boring

I haven't had anything interesting to say lately, but that hasn't stopped me from wanting to say stuff, so now, in the hopes that a few dull posts somehow miraculously add up to one interesting one, I present 5 posts I started and never finished because they were sort of boring:

today
This Site is why I haven't gotten any work done today.

also, I now have exactly 666 unread messages in my Gmail inbox. spooky.

6/11/07
http://www.janegalt.net/archives/009841.html

a meme that's been travelling around livejournal and xanga sites for years makes it to a serious economics blogger. :)

6/6/07
gah.

6/4/07

Meet Mac McGarry, host of the longest running TV quiz show in the world.

I watch this show somewhat religiously. In fairness, I was on it my senior year of high school, but still, you'd think I would have moved on by now. You'd be wrong. Sometimes I think I've gotten stupider since high school, as I cannot beat any but the worst schools when playing at home. I comfort myself by remembering that I was by far the weakest team member when I was in high school, so probably with my two genius teammates, we could still kick ass. (Great comfort, right? "It's not that I've gotten stupider since high school, I was just as stupid then, too!")

I think my minor obsessiveness rubbed off from my coach. He's videotaped every game since the mid '70s, and has a filing cabinet filled with questions typed on index cards. So really, the fact that I just try to catch it most Saturdays at 10am is pretty sane.

5/25/07
I am so dissatisfied with all of blogger's layouts. I kind of want to spend the rest of the afternoon tweaking, but considering that I'm at work and even if I were going to slack off, pretty much the only tools at my disposal are notepad and paint, I'll refrain. mostly.

for the time being, no more minima or minima stretch. text is black on (almost) white, the color scheme is okay, and the font is readable. rounders is okay. but it looks so out of the box and boring.

in my continuing quest to cite the NYTimes at least 5 billion times a day, here is today's funny book review:
An Assault on Hawaii. On Grammar Too.