Today's moral dilemma:

ok, you don't know how it got there, who it belongs to or how long it has been there - all you know is that you are all alone in the bathroom and you see it.

But:

Would you pick up and take a 10 dollar bill that was lying in a pool of urine?

What if it was a hundred?
What if you heard a guy walking out of the bathroom just before you giggling and saying "nobody'll ever pick *that* up"

Things like this are what I think about when I oughta be paying attention to the road.

looooong

so, here's the longest run-on sentence I've seen:
take a deep breath first.

music of the moment: "Hands around my throat" by death in vegas. death is vegas is cool. you like death in vegas.

word of the moment:Obligato, which is something that just has to be in. like if you were some vanguard composer, and your opus just wouldn't be complete without the 14 minute Aeolian harp solo, you'd mark it obligato.

Here's some stuff.

Just to keep you occupied, and because I'm tired but still want to post - here's some totally random stuff:

High Speed Video, that is, video shot at very high speeds, then played at normal video speed - the end effect being super-dooper slomo. I've never seen such a large collection of videos of this type, and some of these are cool enough that it made me want to buy one of those camera systems. Turns out they're fancy-restauraunt expensive, by which I mean you can't find out how much it costs until you try to buy it. They expect people buying these to submit expense summaries to accounting, and purchase justification letters to management.

wotm today's word of the moment has the longest non-run-on sentence I've ever seen - and I've seen a lot of 'em.

Simulated sales.

I just saw that there is now a "sims complete" box for sale in wal*place. wanna know what my first thought was when I saw it?
did I think

• Wow, about time!


• Man, that's both convenient and efficient!


• I bet that takes up a ton of hard drive space.


• I wonder why they waited so long...

I didn't think any of those things, at first.
No, the first thing I thought was:
Maxis is a bunch of greedy bastards.
They're sucking the last tiny drops of profit from a title that should be ages-dead by now. I'm aware the sims is a great game, but it's been surpassed by the sims 2. and the sims 2 is about to get a THIRD expansion pack. so they decide to push all 7 expansion packs, and the original game, into one box and sell it for 40 bucks, like it's a new game. Well, they already tried that a few months ago when they released the expansion packs in 2 packs. you merely had to spend 20 bucks 4 times and have the whole thing. and before that, there were the "sims ultra mega super wowee deluxo big fat edition" which had 4 expansion packs, and then one before that with 3, then 2 then 1. I bought the sims when it came out, between my friends and I we bought 4 of the expansion packs before one of us realized we had spent over a hundred dollars on a goddamned game.
They're doing it again. I have decided, officially, that I will no longer buy any sims 2 expansion packs. I bought "nightlife", the second pack, and it came with a slip of paper advertizing the goddamned third expansion pack. an expansion pack is supposed to be just that - EXPANSION. this filler crap they keep putting out with one or 2 minor features has pushed me past my limit. Rugs. The second pack introduced the amazing new rug. yeah, sims had that in one of the packs. They released sims 2 wih what feels like a pretty limited amount of stuff. So of course you have to buy all the "expansion" packs, which contain the rest of the game content that they should have put in the game in the first place, and you end up paying 200 bucks for a game you paid 50 bucks for. Neat trick, but I can see the wires, and I ain't buying it.

music of the moment: "can't truss it" by public enemy. Must be a nasty hernia if you can't truss it.

work of the moment: truss And here I thought chuck d was smart...

Truly Twisted.

Today's triumphant tongue twisting tantalizing term: tintinnabulation!
Taxing tone to that tympanic? Therein transpires tinnitus.