You like milk cartons, I like psychotic mangoes. Go figure;).