How about some snippets?
Sweets
Oh hell. They arrived. The both dreaded and beloved Girl Scout cookies
have been delivered to me. I, personally, haven't ordered Girl Scout
cookies in years. Katie does from her coworkers usually. But I bought
them this year from one of my coworkers. I bought two boxes of Thin
Mints, one Trefoils, one Samoas, and one Lemon Chalet Cremes.
God help me and my gut.
Photo
One of my recent NIU photos was used in an article over at Chicagoist.
I was pretty stoked about that considering there must be hundreds of
photos tagged "Chicagoist" on a daily basis and yet they chose mine.
I'm kinda pumped about that. Even if I don't get paid for it. I'm sure it was more for what was said than the photo itself as it's not the world's greatest picture. Color balance was a bit off due to the intensity of the sunlight. Oh well.
Feed
Hey Avitable! They did listen! Well, to some degree anyway.
Typepad now allows you to subscribe to comments. It's as simple as clicking on the little RSS feed icon above the comments to each post. Therein lies the catch... it's not a feed to my comments as a whole, but to the comments for each individual post. It's good if you have a particular post you want to track comments on or just to wait for my response (not that it matters since I reply by e-mail). The downside is that you could wind up with a bunch of different comment feeds in your reader for a single Typepad account that you dig on. I doubt anyone will actually use it, but the option is there.
Memory
One of my coworkers came in to my office today to ask for help. She was having trouble getting the memory card for our little point-and-shoot digital camera to fit in the card reader. She handed them to me. I looked at the card quickly and started to laugh. She had handed me the battery.
In her defense, the battery to this little camera was roughly the same size as a Compact Flash memory card, which we use in the bigger D-SLR. But it was still pretty hilarious.
Duke
A different coworker got a call today from a friend and they started talking politics. The person on the other end decided to try pulling her leg a little and told her that John McCain's middle name was Wayne. How cool would that be? John Wayne McCain. Awesome! It's not enough that McCain has that tough-as-nails persona defined by his ability to survive POW camp in Vietnam and also has a name very close to John McClane (Bruce Willis in Die Hard), but to throw the Wayne in there to summon visions of the Duke as well is just cool.
The reality of the situation, as I soon found out is that his name is John Sidney McCain III.
Once again, reality puts the kibosh on fantasy.
