Working the garment

While I was pulling boxes of records out from a dark space underneath the stairs (really), I came across something every home needs:

A cape!

It's timeless yet versatile, and ideal for:

...prophesying...

...stalking...

...casting spells...

...scouting trails, a la Lewis and Clark...

...and impersonating Captain Morgan.


My mom: Are you going to wear it out tonight?
Me: Of course not, it's only for questing! But you can never ever give this away.

And so, I leave you, caped or un-caped, with this clip from Flight of the Conchords.

Drip

I've been having recurring dreams (uh oh! I've started talking about dreams on my blog -- I've officially jumped the shark). I am endlessly drinking water (or other liquids, it's never quite clear...pun!), yet never able to quench my thirst.

Now, if I were to do a Freudian analysis of this, I'd probably have to write down as many details I could remember, including the color the fridge from whence I pulled my drink and the size and shape of the glass, only to discover that my inability to slake represents some kind of failed wish fulfillment for and a subconscious desire for...whatever.

I'm just gonna grab a glass of water. Or two or three. Because I think really I'm just a bit dehydrated.

Image from Flickr user Vicki and Chuck Rogers shared with a Creative Commons license.

Running a generational show down

I just had my official "I'm old" holiday moment. It didn't happen when my younger cousins showed me up at Wii boxing and Guitar Hero, or when I repeatedly didn't get IDed at bars (though I may have another in a few hours at my high school's alumni pub night).

It happened when I was doing an interval workout at the local high school's track.

A group of kids -- probably 5th or 6th grade? yeah I'm so old I can't even tell -- were playing lacrosse on the turf field in the center of the track. That's cute, I thought...until at the end of my third lap on my last mile repeat something shiny and sharp came flying towards my shins. As I lept over it, I glared at the culprit as he gave me that look that says, "Oops, I didn't mean to do that, only really I did because I wanted to see what would happen."

"Fffffffff..." I blocked the air as I ran through all the things I could shout at them. You stupid kids! I'll tell your mother! You could have hurt someone!

Yeah, I officially turned into an old cogderette. All I was missing was an angry fist pump.

And somehow, while my mind was searching for that certain something that would show them, I realized that anything I said would just make them laugh more, and sweeten this moment for the little troublemakers.

Then, as I pushed myself waaaaaay too hard on that last lap, I remembered the chants my friends and I had come up with to taunt our music teacher Mr. Ommit (whose name rhymed with an unfortunate bodily fluid), and how much I loved tormenting Ms. Emery until she exploded, and how much entertainment I got when she screamed at us.

And I also remembered that those kids never got to party like it was 1999 (heck, they probably weren't even born in 1999), and all of a sudden I felt like Grampa Simpson in that episode where he pretends to cry and tricks Bart and Lisa into cleaning the house.

But really...who throws a CD at someone who is working out? Those hooligans!

Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 12/27/2008

• 2008 in photographs (part 2 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

  My favorite photo so far (and I've only just dipped into part 2). What makes it even better is that it comes right after a photo of classic NASA over-design.

  tags: boston globe, 2008, pictures, photos, tour de france, horse, bike, jasper juinen

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Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 12/22/2008

• The Buzzwords of 2008 - NYTimes.com

  Presented with cool(ish) typography!

  tags: nytimes, lexicon, 2008, buzzwords, slang, culture, current

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Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 12/19/2008

• Washington News Bureaus Are Shrinking - NYTimes.com

  When local papers cut back on national coverage, what are the consequences? This article in the Times implies that more may be lost than jobs. We can't all relay on the WSJ or the NYT to add a local spin to news that is happening far away. Sigh.

  tags: nytimes, journalism, newspapers, washington, coverage

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Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 12/16/2008

• The Best/Worst of SkyMall 2008 - Urlesque

  While revising my final story for Science Writing (last assignment of the semester, woot!) I had time to stop and look at this wonderful link. I literally exploded with laughter when I saw the picture of the dog dome...

  tags: skymall, gifts, useless, consumer, shopping, urlesque

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You aren't who you think you are...

In the midst of the research I'm doing for my Water Class term paper, I ran across this fact:

Humans actually contain about 10 times more bacterial cells in their bodies than they do human cells. [source (pdf)]

It's ... gross and intriguing and humbling and shocking and ... I think my favorite science tidbit of the decade.

Ok, back to work now!

Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 12/07/2008

• Phonebook Dress Takes Recycling To New Heights

  This phonebook dress blows away anything I've seen on Project Runway...

  tags: fashion, recycling, art, phonebook, dress

• Music - In a Digital World, College Radio Perseveres - NYTimes.com

  The NYTimes takes a whack at the state of college radio. The main theme is that college radio is adapting to the 21st century with the use of online streaming. The subtext is that -- as perhaps was always the case -- most college radio deejays simply do it for themselves.

  tags: college radio, streaming audio, blogging, music, radio, dj, nytimes, adaptation

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Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 12/03/2008

• Inhabitat » Ross Lovegrove’s Solar-Powered Alpine Capsule

  I find this "alpine capsule" equally cool and creepy.

  tags: alpine capsule, design, shiny, ross lovegrove, inhabitat

• Inhabitat » Recycled Subway Cars Turned into Studios in London

  Subway cars re-purposed into studios -- I want to live in one!

  tags: subway, architecture, art, reclamation, repurposing, real estate, london

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