Is it smart or creepy that he always wears same outfit for his announcements
The Uniform
I sometimes feel like mac and its uniform become more like the antagonist in their commercial of 1984 with the inference to communisim/domination of the PC. Or is that simply a “problem” of no matter how cool you are when you are small when you get bigger you become more like a mega company, etc.
1984
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Posted by Rain on Aug 09, 2007
Bear Necessities
Just what are the bear necessities? Based on a recent trip to the store where a 20ish guy in front of me showed me the way it is.
Think 2 4 6
2 packs of MandMs
A 4 pack of Toilet Paper
And
A 6 pack of beer.
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Posted by Rain on Aug 07, 2007
It’s true: my wife has a thing for pillows. I don’t know why. I stopped asking the question some time ago. I firmly believe that there is no answer. However, I do find myself proportionally more imaginative as the rows of pillows unremittingly creep along the once-open landscape of our bed.
It occurs to me that she’s created a United Nations of Pillows. There are pillows from everywhere: China, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and occasionally, one from the U.S. delegation shows up (but he never stays long). They have meetings, create charters, sign declarations, and regularly reprimand the dust ruffle: it was made in Syria. It’s a strange little group, the U.N.P. There seems to be a leader, a large, square, cushy pillow with ruffled edges named Komfi. He has a guards around him at all times, you know, those elongated, cylindrical neck pillows.
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Posted by Acie on Jul 28, 2007
Had a spider crawl onto my keyboard and then promptly disappear under the keys. I turned it upside down and banged him out – it was bizzaro thinking of a world under the keys where the spider might set up a dictatorship as the spider king of keyboard land – and ultimately move keys around such that I no longer could type but would secretly send communist messages in my email.
could happen.
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Posted by Rain on Jul 20, 2007
a verbal mulligan
Inspired by Rain’s recent admission that he likes to wake up in the morning, have a tee-tiny cup of french rosemary tea, then ease back into pj’s and warmzies, what’s say we start a list of Things You Should Never Tell Your Guy Friends:
- “That is totally my favorite Kevin Costner movie.”
- “I love those William-Sonoma candles.”
- “Man, HGTV was good last night!”
- “I find it easiest to iron my sheets on the bed”
- “I failed my ED test today at the doc”
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Posted by Acie on Jul 17, 2007