I came across this photo.

 

(You're a long way from Shorney, man.  That's all I have to say about it.)

...but as today was my second laundry day with dryers, it bears repeating.








Reasons why I love having my dryer back

• I can now wash faster than a load a day
• dry clothes easier to carry up the stairs than wet ones
• use of dryer sheets means less zapping
• if I wash a receipt, all the little bits come off our clothes and collect in the lint trap

Cons to having a dryer

• spending an extra $1.25 a load
• losing my warm, lightweight, waterproof coating of terrier hair
• the clothes drying on chairs and the tops of closet doors gave the place a certain ambiance
• now that my clothes aren't all stretched out and baggy, I'll have to start exercising again

Brad wrote an extra-delightful post on his blog the other day... go read it!!!

ftw what is up? i haven't been around and i'm sorry... thanks to tiki for keeping me reminded i exist... *hugs* if anyone talks to my monkey let her know i miss her. 

Felicitations and many happy returns.

For those of you i haven't spoken to in a while, i hope all is well! im doing great here, [ed note -- she's in Spain]  and so happy i decided to move all my shit and my kitties here :)

i just got an offer for a great teaching job, so things are all falling into place!!

talk to you all soon! :)

-Maggie

The mutual fund was acting kind of wonky today, so I'm trying to determine if it's an LJ problem or something more serious.

Move along, folks... nothing to see here.  







***edit***  Looks like the ads were just blocking the flow of our chi.  Or something.

In the last week I've heard from Erin, Heidi, and Jess, and in the last month Bryce visited.  Seems to be a nexus in the space-time continuum of the collective Tasty subconscious.

I swear, I'm getting a post together.  If any of y'all have something to send me, now would be a good time.

The annual Tasty Paycheck Pittsburgh New Years Extravaganza has been declared a horrible time to meet up, so we're having it on Memorial Day from now on. 

There will probably be a Labor Day outing as well, and I'm thinking it'll be somewhere in Ohio.  Get in touch if you want to be involved in the plans.

-personinchargeofstuff

I can't seem to get this video to embed, so you're just going to have to click through.

(with the excellent suggestion of tiki, reposting this here as well. :)

With a recent massive harddrive failure, I'm going back through all sorts of backups that had to be scattered across drives to save. Every now and then I come upon a little nugget or memory. Here's one about the college radio station I was a part of. I'm not sure what this was written for, probably the 50 year anniversary of the station.

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It was the end of our Senior year (2002). For 4 years WDUB had been a part of our lives and we weren't quite ready to leave it behind. We didn't want to just fade out like the music before a PSA about Bigfoot stealing your shoes, we wanted to leave a memory in people's minds that made them think back fondly about the station and the slightly-odd DJs that controlled the 91.1 frequency. A prank was most definitely in need. Abe, Jess, and Ed (names not changed cause noone is innocent) came up with the idea of making the entire CD library disappear. There had been a great deal of "disappearing CDs" by malicious or careless parties around this time, so we thought we'd take it so far that people would laugh.

During Finals Week, Jess and Ed scheduled back to back radio shows so late into the night that we would have to shut down the station when we were done. This gave us plenty of time to get the job done. Abe met us at the station, and we began moving the CD catalog. We pulled every single CD, yes every single CD, and began stacking them in the newsroom downstairs. Using the mail bins, we did our best to keep everything in a decent order for the poor souls that would have to move them back (us). After several hours, we finally accomplished the gargantuan task of relocating 7000 CDs. The FM room and every drawer in the back room was completely empty save for the thick layer of dust that had built up over the years. I guess not cleaning is truly a Doobie tradition. With all of the CDs relocated, we settled down to making the "ransom note" in true ransom note fashion. Unfortunately at this point we could no longer say, "No issues of CMJ were harmed in this prank." Ransom note made, evidence stupidly left behind in the trash can, we locked up the station and ran into the darkness of night.
Later that night a DJ stumbled into the station, didn't see the CDs in the newsroom and thought they were truly stolen. A late night call woke up a very grumpy station manager, and the fur started flying. Over the next few days, rumours of suspension, criminal charges, and even not being allowed to graduate began to circulate. The station was closed down, locks changed, and students were not allowed to broadcast during finals week. This being the unexpected result of a prank that had many people laughing and some not so happy, we decided it was time to fix things. After some anonymous negotiation through a 3rd party, we were finally allowed back into the station to put the CDs back where they belonged in hopes the station could be reopened. Along with a true band of dedicated Doobie DJs, we spent the night carting the CDs back upstairs, alphabetizing and reorganizing, as well as finding many of the "missing" CDs.
Early into that morning, with all the CDs put away, many of the senior DJs bid a final farewell to the station they knew and loved so well. But we had all contributed our part to the crazy history that makes WDUB the best student organization at Denison University. Here's to 50 more years or music, fun, pranks, and something to do from 3-5am! To all the present and future DJs, keep the spirit alive.

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I just checked out the WDUB website myself and find it kind of insulting that they say:
"In the fall of 2004, WDUB began a second era of its history as the station began streaming its on-air content to worldwide internet users." That's utter crap as I was streaming the station online via shoutcast while I was there and I graduated in 2002! Hell, I even had a webcam going for my shows. But maybe evidence of my existence with the Doobie was wiped clean after the above debacle.

Quarter to four in the a.m. and some gay-ass anime shit is on adult swim. I'm laughing at re-captioned pictures of cats. People call them macros and still others argue that they are called memes. You say potato, I say fuck you, that's all I'm gonna say about it.

I've been defending Ann(e) Coulter lately as a hobby. Boy, is that an uphill climb. Robert Mapplethorp(e) can take pictures of crucifices in jars of urine and raging, mega-huge greasy gay boners and people (including myself, don't be salty now) stamp around shouting shit about the first amendment and his photography has a right to be displayed. Why can't a batshit right-wing columnist say 'faggot' once in awhile?

faggot,faggot,faggot.

Doesn't hurt anyone.

Besides aren't there bigger fish to fry? Like the zionist sheeny cabal to make us all quit smoking and wear helmets and shit? I have quit smoking by the way. But not because the Jew York Times told me to.

Pete grado and I went to florida for a week. Checked out spring training. That guy knows more about baseball than anyone I know. It's freaky. There's an outfielder in the bigs right now named Milton Bradley. funny huh?

I guess I'm running out of steam here, and that gayass anime shit is over. Dudes, the boondocks cracks my shit up. I fuckin love that show. And spongebob's voice's wife is one of the voices in it. She was on Mr. Show back in the day. U need to check it out.

Also, there's some music you gotta pick up soon. Listen to Con Funk Shun's "Love Shine" and Stanley Clarke's "Journey to Love" as well as anything by the Isley Brothers. A good start is their album "The Heat is On!" and "3+3" which has a badass cover of Seals and Crofts' hit song "Summer Breeze" which is already excellent. They also cover Todd Rundgren's "Hello, It's Me" but I dunno which album it's from. And Footsteps in the dark kicks much ass. Ice Cube sampled it for today was a good day.

Can't fuck with punctuation. Not too much anyway. Coherence is what it is. BAfhalefakjhvlK

Later.

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You know how Jess the Great sent us those fantastic old photos, like, just the other day?  Well, we just got a new toy at Tasty Headquarters.  As always, keep on clickin' for most enlarged.

From: bryce
Sent: Thu 1/11/07 2:17 PM
To: personinchargeofstuff
Subject: how 'bout a new tasty mascot

Hey guys,  long time - hope all your holidays went well and fun.  I was thinking of ya's over the new years break, memories of years before.  I don't have too much time you give ya my whole schpeal - too much drama to even need to delve into now - but as i cruise the net occasionally at work i found a mascot that may be tasty worthy for a month or so so I thought I'd send it along as I am probably the least tasty contributor to date.  and here is the website that i got it from as well.  http://www.lileks.com/match/gallery/78.html  Lileks is a greak site - i started at the gallery of regrettable food and have since started shifting through all the other cheezey stuff they have.

Jess sent these to me a little while ago, and I'm just now getting them posted.  Sorry for the delay... 

Can anyone make it to the PGH or Columbus areas at any point in April?  Email me and I'll tell you why.

-tiki

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From: jess the great
To: personinchargeofstuff
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007
Subject: Thoughts from JTG