what i want to know is how i managed to escape the horrific hangover that i was absolutely certain would result from wednesday night’s inebriation. i want to know so as to repeat the process in the future, of course. even as i slowly sobered up over the course of yesterday morning, the worst that happened was that i was forced to work in a fully alert state [as opposed to that glorious blurry cheerfulness that comes with my favorite form of altered consciousness].

hey, remember yesterday when i mentioned the penny arcade halloween special shortly to be seen at gamespy? well, it’s up, and it’s absolutely delectable.

allow me, if you will, a brief moment to bitch. every morning i go to the store next to my office and get one of those little individual-serving cartons of orange juice and a luna bar - that’s my breakfast. so far so good. except that sometimes, there’s this one clerk there who never gives me a straw for the fucking orange juice. come on! there’s a big thing of straws right next to the register, and there’s a little straw-hole in the god damn juice carton - this is not something that requires a particularly deft leap in deductive logic! and so then of course by the time i get back to the office and realize the fucker was negligent in his straw-dispensing duties, it’s too close to nine for me to head back over there and, for example, open up a can of whoop-ass. hence my fury, you see. i mean, honestly.

so tycho’s been coming up with a daily dark monkier for me, a task to which he’s uniquely suited given his extreme linguaphiliac tendencies. i’ve pointed out a couple of these etymological gems here and there, but be assured these instances only scratch the surface, as it were. but so yesterday we were thinking that his challenge would be greatly simplified with a database and a little programming, and this in turn reminded me of wuname, which essentially does exactly that, except that it does so for an entirely different genre of nomenclature. slightly lesser-known but equally entertaining is the glam name generator. now, i could have sworn that i’ve seen a gothic version of this, but an exhuastive search on google yielded only dead links. does anyone else remember the page i’m talking about and, more importantly, have a link to it that they wouldn’t mind tossing my way?

i was reading the guestbook this morning and - what’s this? marilyn, you’re dressing up as me for halloween? this is something i absolutely demand to see pictures of, my dear.

speaking of pictures, i’ve taken some more now that i’ve managed to reanimate the digi. i left them happily downloading from the camera while i went off to work this morning, so with any luck my arrival at the odd-abode this evening will be greeted with the presence of some fresh and potentially piping hot new images.