More green is not always good

There's been road construction on my way to work over the past few months - there were some small sinkholes (Florida = swamp) that were filled in, which promptly collapsed again and were clumsily patched, then the entire road surface, curb and sidewalk were replaced along a 100 foot long stretch of road.

Great!

What's not great is for some reason, the builders saw fit to put a 1-foot-wide strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk, which does nothing but look shabby and require constant maintenance. (Requires, not 'receives')


I'm not expecting marble tile or anything, but would another 12 inches of sidewalk been so difficult to accomplish? Hell you can even paint the cement green if you like. Astroturf, anything - but why add another 100 feet that need mowing or edging?

Repeatworthy: Kris Delmhorst

"With a name like 'Delmhorst', you know it must be good!"

She sneakily, conspiratorially insinuates her emotional goal into your psyche. It's a bit unnerving at first, but soon you come to like it, need it, DEMAND IT.

The current song I love to repeat by Kris is 'If Not for Love'. Check it out. It's best on headphones, it feels as if she's whispering just to you personally.

From the Scrolls of Fakus Guyus

"A ripe kiwi fruit should be firm, but slightly yielding, like a good hard cock." Fakus Guyus

The writings of Fakus were blacklisted for over 1000 years... It's easy to see why.

Guest Post By Cindy

Truth be told, I feel a little awkward each time I use the flip top on my dental floss, a misplaced sense of guilt despite the fact the product inside is designed to promote health, not cancer. Although, come to think of it, didn't 'they' try to promote cigarettes as healthy?

Beware the dental floss.

Regardless, I'd feel very conspicuous indeed, flipping open Tolstoy on an airplane.

Freeway Snaps #11

Actually. For Real. In Fact.

I've been running job searches using Indeed.com lately, and they have a feature that I have not seen on other job search sites - you can type in quite a few keywords to exclude. Finally!
I was on the phone with XM last night, waiting on hold to cancel my subscription, and I just kept searching and excluding words until the keyword field filled up - it actually accepted a lot more words than you would expect.

Here's my list of exclusions - it takes a list of 1,254 jobs and turns it into a list of 313. The list isn't as streamlined as I would like - it only works on whole words, so if I want to exclude 'Sales Opportunity' and 'Salesman', I have to use each term separately - but it's still a good feature.

telemarket lube sale society labor shands machinist server spray clinical cheese truck marketing patroller underwriting underwriter OB GYN execution tax mechanic satellite installation scientist pharmacist electrician groomer orthopaedic choir urology pathologist therapist therapy pepsi installer babysitter officer goodwill account sitter nanny ironworker jiffy rehab pizza kmart army oDesk RN licensed certified avon steak spanish nurse

Juiced

There's something almost carnal about two cars, roughly nose to nose, their hoods open and spread wide, engines naked and exposed, swapping sparks.

Apply Now! Before it's too late!

Temporary Full Time Airport Operations Tech Intern

Prestige Consultant

Spray Assistant

Bike Assembler - Toys R Us

Life Enrichment Director

Wound Nurse $5000 sign on bonus!

Cheese Specialist

Urology Opportunity

Furniture Sales Person / Designer

Merchandising Execution Manager

Coordinator, Planetarium

Easygoing 1-Year-Old Toddler Needs Loving Nanny

Certified Tumor Registrar

Humans are So Damn Cool

Humans get a bad rap for:

a) Warming the planet (don't worry, the planet will be just fine - we humans might not be)

b) Polluting the planet (the microbes that live on toxic sludge and radioactivity say 'Yum!' and might just evolve into the latest, kick-ass world-dominating life form)

c) A few thousand other things.

But humans are still pretty damn cool. If we survive long enough to grow up, we'll fix our mistakes, I have no doubt.

Here's a good example why HaSDC.

Repeatworthy: Cowboy Junkies

'Sweet Jane' just played on my Pandora, reminding me what sweet background noise is 'Cowboy Junkies'

They sound like something out of the more distant past than they are - and I mean that in a good way. If you like Natalie Merchant, you'll probably like CB. If not, what'samatta you?

Check em out.

Amused Grunt?

You know that sound people make when something is intended to be funny, but isn't funny, but those same people want to acknowledge the fact that they understand that it is intended to be funny (but in fact, is not funny)?

Is there a word for that? 'Amused Grunt' kind of captures it, but leaves out the fact that the failed intended funnyism...isn't.

Pseudo Amused Grunt?
False Chuckle?
Pho Chuckle?

Help me out here.

Anyway - once we define the term, I have a contribution:

"As wrong as a bee drunk on mead!"

Yep, I'm so darn funny that I just made that up. It has the added benefit of being suitable for use in historical works.