Sean’s Blog

Words Americans Should Use More : Whinge

I really like the word whinge. As an American you can’t use it without sounding like a college kid who just came back from a week in London (or Madonna), but it is a good word.
Google defines it as:

whinge:
To complain in a particularly annoying manner.

The Poll Speaks For Itself

Actual Poll at MSNBC

Great Headlines

I’m really busy today, but I ran across these and I thought they were great.  I totally want Mr Giggles to play with my kids…

Many, many more (14 pages) here.

Working Memorial Day Stinks

It’s 80 degrees and sunny outside and I am stuck at work. Ahh, the joys of being part of a 24X7 operation. Besides working today, it was a pretty good weekend. We spent along time in clearing out the the ivy that has slowly been trying to consume the house and then mulching the flowerbeds in the back yard.

We also walked down to the ice cream place down the street since I have been on a milkshake kick for the past couple days. Last, but not least, we installed a squirrel bungee, which has the potential to be INCREDIBLY AWESOME.

So I get to be at work on a day nobody is updating their blogs, going through back issues of xkcd (which is just brilliant) and I ran across a great commentary on the whole “managing your image online” debate :

Funny Stuff From Around the Net

I found these two things today that were just hilarious:
You almost feel sorry for the telemarketer:

Much more geeky, but still as hilarious:

Home Town Vacationing

Jess and I have some vacation time coming up in June. Since we are getting married in August we really are pretty strapped for cash and can’t afford a big vacation. We are thinking about taking a couple days and driving up to Cleveland.

I’ve seen a couple posts and articles about vacationing where you live and it always sounded intersting to me. I grew up in Cleveland, but recently we watched a No Reservations w/ Anthony Bourdain about Cleveland and there was a ton of stuff that I’ve never seen. I think that they were on the east side alot and I was always a westside boy.

But what I’ve decided to try is to research it like I’ve never been there. Hit the travel sites, do the research, just like I would when we go to a foreign country. I have no idea how it will work out, but I’ll write it up when we come back. It should be either really interesting or really boring.

Jack Handy’s Flag

Although it looks like the artwork of a 3rd grader coming off a bender, I think it is a pretty fitting tribute to a great vision. And yes, all I had was blue…

Click on the picture for the full sized link

Here is a link explaining the meanings

ALL HAIL DRACULA!

*Note : because of the traffic spike, i switched the original image to flickr.  Who knew boingboing was so popular…

Sunny Days and Book Reviews

May has come around and it is really getting nice outside. Maybe it is to make up for all the snow and general craptasticness of winter in Central Ohio. But with the new house, we finally have a (usable) backyard and this weekend Jess and I got our patio furniture. Of course it rained most of the day Saturday.

It was just one of the standard sets you can get at most stores, but we replaced all the tiles on the top (they just pop out) with some 12X12 slate tiles from Lowe’s and it really looks great. Hopefully this will help alleviate my generally year round pastiness since my wifi just barely reaches the patio. What’s that you say? Maybe spend time out doors without the computer? That’s just crazy talk.

I was pretty good for a while of getting book reviews out after I read them, but recently I’ve let them pile up. This week I am hoping to clear out some of the backlog, so I should be publishing a good amount as we go, so check back for some.

Lastly, I’ve found that my library keeps a “reading list” of sorts online . It keeps (in my account) a list of books I’ve checked out and returned. This is a pretty cool feature, in my humble opinion. I know some people my have privacy concerns, but there is an option to clear the list. I also know for a fact that librarians in general are pretty fanatical about the right to keep your checkout history private (Thanks Librarians!).

I’m Going To The Moon!

Well, at least my name is.  NASA is including a microchip on a lunar orbiter that will contain names.

You can add yours here

Mad love to the Bad Astronomy Blog for pointing me in this direction.

Finally A Musical I Can Get Behind

Evil Dead - The Musical!

Via flickr, via boingboing.net