23 Feb 2004
Kenneth Cole
I just saw this ad on the back of Bill's Men's Life magazine. It's an ad for Kenneth Cole and shows a ruggedly cute white urban male in (presumably) one of their shirts and ties. The caption says
On average, less attractive criminals get 50% longer jail sentences.
Are you putting us on?
Are they suggesting that you'll get less jail time with their shirts and ties (and is that REALLY their target audience)? Or are they questioning the assertion that less attractive people get longer jail sentences?
What an odd ad.
Small update
I'm out sick today. Feeling a little sick and under the weather. Bill has a cold too. :(
A short little update just so people believe I'm still alive. My work permit is in the process of being solved. We'll see if the government agrees with our solution (my boss, our lawyer and mine) when I go to the Auslanders Amt for my residence permit next Tuesday. I hope so or I'll have more problems. I have two trips in March that cannot be postponed. Especially the trip to Michigan to see my Grandma T. She went in the hospital last week. Seems she had a little stroke. Mom says she sounds strong and her nurses say she's doing well. She loved the bear I sent her (via Vermont Teddy Bear).
Argh, this sucks. I feel hemmed in. This blog is either to public now or I just care too flippin' much what others think. I can't talk about work or personal things that might affect work, because I showed this off to too many people there. I can't talk about Bill to much because his ex knows this address and I know she reads this. So if I don't want to screw up plans with him, I can't talk about them here. And my Mom doesn't want me to talk about certain other things because she hasn't spoken about them with my brothers yet. ARRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
So, there you have it in a nutshell. This was going to be a small update and turned into a mini-rant. And know you know why I haven't been blogging too much lately.
Bleh. Bye.
Update: I'm sorry for this post. I was feeling blue and hemmed in. It's all still true, I just maybe shouldn't have blogged it.
20 Feb 2004
Babelfish
From Janine's blog, I found this website called Found on the Web. Which lead me to this quirky website where a guy has hacked together a perl script to translate a phrase from English to another language and back a few times. It's quite interesting to see the results! Also quite funny! :D
I tried "I love to read". That came back as "I can read." Okay, not long enough or very interesting. Hmm.....oookay, how about a quote from American Pie? "This one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my p*ssy." Comes back as "A this time, to the camping of the volume... I assembled a furrow in my cat." OMG, too funny. I have to think of other phrases to translate back into English.
Bowling
I went bowling this evening with Sandra and Stefan. We had fun! The lanes were a bit odd - the approach is fore-shortened, there are tables directly behind the lanes where it's perfectly okay to drink and eat, and the pins kept falling down - but we had fun. I bowled a 155, 133 and 108. Stefan, on the other hand got progressively better: 75, 99, and 102. Sandra averaged a very firm 59: 55, 66, 56 (or numbers very close to this). I'm going to see if we can get together about once a month to play. :)
This bowling alley also has house leagues and I might join one. They play every Monday or Tuesday and play four games each night. I'm used to three games, but I'll get used to four. I have to come by the next Monday they play and see if they'll accept me (they seem to be highly resistent to single players, they want whole teams - we'll see).
Can't .. get .. going
I'm in some kind of sand pit this morning. Sitting and staring at a wall sounds lovely right now. Actually, not getting out of bed and staring out the window all morning sounded really lovely this morning. But there's this thing called a job. It pays the bills? And, like, I have a couple of trips coming up, you know? So it'd be, like, REALLY super to pay for them? So I got out of bed and came to work. Sigh.
