WHA????

OMG are you serious?

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html

Basically, you can turn on a setting that makes you solve a few math problems if you're trying to send an email late at night. Like a captcha, but WAY MORE AWESOME. Anyway, I just activated it, and set it so that I always have to solve math problems to send email. Actually, I set it it up so that I have to solve math problems between the hours of noon and 4am because YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN I MIGHT BE DRUNK.

sleuthing

I saw something interesting on Google Maps today re: the G train:



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Please note the Fort Hamilton Parkway stop. I've been hearing about some extended G service a little bit, but it's kind of awesome to see it right there on (my beloved) Google Maps. I did some sleuthing (as my boss calls it) and found this on the G train Wikipedia page:

The MTA has announced a three-year rehabilitation of the Culver Viaduct from 2009–2012. As part of that project, the G service, which currently terminates at Smith–Ninth Streets, will be permanently extended to Church Avenue.

How useful it actually winds up being will probably depend on whether or not I still live in the same neighborhood and whether or not I still have a friend or two down in Flatbush or by the park. Anyway. Happy Friday.

Steampunk

I didn't really know that "steampunk" was also kind of a style. It's like if you woke up one day and had gone totally bonkers and were convinced you were living inside of that computer game MYST or something. Which is amazing and totally repellent. And you could wonder things like "Where did I put my BRASS GOGGLES?"

Anyway, more pictures here.

More Excerpts From Our Zine

2:07 PM nordique: www.mymms.com

you can get custom m&ms printed for valentines day

but it's like soooooo expensive

2:08 PM and they won't print m&m's with "sex santa"

because it's "potentially offensive"

they will, however, print "skin santa"

eagles: thats what i was going to ask

nordique: i know

i'm sure they will also print

"scat canyon"

2:09 PM eagles: get it!

nordique: no way!

you have to spend at least almost $50

2:10 PM

i had it all worked out. just a mixture of different color m&ms that all say "LEATHER JEANS"

it would have been incredible.

2:11 PM http://www.mymms.com/customprint/

2:12 PM eagles: i made some gold and orange ones that said human gold.

2:13 PM but i couldn't figure out how to send it to you.

nordique:

what if i sent you a giant box of M&Ms that said "SKIN SANTA"

would you even be able to eat them?

eagles: i would eat all of them.

nordique: ha!

2:14 PM eagles: i would eat them even if they said sex poison

or lydia sucks

nordique: or just "suck it"

eagles: done

bad thing

nordique: fine.

eaten.

i want mine to say "wild thing"

or "totally feral"

eagles: cave candy

nordique: or "kiki puke"

eagles: candy

cave girl

human female

2:15 PM

poop document

nordique: ghost hole

eagles: span

2:16 PM dex

nordique:

MARY

KATE

eagles: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nordique: i'm gonna get you soooo many MK M&Ms

eagles: i will eat them

nordique: you better

DR.

CRUSHER

2:17 PM eagles: bev

crusher

or

jean

luc

nordique:

just

2:18 PM "WORF"

eagles: worf

is raw

nordique: OMG

2:20 PM jensen ackles

eagles: OMG

yes!

nordique: i know right?

2:21 PM eagles: i want pink and aqua m&ms to say jensen ackles

or brown ones that say like

neil young

I Just Got This Email From My Sister:

yesterday was my last day at the pizza place and we made milkshakes. i got to put the ingredients in. i chose chocolate, mint oreo and cake batter fudge for the ice cream. then i added chocolate milk and half and half. then i put in chocolate sauce. and THEN i added a piece of chocolate cake. to top it off i put fresh whipped cream and more chocolate sauce. it was really really good. i thought you might want to know.

Open Letter

To the guy who keeps walking around behind me: I am in the library trying to do work that I should have completed, oh, about a motherfucking month ago. I would appreciate it if you would sit in yr seat like everyone else in this study area despite the attraction you so obviously have for something/one that I cannot see yet sense is somewhere near me. I guarantee you that it is simultaneously boring itself and bored with you. While I am not usually one to speak for another's desire, the boredom whom/whatever feels for you probably has something to do with yr bald head; why it is itself boring, I do not know, but I hope you take it to heart and leave it be. So what we have is actually a complete disinterest that you yourself seem unable to recognize but of which you deserve to be informed. Stop. For yr sake (which is covertly mine).

If you insist on continuing to move around behind me instead of staying in yr seat, I at least ask that you do not do the following two things: first, tap on the edge of my desk like one of those people who needs to touch everything they pass (you don't need to touch everything you pass although I do give you credit for a damn admirable job of doing so thus far); two, do not give me a dirty look when you see that I am reading Ne-Yo's biography on last.fm. Am I listening to "Because of You (Remix)" featuring Kanye West on repeat? Yes. But it is none of yr business. Do not look at my screen and do not act like whatever you see there is worthy of yr opinion. You clearly have a profound civic duty that consists of hating on fresh and sexy things - things such as Ne-Yo and good jackets. (That's right, yr jacket sucks. Stay seated.) So I ask that you put a collar on yr rabid sense of citizenship and not admonish me while also annoying the living fuck out of me. It is clear why you don't like Ne-Yo, but I was excited to learn that his friend nicknamed him "Neo" after Keanu Reeves' character in The Matrix and that he changed the spelling to reflect, in abbreviated form, his love for the city New York.

Also, even when you sit in yr seat, with yr legs propped up on the desk like you own this motherfucking place, you annoy me. You really should just go.

xoxo,
Melody

Something I Saw

We were transferring from the J train to the uptown F at Essex/Delancey on New Year's Eve and I totally saw this girl barfing into her plastic "Happy New Year" top hat. So incredible.

You guys. Happy New Year.

BTW PEOPLE

I don't care if this is fake.

You Guys

WASABI CHALLENGE

Okay. So one thing you can do to impress a bunch of people you don't know that well at a friend's birthday party is PUT SOMETHING REALLY SPICY IN YOUR MOUTH.

Two Ideas

1. bushwiki.org ("like an e-neighborhood you can edit")
2. kikipedia.org (??)

Sparks Chose Me

Right. So on Friday night I stopped at the store by my house on my way to Band Practice to get a Sparks. Fine, 2 Sparks, whatever. The store seemed really busy, and there were a bunch of girls standing around wearing matching orange tank tops and I realized they were like, a SPARKS PROMOTIONAL TEAM. There was Sparks music playing -- this really awesome "hard rock" song with some dude shouting the words "caffeine.....taurine.....ALCOHOL!!!!!!" over and over again. Just fucking blowing my mind. After I purchased my Sparks they offered me either a Sparks t-shirt (so ugly) or a giant plastic Sparks beaker. Obviously I chose the latter, to feel like a fucking Sparks scientist, and maybe this is how I will create my new, more potent Sparks. Yes? I actually told the Sparks Promotional Team about my idea for a Sparks with more caffeine & taurine and they laughed at me, if you can believe that. I even left out the part about calling it "Sparks Deep Reality" and packaging it in an iridescent or clear can.

more about sparks

I think the problem with Sparks is that I just don't feel like I'm drinking a lightning bolt.

This will be my last Sparks-related blog entry for a while. Thank you.

rain-makers

me: i'm on sparks and tylenol pm

eagles: thats like making rain in your body.

me: it's an interesting cocktail

HA

WHAT
YES

12:34 AM eagles: when a high pressure zone and a low pressure zone meet and make rain?

me: you just bleeewwwww my miiinnnndddd

you just made me make the over-stimulated sound

eagles: thats how rain gets made.

heh.

Good Ideas

Um, in case you were wondering, you cannot really light a Chips Ahoy cookie on fire. Shit doesn't burn. We try.

sparks

What's awesome about being a grown-up is that you can drink a Sparks at 4:00 PM on a Sunday if you want to.

good ideas

"woman, we still have to karaoke magic man on our lunch breaks. just to get it out."

excerpts from our zine 3 ("good ideas")

kik: also, i got inspired by you.

11:12 AM lyd: ????

kik: by your BEAUTIFUL NAILS.

lyd: yeah!

kik: heh. no but really. i decided to give it another shot.

i havena been biting, they're growing a wee bit.

11:13 AM lyd: wee nails

kik: ahhhhhhhh hold on be back in a minute.

7 minutes

11:21 AM lyd: oh. can you put a picture of like sunshine wearing glasses on the email;

11:22 AM kik: wha?

lyd: nothing

11:23 AM kik: that is awesome.

good idea

lyd: thanks;

kik: i thought you meant there was like, an emoticon that was sunshine wearing sunglasses.

lyd: naw i would love that though

.........................................
lyd: i free

thats what i said last night

kik: rubiks cube!

11:30 AM you free?

lyd: soo free

11:31 AM kik: you can embarrass yourself for free

lyd: i shall

kik: leather jeans is a lifestyle.

lyd: it is my life style.