Things I learned from the TV...

Or, misappropriating ideas from unemployed telecom workers-cum-pop culture icons (like say...Odd Todd)

Two fun out-of-context quotes from today's television adventures:

"It's just a crush. Crushes are, by nature, idealized, [and] unrealistic..."
...
"What are we going to do?
"Ignore it, hope it goes away."
"Right, no need to discuss it?"
"No! Denial works."

"Hubris? I love that word!"

I realize the folly of "learning" anything from TV...best case scenario, the regurgitation just so happens to be coincidentally, and in some vague and very tenuous sense, true. Worst case, it's wholly false and/or molded to suit a particular plot vehicle, but either way, just put there by some copy writing lackey who probably doesn't know any better than the monkey sitting at the typewriter next to him. I know plenty of people (dirty foreigners mostly) who learned English from watching Sesame Street, but no one ever got to be a neurosurgeon by watching Doogie Howser, MD, or an astronaut or rocket scientist from watching Battlestar Galactica That or my brain's turning to mush from atrophy related to lack of use...

[Points at TV] Man fall down. Funny.

One complaint about the Webster's Online Dictionary site is that it's not great with verb forms. Some words it doesn't seem to know enough to cross-reference when you search from the main query box, nor does it list the various forms under the root definition, like other, crappier online dictionaries do. Minor gripe, sure, but I've some to expect so much from Professor Phil, that it seems like a glaring oversight.

I'm not generally a fan of chain e-mails, the forwards of poorly photoshopped pictures of this and that, hundred-item "my favorite" things lists, poorly worded and unfunny anecdotes, but every now and again, something genuinely clever will make it's way through. In clearing some drive space yesterday, I rediscovered this little nugget, one of the most intellectually clever/funny things I've seen in a long time: (warning, impending geek humour)



See? And it's funny because it's true! (This should effectively put an end to most of the action I've been getting lately!) OK, to offset the bad antifeminist sentiment I've maybe just stirred up, here's a warm fuzzy message:



OK, maybe "Girls have cooties" is just as dodgy a message. I'll try harder to be non-misogynistic tomorrow, I promise. I think maybe it's been too long (and dry) a weekend, that must be the explanation...

[Yawn.] Up all night trying to help Laura pick out a notebook...time for bed! ZzzZzzzZZz.

Three weeks 'til spring? is that right? Woohoo! Bring it!