That thing about Yemen is one of the reasons I would've lost my job as a journalist. Because "Yemen" always makes me giggle, briefly, even in a serious context.

I know better, but I don't *do* better: Someone on Gawker griped that they now lived in a world where they were supposed to get Friends references, and...yeah, you kinda do? Why would you click on a link on a US pop culture blog about US TV and complain that there's a reference to a very popular US comedy from twenty years ago? Isn't that just the bit where you check wikipedia and move on? Or is Gawker supposed to footnote when they think they're being flip and funny (they were flip, NSM funny)?

When will google start translating metaphors and references into your local frame? That will be a harbinger of the singularity.

Luckily my 7:30 was only ten minutes long, although they tried to skip me because I was 1 minute late. This entire half hour is to be presented to me! You can't skip me! To who? Buzz off.

I do have an 8, unfortunately. And a 9, and a 10:30 maybe, and an 11. Thank dog I'm taking tomorrow off (I'm calling in Winchester).

Yesterday we had an all-my-manager's-local-reports meeting, which I'd never attended before. It's mostly a venue where she can tell us company and department direction, and we can give the team an idea of what we're doing and how dead we are.

She asked me to talk about my extracurricular projects, and about ten minutes in I could feel the tips of my ears go red because I was still talking. God, that's a lot of shit I'm working on, and she didn't even really know all of it. I feel a bit better about the overwhelmed periods, I just need to learn to manage.

When will google start translating metaphors and references into your local frame?

That will be the killer Google Glass app. No more having to admit you haven't seen/heard/read that really popular thing!

Lisa - so sorry about your kitty.

Matt: I got hit by a soccer mom too! Also - crossing a street that she had to turn left into. Luckily - I was unhurt.

ION - Photographs inspired by Baroque painting. . . so doubly referential in that photographs inspired by painting is such an late 19th/early 20th century thing.

And then my middle brother called me today and told me to plan to go to Kilimanjaro with him next winter.

That would be amazing, Consuela!

My daughter practically lives on Justin's chocolate hazelnut butter. This morning I made her two slices of toast with the spread, but she only ate one so I had the other. Dear me, I think I know why she loves it so much! It's so much better than Nutella!

ION - Photographs inspired by Baroque painting

Wow, those are beautiful!

Coming soon to a brain near you -- Google Mind! Never miss an obscure reference again!

Photographs inspired by Baroque painting

I worry about those pictures with the candles and the wax running down her body.

I worry about those pictures with the candles and the wax running down her body.

People pay for that, or try and get their sexual partners to do that. I sense lack of danger.

Except, FUCK. I have spent two days walking over to the desktop support guys and telling them I was getting weird messages, etc, and should I open a ticket, and the word "corrupt" is in some of them, and what do I do???

They all said to do nothing.

This morning, halfway through my third meeting, my laptop chimes in with "Cannot boot from any device". SO THANK YOU FOR NOTHING, ENTIRE DESKTOP SUPPORT TEAM.

I'm supposed to be working from home, and am entirely fucked.

Egad. we've been hearing helicoptors all morning, so DH finally decided to see what's up. Turns out there are possible explosive devices in the neighborhood. Crap! [link]