Amusements

Today, I set up mail.app for the first time in, well, forever. (I’ve been living the webmail life for quite a while. But circumstances, blah blah blah.)

Anyway.

2.4 MILLION messages?

I think something has gone horribly awry.

As many of you know, I lived in Kuwait for a year. This was pre-Desert-Storm-1 Kuwait, so it wasn’t very a very Westernized place, and the only place I was allowed outside by myself was to wait at the bus stop for my daily ride to school. Since the arrival time of the bus was highly variable, I was sometimes out there for a half hour or so, waiting. It was during this period of my life that I started a habit that would last me a lifetime: reading while waiting for <insert type of transit here>.

The school I went to (the American School of Kuwait) was a firm believer in burying a child in homework. As I was in the 4th grade at the time, a lot of this homework seemed to revolve around learning words and how to spell them. Therefore, I always had a dictionary with me. And, since I had a lot of free time while waiting for the aforementioned bus, I started reading it. I ended up finishing the whole thing sometime short of the end of the school year. (My father (being an eternal smart ass) told me to write a book report. I told him he’d get one when I finished the previous one he assigned me: the 1984 World Almanac.)

This random memory just popped into mind because I was looking at my music collection. (I was working on following Huey’s advice to either listen to really happy music or really depressing music to get out of my funk. Then I got sidetracked.) It’s roughly 56,000 files, or 170 days of music. And looking at the collection, I clicked on the “Name” column, resulting in my entire music collection, in alphabetic order. And I now have an intense urge to listen to the entire collection, in that order. Assuming I listen to music for 8 hours a day (which I don’t, but let’s assume), that’s 510 days’ of listening. At the more realistic 2 hours a day, that’s 2,040 days, or a bit over 5 and a half years of music. And that’s assuming I don’t accumulate any more music (also unlikely).

I’d better get started.

That was, by the way, written entirely to provoke Huey. Don’t worry about it.

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I wonder (though not enough to go look it up myself) if they refer to the dessert or the cartoon character.

Some other items of note today:

The US Army is 238 years old, and it is Flag Day.

However, I keep reading “World Blood Donor Day” as “Wild Blood Donor Day” and getting kind of weirded out.

Here are the answers (that I’m aware of) from the quiz in the previous post. I’ll update as things are figured out!

Update @ 2013.05.28 16:26: All solved. Thanks to Noah and etherial!

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Some people claim this is a Mensa test. I have no idea whether or not that’s true. However, I think it’s fun, and thought you might enjoy. Also, I don’t know all the answers, and I know that you guys are smart. 🙂

I’ve given the first one as an example. The ones I haven’t figured out yet are in italics. (I guess I don’t make it in Mensa, huh?)

Also: No fair Googling. I coulda done that. 😉

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While having breakfast with sitz this morning, we ended up talking about the sailing stones of the Racetrack Playa. I mentioned that I’ve always felt a strong urge to go out there and paint the stones to look like snails.

This is a good idea, no? Once I’m able to travel again, I may need to find funding for this venture.

Yesterday, I stole a game from my friend Lee, and posted it to my own Facebook wall, hoping it might get a few responses. We’re now at over 70 responses, and they’re still coming in.

The rules are simple:

Take a movie title, and change something about it: remove a letter, add a letter, change a letter–whatever. Then tell us what the new movie is about.

You can see what’s been suggested so far via the link above, though you’ll probably have to be my Facebook friend in order to see the thread. You should totally join us, either on Facebook, or my blog, or LiveJournal. It’s fun!

I’ve been having fun this morning playing with wordles. I blame Martin Hannigan.