When reading the article linked in the previous post, I saw an ad that looked like this:

However, when I clicked it, it went to a homepage called “Japan’s sun rises again”.

It’s nice that they are fluent in cliche. I’m just wondering why they changed the name of the section.

It’s about Japan’s failing economy and the measures the country is taking to rectify the situation. Maybe someone got annoyed at the pessimistic tone of the original name, and demanded something more upbeat.

Go teh rising sun.

(On Pearl Harbor Day, no less.)

What corporate America can’t build: a sentence

The contents are pretty amusing, too :)

(And it’s so true!)

I watched Back to the Future today. When I’m upset, angry, scared, or depressed, I like to immerse myself in fantasy worlds.

The theme of this movie is so hopeful. Everyone has it within them to be great. They just have to work at it, to bring that greatness into the world and achieve their dreams.

It’s like Brooke said to me earlier today. All I need is a game plan.

This morning I got an email from my boss requesting 10-15 word restaurant descriptions.

Do you know how hard it is to add interest and flavor with only 15 words?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m doing it just fine. But it’s these demands! Demands I tell you! How can my tortured artist soul survive?!

;D

The Geminids!

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough – Bones Suggest Women Went to War in Ancient Iran

[17:06:05] <COSLeia> Thirty-two pastry chefs in the southern Italian city of Naples unveiled on Saturday what they say is the biggest ever nativity scene made entirely of chocolate.

[17:06:05] <COSLeia> Over 4,500 hours and 7,275 pounds of chocolate have gone into creating the creche which is 19 feet, 8 inches wide, 9 feet, 10 inches high and — to the delight of chocoholics — totally edible.

[17:06:58] <Ironside> Wow. Human’s have a real talent for wasting time….and perfectly good chocolate

[17:07:18] <COSLeia> haha

[17:07:22] <Z_Archer> What’s a ‘Creche’?

[17:07:24] <COSLeia> well, they’re going to set it up downtown and let people eat it

[17:07:31] <COSLeia> a nativity scene

[17:07:39] <COSLeia> I guess that’s the French word for it

[17:07:44] <Z_Archer> Mmmmm. Sacrilicious.

[17:08:24] <Ironside> heh

[17:08:47] <Ironside> But will people be able to eat the baby jesus?

[17:09:00] <Z_Archer> Once he’s broken into edible pieces, yes.

[17:09:14] <Ironside> LOL

[17:09:56] <Z_Archer> Being able to eat a baby-jesus sized chocolate… You’d have to be pretty confident about your weight.

I now have Augusta weather; Georgia watches, warnings and advisories; Lexington weather; and Kentucky watches, warning, and advisories all coming to me via RSS. Yay NOAA!

Either Tom Hanks didn’t realize how big a deal the remembrance ceremonies for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge were going to be, or he just figured that since he’s Tom Hanks, he could wait until he felt like telling the Belgium tourist office he was coming, and let them do the work of finding him a place to stay.

Either way, the tourist office scrambled to find him a room, as all the hotels had been sold out for a year in advance.

I mean, maybe he didn’t know he could fit it into his schedule until now, but it just annoys me. The tourist office wouldn’t do all that work if I had called them up and said I wanted to come.

This morning I got up at some ridiculous hour, like 7:30 or something. I started doing laundry and getting supplies ready for tomorrow, which is Gingerbread House Building Day with Mari and Brooke (and maybe Wanda). I had to run out to Wal-Mart (joy, shopping at Wal-Mart in the Christmas season on a Saturday) for some baking supplies, and then I quickly put the leaf in the table, dumped all the supplies out on it, made and ate lunch, and folded the last load of laundry.

Sean and I spent the afternoon and evening at his parents’ house, chatting with Cheryl and Reid and their guests, Grandma Flo and Mema and Papa Stan. Cheryl and I strung Christmas lights on the tree, and by the time we were finished everyone was starving. Reid went and got us all some Wife Saver. Unfortunately, Grandma Flo had to leave early (though her goodbye took about half an hour, as she stood at the door and continued chatting).

After Mema and Papa Stan left, Cheryl and I resumed work on the tree, and Reid popped in Hero. I missed a lot of the beginning due to hanging ornaments, but after awhile I was so intrigued that I just sat down and watched it, and only helped with the tree after it was over. It was a really neat movie.

Sean headed home first (we’d driven separately for this reason), and after finishing the tree and then going through Cheryl’s closet to pick a couple of Santa statues to borrow for decorating the apartment, I followed suit.

I should have gone straight to bed, but instead I got out all my Christmas decorations and put most of them up. All that’s left is to decorate the tree; it’s in place and waiting for me, but I’m way too beat to deal with it right now.

Despite the fact that I feel like I could pass out at any moment, I’m happy :) It was a good day. I love Christmas :)

It starts here, and has continued to build up in delicious ways that I never anticipated.

You see, Ethan is a whiny little tool. I was expecting him to just cause more pain and suffering for his friends with this latest idiotic idea. (Why does he have a girlfriend, while the yummy Lucas remains unattached?)

But Lucas came up with a scheme that I am enjoying oh–so–much. Today’s is like the icing on the cake.

Butter is illegal!

I have two new faces (assuming “Anonymous” is new…I don’t recognize the writing style) in the comments today. Did they find me by doing a scan of Blogger profiles, like I do occasionally? Or did they find me some other way? It’s interesting.

It’s also weird, because I’m accustomed to only having people I know comment ^^;; But hey! A broader audience is good.

It would be nice if they introduced themselves, though :)

So if you guys are still here, step up!

Because, you know, we have to die sometime.

‘We will be able to live to 1,000’

By Dr Aubrey de Grey

University of Cambridge

Brooke and I got started at around 10 or so. We actually were only able to ride together for about 20 minutes before she had to turn around and head back to go to work. I turned around too, but I made my way back very slowly, stopping to take pictures all along the way. I filled up my 128 meg card and had plowed well into the spare 32 by the time I got back to the beginning of the trail, at 1 pm.

I don’t have time to upload the pictures now, since I need to hop in the shower and–*sigh*–go back to work, but I’ll do it as soon as I get home :)