what happened to party animals?

i have no way of proving this, but i believe that my house is the reason this one flooring manufacturer stopped saying you can install their products over radiant floor heating.

eat a mouthful of jalapeno potato chips, then immediately follow it with a peanut butter m&m, the resulting taste is like sweet paint thinner. no place to store this information.

an fso polonez truck in the 2014 alice rohrwacher movie "the wonders". it looks so goofy and strangely proportioned you think it has to be homemade, but they were sold that way.

if someone tells you they can predict which direction a toenail clipping will shoot off toward, don't believe them.

there's a tattoo parlor on the block, and i wish they were more like guys that run produce stands or flower shops on tv shows, standing outside with a broom sweeping the sidewalk or hosing it down, saying "howdy neighbor", that kind of thing.

the intrusive thought i've had recently is a tv show about a bank branch that is entirely staffed by teens ("Teen Bank" is the working title). the scenes with customers would be like a emergency medicine procedural, a lot of very harsh lighting and weird angles.

going nancy meyers mode (putting the linen sheets on the bed)

there is a birthday party room in the back of every men's wearhouse.

this is the description that used to show up for this movie, and the language is so odd that it got me to watch it. but most sources have changed "balnearic" to "small seaside resort town" and "thalasso" to "thermal spa", and "wash his melancholy" to "overcome". less interesting now.

at the start of "a man and a woman", there's a list of prizes it won. the subtitles came from a different source and it mentions "grand prize of the international catholic office of cinema" - which sounds odd, but it's an interesting list. letterboxd.com/nwdouglas/li...

the loophole in "last one there is a rotten egg" is that even if you are in last place, if you decide to not actually show up to the place, you are not the rotten egg.

5 or 10 minutes into this stamp collecting documentary, i was thinking "i wonder if bill gross shows up in this." and he does. recommended, for people in and out of financial markets www.imdb.com/title/tt7616...

if i seem nervous, it's because i'm going to make my own cheese for the first time tomorrow.

the departed, but it's a junior notary rising up through the ranks.

i've been cutting my own hair for a while, and here's what i've noticed: i always cut my hair at 10pm. i spend all day feeling how long my hair has gotten, it drives me nuts, then i do something about it. a late night barbershop could take advantage of this phenomenon.

put coupons on each page of your novel. you don't have to write as many words to fill out the pages, and it will give people a reason to keep turning the pages.

watching ally mcbeal, i had no idea i was supposed to be hanging out at my lawyer's office. i only ever went there to sign paperwork.

boy, a scene with some real dipshits hotboxing a volvo 240. the people who wrote this show had the exact same adolescence as me.

bfa (bachelor of factor authentication)

this is the model that was my first cd player. i got it for christmas, but my mom knew i had snooped in her closet and found it beforehand. she was mad about that, but she made fun of me because of how bad i was at acting surprised on christmas morning. it was why i avoided theater.

i made 5 cents a line setting pins at a bowling alley in chicago in 1936, which doesn't sound like a lot but we were allowed to bowl for free when we weren't working. the introduction of the automatic pinsetter ruined my life.

made a korma from a recipe and it was the so close to the dish called "special curry" at the thai place that was near my old office. small victory for the day.

i wonder how long it would take to grow my hair long enough to have willie nelson braids

i don't actually know what day my parents' anniversary is, i just know it's not on hitler's birthday, it's a little bit later. if i am in the ballpark, my mom gives me credit.

april 21st, 2012. the mariners are perfecto'd by the white sox #5 starter, who would finish the year with a 6.44 era. it remains the most memorable baseball game i've ever been to.

a world where people hang out at bars and nightclubs run by shrinkwrapped software companies.

the dunkin donuts man is mimicking the powell peralta/bones brigade skeleton so it seems like someone who worked on it was familiar with at least the visual culture, but then it very curiously says "snowboarding rules". it's an interesting piece.

the most seats i've seen sold for a screening of "Lorne" is 6. most are completely empty or have 1 or 2 seats sold.

rebooting "room raiders" but we're struggling to get a single usable episode because so many of the people just go straight to medicine cabinets looking for pills.

today is "new shower caddy day" here. really excited to take it for a spin.

in february 2020, i got a french door fridge. in april, i discovered one of the doors was too low to flip the mullion. not wanting a repair person in the house, i fixed it myself by raising the door slightly with a plastic washer. it's worked for 6 years and counting. samsung fridge, they suck.

it's almost the end of hockey season, so i will not see commercials again for 5 months or so, so it's time to say that those starbucks that show someone sprinkling a packet that gives you foamy coffee look incredibly gross.

if you name a street "locust", everyone is going to think of the bug, not the tree.

have a buddy that i'd always eat indian food with, because he loved it and his wife didn't care for it. when i finally met his wife, he introduced me by way of our indian food thing and it kind of seemed like she perceived me as someone he was having an emotional affair with.

pick up the phone, dummy

dog wearing goggles in a motorcycle sidecar is obviously the thing we're all excited to see. but have you ever imagined a raccoon in a sidecar?

5.

living through a trolley problem if you think about it

fyi: you can use custom ublock origin filters to completely hide blocks of text that contain a certain words.

you should have cameras all over your house in case you trip while carrying a plate of spaghetti, so you can post that to the internet.

i used technology to optimize and now i park one car at home and one car at the office. #productivityhack

i was at an auto repair place earlier today and, buddy, the magazine selection was grim. i think you could make a magazine that was just for auto shop waiting areas and it would do fine.

do you want to come with me while i run an errand?

i think one of my neighbors who has been here longer than me is moving. that means i move up one spot, i'll be in 2nd place. people will surely respect me when i'm the most senior tenured neighbor.

so jealous of people who can jog to the end of the block without throwing up

a black t-shirt that says on the back: if you can read this, i forgot my knapsack at the place i just left. with a picture of a skull.

made a loaf of oat+pumpkin seed bread today, turned it into a really nice grilled cheese sandwich. no photo.

a multi-ethnic group of youths sharing a joint in front of my house, a norman rockwell painting come to life.

did a large batch of english muffins today using 65g dough balls for 4 inch diameter rings. we'll go a bit lower next time to try to increase the size of the nooks/crannies. #forksplit