The Friday Five

1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week?
Uno Pizzeria with the gang last Saturday. Good time, good food, awesome weather outside.

2. What one person touched your life this week?
Matt made my day on more than one occassion solidifying my faith in our love.

3. How have you helped someone this week?
It's little, but I held the door for a girl at work who is hobbling around on crutches for several weeks. She smiled in return, which is the very best thank you.

4. What one thing do you need to get done by this time next week?
Get started sorting/packing the mess of a bedroom and getting rid of some stuff I don't use anymore.

5. What one thing will you do over the next seven days to make your world a better place?
I will work on my patience and share good vibes instead of so much negativity.

This is what Friday evenings do to crazed lunatic geeks.

Someone finally created a database site to store the information and create the html code to share lists of cds, dvds, etc. at "I Own These." Well, I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

buncha new pics in the photo gallery from the last couple of weeks.. the auto show and Matt's b-day party... weeeee

Search strings that lead people to my page:

1. calvin and hobbes neo-cubism
2. cannabis
3. cannabis legalized in the state of new york
4. corryn
5. embalming room
6. fabric barbershop stripes
7. funny cannabis
8. i need you to be addicted to me
9. night skies pictures
10. skark attack

The only one I can even attempt to relate to anything here is my name! Wacky stuff.

Yeah, it's been a quiet week. Two Friday Fives in a row. The Friday Five:

1. Do you like talking on the phone? Why or why not?
It depends who I'm talking to. Most of the time, sure, although I often get antsy.

2. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone?
Matt

3. About how many telephones do you have at home?
Three, plus three people's cell phones

4. Have you encountered anyone who has really bad phone manners? What happened?
Several people at my work have horrible phone manners, although I think it's often just frustration with the people they are talking to. I do my best not to pay attention to it because I wanna correct them.

5. Would you rather pick up the phone and call someone or write them an e-mail or a letter? Why or why not?
I generally prefer email/letters because it gives me more time to think out what I'm going to say, and especially to go back and change things I'm not happy with. Sometimes I wish we had this option in face-to-face conversation.

The Friday Five

1. What was the last song you heard?
U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name"

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
"The Rules of Attraction," "Erin Brockovich"

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Suave Aromabenefits Body Wash, a Jimmy John's sub, a DMB tshirt to replace the one I lost on a river tubing trip years ago

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
clean the kitchen, email my Mom, set up voicemail on my cellphone, send out a Nervousness project

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Matty, four co-workers (two auditors, one fellow accounts payable, one EDI rep, and a partridge in a pear tree)

Mmmm, sliders. Lots and lots of sliders.

This is my new blogchalk:
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Richfield, English, Corryn, Female, 21-25. :o)

(see below)

Woh. Google is buying Pyra, the company that produced Blogger, one of the first and better (imho) blogging sites. Blogs are definitely here to stay... at least for a while.

(via spinning-jennie.)

Oooo, snazzy pen!

There are two proposed designs still in the running for the replacement World Trade Center complex; numbers 1 and 4. It's amazing to me that it's already been a year and a half since the tragedy and that there will be a completely new structure in the works there quite soon.

Sweet! E-filing both federal and state taxes is finally completely free for those of us that make less than $27,000 a year. It appears to be completely paperless as well, if you have a little bit of info from last year's 1040.

Kottke's example of stereo photography. Neat stuff if you can get it to work for you! I found it easier to use the thumbnails than the full size shots.

<@HighElf> hrm
<@SPAM> eep
<@joep> pancake
<@SPAM> dentistry
<@joep> single file
<@HighElf> bolivia
<@SPAM> spackle
<@joep> chapel
<@SPAM> mayonnaise
<@HighElf> hydroplane
<@SPAM> congress
<@joep> Rembrandt
<@SPAM> fabric
<@HighElf> barbershop
<@SPAM> cholesterol
<@joep> dictionary
<@SPAM> mice
<@HighElf> misery
<@SPAM> galvanize
<@joep> sirrup
<@joep> stirrup
<@SPAM> ukelele
<@joep> slavery
<@HighElf> crate
<@SPAM> pack
<@joep> catacomb
<@HighElf> aphid
<@joep> underachiever
<@SPAM> matchbook
<@HighElf> bathtub
<@SPAM> pistol
<@SPAM> friction
<@joep> crown
<@SPAM> turpentine
<@joep> lumber
<@HighElf> stripes
<@SPAM> basketball
<@joep> bow
<@HighElf> wil wheaton
<@SPAM> reynolds
<@joep> amoeba
<@SPAM> trample
<@joep> tin
<@HighElf> lira
<@joep> detroit
<@joep> tenacity
<@HighElf> torn
<@joep> ribbed
<@joep> femur
<@HighElf> commute
<@SPAM> hehe detroit

<@joep> they need to invent a vehicle you can drive totally loaded
<@`mx> they have one.
<@HighElf> the karaoke one
<@HighElf> :P
<@`mx> it simulates what a drunk driver would be like.
<@`mx> so if you are drunk and drive it this vehicle .. they cancel out!
<@HighElf> i.e. a ford?
<@joep> a vehicle that makes it seem like yer drunk?
<@joep> what does it blair pantera and go real fast?

Note to self - more movies to see:

"Chicago"
"I Spy"
"The Basketball Diaries"
"Rat Race"
"About Schmidt"
"How to Lose a Man in Ten Days" (not so much for the plot, but for a very hot actor and actress ;o)

We appear to be hitting that mid-winter slump of lame movies in the theatres again. "Gangs of New York" was awesome. LOTR, well yeah.... "Catch Me if You Can" was also very cute, but now what?

Update: I put up a handful of pictures in the gallery from an outing to the Science Museum last weekend.

Penny Arcade never fails to amuse. At least for those of us that are geeky enough to have witnessed a LAN party or two... or face possible eviction due to one. :P

I remember this hair... frightening. (posted by someone on Yesterdayland)

Aww; "Hi Monkey". Who better to show you what a trip to the dentist is like or how to make rice krispie bars than a teeny white monkey? He's like a small, fuzzy Mr. Rogers.