Living Reflections from a Dream

• A-Rod: Boo!
  (tags: baseball)
• "We Still Believe" Thread on Yankees Message Board.
  Is it wrong to enjoy this so much?
  (tags: baseballI)

Certainly not Senor Rodriguez

As Remy said: yes, these are adults.

See you at 4pm (oh except for Roger), where if anyone even looks funny at Youk, all hell may break loose.

I live for this!

• Steve Jobs/Bill Gates Joint Inteview Video
  (tags: technology work)

• The lost voice of Red Sox Nation - The Boston Globe
  Bring back Trup!
  (tags: RedSox)
• Keeping work where it belongs - The Boston Globe
  Denizens of the Wireless World, take heed. There's a quiet, embryonic movement afoot to slip the technology leash, cast off the "crackberrys," and awake! In short, 24/7 accessibility may be becoming passé.
  (tags: work tech)
• Donovan wants out of deal with Magic - Boston.com
  Be cool, stay in school, Billy D! College hoops is where it's at!
  (tags: hoops)

How to respond when a friend turns to you and says:

Quick! Give me something witty to say that includes douche bag and cunt!

Oh the pressure....

Hmm... I don't know, I don't know. Those aren't funny.

Come on!

Ok, how about: Only a douche bag would think cunt was an acceptable word. :)

But I don't want them to think I think they are a douche bag!

Ya... that is what the smiley face is for.

What if they don't get it? I'm trying to flirt here.

Flirting with Douche bag and cunt? I am SO blogging this!

Giggle burst all around.

For background: the requested witty saying was to be made in response to a conversation between friend and her intended where intended didn't think cunt was a pejorative.

• The threat to local access
  (tags: business)
• No Direction, Period - Viral Videos - IFILM
  I really shouldn't find this funny, but somehow I do.
  (tags: Dylan humor)
• Libby sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison - Boston.com
  yeehaw. Somebody is held accountable for something somewhere in this administration.
  (tags: politics)

a lazy summer afternoon spent reading...

The New Yorker Summer Fiction issue has arrived at my homestead and it makes me so happy.

• Clinton tells Harvard grads 'women should run everything now' - Boston.com
  damn straight
  (tags: life you.go.girl)
• My Ex: A Photo Essay By Lauren Fleishman » SMITH Magazine
  (tags: photography)
• MT4 Beta Download Movable Type Beta
  (tags: blogs)

• ESPN Page 2 - Uni Watch: Numbers game
  why do players wear the numbers they wear??
  (tags: sports)

When I go to the gym, my viewing selections are limited to the stations the gym choses to display. One of these stations is MSNBC, a suppossed 24 hours news channel. For a few minutes, they did discuss news. There was a segment on the immigration bill and analysis from republican and democratic strategists. So far so good. Toward the end of the segment the host cuts off the discussion, but leaves it with one final comment: we have only a few seconds, do either of you have something profound to say? To which one replies: at least we aren't talking about Paris Hilton. Both strategists laugh and there is a pause, then we hear the host say: well, that will be the last word because we've run out of time and we need to move on to talk about you know who. When we return from commerical, there she is, the tearful Paris. I can not contain my eye roll. I sort of laugh at the irony of this event, until I realize that this is not going to be a 30 second Paris update. No.. this is going to be a 20 minute segment on Paris returning to jail, with guests to debate both sides of the issue. Was the judge right? Does the sherriff have a history of being easy on celebrities? Is this is JOKE? This is not news! This is a spoiled brat who broke the law, then broke her probation, and drove with a suspended license. The next segment is about a school who sent a note home to parents requesting that no limos be used to bring kids to their 6th grade graduation. My mouth hangs open. In what universe is it normal for a limo to be involved in a 6th grade graduation? Then we have an interview with a parent of one of the students. He says at first he was amused, but then when he thought about it, he didn't see a big problem with a limo: "after all, it could provide some quality, game boy free, family time and where else are you going to get that"? In my head I'm continuing his statement: other than the back of a limo? Is this guy hearing himself? Clearly not because he adds on to his thought by saying: "unless there is an Xbox in the limo".
Al this on a news channel. Are these people aware there is a war going on? That global warming is a real threat? That 40 million people in this country don't have health care? There are real issues to be aware of and discuss and we peddle in this garbage.

• Nadal beats Federer in French Open final - Boston.com
  Nadal; best biceps in the business and oh yeah, pretty good at tennis, too.
  (tags: sports)

• Officials: Subpoenas for Bush figures - Boston.com
  The return of Harrient Miers. Thank goodness she isn't a Supreme Court justice. Imagine the scandal!
  (tags: politics)

• Paper Cuts - Books - New York Times Blog
  Paper Cuts is a blog about books and other forms of printed matter, written by Dwight Garner, senior editor of [NYT] The Book Review. Look here for book news and opinion, interviews with writers, regular raids on the Book Review's archives, and other spec
  (tags: ReadingIsFundamental)

• How victim snared ID thief / She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell
  rock on!
  (tags: life)

• 6 myths about work - The Boston Globe
  (tags: work)
• Surviving Grady:Let Me Roll It, The Sequel
  The look on Tito's face is priceless.
  (tags: RedSox)

• Free Valerie Plame's memoirs! - By Bonnie Goldstein - Slate Magazine
  Considering everyone and their dog knows Plame worked for the CIA prior to 2003, it seems absurd not to let the gal try to make a living somehow (especially since she wouldn't be in this situation if the Bushies hadn't fucked her over in the first place).
  (tags: politics)
• How to end the crisis in defaulted mortgages. - By Douglas K. Smith - Slate Magazine
  Back to assessing rick appropriately & loaning people only what they can afford based on their income and assets? Go figure!
  (tags: business)

My extremely long day gets even longer thanks to yet another entertaining cast of characters on the train. Standing on the platform, already tired and annoyed from having just missed my train and watching two other trains pass by that were not going my way, I see coming toward me a gaggle of activity. Three women, a mother and 1 adult and 1 teen daughter, speaking loudly, waving wildly, stumbling slightly finally come to a stop right next to me. Oh please, please, please don't let them be getting on my train.

A train approaches the station. Rather than reading the destination on the front, they begin frantically asking people around them: where is this train going? where is this train going?!? The train stops, the doors open, I walk on.. the quickly jump on after. What other train could they possibly be getting on?

At the next stop, some seats open up. I take a seat and next thing I know I've got the mother on one of me, the apparently pregnant teen daughter on the other side of me and the adult daughter sits facing us. They are yelling at one another about what stop to get off, how they will get home from the train station, complaining that they can't all sit next to each other. No around us looks up. None of the ladies eyes seem to be able to focus.

Then it comes to this:

Teen: who is going to pick us up?
Mom: We're taking the bus
Adult & Teen (in whiny voices): the bussss
Teen then spends two minutes searching for her cell phone in her bag, giving everyone around her the play by play of all the places she hasn't found it, yet. Finally, when she gets her hands on the phone, the fun continues.

Teen (on phone): yeah, I saw the social worker.
Adult: Mommm.. I have to go to the bathroom. { eyes bugging out }
Mom: shut up.
Teen (to phone): They let me hold the baby twice! It was so great.
Adult: I mean I really have to go, Mom. How am I supossed to go if we're taking the bus?
Teen (to Mom): we can't take the bus!! No way.
Mom: we're taking the bus!
Adult: But I really have to go!
Teen slams her phone shut.
Teen: Maybe Dad will pick us up.
{editorial comment: somehow I doubt the patricarch of this clan is the type to pick someone up from the train)
Teen: {dials}
Adult: Can we go across the street to the bathroom?
Mom: what?
Teen: Dad!
Adult: I can't go in the gross train station bathroom
Teen: Come pick us up.
Adult: I mean it's sooooo.. gross.
Mom: shut up!
Mom: he'll never pick us up.
Adult: yeah, he'll never pick us up.
Teen: Mike can't pick us up, Dad! He's got a baseball game.
Mom: yup, he'll never pick us up.
Adult: never, no way
Teen: what do mean ask him to leave the game? Dad, he's IN the game. He can't leave.
Adult: Mom, I mean it, I've really got to go! {more bug eyes}
Mom: Shut up.
Adult: Really, really, really got to go. I've got to PEE Mom!! I mean I'm going to pee my pants.
Mom: {leaning over to whisper to me}: can you believe that kid is 28 years old?
{lady, that is only one of the things I can't believe here}
Teen: {slams the phone shut} I hung up on him. He says he's all set up in front of the tv.
Mom: told you he wouldn't pick us up.
Adult: She told you.

{when will this trip end?? I close my eyes and try not to hear them. When the trip mercifully ends, I spy the Adult daughter running out of the train station towards a restaurant across the street. It's hard not to laugh. }

What are you supposed to do when you Google someone and the list of links relating to people with your search quest include:

a sex offender
a seemingly different wanted criminal
a high school psychologist
a guy who went to a local university and now works in the area..

I'll tell you what you do: you hope to hell for #4

• Dealbreaker: The Self-Help Book - Nerve.com
  Will a guy dump you if you have a self help book on the nightstand?
  (tags: relationships ReadingIsFundamental)
• GoodReads
  Reviews and recomendations from people you know. I LOVE this!
  (tags: ReadingIsFundamental socialsoftware)

• Senators compromise on fuel standards - Boston.com
  Something is better than nothing...
  (tags: politcs global.warming)

forced to endure a ill conceived 80's Night

Which is worse: his childhood outfit or this monstrosity?

And couldn't we have spared Maddox this uniform? Hasn't he earned more respect?

• 3 old houses to trump traffic - The Boston Globe
  Mass Ave closed while 2 houses move - the structure - not the things inside. This is one of the more bizarre things I've heard in a while (and that includes Cheney not being in the Executive Branch - hahahahahahhahha)
  (tags: houses moving)
• Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
  Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies
  (tags: politics)
• Is Dan Shaughnessy The Most Hated Man in the City of Boston? - Sports Blog - The FanHouse
  He isn't even worthy of being the most hated man. He isn't worth that much energy.
  (tags: sports)
• Boston Likes to Hoof It
  77% of Americans drive to work alone. We are never getting off of our oil addiction this way, people.
  (tags: global.warming)
• 10 Things I Love About the 2007 Red Sox
  (tags: RedSox)

• Stop Stoning Forever
  Not that kind of stoning.. the brutal kind
  (tags: politics policy)

• The Book Inscriptions Project » Marry Me!
  Proposal found inside a used copy of Generation X.
  (tags: ReadingIsFundamental)

• Toyota Dream House PAPI
  (tags: innovation global.warming)

(after all I'm a Red Sox fan with an 11.0 game lead over the Yankees - who are below .500! - I'm in unfamiliar territory here)

BUT:

Rumor: LED ZEPPELIN To Reunite In Honor Of Late ATLANTIC Founder

link blatantly stolen from Ryan over at Geeks, Guitars & Guinness

• mbta: Wollaston station?
  the FBI were involved? How long did it take to get them there?
  (tags: MBTA)
• Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Coulter During Live Television Appearance
  (tags: politics)

• Mingle2 - Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?
  (tags: quiz)