Cosmo apparently does NOT swing that way

It looks like Cosmo is no longer one of the homosexual students on campus. Wikipedia has been updated. While I'm glad that we're no longer being misrepresented, I'm going to miss that old entry a little bit. It was hilarious.

Teenagers are Ugly

I was recently on vacation on the East Coast, and as we were driving I saw a car with their window rolled down, and a kid who looked to be about 14. Do I actually have to say that he was not an attractive-looking person? It's common among all species, but for your enjoyment, just take a moment and smile to yourself that you are not still in that awkward stage. If you still want to see more, go here, here, here, and most especially here. If you are still in that awkward stage then you have my condolences.

Things I Secretly Wish I Had

So, in general I try to be a decent person. I think I generally do okay at it. But there's this side of me that likes to do things just to shock/annoy/offend the sensibilities of/tick off/bother and otherwise pester my fellow human beings. It's not that I don't like you, it just that you're fun to mess with. So, here are a few things that I kind-of wish that I owned, but would (likely) never be able to use because if I did, TW wouldn't go out in public with me:

T-Shirt

A slightly ironic shirt, an inside joke about something you read on the Internet, and a superhero reference all rolled into one. Unfortunately the slight sacrilege is a bit of a turn off. :^(

Car Thingy

I'll admit it. Even though I often tend to be conservative in my political views, I think it's funny when the wing-nuts on the right (or the left for that matter) get ticked off, and as far as the evolution vs. creation debate goes, I think people who refuse to look at the evidence that science gives because they think it contradicts the bible must live in a very small world. The inability to hold two ideas in your mind that seem contradictory and accept that they could both be true if you had all the information is evidence of an underdeveloped psyche.

Book

Actually you can scroll down and choose from several of these books that TW wouldn't be thrilled with. Of the three things here, one of these books is the thing that I am most likely to actually get. Just wait, we're having a girl right now, but when we have a little boy, I may have to get some of the ones about explosions or things like that.

Google Chrome

So, I was pretty happy when Mozilla Firefox first came out, because it meant that I could stop using Internet Explorer. I feel like Microsoft is really behind as far as innovation is concerned. They're just cautious about what they do. Whenever they do make big changes to the format of their stuff, it's usually because some other company has come out with a better product that they rip off (i.e. Windows Vista, the current iteration of IE, etc.).

Anyway, I've been a fan of Firefox since I started using it, but my brother-in-law is more of computer guy than I am and he said that I should try Google Chrome. I was a little skeptical at first, since I really like Firefox, but he said "it's like it has all the features that you didn't realize that you wanted, and it's faster than Firefox." I figured that it was worth a try, since I can't think of anything that Google has done that wasn't high quality.

Today was the first day I tried it, and I can say that it has my seal of approval. It's got a really nice, clean interface. You can use one bar for both searching and browsing, if something running on one tab and it crashes, it won't kill the whole program, and you can drag tabs into their own separate windows. In short, it's just better. Get it. Install it. Enjoy it. You won't be sorry.

No Feeling Feels as Good as Feeling Smugly Superior

The other day at work (I work at a radio station), a great thing happened. Marcus Smith pronounced a word incorrectly. And I caught it. If you don't know who Marcus Smith is, go here and listen to a few episodes. You'll see what I mean. Marcus is really a nice guy, but when someone is really smart it's always fun to catch them. I was tempted to write a fake snooty letter to the station. I used to answer e-mails that came to the station, so I think that I could probably get the tone down pretty well. Here's how it would go.

To: Mr. Marcus Smith

From: Ms. Ima Prick

Re: Gross error on your show

Dear Mr. Smith,

I was distressed the other day as I was listening to your show. Usually I find your commentary to be if not insightful, at least thought provoking. On this particular day though, you made an almost inexcusable error in the pronunciation of the word "chimeric." While your misplacement of the accent of the word (on the first syllable instead of the second syllable) might be excusable due to the word's Greek origin, and the frequent accentation of the antepenultimate syllable in Greek, your pronunciation of the word using an "sh" sound instead of a "k" is incomprehensible. In an English approximation of Greek, a "ch" should never make an "sh" sound. In the future please be more careful about your pronunciation as poor pronunciation can at best make you harder to understand and at worst be offensive to the more sensitive portion of your listeners.

Humbly,

Ms. Ima Prick

You know, it's sad how close that letter actually comes to sounding like something we might get. Anyway, I'd never send it since Marcus really is such a nice guy, but like I said, it's nice to feel smugly superior sometimes, if only for a minute.