Saturday, August 22, 2009

Approval

I approve of the following 26 things:

Old-timey names
Comfy chairs
Dinosaur comics
XKCD
White Ninja
Bad driver's license photos
Jack in the Box
This message
Vocabulary
Friday
Appropriateness
Hyphens
Yodeling
Sponge Bob
Zupa's
Going to another city to get a better bargain
U-Hauls
Knowledge
Quarters
Never-ending salad & breadsticks
Parrots
Languages
Mail
The square root of -1
Everclear
Really tall trees

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Fries














Hmm.

Attempt #1:

me: You could make political statements like that. Get all up in everyone's fries.
person #1: yeah.
me:

Verdict: Success!


Attempt #2:

(at work, talking about a computer program)
me: It works. You just have to tell it to get all up in everyone's fries.
person #2: (mouth agape)
me: sphhnnxxk.

Verdict: Unsuccess. I snickered. So I left and replayed the moment in my mind a few times. I read T-Rex's statement dozens of times. I was ready.


Attempt #3: (same person!)

me: I lied.
person #2: gasp!
me: It only reconnects when it needs to access it. Then it gets all up in the network's fries.
person #2: okay.
me:

Verdict: Relative success. I ALMOST smirked. And that wasn't technically the right phrase.


Attempt #4:

person #3: I don't think he likes it.
me: Yeah. We're kinda gettin' all up in everyone's fries.
person #3: Sure, but there's nothing we can really do about it.
me:

Verdict: Success! I'm totally getting good at this.