A new couch for that ass
November 28, 2007
My last couch was given to me in the late 90′s by a friend of mine, and I recently donated it to another friend.
I’d been talking lately about getting a new couch, but I know it probably wouldn’t happen unless I got rid of the then current one. Well, it got picked up mid last week, and on Friday, Bea and I went couch shopping.
Here’s the one that I (we) picked:
The color is billed as Olive, but depending on the angle, it can look brown(ish) which I like – it’s adaptive. I/Bea/the roommate/Diamond (a derby ref) all like it. Hooray for buying furniture.
Bicycle: A Buttdate.
November 27, 2007
Latest update on the recovering tail bone:
I can ride a bike! Hawesome.
I’m healing pretty quickly I’d say, but I can tell I still have a while to go. The act of sitting up from a lying down position still hurts (well, more like a bad ache but you get the idea), along with a number of similar actions/motions. But overall, much better.
I am going to attend this Thursday’s derby practice, and skate for a bit – just see how it feels. The smart move would be to not scrimmage, and so I won’t. Assuming that regular skating isn’t too painful, the chances of re-hurting myself greatly increases in a scrimmaging situation. I’m resolved to take it easy and heal all proper-like.
(If the content of this post did not clue you in on what a buttdate, then *FAIL*. A buttdate is a butt-update. Shame on you.)
Web Standards / Blue Beanie Day
November 26, 2007
Some of you may be asking yourself “What is Blue Beanie Day?” and hopefully even fewer are asking “What are Web Standards?”
Well, I’ll just pretend you didn’t ask the latter, but point you here just in case.
Actually, if you asked the first question, you should click on that above link anyway. Long story short, some nerds decided to wear a blue beanie (in honor of a cover of a web standards book) and put a pic of it up on a flickr group. In the founders’ own words:
Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content.
Here is my contribution:
It is actually my Jayne hat, with a quick bit of photoshop hacking.
So what is the lesson behind all of this? If you write web apps / pages, don’t be a jackass. Adhere to standards and validate your goddamn code.
Drew Brees / Carlton Banks
November 26, 2007
In light of the picture below, I think that Drew Brees’ touchdown dance should be “the Carlton”.
How does this happen, and can someone inform me when it will happen again?
In other news, SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTSSSSSSSS!
Happy Katanakka!
November 22, 2007
For those of you who are wondering what in the Wide Wide World of Sports™ I am talking about (ie all you non-ninjas), Katanakka is a Ninja holiday celebrated on the same day as Thanksgiving so “that we still get the day off”.
If you wish to read more on the origins of Katanakka (and I suggest you do), then please click the image below of Dr. McNinja high-fiving a cooked turkey, and you can read the story in a friendly, graphic-novel format.
Fall down go boom
November 20, 2007
Well, this past Sunday, I reffed the Big Easy Rollergirls intraleague bout, a matchup of the Marigny Antoinettes and the Confederacy of Punches.
The bout went of pretty well, some hiccups here and there, but that is to be expected.
Somehow though, the ref squad managed to incur some losses. S’aint N.O. Lady fractured the radial head of her right arm, the Countess injured her right knee and hip in a collision with me, causing me to land on a skate on my tail bone.
Ladies and gentlemen, I strongly recommend against bruising your tail bone. I have come to the conclusion that the tail bone is the collarbone of the lower torso – it is involved in more movements/motions than you realize. I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow, but the only thing that seems to heal a tail bone is time. Due to my recognized tendency to pick up addictions, I approach pain meds (and pills in general) cautiously. The problem is that the pain is severely affecting my work, and I’m in the middle of a big project I really need to finish.
So, it looks like no skating, riding a bike, running/hashing, etc for a while for me. This is lame.
Holiday Season
November 14, 2007
It’s getting be that time of year again. You wouldn’t know it, what with our frigid 66° weather, but that is besides the point.
The real point is that you all, even you GoogleBots, want to buy me lots of gifts. I know, it will be a strong urge to resist, but please try. For the children.
Seriously. I write about it every year (which means 12 of you read this), and this year is no exception. However, instead of just Child’s Play Charity (my long-running favorite – pick NOLA!), I have two additional:
OLPC: Give One, Get One – OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a project to develop a super-cheap, rugged, Linux-based laptop to distribute to poor, technologically deficient countries to help boost education, which will in turn boost, agriculture, medicine, etc… For $400, you can buy one for yourself, and included in that price, one will be shipped to a child in a developing country – but you only have until Nov. 25. $200 of that is tax-deductible, and you also get a year of T-Mobile hotspot access, as an additional incentive to that warm fuzzy feeling. To put my money where my mouth is, I just bought one ($423.95 USD after shipping).
Now that all the techie stuff is out of the way, let’s get to the fun stuff: football and booze. They go so well together, right? Well, there are apparently two new wines out there courtesy of Gridiron Cellars: the Cajun Cannon Cabernet benefiting the Louisiana Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Vintage Brees Chardonnay, benefiting the Brees Dream Foundation.
Go forth and donate!
Cube root of 64
November 5, 2007
Three fours:
1) Number of days since I’ve started the “detox”. I had a partial beer at a beer brew on the fly on Saturday – as doing it to not be rude, and the beer was delicious. That was all I had, even through the later, nail-biting LSU victory. Jason (the brewer) is the bomb-diggity.
2) Number of consecutive Saints victories. We squelched Jacksonville – and we needed it. Was important on a number of levels. Amazingly, no Dome Foam was consumed, but a delicious foot-long hotdog was.
3) Number of previous consecutive Saints losses. Hard to believe we started out 0-4 this season, only to turn it around to 4-4. If anything, it showed us who the fair weather fans were.
4) No reason, had to throw this in. Just felt right.
A break from a break?
November 1, 2007
For no other reason other than it seems like a good idea, I am going to detox for the next two weeks. Nothing too strenuous or rigorous, mainly just no drinking. I have some yogi detox tea that is actually quite tasty, and I reckon I need to ask Herr Google about additional methods / foods to help clean out my system, as a single tea does not an entire detox method make.
Luckily, this is not brought on by excessive drinking – quite the opposite, it seems. I’ve been busy enough with work, derby, and the old lady to the point of actually not having the time / drive to go out and have a drink or few, much less put some stink on it for a night.
Things have just been so busy. For the first in what feels like forever, I got more than a full night of sleep (rolling in at ~12 hours). It was fantabulous, and sorely missed. While I have been running myself a bit hard, it is all for good. I’ve been given some opportunities that I really can’t pass up, so I’ll make the most of them now, work a bit harder, and it will certainly pay off in the future.
I’m hoping that the quasi-detox will also help me out with my back. I don’t have back problems per se, but as Bea can attest to, I tend to carry stress in my back and have the knots to prove it. I’m hoping that the situation will improve with this, and maybe some more quality back rub time from Bea ( hint hint ;) ).
This detox, my friends, will be a good thing. Hey, maybe I’ll even try to write a post a day for the next two weeks too (but not about the detox – boooooriiiiing). Hrm…