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  • Five Star Trek Pickup Lines

    Still missing 5ives from Merlin Mann.  So, I present a list of five Star Trek themed pickup lines.  If these do not work on the subject, then they do not pass the Double-Prime Directive: their culture is not sufficiently advanced to be turned on by your supreme geekcraft.

    1. Your eyes are set to stun, but your looks are set to kill.
    2. Nice nacelles.
    3. I’d love to go warp speed with you, but I’m prepared to go at impulse if you want to take it slow.
    4. Are you wearing Orion Slave Girl Perfume?
    5. Do you need a ride back to Heaven?  Because I’ve got a starship.  Just sayin’.

    Notice I resisted the “Beam me up…” ones.  Feel free to leave your own in the comments.  Also, I think you can add “Wanna make out?” to the end of any of these for added effect.

  • Five things for Young and Old

    I miss the regular updates of Merlin Mann’s 5ives.  So here’s something to tide us all over for a bit:  Five things for Young and Old.

    1. An Armoir full of Trix.
    2. A Social Security check written and signed in crayon.
    3. A Black-and-White silent film from Pixar.
    4. Jello.
    5. Medicare.

    Stay awesome, Padizi-o’s!

  • Florida!

    My favorite part?  Tina looks up and belches.  Totally awesome.

  • Thanks, Sean!

    Yesterday when I got home from work, I found a large, unexpected package on my doorstep. Upon opening it, I discovered my missing Sand Wedge – it must have slipped into my good friend Sean Hancock’s golf bag when he visited this past summer.

    As a thank you for the pleasant surprise, I recorded this little track. It might be an inside joke, but I think it holds its own. It’s only thrity seconds, anyway. Listen to it.

     

    Also, I think the “Megaphone” effect in GarageBand could easily help recreate the voice of the Dalek.

  • Fun Stuff.

    My schedule is completely thrown off. I spent Saturday in Saugatuck, MI with friends raislak, zarniwhooper and husband, asta77, and my wife. We had wine, burgers, and fun, and then arrived back at home around 5:30ish.

    Side note; all those friend links are to livejournal. Can’t just follow the trend, pauld, can you?

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  • Breakage! Exploding laptop!

    Okay, so that was a bit of a sensationalist title. My laptop has not yet exploded.

    Here’s the deal. I applied the 10.5.3 update to my MacBook a few days ago, when it was released. It took a moment, rebooted, and I was back up and running. Nothing bad seemed to have happened. At least, for the first five minutes.

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  • C’mon, Pistons.

    The last thing Detroit needs is another Red Wings. You went into the championships #1, come out #1 too. Please?

    Ben Wallace criticized the emphasis on offense that Saunders has brought to the club. This is probably because Big Ben is a powerhouse defender, and now feels like his skills aren’t as useful in an offensive club.

    That couldn’t be more wrong. The Pistons need Ben to continue to be a powerhouse defender. They need him to try to stop Shaq. Nobody actually can stop Shaq for any length of time, but Wallace could come close. Yet he didn’t seem to be putting in enough of an effort until the third quarter.

    Of course, Detroit as a whole needs to play like they played that third quarter. Twelve points down, to four points up, back to twelve down. The third was the only quarter that they played Piston basketball. Frustrating.

    Oh well. See you tomorrow, boys.

  • Myspace… Facebook… right.

    I hear these things are totally sweet. They’re cool or something. I don’t get it.

    Call me old fashioned, but I just like finding people in the real world. Every one of my best friends I’ve met because I just happened to be somewhere (that’s not my house) at the same time as somebody else. I guess I’m also a bit paranoid about putting too much personal info on the internet in one convenient location.

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  • Pistons Rock.

    Hey.

    So this is going to be one of those posts where I act like I know something about sports. I assure you, I don’t. It’s all a clever (or not so much…) ruse.

    The Pistons rock. They just do. And every time Shaq goes up against them, he gets frustrated. Case in point: 2004. LA Lakers. Goin’ home. Could be due to bad team dynamics that year. Could have been Kobe’s big head. Also could have been the Piston’s stiffling defense that year.

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