Baby's first John Hodgman experience.


He gets the columns and reads every line.

Hey everybody! It's Wednesday and you know what that means? jammin682 is bartending @ Jai Thai on Broadway!! Go throw money at him! Later, you should mosey on over to the Merc for the RETURN OF ROCKBAND NIGHT!!!!!!!! It's free before 9:30 and only $3.00 cover after. See you there!!

I finally have a phone again; it's a miracle. The old one has been out of commission for eight months, so if I ever had your number, it's long gone now. Please to drop it in the screened comments. Mine is 347 217 4876, and i can even answer it now, though email/LJ remains the best way to get a hold of me unless i'm out.


It's a T-moblie G1, if you're curious; I join the decade mere months before it sails out. As it turns out, i don't like a physical keyboard as much as i used to. Ah, well.

I have been finding and adding LJ friends since I made my Sex and Kink filter...

So I am giving out the invitation; if you are interested in reading about my stories, thoughts and experiences with Sexuality, Sensuality and Kink(BDSM). Lemme know and I shall add you to said filter.

I think about food a lot.
I like to talk to food about my problems.
Everyone else in the New Year is all about "let's eat healthy and read Proust and make plans to join a gym".
I am thinking about butter, cream and garlic and how I can get a terrine dish for not too much money. I suppose some of this has to do with the whole hibernation yen I often have at times. I can't hibernate but I can make plans to roast things and eat a few pears and a bar or two of chocolate to feel better about the dark months.

I watched Julie and Julia tonight. I don't think I have many new thoughts to add to what has been said about the movie. I agree that Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci should make more movies together. They are terrific actors and when they are together they are amazing. The food scenes were beautiful. Julie Powell continues to irritate the tits off of me and the movie was a great deal of fun. To completely bare my soul I admit I kind of got teary during some of the Julia scenes. As I told my Mother, it was a bit like seeing an old friend. A wee bit corny in some ways but there you have it. I am easy like that. That happens every so often with certain movies.

I have bread to bake tomorrow. I will also cook up some lentils and sausages. There will be bacon and butter involved. It will help keep the wolves away.

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... but I so do not.

Not once, twice, but THREE times today in hearing my last name someone said " That's such a nice name. It sounds very...'upper crust' ( too bad I don't like crust of any kind) Why aren't you in a nicer school"? ( LMAO)

On the way here I was accosted by Green Peace Hippies. They asked if I was a member-
" No. I'm too poor"
*Looks me over once* You DON'T look poor" ( *Feigns angst' My class is going to get me in trouble of these day)
" I know" *overemphasized hair flip* I heard one of the hippies quietly lol behind me.

I told my idiot grandmother. Being well, an idiot she said " This must be an omen! Your going to win the lottery and get rich!"
I'm not dumb enough to play lotto...that reminds I need to cash in my winning tickets from Christmas. =)

And no, Tige, I'm still not telling.

am sick as hell.
send minions.
w soup.




Dr says it's not strep or anything icky enough to require antibiotics & my glands are normal but I am definitely fighting off something.

am currently partaking of v sour japanese vitamin c lozenges. "house wellness C1000 physical candy vitamin lemon - for your beauty care, health and the change of pace."

currently wearing earflap hat indoors, flannel pjs & a fucking snuggie. C1000 physical candy is not helping me in the beauty department yet. I am, however, less inclined to remove my own tonsils than I was this morning.

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Most people know "etc." It's short for et cetera, which means "and so on," used to denote a list that continues into irrelevancies.

But why stop there? Why use plain language when you can use highfaluting abbreviations? Impress or confuse your friends with these, inter alia (among others).

et al., short for et alii, "and others". Used like etc., but when mentioning proper names of things.

i. e., id est, "that is". Use it when you would otherwise say, "in other words".

e. g., exempli gratia, idiomatically meaning "for the sake of example."

viz., videlicet, "namely."

cf., confer, "compare to" or "consult with."

q. v., quod vide, "which [you should go and] see." Used to denote a cross-reference with something else in the same work. For multiple items, you should use qq. v.

idem, "the same". In a list of things, if you're too pretentious to use "ditto," use that. If you really want to confuse people, use i. q., short for idem quod, "the same as."

ibid., ibidem, "in the same place." An archaic way of citing consecutive uses of the exact same source in a bibliographic citation. But if you really want to hose someone, use it in another context.

op cit., opere citato, "in that which was cited." Similar to the previous, but perhaps of a different section of the work.

Q. E. D., quo erat demonstrandum, "which was to be demonstrated." When making an argument where you are proving something, you say this after you prove it. A highbrow way of saying, "so there!"

ergo, "therefore."

quære, "you might ask." If David Byrne was Roman, the verses of "Once in a Lifetime" would be a lot shorter. Used to anticipate criticism of a rhetorical position. You also get bonus points if you use the "æ" ligature so your writing causes encoding drama.

ceteris paribus, "other things being equal." An assumption that controlled variables are actually controlled. A lot of economists use this, especially stupid ones.

And, of course, when accusing someone of logical fallacy, a good command of Latin phrase will give you that extra bit of authoritative mojo:

non sequitur, "it does not follow." When the conclusion of someone's argument doesn't seem related to the premises at all, or the relationship is misleading because of inappropriate context.

ad hominem, "at the person." When you call someone names or attack their character instead of addressing their argument. The "instead of" is key. Insulting your opponent in addition to tearing their bad logic apart is simply a breach of decorum, not fallacious. Of course, sometimes ad hominem is good, clean fun, especially on your own blog.

And my favorite, post hoc ergo propter hoc, "afterwards, therefore, caused by." A fallacy of correlation vs. causation. Two temporally related events may, in fact, have different causes, so you need additional evidence to establish causality.

If you have favorites of your own, let me know.

GIRL outside computer lab: "..she should have a cow, and the cow should explode. Exploding cow. Go, go, do it, do it, right now. Exploding cow."

I'll have you know that today, I have been very busy with work business.

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(truthfully, there have been fairly low levels of skiving (other than the above). Have been sorting things out for work.)