f|break: saturday evening - a sock puppet's buddy

sock puppets in cubeopolis - coming soon! ... as a result of a chat among a few gals in cubeopolis, i'll be scheduling a little lunch break moment for some daytime crafts. sometime this weekend, i'll be purchasing a bag o' socks and a bunch o' buttons. another cubester will bring her craft items. and with thread, needle, and glue gun in hand, we'll be creating some sock puppets (for our little insider humor frivolity).

triumph the insult comic dog ... meanwhile, a few cubesters were NOT familiar with triumph. head over here to the The 9 Best Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Appearances with video clips for all 9.

fiber break extended ... today's weekend fiber break should last as least as long as ~30-minutes if you check out my top 3 faves in reverse order - bon jovi, westminster (not included in the top 9 so included below) and star wars.

my #3 fave: bon jovi concert (~ 8 minutes) ... (over here or just click on the image to the right) it's worth sitting through the clip. opening line - "the electricity here in the new jersey air is almost as powerful as the other smells, as bon jovi returns to its home state much like poop returning up into the butthole. ..."

my #2 fave: westminster dog show (~5 minutes) ... (over here) closing - "yeah. well their names to me are the fugly twins. look at those mugs. this is why we do it doggy style. ...".

my #1 fave: star wars (~10 minutes) ... (over here or just click on the image to the left) one of many choice lines - "unbelievable. look - among the nerds i found an actual girl here ... you can choose from all of - all kinds of guys who have no idea how to please you."

looking forward to sock puppet days!

f|break: saturday morning pop culture

clever, clever ... at the soup over here (enjoy!)

"let's talk about wolverine ..."
"in the lost episode 5.13 ... your companion hurley ...
disparaging remarks ... ewok..."
"and you are a wanker, my friend ..."

"will you tell me about the whispers? ... what's lost?"

iCrush: j. safran foer

was sick earlier this week (and am still a bit poo-poo), so i've been playing catch-up on dvr'd shows and blogs. from the bit of a respite i was reminded of a few little crushes

author j.safran foer ... on the colbert report below - enjoyed his first 2 books and will pick up eating animals shortly.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Jonathan Safran Foer
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy

hark! who went there on secret valentine '09?

(repost from feb 11, '09)

... secret valentine fun.
here's 2008's frivolity.

enjoy! enjoy! enjoy!

i'm prepared for this year!
(this is just outside my corner cube)

(repost from feb 12, '09)
today was when we - in cubeopolis - disclosed our secret valentine identity to other cubesters. (this stuff)

my friend, au, egged me on to wear 'em ... the antennae heart ears. (doesn't take much.)

i did. i wore 'em at work.
and my walk-abouts around the office were captured on film-ish ... in my squalor-cube

... around cubeopolis ...

and hiding behind a pillar.

oh! and i walked over to marathon plaza to pick up some tasty tacos at maya. yum! (i'd say about 2+ city blocks with 'em on!)

it was a FUN DAY hearing fellow cubesters laugh!
(oh! and my secret valentine gave me ANOTHER chocolate bar!)

hark! who went there on secret valentine '08?

(repost from april 16, '08)

feng shui ... NOT!

every morning, when i look up at the ceiling in cube-opolus, this is my view.

why this above my cube?

apparently, in the world of cubes, organizations have voluntary, celebratory events. this one? - - - secret valentine.

it has been two months since valentine '08. (totally fake holiday, which landed on a thursday this year)

secret valentine? ... on the friday before the fake holiday, those wanting to partake shoved a hand into a paper bag with the name of a person. whomever you chose (let's just call that person "lucky"), you would be that person's secret valentine (let's just call the secret valentine "sugar daddy").

3 days of adoration (or whatever) ... yes. this year, the fake holiday landed on a thursday, so from monday through wednesday, sugar daddy would stealthily sneak trinkets, candy, gifts, poetry, ... whatever ... into lucky's cube or mailbox.

my monday (02/11) was AWESOME!!!

despite the fact that it is not quite legit to mess around with hanging sh** from the ceiling, sugar daddy did so. and with the little "pulley" system that greeted me on monday, i pretty much decided immediately that my secret valentine sugar daddy TOTALLY ROCKED!!!

m' sugar daddy fed the "engineer" in me with the whole pulley thing, got the chalk candy hearts, and got a bunch of self-esteem boost hearts stuck all throughout my already paper-cluttered, a.d.d. haven of which i reside during most of the daytime hours.

under the red & pink canopy created when i followed directions ... please pull down gently until rings touch above. attach to guest chair ... i enjoyed the rest of the day and next two days being showered by my sugar daddy...

monday afternoon - a pastry from cafe madeleine that i managed to share with the other cube-meisters. YUM!

tuesday - score! cute trinkets. pink carabiner hooked to pink water bottle filled with pink and white m&ms - and i mean FILLED!!!

wednesday - score more! cute trinkets. a little map to find my wednesday surprise. map led me to the l'il community dorm-room-size-fridge. in a cute little chinese take-out container - ICE CREAM! A PINT OF BEN & JERRY'S! S'MORES!!! this, i discovered before our weekly office meeting at 9 AM. at 1:30 PM, ice cream social. (hmmm ... note to self - mini-fridge does not quite keep its cool.)

ice cream social turned in to chocolate soup with nuts and marshmallows. still good. chocolate. hello?! CHOCOLATE!!! oh! and i did bring tuesday's score to share with cube-sters.

unveiling on thursday ... all the sugar daddies got in a room with all the lucky ones amidst a potluck breakfast of tasty pastries, juices, fruits, and cakes. one-by-one, each lucky found out his/her sugar daddy. for a small moment of entertainment, to the tune of love machine á la a dancing penguin ... (enjoy example from youtube o'er here)

... 3 cube-sters (self included) in a bit of a choreographed-moment showcased our talent by butchering performing following dances:

• (very bad) ROBOT
• (quite off-beat) BUMP
• (off-sync) SNAKE
• (even-a-smooth-floor-wouldn't-help) MOON WALK

somewhere out there is a video of the ... uhm ... hmmm ... ack ... ROBOT. and somewhere out there is a pic of me and my secret valentine. gotta get it downloaded from someone's camera. HOWEVER, turns out my secret valentine was my bud!

what are the chances
when you just shove your hand
in a brown paper bag
and pull out a piece of paper?!

i definitely was lucky!

small world on-line stuff

as i triaged the new eH pool (and got triaged) this morn, today marks the day when eH threw a match my way of someone i actually know. the evidence? ... the one eH profile pic he has is the SAME as my friend's pic on facebook. not much more to say than i will give him a call because he definitely will know it's me when he sees my profile. go figure. small enough world.

giants buddy in SD for ballgame

since i've been in the BA, i've been to at&t (formerly sbc and pacific bell parks - and i tend to call it pacbell park ... it's first name)


(repost from july 1 '06)

june 30 out-of-office auto-responder:

Subject: R|CAT: 06/30 - Out of Office in Afternoon

The Giants are playing the Padres this evening!

STANDINGS TO DATE: http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/standings/index.jsp

We are starting early! I will be out of the office after noon-time today (06/30) ... for the self-imposed (deserved) break.

please feel free to leave
e-mail or voice mail; I will
answer when back in.

... and so i did ... when mike confirmed tix for the giants/padres game at petco! t & r (padre fans) also along for the fun. a few before & during pix. excuses for ... not-so-good-food ... beer ... sangria ... and the requisite hot dog.

[our seats in toyota terrace sec. 215]

we lost that night.
(yeah, that's right ... lost)