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Valentine's Day inspires me to post these two excerpts from well-known works of popular culture. You'll soon see why I choose these two....

The first is from that most famous of romance novels, "Gone With The Wind."

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"Scarlett, you do like me, don't you?"
That was more like what she was expecting.
"Well, sometimes," she answered cautiously. "When you aren't acting like a varmint."
He laughed again and held the palm of her hand against his hard cheek.
"I think you like me because I am a varmint. You've known so few dyed-in-the-wool varmints in your sheltered life that my very difference holds a quaint charm for you."
This was not the turn she had anticipated and she tried again without success to pull her hand free.
"That's not true! I like nice men - men you can depend on to always be gentlemanly."
"You mean men you can always bully. It's merely a matter of definition. But no matter."
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And the second quote is from "The Empire Strikes Back," of course:

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Han: "Come on, admit it, sometimes you think I'm all right."
Leia: "Occasionally...maybe...when you aren't acting like a scoundrel."
Han: "Scoundrel? Scoundrel? I like the sound of that."
Leia: "Stop that."
Han: "Stop what?"
Leia: "Stop that! My hands are dirty."
Han: "My hands are dirty too, what are you afraid of?"
Leia: "Afraid?"
Han: "You're trembling."
Leia: "I'm not trembling."
Han: "You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life."
Leia: "I happen to like nice men."
Han: "I'm nice men."
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Happy half-price-chocolate day, everyone! ;)

...a package of stuff off my Amazon wishlist from hawkeye7!!

Every December he sends one of these lovely care packages, and every December it takes me by pleasant surprise. :) Particularly this year, when I didn't even open the box for a few days because I've been ordering so much stuff from Amazon, I just assumed it was one of the things I had ordered.

But I finally opened it and thank you so much as always, Ross! ♥

I must say that after opening I thought "wow, this is a lot of stuff even for what he usually sends." Then I discovered that the package included three copies of the same book. LOL!!! I hope you didn't pay for it 3x, hawkeye7, and if you did, let me know so I can return the extra two and get your money back. Otherwise I'll just pass them along to someone else. :)

In other news, I have SO much wrapping still to do. Oy. And as an atheist Jew getting ready for Christmas, I DO mean oy!! ;)

Last Friday some guys came by and installed an enormous new whiteboard in the common space here at the office. This was in response to some of my coworkers saying that they preferred the other side of our office because it has so much whiteboard space for impromptu technical discussions and so forth. (Which in turn prompted some teasing that at one point apparently the developers had "Do Not Erase" written on every whiteboard on that side of the office.)

So we have this beautiful new gleaming whiteboard, which has not yet actually been used for anything. But this morning when we got in, someone had written "Please Do Not Erase!" in the middle of it. LOL.

My coworker J took personal affront to this, grabbed an eraser, and swiped through it. So now it says "Plea ___ Do Not E____e!" hee hee.

I had a "lightbulb moment" recently in which I realized why Chris Kimball, of Cook's Illustrated magazine and America's Test Kitchen, looks so familiar. It's because he is the nameless main character in Green Eggs and Ham.

OK, probably I am the only person on the planet to whom this means anything, but lemme tell ya, it was a revelation.

LOL, so yesterday I was leaving the office and walking to the subway station with my nose in a book* as usual. Gradually it filtered into my consciousness that there was a huge crowd taking up the sidewalk. As I walked along the edges of said crowd, it slowly occurred to me that they were waiting in line for the movie theater. I frowned and scratched my head (metaphorically) for several long moments before suddenly going "Ohhh, there's probably some new Harry Potter movie out, right? I vaguely remember hearing something about that."

Ahh, life outside the Pottersphere is lovely sometimes. ;) Some may call me clueless, but I prefer to think of it as bliss. ;)

* The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Today's spam subject of the day: "painkiller all over the planet!" OH NOES! Invasion of the Painkillers! ZOMG!

Um, some of you may be familiar with the lolcats genre (pictures of cats with funny captions on) as epitomized by I Can Has Cheezburger.com. Well, I succumbed to the lolz and made a few lolcats of my own. This one is my favorite:



That's Ruthie moments after birth, heh.

You can go here to see the rest of my lolcats/lolbabies. They probably won't make much sense unless you're familiar with the genre and its tropes. I of course think they're screamingly funny. ;)

Yes, it was a long, chilly, rainy weekend, why do you ask?

Stupid Spam: Big New Year's Sale starts now! Now? Your New Year's sale starts on January 30th? O RLY?

Tasteless Spam: molten skyscraper Okay, I know this was probably created by one of those random generators that sticks two random words into a subject line. But still, it's unfortunate. Do *you* think we're ready for 9/11 humor? No, me either.

Silly Spam: It will be easy to sing near my home man Um...okay?
Silly Spam 2: The certain way to save money is to buy Yes, and black is white, war is peace, Britney is classy, etc.

Inspired by a recent discussion on ask_me_anything, and recent banana-related developments in my own life. :)

[Poll #903165]

Today's best spam headline: "to fuck is easy. its[sic] VERY easy. Just believe." LOL!!

Yesterday's best spam headline: "fetus fever" I guess that's what we all have when we're ttc, eh?

In other news, Ruthie is currently engaged in a lengthy chat with the tattoo on my left bicep. Who knew it was such a scintillating conversationalist?