Maybe NASA should duct tape all that insulating foam on the external tank.

Yes, one that is going to take the rest of the day to fix!

It requires a shopping trip across town!

Ohdear, poor Shrift.

I don't want to go to work. I hadn't realized until the last few weeks how much I rely on the internets to get me through the work day. And now that I'm pretty much cut off from it, it's much less fun to head to the office.

First world problems, okay. Still.

I would, but I just COMMed a Raq post

And my day is such that I thought, "Crap - a post where I used 'good' where I should've used 'well' and it gets COMMed."

But thanks - seeing it COMMed actually made me laugh about my reactions to my day, which is a good thing.

I'll edit you Raq, if you'd like.

That is to say, I know the pain of grammar errors immortalized.

Then I wondered why they didn't put a redneck elf over the cracker department, and it all went downhill from there.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (really, I actually laughed out loud)

O... kay. There was just a Target commercial with a bunch of middle school aged kids jumping around in their new school clothes, with their gear and supplies. To the tune of "I Like Big Butts" except it's I like back packs... I just can't separate the lyrics of the actual song from the fake lyrics enough to not be slightly weirded out by that.

Okay, the buffistas are making me laugh this morning. Yay, since I lost a contact this morning and am wearing my glasses. Which are okay, except that when I wear them too long, my eyes hurt (drastically different prescriptions in the lenses make for headaches), which is why I wear contacts in the first place. Going to go pick up some new ones in about half an hour, hopefully.

In fact, it's these shoes.

Woo! I recently bought the Merrell Jungle Primo online. I’m wearing them now, got them yesterday. They have a slight ridge on the back of the slide, and I’m trying to decide if it’s going to get on my nerves or not. It kind of feels like my foot is coming out of the shoe, and it annoys me.

Oddly, Zappos doesn't carry Merrells.

Yes, it was V. irritating when I wanted to buy some. I paid full price. Fuckers.

Oh my. This is... stupid.

[link]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The founder of a company that runs answering services for doctors allegedly tried to destroy a competitor by hacking into the firm’s computer so that patients got a busy signal or heard moaning when they tried to call their doctors.

Gerald Martin, 37, was charged with computer tampering and possession of a forged instrument. If convicted, he could serve up to seven years in prison.

Stuart Hayman, president of the Westchester County Medical Society, said the alleged crime “could have prevented thousands of patients from reaching their physicians in emergency situations.”

One patient in California had to be rushed to an emergency room after failing to reach a doctor because of the alleged interference, District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday.

Martin allegedly hacked into the computer for three days in November. Patients either heard a busy signal or “groaning, moaning in a sexual nature,” Pirro said. Martin could not be reached for comment.

I'd sue him so hard, his rotted excuse for a brain would fall out.

In other news, MacGyver is on pace for becoming a real word:

Asked how he managed to give up only one run, Leiter was speechless for a moment. "Magic, mirrors," he said. "When the moment came when I really needed to make a pitch, I was able to get it.

"And it's not that I'm lackadaisical leading up to the 'MacGyver' moment when I've got to get out of the mess, but I'm kind of relentless in the fact that I refuse to give in to the hitter or the umpire. It sometimes hurts me."

Now, to make those quotes around the word disappear -- it will become as normal as shenanigan or mulligan in everyday speech!