Strange Sequitur

I will not buy this lamp from Ikea and paint the shade to look like a block of Glowstone.

But only because I’m pretty sure it isn’t perfectly square.

(That and, you know, my food budget for the next two weeks is two dollars and seventy-three cents, so flights of whimsy are right out. Also my bedroom doesn’t have a free plug.)

katiebug445:

marmarbinks3:

I see 2007 and think “oh 3 years ago” and then it hits me that it was 6 fucking years ago

Whippersnappers.  I still do this with 2000 as my stuck-in-time benchmark year.

In a fit of anxiety over the fact that I’ve only been scheduled to work twelve hours next week (I need about twenty-two in order to not get evicted, make my way to and from work via public transit*, and not starve to death… and that’s not even going into the fact that I’m out of contact lenses and my shoes have developed fantastically huge holes) I wandered over to the Craigslist job boards, mostly in search of The Lulz.

AND THE LULZ.  I HAVE FOUND THEM.

“We are the largest young professional, glow-in-the-dark, adult co-ed sport’s league in the nation!”

I don’t doubt the validity of this statement in the least.

*You’d think that fewer hours would correlate to a lower transit budget, but I still end up working five or six day weeks, just three hours at a time.

WHEN AMY’S BAKING COMPANY BAKERY BOUTIQUE & BISTRO HAD A MELTDOWN:

whatshouldwecallsocialmedia:

OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN.

Facebook page here.

Article here.

Wait for it…

Wait for it…

(Edit: On another fork of the Tumblr reblog tree, maquisleader has helpfully provided an embed of the Kitchen Nightmares episode that apparently kicked this all off.)

The Internet has, in general, been doing a very good job at catching up with the entirety of human history. There are all sorts of wonderful, cracked-out things from my childhood that the web had heard no mention of even two short years ago, which can now easily be tracked down for a nice hit of nostalgia. (Last week I spent five hours watching a YouTube channel that was nothing but unboxings and demos of food-making playsets for kids. I knew that there had, in fact, been a McDonalds-branded toy that sliced Wonder Bread into faux french fries, dammit! VINDICATED!!!)

But still, now, in 2013, a google image search for Sinbad condom costume turns up nothing at all relevant to the pro-condom PSA that was lovingly inflicted on me and my entire fifth-grade classroom. The video exists on YouTube, but a handy still reference image does not.

I intend to rectify this. Rectify it with the power of Tumblr, for great web-indexing win.

You’re welcome.  (Who’s for gifs?)

wordplaying:

wordplaying:

When my kid is on computer restriction for grades or whatever he goes to his bedroom in a sulk, closes the door, and pulls out my husband’s old typewriter.

I think he just is consoling himself with the keyboard.

OMFG I just went and checked and he is actually literally typing Minecraft source code. On printer paper and a Smith-Corona XD 6600.

Well That was a Thing

ANGELS SANG OUT, IN IMMACULATE CHORUS.

DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS DESCENDED CHUCK NORRIS.

Four hours later, my phone is finally, actually rooted; Link2SD is installed and working properly; all of my apps are back, PLUS SEVERAL MORE (I may even have room to reinstall the Tumblr app guys!) and life is generally good.  I just need to re-add my music and such.  But I’ve never actually played music on my phone and my DRM-free eBooks are all in Dropbox.  I have Kindle and my preferred CTA Transit Tracker, life may now continue apace.

I do so love it when I get to spend my entire hour and a half of pre-work “internetting while waking up and letting my hair dry” time allotment screaming at my phone.

I know what I’m doing with my day off tomorrow!  Another god-damned factory data reset.  Now with bonus SD card partitioning!  Argleblargle.