Monthly Archive for October, 2007

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The Force Is Weak In This One

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Heard of Typhoid Mary?

Well, you can now call me Electron Bermuda Triangle Dot.

When my Mac started making a weird whirring noise a few days ago, I, of course, being a Total Technical Idiot, blithely ignored it.

So away it whirred.

It whirred until it died. Kaput. Gone! As in MY HARDDRIVE IS FRIED AND I DIDN’T BACK UP!

In the next few days, the PC laptop I was using spaced. My friend Ed’s computer that he’d been using without incident for months, suddenly gave him trouble (but only because I’d been seeing him every day). And when Jay tried to do some extreme computing at home today, he was thwarted. (He’s now in the office, far from Black Hole Dot.)

The good news, as you can see, is that I have my Mac back (thanks to Jay and a whole new harddrive).

Unfortunately, Miss No-Back-Up lost a whole lot of information.

“Dot, why didn’t you back up when your computer started making the noise?” Jay asked.

Quiet sobbing.

Generation ZZ?

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I don’t even know what Generation Letter we’re up to these days.

If I were Generation X, my younger brother’s Y, and the new new-fangled youth with all the iPhones, youtubes, and myspaces is Z, what does that make my younger brother’s kid Curtis?

Does that make him Generation ZZ? Or do we go back to A again?

I bring this up because it’s important. We need to know how to refer to the Tech Rich Children of the Future.

Because Curtis (seen here as a grouchy three-week-old) has an email address. CURTIS HAS EMAIL!

Did you hear me?

He is all of three months old now, and that’s pretty much how old his email is, set up by his Generation Y parents when he was born.

I don’t know whether to choke on my donut or congratulate my brother for thinking ahead.

I think I’ll do both.

Better to have yourname@gmail.com than yourname1234@gmail.com

Yes, I Can Do That

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Feeling extremely bloated and having just released some CH4, I asked Jay, “Can you fart and burp at the same time?”

“Yes.”

“No way.”

“I have farted, burped, and sneezed at the same time.”

“You’re kidding me.”

“Well, you know I can sneeze with my eyes open.”

“Yah, but you were trying really hard that time.”

“The question here is whether I can fart, burp, and sneeze with my eyes open.”

Are You A Loud Yawner?

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I have been yawning a lot lately.

Well, I have been tired a lot lately.

Until lately, I never noticed that I “vocalized” my yawns.

What I mean is that I yawn with a loud, whale-like mating call much like Chewbacca on crack.

Jay mentioned it one night when HE yawned with a similar loud, whale-like mating sound.

“Dot, look what you’ve done. You’ve influenced me to yawn loudly.”

“I yawn loudly?”

“Yah, what I just did.”

“Doesn’t that make it so much more satisfying?”

End of discussion.

What Is The Sound Of Two Hearts Beating? Easy. This.

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Okay, before we get started on the whole Walk-Down-New-York-Memory-Lane thing, there’s something you need to know.

From now on, you can call me Chunky Dot.

This is to clear all doubts you may have of my present status, vis-a-vis the Chunky Dot you will notice in the following New York pictures.

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Dimsum is a way of life. Especially when you are meeting up with a group of homesick Singaporeans. To those keeping tabs, Jay is a homesick Singaporean by association. If you ask me, he looks the most excited to start.

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Peter Sutherland took three years to grow that facial hair. I asked to touch it. It felt like hair.

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The Eatin’ Foursome at Craft. Clueless Dot spent the entire dinner without noticing Mandy Patinkin at the next table. Sam pointed out he was in a cheesy high school baseball jacket. Note to self: Everything they said about his voice is true.

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Speaking of celebrities, we spotted Chloe Sevigny in the East Village.

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It may seem that all Jay and I did was eat, but…er, okay, you got us there. Here Jay demonstrates the correct way to consume Takoyaki. Without mercy.

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The first US reunion of Communication Studies veterans kicked off at Mash’s place in Williamsburg. Except for the fact it was 10 years since graduation, we all pretty much looked the same. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.

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True to New York form, we spent many humid minutes waiting underground for the subway. As Chunky Dot, I was four times more exhausted, three times hotter, and two times grouchier than the average commuter.

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Kevin and Nadine are too cool for this blog.

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If I had a billion dollars to spare, I would also purchase this Panda Chair. Someone in the store ticked me off for shooting the picture. They are so chic in Soho that photographs are forbidden because the chicness will melt your lens.

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Gangsta’ Jay is pimpin’ in the ‘hood.

I’ve got more New York photos here, and extra Dot Blog Points (redeemable at your nearest brewery) to anyone who can identify the obscure Simpsons reference in the title.

I’ll Get To It Tomorrow (a.k.a. I’m Exhausted Today)

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Stay tuned for Dot’s Blow By Blow Account Of New York City.

Meanwhile, here’s a teaser photo for you Newyorkerphiles (who also happen to be Lawandorderphiles).

I know you are out there.

As a totally random aside, I would like this to be painted on my living room wall.

Jay, are you reading this? Jay?

Jay?

Er, are we still married, Jay?

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