skweeeeeee!

would it be inappropriate to make this picture the background on my phone?

oooooooooooooh!

check out this and 4 additional just-out-now posters for the new HP movie!
which is your fav? i love the one with draco...

realization.

how did all of these shoes make their way to my office?

breakfast is important.

i stopped by my trusty DR this morning to get some cereal. it wasn't until when i got to work that i realized why it was such a super-duper fantastic idea that i had chosen to purchase cereal:

now, when i was a kid, i really hated breakfast (i still do, mostly). even if i had liked it, i would never have been allowed to get sugary cereals that also give you prizes. of course, i smashed my hand down into the box to find that bobbly pencil topper toy (?) immediately! but they must hide that toy way at the bottom so kids like me cant find it the first day. i guess i have to wait (and eat a lot of cereal). but i am definitely spending the afternoon cutting out that dino mask to scare my coworkers.

geeky gifts requests.

wondering what to get the lovely geek man or lady in your life? getting nervous because my birthday is around the corner?

fear not! gift guide coming your way!

brass-knuckles mug! (i'm drinkin' my coffee, bitches!)

lawn charger device. charges your ipod/iphone/camera/spy gear and hides those annoying cords! also gives your phone a grassy place to rest after a hard day updating your twitter.


old-timey bluetooth handset. love your cell phone but hate cradling that slim, flat thing between your chin and shoulder? connect your cell phone to this handset, and you will be in old-timey phone comfort once again!



LED umbie. even though the point of this is saftey (i can see in the driving rain, and would-be, hit-and-runners can see me), you've got to admit it's pretty darn cool.



please refer to thinkgeek for more ideas. i basically want everything.

totally lost.

me: did you see the new ew lost thing?

a: no?? put it on blogerstein.

me: ok it will be on my bloggy shortish.

yea, it's lost. doc is back with his highly anticipated column as a post-post-recap of the finale of lost, and of season 5. some delightful theories, both new and old, to tickle your lost brainbuds. also, seems like this will not be the last of doc, which is welcome news. i think we're all a bit lost-deprived.

meanwhile, has anyone been doing the rewatch? i have not, but may pick it up... let me know if you've discovered anything good!

if you give a puppy ice cream...

if you've been watching this week of colbert report: operation iraqi stephen, going commando, then you can disregard this post.

if not, may i ask why? ok, so you don't like stephen colbert. that's fine. he's not for everyone. but, i think it's really cool that he's spending this time in iraq with the troops and showing off their work and lives. i'm about the least patriotic person, but i've really been enjoying seeing the guys (and gals) and hearing from generals and, last night, from the deputy prime minister of iraq.

but it's not all seriousness, of course. i offer up this clip of stephen and tom hanks sending a care package to the troops (or at least attempting to...)

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Tom Hanks Care Package
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viva la vida?

just a quick note to ask:

do you like coldplay?

if so, definitely check this out. and if you just like free music, you should check it out as well.

this also teaches us (well me, at least) that there are definite benefits to twittering...

need a little organization in your life?

is your monitor at work clouded by a mass of post-it notes? (Uh oh - flashback to 1997 - Um, well, ordinarily when you make glue first you need to thermoset your resin and then after it cools you have to mix in an epoxide, which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process and it turns out I was right.) do you make lists, maybe on the stickies program on your mac, but then can't remember/access the note at work? what's a person to do?!

evernote is the answer, my dear friends. not only can you access it online through their site, but you can also download programs to your devices (pc, mac, blackberry, iPhone... palm pilot anyone?).

cool thing #1! your notes will sync up to ALL OF YOUR LOCATIONS. so, if you are at your work computer and you add a note through their online site, it will be waiting on your mac program when you get home! if you upload a picture note on your blackberry, it will show up on your pc at work! this would even be enough for me (dayeiu). i always make lists and need to update them and have them where ever i go... but short of carrying around a 5-subject notebook, this is the solution!

cool thing #2! evernote can search text in pictures! (this even made the IT dudes at work go googly-eyed.) if i take a picture of your business card, i can search in evernote for your name, and up pops the picture of your card!

additionally, you can have tags and different books of notes (like i have a separate one for work-related notes). i've been using it for a few days now and i think it's quite delightful. let me know if you try it and how it works out for you!

here you go, e.

aside from shenanigans at work, yes, everything is ok. i haven't forgotten about you.

apparently i am the source of all things lost for certain people, so i'd like to officially announce the lost hiatus rewatch project. several lost bloggers are getting together, have created a schedule, and plan on rewatching all 5 seasons of lost in preparation for season 6. sounds crazy, right? well, if you're a lostaholic like me, you'd think this project was super-awesome. it just started a week or so ago, and everyone is blogging the old episodes, but with our current knowledge of jacob, flocke, widmore, ricardus.....etc. one of my favorites so far is jo, but you can also check out docartz and lostpedia for other postings on the rewatch and scheduling.

last night, we saw mr. david byrne in concert in brooklyn at prospect park. (new milestone - the deepest i've ever been into brooklyn!) he played mostly new stuff, but got a few oldies-but-goodies in there, like once in a lifetime.

still will be my favorite, always:



in other news, has anyone been watching the new bravo show the fashion show? it's basically the poor man's version of project runway. no heidi, no tim gunn (but who could ever replace him?)... i've been watching just because what the hell else is on, but i'm really waiting for project runway to come out again. i don't even care that it will be on lifetime.

updates.

first off, you know my life is busy when i haven't read people.com or ew.com or any of my blogs all week at all. there really should be a someecard that says, "thank you for quitting so i now have the opportunity to do the job of two people for the same pay!" well, at least i get a fancy office out of the deal, right...?

next, i met with some awesome old friends last night, and a certain mr. k notified me of a brewing conflict! if you recall, i recently posted about the newest american girl doll, rebecca. (the deb said i could get her for my birthday yessssssss!) apparently, there is a woman on the fbi's most wanted list with the exact same name - rebecca rubin! she is some ec-terrorist who has organized bombings of a ski resort and an Oregon power plant. so now when little girls google "rebecca rubin" they are getting this eco-terrorist lady. good work, mattel.

jon - kate+8?

unless you live in a hole (a hole that doesn't have wi-fi or cable or a People magazine subscription), by now you know something about the Jon & Kate Plus 8 debocle. as a long-time watcher of the show, i'm quite sad, though not too too surprised by the recent turn of events. the season 5 premier episode was pretty sad, with jon and kate barely looking at or talking to each other (even at the sextuplets' birthday party), and only appearing in intereviews together briefly. they both seemed sad and at a loss for what to do next. i came upon this interview with kate's brother and sister-in-law (both have frequently appeared on the show) that seemed really interesting. instead of coming to their aid and defending them, the relatives tearfully say that the kids are being exploited (duh) and hate being on camera. it's pretty interesting stuff if you're at all interested in this story. i know i am.

that's a weird way to tell us.

so in my usual morning scour of the internet for more lost goodies, i noticed that doc jensen had a post on ew.com. his full, final recap will be out later this week. also - the recap of the finale on LLL is up! hoorah!

according to doc, the folks over at lost headquarters have quietly let us in on a big mystery - the four-toed statue is definitely taweret. according to wikipedia, very early in Egyptian history, taweret was seen as a deity of protection in pregnancy and childbirth. Pregnant women wore amulets with her name or likeness to protect their pregnancies. but if this statue had been up since jacob-y olden times, then maybe the "pregnancy problem" wasn't something that the Others caused, or was not soley affecting those women or in that time period. seems like it might be something that has been a problem on the island for a looooong time, if they felt the need to erect this huge statue to guard the island.

a while ago, doc asked what were our top 3 lost mysteries that we MUST know the answers too. (i think this is the main thesis of his next post). anyhow, here are some good ones that he has shared so far:

• Where did Claire go?

• Where are Cindy and the kids?

• What's Libby's backstory

• What's Richard Alpert's backstory?

• Why could Walt do the weird things he could do?

maybe my parents want to move...

...to a different house in Highland Park? if so, they should check this one out.

don't tell me what i can't rue.

i don't know about you, but i have been in serious lost withdrawl. thank goodness tvgasm came to my rescue today with the recap of the second half of the lost finale. i know some of you aren't too keen on the funny-style recaps, but this one is gold. and honestly, what else do you have to live for at this point?

we're still waiting on more doc jensen and the LLL recap. stay tuned. in the meantime, you can ponder this question from e:

"yo, so when locke's douchebag father appeared on the island, you think that was also anti-jacob/smoke monster guy?"
and if it wasn't really anthony cooper, then that dude is still alive! and - who the hell did sawyer really kill?!

one more thing about this new imposter-locke. i am really liking his new names, including flocke (fake+locke) and mocke (mock+locke). any other good ones out there?