10/6/07

* "The absence of disqualifiers is a rare and beautiful thing."
* Vera Wang got engaged (for the first time) at age 39.
* Journey is one of Johnny Rotten's favorite bands.
* If you know how to change Quark settings so you can draw new boxes WITHOUT them automatically grouping with the existing ones, please let me know.
* People generally aren't the way they initially appear. A lot of times, they turn out better. Sometimes they turn out much worse. Either way, deal.
* I feel like doing a "Things That Annoy Me" segment, but if there's anything worse than whining, it's whining to no one in particular.
* Strangest things I've heard lately: Apparently someone out there thinks I a) am intimidating (ha!) and b) look like a Gap model from the nose down (see above).
* Here's a tip: Don't ever go back to get something they forgot at a fast-food place when you have to go through the drive-through (or "thru" as Teddy Roosevelt would say). Doesn't matter if it's 1 a.m. You'll get stuck behind the woman who has 15 picky kids to feed.
(* In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt tried to push Simplified Spelling in the U.S. (He wasn't the first.) As you can see, some stuck. Some didn't. Some people insist on using the ones that didn't, of course. I assume this is only to spite editors around the world.)
* Sharper Image sells an alarm clock that will roll off your nightstand and hide until to get up and turn it off. No joke.