How do you take your tea or coffee?
Submitted by Vasquez.
As much as I like my sugary milky things, I really don't like either in my coffee or tea..
Coffee
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Almost always, I get an Americano or Drip, black (no cream or sugar).
Occasionally, I'll get both cream and sugar, a mocha or cappucino, or with some booze in it.
Tea
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Green, Herbal, or Iced: no milk or sugar
Black: milk and sugar
Show us something unbelievable.
There were several downed trees like this within a couple blocks of our house, and much of the city was without power for days. Fortunately, we never lost power, with our worst damage being that half of our fence was blown over.
See Brooke's blog for more details and pictures.
We were stuck in san jose last night, so thought we'd kill some time with dinner and a movie. Dinner ran a little late, so we showed up at 8:50 for the 8:30 showing. No big deal, we thought, we'll have missed the trailers, and maybe a couple minutes. So we went to the theater that the usher pointed us to, and the movie seemed to really jump into the action quickly.
What's going on? Who is that guy? Oh, i bet they'll do a flashback and fill us in a bit... wow, this is pretty intense... hmm, i thought he was the main character, is this a trick? ... hmm, this is really fast paced.. funny, this seems like an ending already.. i wonder how they'll make this last another hour and a half.. uhh, why are the credits rolling and the lights coming on??
oh crap, that was the 7 o'clock showing...
From Thanksgiving to Christmas, we probably watch Elf and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation about 25 times each.. That is a real estimate, not an exaggeration...
For Brooke, they are the quintessential holiday movies (Along with Home for the Holidays and Planes,Trains, and Automobiles leading up to Thanksgiving). I do still enjoy them, although more often than not, I'm just sitting here on my laptop anyway.
This year, I've tried to mess with tradition by putting a stack of other seasonal movies next to the tv. We have the holiday animation classics (rudolph, frosty, emmet otter, etc..), i want a dog for christmas charlie brown, and a few others.
They've all gotten played a couple times, but we always end up at the two "classics".
On my to-get list are A Christmas Story (the bb gun one), and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
What are your Christmas classics? Miracle on 42nd street and It's a wonderful life don't count..
This post of songs about L.A. got me thinking of songs about Seattle (and surroundings). A few good ones came to mind..
#1 Sir Mix-A-Lot, Seattle Ain't Bullshittin'. -- shout outs to lots of locations around town that you probably won't see in a guide book.
#2 Sir Mix-A-Lot, Posse on Broadway. -- what Seattleite can't relate to:"I was born in the S-E-A- double T - L - E, Seattle, born in the C.D. Nigga.. 19th and Yesler"
"Go on back the other way, we'll stop and eat at Dick's"
#3 Perry Como, Seattle. -- this guy is way too happy, must have been summer time.
"The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle. And the hills the greenest green, in Seattle"
#4 Neko Case, Trice All American -- we saw her play this live at bumbershoot once, and she said something like "you know you never even liked tacoma before this song"..
" I want to tell you about my hometown. It's a dusty old jewel in the South Puget Sound. Well the factories churn and the timbers all cut down..."
#5 West Valley Highway, Marysville -- An old friend of mine is in this band, whose band name is a road down south of Seattle, and who's debut album is named for a town up north.
"she's just a short stretch of a railroad town that never made a map. I think if Mary was still with us man she'd probably give it back just to show, that it ain't worth the powder to blow her up"
Anyone else got some?
Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.
Anyone who says no to this is lying!
Having been online, and working online, for several years, I have lots of google matches (around 2300 for my full name in quotes). Most of the stuff is technical, like posts to mailing lists. It's actually quite fun flipping through all of them, and seeing the various things I've worked on over the years, and all the stupid questions I've posted.. Then there are links to my blogs, interviews, and other corporate type things. The oldest links I've found are on google groups of some usenet posts from 1994, looking for bootlegs of nirvana and pearl jam, lol.. :)
There is one particular set of google links
that I'm not too happy with.. A few years ago, the company I worked for
had a spamming incident. Basically, we sent out a bunch of email, and
when people got angry, and started making false accusations, I
attempted to explain things and the whole thing blew up out of
control. While I stand by what I said, I do think I said it poorly (I
certainly wasn't attempting to defend our egregious actions, and
definitely didn't mean to say it to a journalist!), and would rather
the whole situation have never occurred. Happily, these links no longer
show up until page 5 of my results.
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What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.
escalators.. specifically UP escalators.. going from the 2nd+ floor to the next floor, without anything directly below them (like when there's a big atrium, and multiple levels of nothing but escalators). I'm not afraid of heights at all, but those used to give me weird vertigo. Also, standing near the top of down escalators, I always felt sucked towards them.
