I love my son. I love my son. I love my son. I will wake up at 2:30am to pick him up from the police station. Yes. My alarm is set. Two freaking thirty am in the morning. Maybe if I go to sleep now it won't feel like two freaking thirty am in the morning when I go get him.

Mentos and Singapore team up to increase the birth rate. NSFW. [link]

I know "there's no tone on the internet", but seriously--if I really meant "there's no reason to assume Joss' big screen success can translate to TV" then I'm too stupid to talk to. Way too stupid.

Oh Suzi. Yikes. That's middle of the night.

I'm having folks over on Friday. I start work on Thursday. I also have a head cold from hell and I can't breathe.

Also, my son just wiped his entire mouth on his tshirt while eating pizza. Even though there was a napkin right there.

Sigh.

I worked at Schwab in the early 90s and we had a sort of inter-office email/IM. It was used for flirting, to spread word that Kurt Cobain had died, and to work out inter-office drug deals. The clever dudes doing the deals were sending messages like "Hey, want to come play 8-ball at my place later?" Shockingly they were found out.

I got the first computer of my own in 95, when I went to grad school, and got online online then.

lisah, you just totally reminded me! I worked at a DC nonprofit in 1993. We used our internal messaging system to set up 4:00 PM Hearts games, which we also played online across three different floors.

We'd also sometimes plan on ganging up on people during said Hearts games via the messaging system.

We didn't even have Internet at work until 1999 or so.

Corgi. In a water park. He's so happy.

Lolo Jones is hot. And Amanda Pearce is like lightning.

I had my own mac starting in college, but no internet in the dorms yet-1993. Had to go to the labs for that, and at the time, it was vax for email and PCs, not yet on the internet. I think the PC got on network later that term. I didn't get my own internet at home until 99 or so, but I definitely was surfing when I started work in 97. NSM in college, just email. My dad had it at the house in 90 or so? For email. I don't remember, exactly, it was dialup to the university and I wasn't exactly using it. I remember being fairly uninterested in using it up at APO with mosaic.

I got the first computer of my own in 95, when I went to grad school, and got online online then.

96-97 for me, although I had a web-designer boyfriend for a couple of years before that.

I feel like this photo [link] wants a clever caption but I'm just not coming up with anything. It's not the best photo of the set (I like this one [link] )but it is probably the most pointed one.

Trying to find out the name of the old Schwab inter office IM sent me down a rabbit hole of old files I had saved in my gmail account. (Like 10 years old...old in internet time!)

I think I just printed out the Schwab messages, though, and have them in a box somewhere.