Free Ice Cream

Public service announcement by way of one Miss Sheeva Azma...

It is free cone day at Ben & Jerry's today. Find your local scoop shop and go... thank me later.

I probably don't hate you

A random thought I just had coming from the transoms of my sleep deprived mind (hurray conference deadlines)...

In an exchange of not-really-witty e-mails, a friend wrote something that he knew would annoy me. (If you're curious, one of my pet peeves is the misspelling "prolly" -- "probably" has three syllables! You can't just remove the middle one and expect it to be okay!) In response, I simply wrote to him, "I hate you."

But of course, I don't really hate him... in fact, I hate very few people, if any at all. (Although I can certainly think of a number of people I dislike.) After I sent the e-mail I then wondered: if there was someone I actually hated, is there any situation in which I would send them e-mail that simply said "I hate you" with no further explanation?

I don't think there is. While the concept of sending such a terse line to certain politicians is amusing to think about, if I truly hated someone and wanted them to know it, I would also want to expound upon why. So if in the future you receive such an e-mail from me, rest assured that I don't mean it.

But, damn it, it's P-R-O-B-A-B-L-Y.

On This Most Solemn of Days

First things first, I got a new phone number: 952-431-9500

Things I've noted throughout the day...

• Virgle -- Easily the most entertaining April Fools joke
• Click on any video on You Tube's homepage
• Custom Time for Gmail
• Open up a google word document and then go to File, and look at the line under "New Document." (Thanks, Lou, for the heads up.)
• More from Google
• Livejournal announces a new advisory board member
• The microwave and toaster oven in our downstairs kitchen were mysteriously upside down today... as were all of the glasses, which were also filled with water. Gee, wonder who did that...
• My housemate, who has a tendency to forward every crime alert notification she receives, forwarded an e-mail that appeared to be a crime alert notifying us of jaywalkers on our street. The suspect descriptions seemed oddly similar to certain roommates of mine. And upon further inspection, the x-sender was not the same housemate as the from address.

I'll add more as I discover them... although I should note that I'm officially bored with the RickRolling... ha, ha, we get it. Find a new joke.