tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502333692842449142010-02-14T20:30:03.081-06:00planetclaire.org | rantThe revolution will be plagiarized...Clairenoreply@blogger.comBlogger645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-624393244746484662010-02-14T20:30:00.000-06:002010-02-14T20:30:03.088-06:00I'm in a heap this weekend, huddled under massive amounts of blankets and a general fog which hovers over my brain.
Which would normally be awesome, since I get to whine and complain and garner sympathy for having a cold. But my backlog of work screams louder than my sinus headache so I am attending to that instead.
I've had the olympics on in the background all weekend. One of the rare Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-50642779198582606512010-02-06T16:59:00.000-06:002010-02-06T16:59:11.216-06:00I hate you, Blogger. May you burn for making me have to figure out how to switch.
I was taking a nap this afternoon (look, I was up all night. I get to nap) and I was drifting off to sleep. You know the point where even though the television's on you can't really hear it?
That's the point I was at. And I wasn't paying attention to what was on (some bad scifi movie) so the sound was down low. Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-60448127202145549182010-01-25T06:17:00.000-06:002010-01-25T06:17:34.164-06:00It's Burns Night tonight!
Excellent...Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-4999314773360673422010-01-24T18:49:00.000-06:002010-01-24T18:49:36.653-06:00Okay, for the record I may not have posted every day this week but I did donate. Work got too hectic and I just didn't have the time to write in here. So I decided I would go the presidential route.
Red Cross : 'cause you should listen the the First Lady
Clinton Bush Haiti Fund : 'cause it makes me laugh
Not the fund, mind you. I think that's awesome. What makes me laugh (and not in my usual, Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-32319977179192644072010-01-20T21:46:00.000-06:002010-01-20T21:46:36.171-06:00And for this Wednesday my donation of the day is:
Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org)
From their site:
"MSF has been working in Haiti for 19 years, most recently operating three emergency hospitals in Port-au-Prince, and is mobilizing a large emergency response to this disaster. Our immediate response in the first hours following the disaster in Haiti was only possible Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-16660526243002324372010-01-19T22:58:00.000-06:002010-01-19T22:58:13.860-06:00Today is the American Refugee Committee (www.arcrelief.org/):
...On the border we are working with a clinic that has been flooded by between 300 and 500 wounded and their families. There are estimated to be 2,000 people in total. To give you an idea of the scale of need, this small clinic has conducted more than 60 amputations in just the last two days. Today, we are working to support the Clairenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-14913847403317444872010-01-19T05:24:00.002-06:002010-01-19T05:28:11.035-06:00So I'm not much for much lately. An over-abundance of work has me occupied about 16 hours a day.
But even focused on work it's hard to escape the images of devastation in Haiti. And I know it's not much, but I decided to do my little bit by donating to one charity every day this week.
So Monday is the World Food Program : http://www.wfp.org
Latest from Haiti Operation (www.wfp.org/stories/Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-77539409075920391062010-01-08T22:11:00.000-06:002010-01-08T22:11:33.238-06:00I'm supposed to like Chuck. It's got this crazy combination of Josh Schwartz, Adam Baldwin, a Cake theme song and a soundtrack that seems like someone crawled into my brain and dug through my music collection. It even found some stuff I forgot I owned. Plus it's got the crazy homeless guy from The O.C.
Hell, Adam Baldwin should just be enough. But alas and alack, just could never get into it.
Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-24746897574938983562010-01-07T13:28:00.000-06:002010-01-07T13:28:44.138-06:00Dude, there's nothing more disconcerting than staring at photos of Venetian Carnevale for an hour and then finally taking a moment to look up and see what was on my (muted) television only to find a montage of video clips from a Venetian Carnevale.
I thought I might have finally lost all touch with reality. But no. Just a coincidence.
I knew this day was going to be odd when I found myself Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-73141963445627456662010-01-06T22:02:00.000-06:002010-01-06T22:02:21.323-06:00You those annoying people who go around telling everyone they know some theory they have and how everyone should "just wait" and it'll happen? And then run around wildly gloating when it does?
Totally me. I'll own that.
Because for the last year or so I have been just waiting for some dumbass politician to post something that will immediately cause back-peddling. And on top of that, I claimed Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-75973317921359862752009-12-29T01:50:00.000-06:002009-12-29T01:50:52.574-06:00Oh my. December 7. It's been awhile.
I think the main reason is because, for whatever reason, the font this thing defaults to is some monospaced font. And while I have the utmost respect for monospaced fonts (Courier is sadly under-appreciated) it's not exactly a joy to use in this context.
Never underestimate the power of fonts. To this day I remain convinced that I got higher grades on Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-4559127158641617952009-12-07T17:52:00.000-06:002009-12-07T17:52:56.456-06:00See, now this is why I try not to pay attention to anything outside my planet.
I had seen and/or heard about "Palin-Bachmann 2012" t-shirts being worn around the state and assumed (as any sane person would) that they were tongue-in-cheek. Because when last I checked both women were, to one degree or another, completely batshit crazy.
But after seeing some coverage of the former's visit to ourClairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-37057718817428838072009-11-09T01:17:00.000-06:002009-11-09T01:17:44.719-06:00"I'm a PC. And Windows 7 was my idea."
So who's taking responsibility for Vista? Because that was crap.Clairenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-11968204773802660762009-10-30T01:39:00.002-05:002009-10-30T01:41:49.123-05:00
I haven't been around here much lately, huh?
Oh don't act like you didn't notice. I see you lurking over there. You're fooling no one.
I'm not exactly sure why. Well I am sure why. I had it in my head that I was going to write this eloquent and mesmerizing soliloquy that would leave the reader weeping in the corner.
Which is pretty much what I've been doing since 7:30 am on Tuesday of this Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-66802221497413941052009-10-18T02:22:00.001-05:002009-10-18T02:33:17.545-05:00Watching television tonight—
Well sort of watching television. It's on in the background as I'm creating this absolutely gorgeous design for a website. In my head. All in my head. As a repressed memory I'm thinking. Because I can not come up with nothing for nothing.
Watching television tonight an ad came on for another random lawyer getting all worked up over another random drug class action Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-5388070096579174612009-10-13T16:08:00.000-05:002009-10-13T16:08:59.809-05:00You know what drives me seriously around the corner? When people go on and on about how many hits their site gets per day.
website hits ≠website visitors
That is all.Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-23625599864785219052009-10-11T04:59:00.000-05:002009-10-11T04:59:06.035-05:00When I first got my iPhone I has no idea what apps to download if any at all.
Oo! Tangent! I have this relative that insists on calling appetizers "apps". "Let's start out with some apps" "Who's up for apps?". Drives me nuts. And it has hardened my heart against the usage of the word in any context. So I have a hard time calling the things I have on my phone "apps" without dying a little inside.Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-42025520941181452662009-09-30T00:12:00.000-05:002009-09-30T00:12:09.008-05:00I would love to see every congressperson and senator spend a few years without health insurance for themselves or their families. I imagine universal healthcare would become a priority.
Politics has become so mired in back room deals and loopholes and workarounds that no real change is ever going to happen unless there's a mass uprising. And that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
And insurance Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-77288354871307796482009-09-26T01:52:00.000-05:002009-09-26T01:52:32.795-05:00I am officially firing this week. It sucked. It was hectic. And I'm exhausted. So this week is fired.
Or downsized.
I gotta wonder the percentage of people laid off due to the economy were just deadweight and the company didn't have the heart to axe them sooner.
Not that you were one of them, no. I'm sure you were a valuable member of the team and they really did have no choice.
Really.Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-7918410980562014912009-09-25T11:42:00.001-05:002009-09-25T11:43:41.528-05:00Gardner Hardware Anvil Drop Day. The anvil gets tossed at noon. Although every time I get there right at noon I've missed it by about a minute.
And it's raining. Which frankly makes the anvil drop all the more awesome.
The car's in place (or was when I stopped by at 8:30am to drop off the commemorative limited edition t-shirts). The anvil is on the roof. The fruit is set to drop.
At least I Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-38813206005048166012009-09-21T06:42:00.003-05:002009-09-23T11:33:04.814-05:00Ah, fall. When the sound of heavy metal objects falling on top of junker cars fills the air.
When the sweet smell of watermelon wafting through the wind is accompanied by projectile chunks of rind.
When the "Usually-Annual-But-Sometimes-We-Miss-a-Year" Gardner Hardware Anvil Drop comes sneaking up behind you and you suddenly realize that it's this Friday.
I know! I totally spaced it too. AndClairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-47030099061243214132009-09-15T02:33:00.000-05:002009-09-15T02:33:29.946-05:00As the new television season tiptoes in like a drunk frat boy (Really? New shows are starting soon, Mr. Network? I hadn't realized. Maybe you should constantly fucking remind me more) so too do syndicated shows. So, thinks I, perhaps I should watch some shows I initially dismissed as trite and derivative. Like the supernatural-lite The Ghost Whisperer and... what the hell's the one with Patricia Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-10123308877279764352009-09-15T01:19:00.000-05:002009-09-15T01:19:16.658-05:00Ugh. It's tax day tomorrow.
You know, I dreaded April 15th just fine. To have to dread three additional days just as much adds nothing to my overall quality of life.Clairenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-78707315774011042432009-09-12T04:46:00.001-05:002009-09-12T05:08:33.683-05:00So I finally pay attention to this page (have I mentioned everything's showing up in Courier? Flippin' Blogger) and wouldn't you know it, the one thing that didn't survive?
Hard returns.
And I was initially tempted to fix it (to be fair it's my fault--I changed some settings around on a lark) but then I remembered that I was exceedingly lackadaisical. So it stays as is. I'm just going to Clairenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850233369284244914.post-27969321537698509842009-09-05T23:41:00.001-05:002009-09-12T03:31:50.663-05:00You know, with Andre Braugher on House this season I just might watch it.
Pembleton: You're not Catholic and you took communion?
Bayliss: Yeah. Is that wrong?
Pembleton: If my god wins, you're screwed.Clairenoreply@blogger.com0