Saturday, November 08, 2008
The fire was a good gift, though. I have to admit that.
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And you thought salami cheese was a big deal.
Do you like stuff?
A:
Ability to Restructure Something From An Atomic Level
Absolutely the Last Best Version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Actor to Play God in A Movie Or TV Show, Best
Actor Who's So Lame He's Cool, Best
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
american (example of how to be one)
Andy Richter Controls The Universe
Anthropomorphic animal superhero, best
anyone lived in a pretty how town
April Fool's DayAuthor Who I Have Exactly 39 Reasons for Liking, Best.
Author Who Totally Lost It, Best
"A Wonderful Life," Rosa Chance Well
B:
Beatles, again, in a different context.
Bobby Darin's "Artificial Flowers"
Book About Monsters To Teach Kids That Monsters, And Books, Are Nothing To Be Afraid of, Best
Book I Want To Re-Read Over And Over Again, Best.
Book That I Think of When I Think of The Words "The Best Book," Best
Book That Never Existed (But Should Have), Best.
Book that Really Was Scary, Best
Book To Read In One Sitting, Best
Breakfast Cereal, Best Part Of
Candy Bar That's So Lame It's Cool, Best
Candy That's Basically Just Sugar, Best
Career An Actor Has Had After Quitting Something The Actor Should Not Have Quit, Best
Cartoon Series By Matt Groening
Caruso, David's Career As An ActorCelebrity Baby, Best, Second Vote For
Celebrity I Think I Could Hang Out With, Best
Celebrity Who Remains Unspeakably Cool No Matter What He Does, Best
Character To Be The 12th Cylon on Battlestar Galactica, Best
Choral Version of A Pop Song, Best
Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You
Christmas (Stolen by the Grinch)
Comic Strip That's So Lame It's Cool, Best
Copperfield, David (the book, not the magician)
Cornwell, PatriciaComedian, who's so lame he's cool, Best.
Comic Strip To Learn From, Best
D:
Day to have off for a Holiday, Best
Decade, Best for Style, reader nominee
Dramatic Look, Best Variation On
Elvis, Best Version of (Lame or Cool)
Emotion that's so Lame It's Cool, Best
Evil Supercomputer in a Movie, Best
F:
Family Event That's So Lame It's Cool, Best
Fantasy Book Series Featuring Talking Animals, Best.
Fantasy World, Best To Live In
Freaky Hippy Cult That For Some Reason Is Used To Sell You Stuff, Best
Fried Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches
Friends: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Futurama
G:
"Get Your Stinking Paws Off of Me, You Damn Dirty Ape!"
Gimmick/Symbol In A Book, Best
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, The
I:
Ice cream, named after a superhero
"If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags)"
Indie Rock Version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," Best
Internet comic
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
J:
"James K. Polk" (the song, not the president himself.)
Jeopardy!Job to Dream of Having When You Get A Little Tired Of Having Your Own Job, Best
K:
Kid Who Pretended To Be A Superhero, Best Book To Read If You Were
Knock-Knock Joke, Best
Lead in a romantic comedy, Best
Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Part Of
Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best and Absolutely The Last Version of
Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Version By A Group Or Country I Have a Tenuous Connection With
Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Version of On a TV Show.
Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Indie Rock Version
"Love Today"
M:
Man To Claim World Record On Donkey Kong, Best
Mark Wahlberg
Mascot, Best (two in one, reader submissions!)
Misunderstood Comic Book Character Who's Not Actually A Villain, Best
Modern Song about the 19th Century, Best
Modest Mouse Song that Correctly Applies A Scientific Principle, Best
Monster At the End Of This Book, The
Movie Fight Scene, best: Fight Club
Movie Fight Scene, best: Neo vs. the agents
Movie line, best (new nominee)
Movie line, best (new new nominee)
Music Craze that's so lame it's cool, best
Musical Instrument That's So Lame It's Cool, Best
N:
Nonfiction Book About A Topic So Lame It's Cool, Best
Norton's Fight With Tyler (Fight Scene in A Movie)
Onion, The (Copycat)Parents Have A Conniption, Best Song To Make
Peanuts Character Who's So Lame He's Cool, Best.
Pet, Which is So Lame It's Cool, Best
(The) Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Plot Twist In a Song Which Makes A Lame Song Cool, Best.
Postseason Sporting Event, Best
Proof that My Experiments Are Not Very Well Thought Out
Public Service Announcment, Best
Q:
R:
Radio Tuning In, Best Song That Begins With
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Best Part Of
Remade Song That's Better Than The Original, Best
Return of the King, The
Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles, Best
Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2, Best
Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2 or The White Stripes, Best
Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2 or The White Stripes or The New Pornographers, Best
Romantic Song, Also considered Best
Rosa Chance Well, "A Wonderful Life."
Run, Devil Run (Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins)
S:
Saturday Night Live skit, Best
Secondary Character in A Book, Best
Showdown between Good and Evil
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
Something That Really Happened, Best Movie About
Song About Girls Kissing Girls, Best
Song From The One/Two Hit Wonder "The Kings" First Single, Best
Song in Language Other Than English, Best
Song that Also Tells A Story, BestSong that Is About Writing, or Being In, A Book, Best
Song That Talks About Whether The Singer of The Song Feels Like Dancing Or Not, Best.
Song To Get You Through Hard Times, Best
Song to Play While The Hero is Running To Do Something Heroic, Best
Song To Turn Up At A Particular Point During The Song Just To Emphasize How Cool That Song Is
Spellsinger Series by Alan Dean Foster.
Stinky Chair Song (aka "Da Da Da")
Story Line in The Peanuts Comic Strip, Best
Superhero whose powers are so lame they're cool, Best
Star Wars (the movie)
Swing musicSwitchin' To Glide
Synthesizer from "96 Tears"
T:
Teen Movie That's So Lame It's Cool, Best
Television Show Andy Richter Starred In That Had "Andy" In The Title, Best
Thing You Think Is A Number But Is Not, Best
Title Character in Calvin & Hobbes, Best
Tourist Site You've Probably Never Heard of, Best
Triumph (?) over the Devil, Best... In Books.
Triumph over the Devil, Best ... in Music.
Tupelo Honey
TV Show That's So Lame It's Cool, Best
U:
Urban Legend
V:
Valentine's Day, Best Song For
Van Gogh, VincentW:
Wahlberg Brother (Judged Solely on the Basis of Their Least Cool Credit on IMDB), Best
Wavy Gravy (the ice cream, not the guy)
Willems, Mo (best children's book)
Word that's so lame it's cool, best
X:
Y:
Youtube, Best Video on... that you can find by searching for "the best video on youtube."
Z:
Numbers:
Other Stuff:
Themes:
Friday, November 07, 2008
I'm lying. I will actually sneak the Fritos in.
There are better, and nicer, ways to improve your health club's bottom line than excluding me from membership, though. You could use the Online Scheduling Software or the Dance Studio Software, or any of the other Fitness Club Software available through Mindbody, a company that sells business management software for -- you guessed it-- health clubs.
Because running a health club is running a business -- it's not enough to have some ellipticals and raquetball courts. You want to maximize your customers' health while maximizing your revenues, and MindBody can do that for you. Their software helps you keep your revenue stream going by having AutoPay for memberships and contracts; it eliminates a lot of time-consuming, expensive, space-taking paper by using electronic contracts. They can help you track customers and see what they're using -- do you need more weights? Fewer exercycles? Less me? The MindBody software will let you know how to focus on what your clients want.
They can even improve the personal training aspect by helping keep your trainers in touch with the clients, and by uploading before and after photos to the clients' files.
(In my case, the before photo is actually BETTER than the after. It's a long, BBQ-Frito-related story that I'm too ashamed to discuss.
So if you run a health club, here's two pointers: (1) Check out MindBody, and (2) Let me in, please? I'll leave the Fritos outside.
36 down, 9,093 to go
Rings... like the rings around Saturn, only Titaniumer.
"Titanium." Just roll that word around a bit, and think about it: what do you picture when you say "Titanium?" Right: exotic, strong, beautiful... the kind of metal that might come from one of Saturn's moons, or that might have been used by the early Greek gods to forge the gates of Olympus. Titanium.
It's not just the name that's cool and powerful and exotic; it's the metal. Smooth, polished, strong, and yet elegant. Like this:
That's one of the rings you can get at Avant Garde, a Titanium jeweler, and I wish I'd seen that before I got my wedding ring; I went with boring old platinum-and-gold, and I COULD have had Titanium with laser engraving: a ring that would last forever, like my marriage.
The rings they have over at Avant Garde range from the simple and stylish kind to those fancied up, laser-engraved kind, with great pictures on the site to check out and make sure you like what you're getting.
They've got other kinds of jewelry there, too, like a titanium necklace that Sweetie would probably like. But it's their titanium wedding bands and the other titanium rings they've got that really need to be seen to be believed.
The prices, too, are incredible -- that ring above is only $199 regularly, and it's on sale right now for $40 off.
I'm glad I stumbled across the site; it may be too late for me to get an exotic, cool wedding ring, but nothing says I can't jazz things up a little for myself now, and maybe get Sweetie some good things, too.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
35 down, 9,094 to go.
Q: When March of the Pigs (#34) by Nine Inch Nails:
Goes head-to-head with "The Sons of Cain" (#35) by Ted Leo:
Who wins?
A: The copyright lawyers! Ha!
How could I not love a life that allows me the leisure time to compare the drum parts of songs and THEN make copyright jokes about them?
Down... to go is my life, through songs... Read about song 33 here. Got more time? Read about when I was missing only two things from my life... willpower and lids.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
A Morning With Mr F and Mr Bunches Answers Some Questions
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
33 down, 9,096 to go.
I hope that before you kill time reading this today, you went and voted. I did. I voted before lunch. Well, actually, I voted before what would be lunch to anyone else, since most people eat their lunch between, say, 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. I am not most people; most people did not, today, have to get up extra early -- 6 a.m. -- and then did not have to drive to court an hour and a half away, and then most people did not find themselves driving back from court at 10 a.m. with an hour and a half of driving staring them in the face and also with the really good sandwich Sweetie made for their lunch, the fried-egg-and-ham-and-cheese sandwich, sitting there taunting them.
And most people did not then take the sandwich out of their bag at 10:15 a.m. just to look at it, I swear, and did not then realize that they also had leftover pizza as a side dish in their lunch. I know that most people did not go through that, because if they had, like I did, then most people would have eaten their lunch at 10:15, like I did, and most people would have then also opted not to eat the Cheetos because they felt guilty, like I did. (I left them in the car as a peace offering of sorts, a peace offering to the Gods Who Smite People Who Eat Their Lunch At 10:15 Because They Were Bored.)(I'll probably eat those on the way home from work, though. Sorry, Gods, etc.)
All of which led to me voting after my lunch but before your lunch. My original plan was not to vote during the day at all; it was to go vote tonight and take Mr F and Mr Bunches with me so that I could introduce them to the democratic process, and introduce the democratic process to them, and also so that if they acted up people would let me skip in line. Kids play an important role in government that way.
But I caved in to peer pressure from Sweetie (Sweetie is my only peer these days, and she pressures me all the time) and did not take them to vote with me because Sweetie thought it might throw the Republic into chaos, and also that it might not be good for them to be hauled around the polling place. Instead, I voted during the day, so tonight, I will have nothing to do but watch election coverage and put my laundry away and play with Mr F and Mr Bunches, and playing with Mr F and Mr Bunches is what inspired me to pick song 32, All For Swinging You Around, by New Pornographers:
Down... to go... is all the songs on my iPod coupled with all these things that I've done. Read about Song 32 here.
Did you know The New Pornographers Were Picked As The Best Band That Isn't The Beatles, Or U2 Or The White Stripes?
Colon
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