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so I saw a movie last night.

went with a bunch of co-workers...

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don't you hate it, when you are watching a movie and that guy who sits there watching every minute aspect of the movie, and then figures out the whole movie and tells you about 15 minutes in?

yeah.

well...

it's fun.

at least for me. but I'm sure everyone else doesn't like when I do that.

I actually only do that so I have a witness... because no one would believe me if I said, after the movie, "I figured it out here..."

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that's it.

saw lucky number slevin.

I liked it a lot. although I think the sir ben kingsley's role could have been played by dustin hoffman, but ben kingsley can be much more sinister... it's just weird to me to hear dustin hoffman's voice coming out of ben kingsley...

at least, that's how I kept thinking about it. [dustin hoffman did not do any voice overs for ben kingsley btw, he just sounded like him]

whatever.

I didn't want to get into the movie, so I chose one insignificant fact and took two run-on sentences to talk around it.

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yeah. I'm busy today.

:-P

gray:
O.E. gręg (Mercian grei), from P.Gmc. *gręwyaz (cf. O.N. grar, O.Fris. gre, Du. graw, Ger. grau), from PIE *ghreghwos, but no certain cognates outside Gmc. The distinction between British grey and U.S. gray developed 20c. Gray as figurative for "Southern troops in the U.S. Civil War" is first recorded 1863, in reference to their uniform color [from Online Etymology Dictionary]

so in other words...

gray is a color, whereas grey is a colour...

I need to wash my whites - I didn't have any plain white t-shirts this morning and therefore had to wear a dark shirt as the printed t-shirt I was forced to wear would have been seen through a lighter colored shirt.

I learned that TCP means Transmission Control Protocol.

I was reminded that dynamite is employed in putting out fires under certain circumstances. (MacGyver told me that first, oh so many years ago)

I learned that there are far more iguanas that people in Boca Grande, FL - but if you think about it, there are far more insects that people in the World - but considering that iguana's are far more complex than insects - and much larger, and therefore more unsightly - it makes it a bigger deal...

I learned that if the time-wait on a TCP connection is to short, the server could potentially be taking away resources from processing to clean up sockets...

and it's only 11am!

"Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered one of the seven deadly sins -- a misplaced desire of food or its withholding from the needy" ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluttony

so is it considered waste if you get wasted and throw up?

not that I did.

I only had three beers last night... but on an empty stomach, I was pretty much done.

[yeah, I know - light weight]

in my defense they were microbrews of ~7.5% alcohol by content...

not sure if that counts as gluttony. considering the meager portions that I am able to consume at any given meal, I would think that I am far from gluttonous...

well, except for chocolate and ice cream.

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I guess it all depends on what you do while your intoxicated...

in my case, it leads to excessive singing and dancing, statements of affection which border [or at times cross over] uncomfortability, and very bad poker playing.

I also have the tendency to call people and leave absurdly long and incomprehensible voice messages.

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none of this happend last night.

three beers and a meatloaf dinner...

I was singing along with the dude at the bar with the guitar and a mic, although I wasn't singing into the mic.

my rommate was bitching about some of the people we had dinner with who had, by that time, left the establisment.

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in any case, I bring up gluttony because I just ate out for lunch and I'm super full...

I had a whole half of a sandwich and a cup of soup. typically I leave the restaurant with a takeout box because I can't finish (any meal) so my leftovers become dinner... today, I ate the whole thing!

[GASP!!]

yeah. and to top that off, I had two glasses of raspberry iced tea.

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what to do. what to do.

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I'm going to have to run a million miles to burn those calories.

here is a list of things that I think should be standard issue:

first-class - this isn't really feasible but it would be nice. free alcohol, extra leg space, nice cushions, no elbow wars. Extra plus: my feet don't touch the ground when I sit back - so I can swing them around like a little kid. And if I sit in the first row, I can prop my legs on the wall. neat!

automatic faucets/soap-dispensers/towel dispensers - I am constantly mindful of germs and wet objects - so the fact that I don't have to touch the faucet to use it is brilliant. Add on the fact that I don't have to touch the soap or the towel dispenser is even more so. Minus: when I get an IR that doesn't work - then I'm waving my hands in a sink for 20 secs and feeling like an idiot

shoe horns at security - I bring my own plastic one whenever I travel - much easier than having to mess with shoe laces, however, a public shoe horn would not appeal to my disklike of other people's germs.

workout facility on the premises - not having to leave the building in the cold and being able to work out directly after work or before work or during lunch would be awesome - not to mention a stress reliever. of course, I don't have that now, because I am a contractor and not an actual employee. so I get jealous when I walk by and see people using the one on site...

automatic car starters - I have one on the car at home that I never drive (due to my absence), and I think that all cars should have them, including rentals, because it can get damn cold up here and I like to have a warm car in the morning instead of having a cold car for 3/4 of the drive to work.

tivo - I hate commericals when I am watching a show. the whole week should be pre-recorded... of course, that makes watching the news a little pointless...

red bull - I'm pretty sure people are in agreement that this stuff isn't good for you, especially in large quantities and especially with vodka. whatever - it curbs my appetite. I say "gimmiemydamnredbullnow!"

lip medex - chapped lips suck - in many different ways that I won't get into.

large offices with doors - cubes blow. having no privacy sucks. but stuffy, cramped offices might actually suck worse.

bathroom stalls with walls and doors that go to the floor - they seemed pretty standard in europe, and they've been around much longer than the US. When I'm in a stall, I don't want to see the feet of the person in the next one. it reminds me that if the wall wasn't there, I would be sitting, half-naked, with someone I don't know in my personal space.

floating mood meters a la Sims - when you don't even have to look at a person to let them know that you are in a pissy mood, it allows you to cool off that much faster. a floating mood meter (like a mood ring) should float above your head. so if someone comes up to you while you are i the red, they had better make you laugh or else they could lose a [noun]... this is, of course, fantasy, and wishing cannot make it so.

good 24-hour, on-site cafeterias - but that might be an oxymoron. vending machines will be the death of me - do you understand how many calories are in a bag of muchies? there is no nutritional value, just empty calories and loads of sodium. Not to mention the occaisional need to shake the crap out of the machine to get your little $2 2oz bag of puffed corn due to it being stuck in the coil.

um...

that's all I can think if right now... my brain stopped working a minute ago.