Thursday miscellanea #28

  • The first offline Sunday approaches.  Right now I’m slightly more excited about the novelty than I am anxious about the denial.  We’ll see.
  • I think I want a product that doesn’t exist.  Does anyone know of a simple Bluetooth indicator light, i.e. something I could stick on the dashboard that would light up when my phone rang?  Occasionally I miss calls because of the stereo, and the phone is too hard to get out of my pocket while driving if I set it to vibrate, and my headset is for when I know I’m going to be on the phone (not for when someone might call), and I’m not turning the music down.
  • Karl Rove had a good piece in the Wall Street Journal today about Obama’s straw man rhetorical tactics.  He regularly rails against positions no reasonable person holds (or has ever held), and implies (or even straight-out says) they are Republican positions.  Obama would have you believe that none of his opponents think the federal government has any advantage over the private sector for anything, for example.
  • My favorite word this week is cerulean.  There is no obvious reason it made itself comfortable in my consciousness, but there it is.
  • I was on a humor writing mailing list a hundred years ago that contained, among many others, a friend of mine named Caroline and another woman named, umm…call her Betty.  Now Caroline was way funnier than Betty, but they were two of very few prominent women on the list, so Betty would always lump herself together with Caroline—in conversation, scenarios, or whatever.  This irked Caroline unendingly.  I privately suggested she might be overreacting, and she fired back “Bo, it’s like if the Elephant Man put his arm around you and said ‘chicks don’t dig guys like us.'”  I still enjoy that.
  • A comment I made on this Saintseester post has me wondering:  are the marketing blurbs on “fortified” wines (you know, MD 20/20, Thunderbird, and so forth) all flowery and evocative like on respectable wines?  Do they regale you with tales of the whimsy of the Tuscan countryside and such, perhaps even with suggestions for food pairing?  Or are they honest?  “Hey man, you’re about to have an unbelievably nasty morning for the next couple of days, but who are we kidding?  This shit’ll knock your dick in the dirt like nothing else for $5 will.”
  • Go build yourself a high-end custom lightsaber (hat tip, The Corner).

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17 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #28”

  1. I’m going to have no problem being off-line on Sunday, because I plan on being hungover and broke that morning. I’ll join you in spirit while I search for headache remedies and wonder what the hell that stain is on my dress.

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  2. I’m pretty sure the ad campaign for Mad Dog is called County High Schools. I could be wrong.

    Reminds me of a time I was in Bruno’s in Northport during college. A very attractive, smartly dressed young woman was in line ahead of me – business attire. So what was this Mover and Shaker purchasing? Wild Irish Rose. That’s all. I was puzzled all the way through Programming Languages class.

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  3. The only lightsaber I want to build is one powerful enough to cut the federal deficit. I predict it will take about two years to build.

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  4. I wish you luck with your offline Sunday. Since moving to GTMO, I seldom watch tv. In fact, I’ve probably watched ten hours in two and half months.

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  5. Every time I hear ‘cerulean’ I think of the X-Files episode with the guy that could control other people’s minds.

    The Mad Dog label should read only “Makes your puke red!”

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  6. ‘seester: Sounds like the kind of school fundraiser we need more of. 🙂 Take action photos.

    Jenny: There are products with the intention–see Kory’s links–but nothing like what’s in my head. If I could buy that bracelet for $20 or less I might get it just to see if I could hack it into what I wanted. That speakerphone is kind of cool, but it’s so BIG…

    BamaDan: Heh! Let’s be charitable and assume sparkling naiveté. Love the “County High Schools” crack.

    BB_FAN: A thoroughly disgusting week, indeed. If you think of a plausible reason to be optimistic between now and November 2010, please share.

    Chris: Thanks for the well wishes. I think it will be all right. Do you mean you’ve been working at GTMO continuously for two and a half months? Wow. Thanks. And I’m sorry.

    Lori: Me too!

    Cheryl: Now THAT’S a slogan. The only time I ever tasted such a product (apple Boone’s Farm IIRC) I didn’t drink enough of it to get sick, but I do remember it as ungodly sweet.

    Lee: A tasteless drinking and driving ad parody is coming to me…

    Kory: Thanks. Someone’s thinking in the same arena, anyway, if not the same section.

    Greg: The bracelet is $39.95, and the speakerphone is $49.95. What I have in my head costs $19.95, has a single large blue LED, and maybe lights up 200 times before exhausting 2 AA batteries.

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  7. Dredging Up Old: I saw a bluetooth car mirror on clearance at Target. Looked cool. Clips to the existing rearview mirror, led lights up the number of incoming call, speaker phone and a detachable wireless earpiece for when you don’t want to look like a maniac screaming at your mirror. Probably overkill for what you want (digits on the mirror), but at 50% off it was kind of tempting.

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