I remember them, sarameg, but I can't remember what they were called.

That's what is killing me. I can't even recall any details of what they looked like. Just a general sense. RRg.

those little rectangular tins of lip gloss from the mid-eighties

by Bonne Bell right? I loved those. Man, I can't remember the name of them though.

EtA: Lip smackers? No that doesn't sound right - you can still get those but they are in tubes.

Google tells me they were "Villiage Lip Lickers" but I'm trying to find a picture to confirm.

eta: Think I found one: [link]

That rings no bells. I associate them with smucker's, but that may be due to the flavors.

xpost: that could work...

The Bonnie Bell lip smackers were thick tubes of lip stuff, I think, and the slide out tins were something else, though I can't remember what. Oops, never mind.-- got delayed by a phone call.

Have we talked about the VH-1 World series of pop culture and the timed pop culture IQ test? [link]

Think I found one

Yup that's the one I remember.

I just did the sample questions on the VH1 trivia thing. Missed one... didn't know the lyrics to the Pearl Jam song but I got the math one, which is very strange.

I know that USA Today is hardly a bastion of probing journalism, but it's free at Chili's (coincidence? perhaps not). So I had a chance to read this article about iPods at work.

Yes, it's annoying when my co-workers drum on their desks or sing audibly. I don't care whether they have earphones on at the time or not. Yes, music is most likely distracting when it drifts over from another desk. No, it doesn't matter whether it's a internet radio, boombox, or MP3 player with speakers, or leaking from a discman's overloud headphones. Of course it's unsafe if noises prevent workers from hearing alarms and bells. WHO THE FUCK CARES IF IT'S AN APPLE DEVICE? Also, it's pretty simple to steal files on a thumb drive.

On the upside, I seriously cleaned up the project plan we worked on yesterday, although within earshot of the person who sent it out unclean. There's a point at which I do not care.

Note to cafeteria: have food

Note to Chili's: cream ≠ creamer

I think I'm cranky today, huh?

WHO THE FUCK CARES IF IT'S AN APPLE DEVICE?

iPods represent the whole West-coast, liberal materialistic mindset, so iPod owners are more likely to, um... be godless secular humanists, who we recently learned are not to be trusted?

hugs iPod even tighter, if that's possible

Has this already been posted? LotR musical fails to impress theatre critics:

Most reviewers said the show, which runs to almost four hours, did not live up to expectations.

The Toronto Star described it as "dull", while the Toronto Sun said it "falls victim to its own hype".

The New York Times critic Ben Brantley said it was "largely incomprehensible".

"No-one emerges with head unmuddled, eyes unblurred or eardrums unrattled," he wrote.

"Yet for all the technology, the show's look is often reminiscent of an arts and crafts fair."

The UK's Daily Telegraph called it "insufferably twee". It said: "It just goes to prove that you can't always solve a problem by chucking money at it."