Wednesday, November 27, 2002

- work it -

I just found out that a pint of Häagen-Dazs (or Godiva) ice cream contains between 1000 and 1200 calories -- and I've been devouring at least a pint a day for the last week or so. 30 minutes on a treadmill burns about 400 calories; 30 minutes on the elliptical machine burns about 500. No wonder I'm losing this battle.

Thursday, November 21, 2002

- #1 on the bombay chart -

Check out my favorite songs of 2002 list.

Monday, November 18, 2002

- ovaltine -

Have you noticed that in many movies with foreign settings, they always speak with ridiculous accents? What's the deal with that? I mean, do they think, "hmmm, the real people would be speaking Russian here, but if we speak English with some lame-ass, fake Russian accent, the audience might just believe that we're actually speaking Russian!"? I just don't get it.

Friday, November 15, 2002

- don't mess with texas -

From an email thread from work today:

Dan: Dang... Some of ya'll need to work fewer hours or something.

Eric: It's "y'all", you dang Yankee!! ;)

Hansol: (to Scott) Ha! I told you you were wrong! And you call yourself a Texan... Tsk tsk...

Scott: Hmm, is it ya'll or y'all? Makes more sense to say y'all, but I've been writing ya'll my entire dagnum life. I'm embarrassed to think I've been wrong all these years. I do say all ya'll, though.

Eric: Oh man, you try to call yourself a Texan with language like that? I'd try to keep that under wraps if I was you. It's a contraction of "you all", so it's definitely "y'all". I don't know where y'all are picking up "all y'all" from; I've never heard that, but maybe it's one of those Southwestern things that Texans try to claim as being True Sawth when we all know they's just fakin' at it. Ya gotta have some decent swamplands if'n ya rahlly want good Southernness. ;)

Hansol: "all y'all" as in "listen all y'all it's a sabotage"?

Eric: Oh yes, because Beastie Boys' New York City is all about the South. I think they wanted "all youse", but it made them enunciate a little better when they said that, so they went for "all y'all" instead.

Friday, November 8, 2002

- (not so) deep thoughts -

Been pretty lazy about updating the blog lately, largely because not much has been happening in my life. Just some random thoughts and stuff to fill the void in the meantime...

I wonder if 8 Mile will be the #1 movie this weekend. That'd make Eminem only the 5th artist to have #1 movie, single and album, all in the same week. Can you name the other 4?
Speaking of Eminem, Lose Yourself is a fucking brilliant song.
Some people just shouldn't wear sleeveless shirts.
Lee is moving to Denver. I'm sad.
I'm sort of disappointed with the "new" Nirvana album -- its music just doesn't have the same impact it once did. While I was watching a special on MTV about Kurt Cobain, all I could think about was "gosh, I wish I had hair like his."
New Tori Amos album rocks, however.
My neighbor across the hall got evicted. I'd never seen an eviction notice in real life before. How ghetto.
I want to get a mohawk.
Answer to the question above: Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Prince and J. Lo. (does anyone call her by her full name anymore?)

Monday, November 4, 2002

- 57 channels (and nothing's on) -

I can never understand why commercials for TV shows always emphasize "all new episodes" -- it's almost as though they expect us to be thankful that they are not doing reruns. And they even do that for brand new shows. Oh, you mean you're not showing the series premiere for the rest of the season? How thoughtful of you.