Thursday, April 21, 2011

420 views ...

ONE DAY LATE.

Well, since I've started a post I guess I have to say something interesting in it. Stupid rule, if you ask me. Have a drink while I think of something.




Okay ... Pandora. Finally got around to using this site, and for one of my channels it's great. Gave me lots of nice, mellow songs. All good.
The one that was intended as a nice, upbeat, 80's/90's channel, went a bit wrong. First I kept getting lazy, slow music and shifting it to the other station. Definitely not much resembling my seed songs (which included Layla, Ballroom Blitz and Roll to Me). Finally I made the mistake of thumbs-upping "Rocky Road To Dublin" from the High Kings, because it was the first song that wasn't slow music or rhythmic screaming.

Whoops.

Here's what happened next, to the best of my knowledge:

Me: That's more like it. :)

Pandora: Ohhh, you like *that*? Awesome, I have lots of that!!! *plays three Irish folk songs followed by two other versions of Rocky Road To Dublin in a row*

Me: Wait, wait, what? No! Stoppit! *thumbs down* What happened to all the other songs I gave you?

Pandora: But ... but you liked it. Do you want me to go back to the slow music?

Me: NO!!! *thumbs down*

Pandora: ... Fine, I'm just going to give you whatever's on top of the pile.

Me: "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)"? Well ... not your best work, but yes, this is the right direction. *thumbs up*

Pandora: O_o But ... but ... I thought you liked the Irish music. Okay. Breathe. Think, Pandora, think. Celtic folk song, yes. Irish folk songs, no. All other folk songs, no. Repetitive pop music ... yes. WTH. Um ... um ... OMG WAIT I KNOW WHAT SHE WANTS!!!


Whether this was in fact Pandora's thought process, its next move was to very enthusiastically present me with "(I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles."

Bless its little robot heart.


Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Job Security


So, guy walks up to the desk at the library the other day, looks around suspiciously then turns to me.
Guy: "You ever think of having an off-duty cop patrol this place?"
Me: "... Hm?"
Guy: "Ever think of having an off-duty cop patrolling this place?"
Me: "Ah, why?"
Guy: "C'mon."
Me: "..."
Guy: "You know."

Said it as if I were deliberately avoiding a subject. I mean, he wasn't as interesting as the next guy who kept insisting he was in a Very Big Hurry while checking his watch-less wrist and asking me questions he could have answered more quickly by looking them up himself ... yeah, I don't know what it is about Mondays.

And also it's snowing now. So.
It's been a stressful week and we're just beginning. Have some balloons I found on campus:


Yes, I also feel strangely drawn to guess which one's bigger. Which reminds me, you know that thing they always have in "mind tricks" books, where the words say one color and are printed in another and you have to say the printed color aloud? Turns out I'm really good at that one. Does that mean I have poor reading comprehension or am just too familiar with the "magic trick" for it to work?

Monday, April 18, 2011

Bad Girl

Just realized how incredibly ungrateful it looked, posting that I found my camera waiting faithfully in the cold where I'd abandoned it, and then posting that I wanted a new camera.

But y'know, the new one is red. And shiny. And my old one never would let me take this picture, for some reason:


Also, the penguins. I sort of forgot about/ran out of penguins for a time. But there's one staring down at me from this weird box of generic frosted flakes on top of the fridge (and it's fishing in the bowl of cereal ... I do not know what they are trying to imply about their product here), so now I'm feeling guilty again.

But I'm avoiding Zazzle because it keeps asking me to consolidate my accounts, and it's kind of awkward because I only have one other account and don't particularly want to consolidate it. Avoidance is my solution to everything.

Speaking of which ... I can't think of anything clever to say, so g'bye.