At least they didn't say "Sike!"

But 'sike' is how you spell it! Right?

Making fun of Newt: My Love Affair With America

I didn't want it to happen, of course. No one does. When you take the marriage vows, you take them for life, right? So at first, I suppressed those unwanted feelings. Sure, I noticed her purple mountain majesties as soon as she walked in the room. I mean, who didn't? Believe me, in a sweater, those purple mountains sure were majestic. And her amber waves of grain? I couldn't pry my eyes away. So lush and, well, ambery. What was I to do? Maybe it's because my defenses were down -- I was working so hard at the time -- that my mind soon wandered to her fruited plains. Bad, bad thoughts! But I just couldn't help myself.

At first, of course, I didn't say a word. I tried to confirm my soul in self-control. Oh, how I tried! And she played it straight, even when she caught me staring at her alabaster cities. But then I succumbed. I succumbed to sin. It was a business trip, of course. What a trip! It took us from the redwood forests all the way to the gulf stream waters. I was working so hard! Did I mention that I was working so very hard?

On that perilous night, when I first lifted my lamp by her golden door, she was dressed in broad stripes and bright stars. I was always a sucker for broad stripes and bright stars. It happened after a long day of exceedingly hard work. Boy, was I tired from all that hard work! She knew I wanted her. And I knew she wanted me. In a flash, our clothes fell to the floor, and she whispered huskily in my ear, "Give me your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free," and before I knew it, I saw that golden valley. Oh, the rockets' red glare! The bombs bursting in air! In that moment of indivisible union, I screamed out, "America, America! God shed His grace on thee!"

I was hopelessly, irretrievably in love. I guess that makes me a sinner. But it also makes me a patriot.

they couldn't take a budget vote without the dems, so they stripped all the budget elements out of the legislation and just sent through the stuff about collective bargaining. asshats

So the "sell the public utilities no-bid" elements were gone? At least that is good news.

Yarn bombing the El in Philly.

Someone just does that, don't they? Just puts different things in the microwave to see what they do.

And yet stuffinmymicrowave.com and stuffinmicrowaves.com are both available.

What about lookatthatfuckingstuffinthatfuckingmicrowave.com?

Sounds like a winning tumblr.

ratemystuffinmymicrowave.com

icanhascheeseburgerinmymicrowave.com

That yarn bombing is so awesome! Did you submit it to the goodstuff tumblr? So cool!

So I am coming to you from my brand new super spiffy (but not 1080p) laptop! Whoo! Does my font look better? Are my thoughts coming through faster?

There are some physical things that will take some getting used to (like, the bulge of the large capacity battery is too small, and because the keyboard is offset for the 10-key (yay) it sits on one leg, making the whole shebang tilt subtly), but they fixed stuff that was irritating on my old one (this is a direct successor) like the bit where I broke the power cable seating by leaning on it, and the bit where the headphones cable stuck out irritatingly on the front (it's now rotated around to the side).

It has keyboard backlighting, which I find alarming since I'm a touch typist and never ever look at the keyboard, but I'll see about that in the future. And I don't see a physical set of volume control buttons. Other than that, it is sheer bliss so far.

The big question is, do I leave it at Windows 7 home, or do I buy and install 7 Pro so I can have downgrade mode? And lose all the weird cross merchandising stuff. I mean, I guess I can get rid of that anyway.

But at any rate, I've blocked out two days for setup and configuration and general tweaking. And it came in the morning, so at least I didn't have to worry about it coming this evening while I'm gone. Yay, new laptop!

Well, I would totally submit it to the goodstuff tumblr if I knew how to.