a USB output so that I can use it to digitize things

oooh, I so need a cassette player with that. And see if those ancient Prairie Home Companion tapes I made off the air have survived.

I have a lot of vinyl. I want to get rid of it, because none of it is unique and anything I'm still interested in I have on CD.

When my parents died, we decided that my brother should take my dad's amazing vinyl collection (tons of old jazz including 78s) since he was the audiophile. Bet he hasn't done anything with it, including selling it to one of the record stores he frequents. Ah well.

I have a wee collection of my own stuff.

hugs limited edition pink vinyl pressing of Bela Lugosi's Dead

ooo, I'd hug that one too. I think The Damned is somewhere in that stack, but it leans heavily towards U2 eps.

In the continuing news that I am a horrible person, the tenant at works mother has passed away. The tenant was only partially in her current apartment at work to be close to her mother. While she was being so cordial as to drive me around, I was eyeballing her apartment and silently wishing she'd move back to the west coast.

It's just, come on! It's the perfect on-site apartment! In the back and away from the offices and the public, I can let my kitties go in and out, 30 second commute to work, probably on par with my own apartment as far as square footage goes, and I can totally get a discount as it means that I'll be an on-site support staff during weekends and non-staff-hours. So I'd really like this lady to move out.

These are my thoughts as she's letting me crash on her couch Tuesday night so I don't have to commute, and Saturday night so I don't have to commute at 2am.

So, horrible person: is what I is.

Last night, I noticed Grace's brace was at a weird angle in her shoe. Didn't think much about it. This morning, I realized it was broken. [link] How do you break a carbon fiber brace when you barely weight 30 lbs? Also, thank GOD we had her cast for a new brace last Tuesday. I'd be thrilled if it arrived before we left for Seattle.

How do you break a carbon fiber brace when you barely weight 30 lbs?

She's a six year old. They perform amazing, impossible feats.

Quick quiz:

1. You're hungry for dessert, and someone offers you a slice of chocolate cake. Does this mean:

A) A slice of some sort of chocolate, fudge, devils's food or black forest-y type cake, with chocolate frosting,

B) A slice of one of the aforementioned cakes, with any kind of frosting whatsoever because the descriptor "chocolate" modifies the cake, or

C) A slice of any kind of cake whatsoever with chocolate frosting, because the frosting itself acts as a modifier that designates any cake upon which it's frosted as chocolate?

2. Your answer to (1) was:

A) The only sane and sensible response, and people who answered otherwise are crazy and also poopyheads,

B) Your own personal understanding of "chocolate cake," though you admit that opinions may vary and you don't want to get all prescriptivist about it, or

C) FUCK YOU JZ NOW I WANT CHOCOLATE CAKE AND I HAVE NONE, YOU FUCKO.

A

Definitely B. Chocolate cake doesn't need icing, and you can't make it not a chocolate cake by putting a strawberry glaze on it.

I'm watching Magic Mike out of the corner of my eye and FUCK. FUCK Matt Bomer, Jesus. He is too much.

C) A slice of any kind of cake whatsoever with chocolate frosting, because the frosting itself acts as a modifier that designates any cake upon which it's frosted as chocolate?

Obviously this is straight up bullshit. Though still more chocolate than I currently have.

My first thought would be B, but I would not be put out by discovering that it was instead C.