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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Oh, man. I just learned from looking at the visitor stats that I'm the #3 result when you search on Yahoo for "fucking a man" (without quotes). The visitor who came to this site as a result of that search was from: "Iran, Islamic Republic of"
Um, actually my new Flickr account is here, not where I said it was before. And now it has friends as well as family, so hey.

A fun game I recently discovered is scrolling through the letters on your mobile phone to view all the new words in your T9 dictionary. If that sentence means nothing to you, it basically means the words you have taught your phone though text messaging. If that sentence also means nothing to you, well then never mind.

The point is, this little exercise yields a list of words that speaks volumes about your life and personality.

So here we go:

Bardot
Brigit
Alitalia
CSA
Biotic
BBQ
Alex
Bulgaria
Ahit
Bulgarian
Cilantro
Aloha
Bollocks
Buehler
Andrey
Chummy
Chez
Bambus
Borsov
Crap
AUC
Barcelona
Berg
Brico
Budapest
BTW
Chameleon
Dubai
Dhabi
Fatih
Emirates
Fucking
Dublin
Damascus
Dusni
Dlouha
Deirdre
Haisam
Girlie
Holesovice
Invitable [sic]
Horni
Hned
Herna
Honking
Gmail
Hamas
Husa
Hottie
Hapu
Kotva
Lavka
Kiev
Letna
Kalimat
Mindy
Nadia
MSN
Madagaskar [sp]
Niro
Noah
Malek
Mugamma
OBG
Mahfouz
Nah
Maadi
Mohandiseen
Odeon
Murakami
Mustek
Melantrichova
Olina
Nebe
Mmm
Natasha
Mohamed
Mahmoud
Sheikh
Ripska
Prolly
Slut
Rosarno
Sharia
Shmancy
Royce
Radisson
Sequoia
Szabova
RSVP
Popo
Petl
Stromce
Paulius
Svetlana
Pissed
Sudu
Rudy
Revolucni
Roxy
Robbie
Spinach
Sharm
Sheik [sp]
Vendy
Vinohrady
Turd
Tariq
Veggie
Tamer
Tesco
Valentine
Vandas [sp - should be Vanda's]
Vladan
Yum
Zelivskeho
Wewaxation [ha!!]
WiFi
Zamalek

Remind to do this once a year.

Related: My friend once bought a new phone and discovered it already knew the word "Rehnquist."

Totally unrelated (from the archive, I just happened across it, checking to see that I hadn't made a similar previous list): Hey, we finally got some barstools.

Also totally unreleated: What my life was like about two years ago.

Totally, totally, unrelated (also from the archive): My biography through 2003 in a nutshell.

It occured to me that I could make an entire blog simply by blogging about my blog.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

My new Flickr account is here. Right now it's just family photos. Not that there's anything wrong with family photos.
The trauma never ceases.

Today I had serious egg problems. I wanted to cook eggs. There were three in the fridge. One of them was cracked, and I had misgivings about using it, because I was afraid it might have gone bad or something. So I chucked it. The second fell to the ground as I removed it from the fridge and splattered all over the kitchen floor.

The third turned out to be rotten.

Oh. My. God.

Have you ever smelled a rotten egg? I mean actually smelled a really rotten egg? If your answer is “I think so” or “I’m not sure,” then the real answer is no, you have not.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Check this out.

So I climb into a grotto in Tropea, on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, as you do. There are waves crashing up through a hole in the wall of rocks. I spend about ten minutes adjusting the settings on my camera so I can capture the shape of the water splashing at a suitably high shutter speed.

Out comes this:


There's a face staring out of the water! At least, there's an eyeball and a cheekbone. Some say hairline and nose, too.