but should it be "skillz"???

if i didn't enjoy my job at sunnyvale public library so much, i wonder:

do i have the "mad library skills" that k-state libraries are seeking for this new position?

more Christmas programming than you can shake a mistletoe at

Boundless Line turned me on to this link, to a Fanpop site archiving 101 Classic Christmas Videos. You've kinda got to see it to believe it.

Now monk can watch A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Oh, and a belated Merry Christmas to one and all.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Book 7: it's coming...

i feel your pain, rob

found this on youtube. rob rants about how playing the cello part to pachelbel's canon in d haunts him to this day. and he would be correct: it's a beautiful song, but a truly horrendous cello part. watch and enjoy.

ONO

ono is what we call delicious food in Hawaiian. as in 'ono grindz' or 'delicious food.'

but it's also a code we used at the old bookstore to describe the status of a book that was "on order."

that would be the status of my new Daisuke Matsuzaka player t-shirt. i've placed an order with the Yawkey Way Store. if you've ever been to Fenway Pahk it's that huge store right by the street entrance on Yawkey Way. you know, the one with throngs of people in every inch on gameday. where the vendors are yelling "get yah souveneeah programs heeah!" where you can just smell those Fenway Franks grilling. yum-o. brings back memories.

but i digress. the shirt is on order. i can't wait. here's an image of what it's gonna look like:

he ain't no kariya but i'm still stoked

So Daisuke Matsuzaka is officially a member of the Boston Red Sox. I'm excited! I already looked for a player t-shirt but alas, everyone on the east coast must've been home watching the B's 'cause nary a shirt could be found this evening. I think I'll get on the horn to Yawkey Way Store in the morning and see if I can get on a list to get one sent out this way as soon as they're printed.

It might look like this:

But I just hope I don't start seeing people doctoring up their clearance items like this (imagine the DAMON crossed out and MATSUZAKA written in):

Go Cardinal! Beat UW!

Go Cardinal! Beat UW!

This is me at work. Actually, I took this picture when Stanford Football beat Washington earlier this year, to prevent a winless season (and it's a good thing they did). Anyhow, I figure it might be good for another win as Stanford Women's Volleyball takes on U-Dub in the WVB Final Four tonight in Nebraska.

Oh, and blogged this (at least the picture) via cell using the mobile blogger feature. It's cool!

another reason to get that $1 coin into circulation

so apparently the copper and zinc combo in a penny is worth 1.12 cents. which means that if you were to take that $1 roll of pennies you get from the bank and melt it down, you'd be 12 cents up on the dollar. and according to the new regulations, you also might have to pay up $10,000 and spend five years in the joint.

i got excited for about five seconds until i remembered what Milhouse on The Simpsons once surmised about his prospects in prison (and i paraphrase):
"i can't go to prison! they use guys like me like currency in there!"

indeed they do. i would probably be currency too. which is why i won't be melting down any coins in the near future.

here's a link to the article i read on aol news.

apparently hamsters like ramen just like me

I found this on Cute Overload.

Do radio stations listen to each other?

This morning while driving to work I accidentally hit the radio preset for Alice 97.3, which I normally avoid like the plague in the morning so as not to hear the utterly mind-numbing Sarah and No-Name. Before I could hit another preset, I realized they were talking about that actor guy who was killed off on Prison Break, and who just the other day killed the teenager who was riding in his car after a high school party. The whole story is intriguing so I took a listen. They mentioned how in his youth he had gotten into trouble by among other things, stealing a jug of wine or something like that. And how his rebellious streak landed him a gig living with then-pastor Joe Simpson, Jessica and Ashlee's dad. And then they moved on to some story about Michael Jackson and how he's being implicated ONCE AGAIN by some kid claiming that MJ molested him...AND stole his writing to use in songs...all when he was between the ages of 2 and 14? It was at that point that Sarah started making some comments about MJ's song PYT (Pretty Young Thing). Eventually I couldn't take it any longer and changed the station.

Anyway to make a long story short, no less than 5 minutes later, Movin' 99.7 was playing Pretty Young Thing. Which they followed up with UB40's Red Red Wine.

Coincidence? (now do you expect to hear...it's no coincidence...this is Sharks territory!...like I do?)

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