Procrastinet

Uncle Mister Makes Good

filed under: Idle Chatter

Perennial P'net favorite Uncle Mister DeVore has gone from being a luminary in the world of print media to being a genuine on-the-airwaves Sirius Sattelite Radio personality, co-hosting a show called "DeVore and Diana" on the Maxim channel.

And now, the guy who made fun of me for starting a blog in early 2004 ("Wow," he said at the time, "you're SO 2002!"), has started a blog.

I was about to make fun of him, but then I clicked over and saw a picture of his co-host. To wit:

WTF?! I've known this guy since he was barfing into the gutter outside 13th Street Rep, for god's sake, and now he's got a NATIONAL RADIO SHOW with THIS GIRL?

Let's remember, Uncle Mister DeVore is this guy:

One of the manifest, myriad ways in which life is unfair...

Ms. Pac Man Live!

filed under: Stuff to laugh at

I know the chick who plays the red ghost in this. And I will admit to having heaved an inward sigh when she was all "Ooh! Ooh! Look at this YouTube video I was in!"

But I gotta say: it's pretty danged funny. A simple idea, very well executed.

Thumbs Up

filed under: Stuff you never, ever needed to know

A month or two ago I belatedly got on the USB thumb drive bandwagon - I have five years or so of personal stuff on my computer at work, and (a) that's a bad idea in general and (b) they're theoretically upgrading our workstations soon. One of the IT dudes suggested a thumb drive to get all that stuff off. So I toddled over to J&R (I feel about their blue bags the way most people feel about the Tiffany's blue bags - sheer, unreasoning joy) and picked up a Kingston DataTraveler 2GB drive.

Side note that shows my age: 2GB = 2000MB. I remember when PJ and I heard, in 1992, that they were coming out with a computer with a 128MB hard drive, and we were like "what would you POSSIBLY do with all that memory? You could, like, NEVER fill that ever..."

Anyway, I loaded up the entire contents of my computer, with room to spare. Also on board is a long term project I've been working on, which I've picked up again recently, which last week it was making me happy to have on my person at all times. Periodically I'd reach into my pocket and toy with the thumb drive like a talisman.

Then it went missing. It wasn't on my dresser, or with my wallet, or in the pockets of the pants on my dresser, or at work. Hmm, I thought, that's not so great.

Last night Lisa called me while I was at the theater gearing up for the show (last minute subliminal plug):

Lisa: I found your thumb.

RJ: Some what?

Lisa: Thumb. Your thumb. I found your thumb drive.

RJ: Oh! Yay!

Lisa: No. Not yay.

RJ: ...it was in the wash, wasn't it.

Lisa: Yep. Washed and dried. On high. I was afraid to plug it in.

So last night I got home, muttered a minor prayer, and plugged it in.

The little green LED lit up. And blinked. I opened the Finder, and there it was, all the files intact.

Consider this, then, a ringing endorsement for Kingston Thumb Drives (Subliminal Amazon associates kick-back plug). Washed, dried, working. Way to go.

Fallen Out Boy

filed under: Dadditudes

In the cycling series of Max's obsessions, Wonder Pets replaced Little Einsteins and were then in turn replaced by The Backyardigans. But now he's moved on to some new "friends" - Fall Out Boy.

He is so carried away with them that he can surf YouTube for their videos all by himself (wtf?) and, when he discovered that there was an article about them in Entertainment Weekly this week, insisted that the magazine stay with him at all times and that Mommy stop touching it.

This morning, he set down his Wonder Pets stuffed animals and took the magazine to school with him instead. I couldn't even close it - it had to be open to the Fall Out Boy article.

As I carried him to the car in the rain, he was very concerned about his new friends. "Have you got my magazine, Daddy?" he asked. "Is it getting wet in the rain?"

At least I *like* Fall Out Boy. He's fond of Dashboard Confessional, 30 Seconds to Mars and Hinder, too, so it could have been WAY worse...

A Little Dose of Happy

filed under: Stuff to laugh at

Since this YouTube video has over 5 MILLION views (wtfbbq!), I'm clearly late to the party. However, k8 pointed this out to Max and the Procrastiwife last night, and now I'm hooked.

"Where the Hell is Matt?":

This guy is just a pure doubleshot of happiness.