look, i twittered today!

• 14:27 @totallynotbex well done! :-D good luck! #
• 16:32 @kunt new jorb? yay! good luck! <3 #
• 17:24 penguins! #
• 22:56 the internet is tubes. #
• 23:07 me likey sleep. #

don't blame me, blame loudtwitter.

419 meets wall street

someone posted this to the e-mail group for the chicago linux users group, and i found it quite entertaining. [and, no, it doesn't have to do with linux...i know you're disappointed now, but it's funny anyway.]

Your Urgent Help Needed

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a
transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had
crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion
dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most
profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may
know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the
1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds
as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the
names of our close friends because we are constantly under
surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a
reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account
numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with
detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the
funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

it's that kind of "entertaining" that leaves me wondering whether to laugh or cry.

wizards

i posted some pictures from new york this weekend. my favourite pictures are the ones of rob_t_firefly and me goofing off in the wizard robe:





there's a pretty funny story behind the wizard robe. there was a yard sale at a house around the block from Rob's place. we went there on Saturday when we were meandering about town trying to find lunch. the yard sale was run by three middle-aged women from the neighbourhood who had decided that Rob and i were the cutest couple they had ever seen. ^.^ at the sale, they had lots of fun, random stuff there that we poked through. i ended up getting a copy of Backyard Baseball...i want to see if i can run it over WINE, because i remember how funny it was when The Good Dr. C found a copy of that game in his cereal box, and the kids up to bat would say weird things like, "BRING ON THE MEAT!" when they came up to bat. Rob got some records and an awesome old typewriter.

Sunday we had some time to meander about after brunch before i had to go to the airport...so we went back to that yard sale. the ladies who ran it were very glad to see us again, and went right back to fawning about how adorable we were. Rob got some more old records, and i made off with a copy of guess who. [i hadn't played that game in YEARS, so it's awesome to have it now!] we were on the way out, and Rob noticed that purple robe hanging from the fence. we went over to look at it, and then started to walk away. suddenly, one of the women who was running the yard sale ran up to us, took that robe off the hanger, and handed it to us. so...fun wizard robe!