Your total comes to 30 pieces of silver

I'd love to make a clever witty remark about this, but I really have nothing to add:

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/004165.html

An Open Letter to She Who Must Be Obeyed

Next time you're stuck knitting the world's most boring socks, and are tired of the constant kinting about socks, scarves, hats, etc., might I suggest shutting all of us up with a few items modeled after these:

http://www.patriciawaller.com/en/images.html

Cause as much as I love my scarves, and I'd love socks, I NEED that unicorn. The aliens are a very close second...

Punny

In keeping with the bad joke theme, here's one of my favorites:

The friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds.

Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought this was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not.

He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him.

So the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop.

Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that:

Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

I'm Having Fun Charting My Family (And Myself)

Speaking of Star Trek...

What happens if you fall into more than one category?

The Geek Hierarchy

You managed to kill just about eveybody else...

...but like a true marksman you keep missing the target.

How Great is This?

I LOVE this.

I've found it at last!

The perfect gift for my husband.

Happiness is...

A glass of port and a square of dark chocolate. Mmmmmmmm........

Missing the point

Can someone explain to me why the article about how one third of women feel too fat to be naked in front of their partners has an accompanying picture of two women who put together wouldn't fill one of my pant legs?

Grow your own furniture.

I so would not have the patience for this.

I'm Speechless...

WTF?

Agent Smith was an awesome one too...

As someone who annoys the crap out of most people by playing human imdb - Holy shit! Who would have guessed The Operative would make such an awesome drag queen? - this is one of my all time favorite movie reviews.

Now I Get It

This explains a lot about a certain co-worker of mine.

It's not that said co-worker is a wacko with ADD, its just that they have a stone age brain. I'm sure that this knowledge will help me be more understanding the next time I have a conversation with them that makes me want to tear all my hair out one strand at a time.

Read This Book

Occasionally I break the well known rule and judge a book by its cover. This often ends in disaster, but every once in awhile it pays off beautifully. Several months ago The shiny cover of the Amulet of Samarkand, the first book in The Bartimaeus Trilogy, caught my eye and I bought it on impulse.

I tore through the book in two days, and the rest of the trilogy within a week. They were fantastic: snarky, funny, clever, and intelligent.

It’s amazing to me how many really good children’s books are available out there – many of them much better than anything I can find in the regular fiction section. I’m not sure if there are that many more good “young adult” books that when I when I was younger, or if I was just too busy reading trash like Sweet Valley High (yikes, how embarassing).

Down the Rabbit Hole

A year and a half after creating this blog I figure the time has come for me to actually start writing in it. In this time I have realized:

1. It will never have a coherent theme.
2. It will never be as funny as those of my friends.
3. It will never display the depth of knowledge and/or obsession seen on other blogs.

I finally came to the realization that none of this matters because:

4. It is unlikely that anyone unrelated to me will ever read it.

Since my relations are already aware that I am incoherent, dull, and shallow, I feel that there's really no harm in making the attempt. So here goes…