Archive for September, 2004

Five things I suppose you could do to “the vote” if you ever tire of “rocking” it

Thursday, September 30th, 2004
  1. Broast the Vote!
  2. Pummel the Vote!
  3. Gently Strum the Vote!
  4. Benchpress the Vote!
  5. Botox the Vote!

Five companies I suspect I may be the bitch of

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
  1. Gillette
  2. Apple
  3. Sprint
  4. Costco
  5. Trader Joe’s

Five skills I’ve allowed to badly atrophy over the years

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
  1. wheelie popping
  2. snaking, loogie-hocking, and general spitting
  3. climbing and scaling
  4. ramp jumping
  5. snatching stacks of quarters from elbow (as seen on Happy Days)

Five things it’s probably better not to do when you’re kind of drunk

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
  1. buy domain names
  2. hire an attorney
  3. do lots of file management from the command line
  4. sort out your finances
  5. telephone people you remember fondly from elementary school

Five computer technologies I could really use in my physical office

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
  1. Exposé
  2. incremental searching
  3. undo
  4. sort by date (descending)
  5. cold reboot

Five people whose death I wish I could have somberly mourned with an austere, one-line weblog post

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
  1. Spike Jones
  2. Jesse L. Weston
  3. Junior Samples
  4. Dean Atcheson
  5. SeƱor Wences

Five things it would probably be disingenuous for me to rap about

Thursday, September 16th, 2004
  1. the streets
  2. my bitches
  3. thug life
  4. popping a cap in your ass
  5. my milkshake

Five people I’m pretty sure could take me in a fight

Thursday, September 16th, 2004
  1. Studs Terkel
  2. Don Knotts
  3. Estelle Getty
  4. Walter Mondale
  5. The Late Ruth Gordon

Five ass-related words I think I use a lot

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
  1. metric assload (n.) - a lot
  2. asshat (n.) - willfully ignorant person
  3. assy (adj.) - unacceptably low-quality
  4. big-ass (adj.) - large
  5. asstacular (adj.) - really bad

Five annoyed San Franciscans you’ll meet in heaven

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
  1. frowning mom with tall latté and jog stroller
  2. bald, fifty-something massage therapist on recumbent bike
  3. vegan slam poet, hissing during movie trailers
  4. PETA hipster, physically disgusted at your “holocaust burger”
  5. pink-faced guy with chaps and big vein in forehead (and his quizzically identical partner)

Five web widgets I wish I’d invested in last year

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
  1. #eee
  2. diagonal lines
  3. centered ~700px content well
  4. “subtle” drop shadows
  5. un-bolded Georgia headings

Five things that are getting under Zell Miller’s hide

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
  1. John Kerry openly supports difficult-to-open jars of hard candy
  2. Dueling pistols now stored behind the counter at the Wal-Mart
  3. Do-nothing liberal colleagues want to cut his generous coffee and Vivarin stipend
  4. That ole’ possum just keeps a’gettin’ into his seed corn
  5. Who keeps moving his slippers?