This is going up on the Good Stuff later, but have it now: for everything in the world pissing you off, I give you: emergency cuteness

Dang, Justin Timberpants was shooting something down the street last night!

You know how lasers often have warning stickers or signs on them? This is the best one ever:

Danger

That's perfect!

For people who like motorcycles and/or steampunkish things:

Steampunky concept motorcyle - Boing Boing

Very pretty.

That is perfect.

I hope Consuela is being "hired" on the spot for her job....

This is a cool idea I never would have thought of.

HOWTO recover your stolen car - Boing Boing

Oh, and here’s a tip I hope you never need: if your car is ever stolen, your first calls should be to every cab company in the city. You offer a $50 reward to the driver who finds it AND a $50 reward to the dispatcher on duty when the car is found. The latter is to encourage dispatchers on shift to continually remind drivers of your stolen car. Of course you should call the police too but first things first. There are a lot more cabs than cops so cabbies will find it first -and they’re more frequently going in places cops typically don’t go, like apartment and motel complex parking lots, back alleys etc. Lastly, once the car is found, a swarm of cabs will descend and surround it because cabbies, like anyone else, love excitement and want to catch bad guys. Cabbies know a lot of stuff*. I found a traveling shoplifting ring in Phoenix once. Professional shoplifters always take cabs. So do strippers going to work but that’s another story.

Based on my mother's experience, you don't want it back. Thieves got in an accident...damaged the frame and it always pulled to the right, afterward.

I think Timberlake is shooting a video with Jay Z. Our friend Andy is doing props for it. He reports that both guys are surprisingly nice. Jay Z says you should cal him Jay. Timberlake goes by JT.

Well, that was exhausting. And embarrassing, since my land line kept ringing and it turned out to be my parents' attorney. ARGH.

If I get hired, the job will not be the job I've been doing for six years. It will be more boring, and they want me to move over to the other building, which is brown and blah and has no direct sunlight, and no public transit and nowhere decent to eat. Everyone there is supposed to move to my (nice bright accessible) building in October, so why force me to move twice? Also, I love my cubicle with the huge windows and the view of the Bay Bridge.

I'm so peeved about the entire thing, seriously.