I just couldn't bear to watch the game last night. 7 innings of sheer boredom followed by a couple innings of heartbreak. The Yankees won the game, and swept all four games of the series, putting them 6.5 games in front of the Red Sox in the A.L. East. And what's worse, the Red Sox's commanding lead for the Wild … Read More
Tracking How We Spend Each Minute Of Our Day
This is an interesting interactive graph from the New York Times. I have nothing profound to say about it — it's just interesting (and kinda cool).
Twitter Was Down This Morning
For about two hours. A Denial of Service attack. It's up now. But for two hours this morning, millions of Americans wanted to Twitter things like: "I'm thinking about getting a burrito" or "Paula Abdul is leaving Idol? WTF?" or "OMG. Twitter is down!" and they couldn't. Now they can. And all is right with the world, I guess.
Status Updates Ever Since My Mom Became My Facebook Friend
Ken is making good, well informed decisions. Ken is going to bed at a very reasonable hour. Ken is drinking only on occasion, and even then it's just one or two. Ken quit smoking several months ago without any apparent difficulty. Ken is in no way involved, currently nor in the past, with a married woman, regardless of what anyone … Read More
Tainted Championship
When the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, it was a BIG DEAL. You have to understand New Englanders and the Red Sox, but trust me, it was a BIG HUGE HONKIN' DEAL. You remember when Neil Armstrong took that first stp on the moon? That was peanuts compared to the 2004 World Series. I'm talking a really … Read More
Finally, The Web Becomes Useful
Only remember a few lyrics, but can't think of the song's name? Go to Lyricrat, type them in, and LyricRat will tell you the song. Or twitter the lyrics to @LyricRat on Twitter, and it will respond with the song title. It does pretty well even if you don't know the lyrics. "Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the … Read More
“Helen! Helen? Shit. She’s Got One Job To Do…..”
My one line of dialogue in a full length indepedent film. I say it into a phone and then I die after I say that. The working title is "Hellphone" — it's being shot this fall. Sundance, here I come!
Singing Roads
You know how there are some roads where they put in a series of grooved pavement sections to get you to wake up or slow down (because, say, there's a toll booth ahead) as you're driving? When your car goes over them, it kind of makes a series of tones. Someone got the bright idea to adjust the height and … Read More
Smooth Talker: The Greatest Voicemail Ever
Making the web rounds is this series of voicemails to a woman from a really really really bad “smooth talker”. One of those things that can’t be described — you just have to listen for yourself. Enjoy. A YouTube spoof: A YouTube re-enactment: Part II of the same: And a re-enactment of Olga:
Things I Have To Shake Before The Final Two Shows
(1) The fact that hardly anybody is coming to see a play about Little League baseball. Fortunately, the small audiences have been very reactive, but damn, I wish there were more. (2) The performance where I took a scene from Act Two and put it into Act One, thereby making a reference to the other character's dead wife before it was … Read More
Canadian Health Care
Commentor Steve H writes: My parents, who are in their 80s, are adamant Republicans and as such disagree on "principle" with anything Obama, or the Democrats, try to do. They're really in an uproar about the health-care thing. Mom says "Government health care is terrible, look at all the problems they have in Canada." She went on in this vein … Read More
Not Joke, Joke
This is a real bill: U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today with Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009. “This legislation works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life,” said Brownback. “Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what … Read More
Mobile Me
You can get a mobile version of this blog by accessing http://seventhsense.mofuse.mobi/ on your mobile phone. I'll put this info on the left sidebar as well.
Not Fooling Anybody
I figured there must be a website for this (seeing as how there is a website for everything). That's right — Not Fooling Anybody is a website devoted to businesses which take over the premises of rather obvious businesses. Example? Monte Vista Liquors takes over a former KFC building (Phoenix, AZ) …. not fooling anybody. And then there's… Quest Autos … Read More