Man, what I wouldn't give to not have to go to work today. I don't think I have a stitch of clean clothing.

I have acquired coffee. It has not yet made me awake enough to determine whether that's the right way to spell "acquired."

You've got one up on me. I left my coffee maker in Tennessee.

So our streak of 30+ days of warm weather is over - it was about 20 degrees when I left for work. I couldn't find any of my winter hats, so I wore two shirts and a warm sweater, and left for work hatless. So in the 35 minutes I spent outside, my head was freezing but the rest of my body was a little too warm. Now I'm just waiting for my body's temperature to even out....

I'm thinking Earl Grey tea will help.

I left my coffee maker in Tennessee.

I think that's worse than leaving your heart in San Francisco.

This should go in Buffy/Angel, but I don't hang out there....

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Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow Rosenberg for seven years on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, told SCI FI Wire that she occasionally hears rumors about proposed TV movies based on Buffy or its spinoff series, Angel, but doubts that creator Joss Whedon will ever get around to realizing a telefilm based on her character. "I don't know," Hannigan said in an interview while promoting her new film, the comedy Date Movie. "Yeah, it pops up every now and then, and I just don't know. I just treasure the experience. It was such a great, long chapter of my life."

Hannigan, who also co-stars on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, added: "I think I would just be too scared to sort of go back and possibly tarnish it in any way. Joss is too busy [to do a Willow movie]. He's not going to write it. He's not going to direct it, you know? I'm sure he would get great people, but there's nothing like the Joss touch. I think by all means they should absolutely do the Spike movie. I think that's the logical next step, but ... I don't think Willow is the next step."

I think that's worse than leaving your heart in San Francisco.

And how.

Dang, so there was a GA last night? I'd just assumed not and left the tv off all day.

I'm annoyed by everything right now. Hrm.

Now seems like a bad time to say, but so far, GA is rocking the house. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I got all of it, and I'm not going to scroll forward and check.

Corporate sock puppets run amok!

Cory Doctorow: Nvidia stands accused of hiring online actors to create dozens of personae in online forums, where they won gamers' trust by talking about subjects unrelated to Nvidia's products, and then splurged in an orgy of sock-puppet boosterism of Nvidia's stuff.

...

I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums.

I was told that if I accepted the job, I was to have at LEAST 50 identities on as many forums as I could muster (they wanted 100 eventually), with a goal of 5 posts an hour. The posts had to be well thought out, and the idea was that I was to establish multiple identities with a history on the forums, so that when the timing was right a well written but subtly placed marketing post could be finessed in. And regular visitors would recognize the post as coming from a long time poster.

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ION, Microsoft is really swell....

Just popping in quickly to say that Olivia Rose is a bueatiful girl with a beautiful name, and to give Trudy and family {{{{{}}}}}}}.