Year: 2005

I’m leaving for Seattle this evening to see my parental units’ new place out there and celebrate Christmas. I guess I don’t really have a connection to Minneapolis anymore… Anyway, I probably won’t be updating while I’m gone, but considering how rarely I update now you probably won’t notice.

Speaking of the end of the world, are you prepared for the Robocalypse? Velocity Gnome is. Read the story of the boy… no, man… destined to save the world from the machines in 2018. For those of you who haven’t heard about this from me before, this is a practical-joke-turned-massive-cross-country-performance-art-project masterminded by some friends of…

I wasn’t paying attention while showering this morning, and I soaped before I shampooed! I can’t even remember violating this routine; I’m pretty sure I’ve maintained it since I started showers instead of baths. The world is going to end.

I now have one of the technological objects I have been lusting after for some time: A Motorola RAZR. I know I said a few weeks ago that I wasn’t planning on getting a new phone, but T-mobile offered a pretty ridiculous deal after rebate. Switching to T-mobile means I am no longer a customer…

When I postploded, I forgot to append “Still addicted to WoW.” to the end of each post. Believe me, it’s still true. So true. Maybe I should take ‘s selection and have my parental units set up a parental control password on my account so I can’t play too much. It hasn’t totally consumed my…

In looking for mailboxen, I came across the U.S. Postal Service standards for “customer mail receptacles” (PDF). If I understand 1.2 and 1.3 correctly, exterior wall-mounted mail receptacles on a multi-family building are not letterboxes, whereas curbside mail receptacles (i.e. a standard mailbox-on-a-post) and “wall-mounted centralized mail receptacles” (e.g. the ones in an apartment building…

The mailbox next to my front door is old, rusty, and leaky. If there’s heavy precipitation, or heavy wind with some precipitation, my mail gets soaked. The last victims were all of my birthday cards :o(. I’ve gotten permission from my landlord to pick out a new one and charge him for it. Unfortunately, and…

Since I went shopping at the Arsenal Mall today, I became curious if there was any relationship between “arse” (and consequently “ass”) and “arsenal”. I suspected that it was just a chance similarity, which turns out to be the case. “arse” comes from Old English “ærs”, which is from Germanic. “arsenal” comes from Arabic “dār-aṣ-ṣinā‛a”…

I’m sure you all remember what Power Wheels were. If you weren’t lucky enough to have your own car, you probably knew a neighbor kid who was. They also had the gendered branding of the Barbie version for girls (for beach adventures) and the GI Joe version for boys (for off-road combat). Seen at Linens…

This is just the middle of what would apparently call a “postsplosion”. However, I’m not a fan of the consonant cluster “stspl”, and I feel like changing the tense for no particular reason, so I should warn you that I am about to postplode. I suppose if we jump back to the Latin that would…