From the monthly archives:

October 2005

new sign over the genre fiction

I was in my local Borders Books this morning, and perhaps this sign has been there the whole time and I just didn’t notice, or perhaps its a new sign, but none the less, there is a “Popular Fiction” sign over the SF, mystery, and romance sections now.

I went around the corner:

I guess this is the unpopular fiction

This must be the unpopular fiction section.

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career tips

October 22, 2005

in Personal, Photos

Co-workers

  • If there is going to be an event at work where there might be co-workers there who might take your picture and put it up on flickr, consider wearing eye makeup.
  • At least attempt to feign interest in one’s boss’s conversation.

(posted by jchaddickerson) (thanks!)

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Presumably you have already seen the Gallery of Regrettable Food. In that vein comes the Company Cookbook.

Amy, the author of amalah.com where the cookbook lives, explains:

I work for a financial publishing company. Which means that sometimes, I get some random swag from companies, brokers or mutual funds. Usually pens or those little squeezy stress ball things. That stuff sucks.

But one time, a company sent me their employee cookbook. It sucks, but in a completely awesome way.

Basically: its a collection of lovingly arranged and photographed company potluck dishes, with Amy’s incredibly funny mockage to go along. Cheese plays a major role.

(I got it from Slashfood.)

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The Original “Cthulhu Fhtagn” Wristband Of Rubbery Doom

So a friend of mine — ok he’s not really a friend, he’s one of the imaginary people who live in my computer — is selling these custom-made cthulhu wrist bands. I was pretty enamoured of the Livewrong bracelets but these are just too cool.

He’s kind of worried he ordered too many of them, and I promised him that all my blog readers would immediately run off and buy one if I posted about it. So there you go. Run off and buy one. Both of you.

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friday cat stories 2

October 21, 2005

in Personal

A few weeks back I surmised that George is a dog, based on his talent for fetching.

We have a new theory. George is a raccoon. He’s decided that his feather toy, the same one that he fetches, usually in the middle of the night, is much more fun to play with once it has been dunked repeatedly into his water dish.

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