Category Archives: Miscellany

So Book Reviewers aren’t the only snarky people

Mr. Bookdwarf sent me this review of the Mercury Montego that is rampant with snark. Example:

A car whose lack of charisma is so dense no light can escape its surface, the Montego is the Mercury Division’s upscale twin to the Ford Five Hundred sedan, though the Montego’s version of upscale is of the Korean off-shore casino variety. The faux wood-grain interior trim looks like it came off a prison lunch tray. I’ve felt better leather upholstery on footballs.

I guess I am not as geeky as I thought.

It must be true cuz the internet told me!

You are 48% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.

Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.

You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!

Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!

You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

Tomorrow’s activities

I have two activities for this weekend on the opposite ends of the spectrum. Tomorrow I plan on attending the aforementioned 28th Annual Antiquarian Book Fair in Boston. And after that I am going to the New England Motorcycle Expo. And, no, Mr. Bookdwarf is not responsible for the second activity. Well, he found out about but yours truly likes the bikes and plans on having one of her own someday. When she is fabulously wealthy by which I mean some place with a garage to store said bike. I’ll tell you about these fun things on Monday most likely.

I’m majoring in Naked.

College kids are funny. I love that their biggest fears are their political careers. And only college kids can be this pretentious: “Sean Tice, a junior who is majoring in both English and religious studies, said that talk also circled toward how philosophers like Heidegger might interpret their acts before coming to the realization that harnessing Heidegger to naked sprints in public seems, at best, a reach.”

Trying to get my life back

Now that the Red Sox have won the World Series and I no longer have to stay up late at night to watch games, I am left worrrying about the upcoming election. Great. I am sure no one will be surprised that I lean towards the left, though sometimes I think I lean about halfway and sometimes I worry that I am going to fall over from all the leaning. What I do know is that I don’t want George W. Bush re-elected. I believe he’s done a terrible job as president, leading us down the dark and narrow path of self-righteousness, self-aggrandizement, and bullying everyone else around. Maybe some people think that’s the right path, but I do not get it. Anyway, before I get on some rant, I am merely saying all this to try to convince everyone out there to vote. Even if it is for Bush, exercise your power as a voter. One vote does matter. Read this interview with Seymour Hersh on Alternet. Maybe what he has to say about Abu Ghraib, the media and the current administration will fire you up. He’s a great interview.

It’s probably the many beers talking, but….

I still can’t believe we won, I went out to my local bar to watch from the 4th inning on since Mr. Bookdwarf is out of town on business (the cats don’t appreciate the yelling). So far the people have been as peaceful as you can expect (throwing stuff but no one hurt or arrested yet). The mood in my square was jubilant—-just tons of people celebrating in the street. The cops definitely made their prescence know here (I had to pull a drunk guy out of the path of a motorcycle cop) but the cars driving by know they are taking part in a celebratory one of a kind parade. Luckily, I have my camera phone, so hopefully I can email myself pictures of the party and post them. I still can’t believe it.

My heroes! The Red Sox prove that the underdogs can win one sometimes. Now I can’t help but read things into the upcoming election though.

I have no words really. Who am I kidding? I have words. The Red Sox won! This is so exciting. There are people honking their horns and hollering outside right now. I cannot believe that the Red Sox did it and certainly not with a score of 10-3. The first time we reached the World Series since 1986. Now, the World Series is another story. Right now, I am going to celebrate being a winner. If I weren’t in my pajamas, I would run around or something. Wooooooooo!