like UIUC? like McSweeney's?

Do you like the "Dispatches from Adjunct Faculty at a Large State University" column from McSweeney's Internet Tendency? Do you have ties to UIUC? If so, you're about to like the column a whole bunch more since it has been revealed that those two entities actually intersect. Woot.

must have slipped my mind

I accomplished none of these goals for last year. And yet, I'm not too broken up about it. :)

WTF

Word to the wise - if maintenance people aren't bright enough to get their key to work in your lock, the property managers will re-key your apartment and then bill *you* for it. This doesn't go over very well with me. Maybe it's because the maintenance people were only coming to my place in order to fix a bathroom fan - a non-essential piece of equipment that I certainly don't think is worth the $80+ they are charging me for the re-key (a re-key that I didn't need because obviously I was able to work the darn lock just fine because I had to get into my apartment somehow every day, didn't I?). And the best part is that the new lock still requires the same jimmy-ing to get into because it's winter and the wind blows on my door and the property management people apparently couldn't be bothered to install storm doors.

Happy Valentine's Day

1. Conversation hearts now include candies that only reflect parts of speech such as conjunctions ("and") and prepositions ("to"). Not sure how useful that is, in the context of conversation hearts.

2. A special Valentine's Day edition of the guess-what-this-image-is game. Enjoy!

3.12.08 amendment: this is a strawberry, dudes.

Amber alert - kidnapped art

*Now* what are you going to do with them?

So there was an art heist in Zurich over the weekend. It made me wonder exactly how the thieves plan to sell said art since they (the art) are going to be known hot property that one can't exactly waltz into Sotheby's and put up for auction. At first I thought that perhaps the thieves already had (clearly evil) buyers lined up, but the article indicates that it appears the thieves took the first four paintings they came across (which would imply more of a hap-hazard approach to this whole thing). All this got me thinking though - how cool would it be to work on a team that recovers stolen art?

Cold days are good days

I have nothing to add to this web-comic, "THIS JOB IS KILLING ME AND I CAN FEEL IT." It sums up my current job situation pretty darn well (other than the fact that I'm not in retail). Granted, I've had jobs that have drained my precious life force more than the current one. But still. Oh, and don't forget to read until the last frame. That's also soooo true. :)