Spills

I am constantly spilling liquids on myself, on furniture, on other people...I could go on and on.

So I am going to log all of the spills I have made.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Spill (S) 1: tea on table @GroundCentral. Small.
S2: tea on sweater @GroundCentral. Small.
S3: Coke Zero at work. Travel mug top loose. Small.
S4: Coke Zero at work. Travel mug top still loose. Small.

Good luck!

Photo by Joseph Steinberg (Baltimoron in Korea) 

September 26 was Chuseok, which is the major harvest festival and a time to honor your ancestors It's an important holiday in Korea. It's like Thanksgiving, but instead of turkeys and Festivus, you have what's called dduk, visit your ancestors' grave, drink some soju and if you are unlucky, have Festivus. It's important to eat dduk (or tteok) during this time period because it gives you good luck for the rest of the year. I haven't had any dduk yet.

 I also missed having miyeokguk (seaweed soup), which you have on your birthday and is also for good luck. So, my luck is low right now.

I better get eatin'.

Maru in boxes

The Scientist Who First Theorized That Earth Had an Inner Core. Oh, and the scientist was a woman.

Inge Lehmann 

Google posted a doodle in honor of the birthday of Inge Lehman, who theorized the existence of the Earth's inner core. She. Was. Awesome.

I don't want to discount her amazing findings and life work, but I am very annoyed that we have to celebrate women who were brilliant scientists, theorists, whateverists. I am annoyed because there should be many women in the sciences. So many that we do not have to point it out. Let's get the girls started on the sciences early and nurture their abilities. 

My pal Sophia Yen is a co-founder of SheHeroes, an organization that provides videos of accomplished women in STEM. Check it out.

From Wikipedia:

Inge Lehmann ForMemRS (May 13, 1888 – February 21, 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who postulated the existence of an Earth's inner core.[2][3] In 1936, she theorized from existing seismic data an inner core with physical properties distinct from the outer core's and that Earth's core is not a single molten sphere. Seismologists, who had not been able to propose a workable hypothesis for the observation that the P-wave created by earthquakes slowed down when it reached certain areas of the inner Earth, quickly accepted her conclusion.

(c) Google 2015

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Socks in one color

8 Surprising Productivity Hacks That Will Blow Your Mind (And Help You)

Maru & Hana making bread

This kneading cats do before they get comfortable (including the circular walk before laying down) is baffling. One of the theories is that they are recalling pressing on their mothers' to increase milk production. Which just goes to show that we all, animals and humans alike, have patterns of behavior that help comfort ourselves.

Regardless it's damn cute.

Here's famous Maru & Hana kneading bread. Of course, Maru sleeps where he's most comfortable. I won't spoil the ending.

It was NEVER a dress

I <3 this campaign

It was NEVER a dress

(c) axosoft

According to the website:

It Was Never a Dress is an invitation to shift perceptions and assumptions about women and the audacious, sensitive, and powerful gestures they make every single day. In science, technology, arts, mathematics, politics, houses of worship, on the streets, and in our homes, insightful women are often uninvited, overlooked, or just plain dismissed. Through storytelling, community building, innovation and creative disruptions, It Was Never a Dress will foster necessary conversations, vital voices, and images from around the world that honor ALL women. When we see women differently… we see the world differently! Stay tuned and keep disrupting.

ROCK ON!


#itwasneveradress
itwasneveradress.com

A messy mind

This explains why I eat crap but am very creative :) Your Messy Room Might be the Sign of a Brilliant Mind

Invisible girl

I tried not being on Facebook and turn my focus on my blog, http://girlladyfriend.blogspot.com/, with links on Twitter and Facebook. I was getting wrapped up in the "news" (some real, some about cute pets) people were sharing and not paying attention to the outside world and my thoughts.

I lasted about three weeks. Not bad, I think.

I am still not on Facebook a lot.

However, I've been watching a lot of crime dramas, especially ones where there are cyber crimes (e.g., CSI: Cyber [horrible, but I'll watch anything], Scorpion). And FB is watching. So is Google. Everyone really is watching. It's impossible not to be followed. I have become a bit paranoid about it all because I was one of the people in the Anthem hack (I feel like everyone I know was on the Anthem list). I also know someone whose SSN was used and the hackers/thieves submitted a tax return in their name. 

First, that's horrible. Second, why submit a return? Like they are going to get THAT much money back? I just do not understand it.

So, now I am trying to mellow out about Big Brother watching. It's inevitable. 

That being said, if you don't hear from me on FB, don't feel ignored. It's because I am hiding in my post-war bunker.

Yay - More "name" Coca Cola bottles!

The Coke bottles with names are coming back and they are adding more names, which I learned from Ad Age. This is one brilliant campaign. I definitely increased my soda intake (which was non-existent) just because my name or someone else's was on the bottle. I am so influenced by advertising. It's a good thing I don't have cable.

On my way home

Happy Birthday, Tour Eiffel!

Floriane Marchix—Google

Happy Birthday, Tour Eiffel!

Snow on Friday, March 20. Snow expected Saturday, March 28. Seriously?

Yes, area codes in NYC do count

In today's New York Times: "Manhattan Area Codes Multiply, but Some Still Covet a 212"

(Shhhhhh...I have a 212 cell phone. Don't be jelly.)

Funny subject line

I got this email from WebMD with the subject line:

Cheese: What You Should Know

This subject line makes me think of emergency situations, zombie attacks, hurricanes. I wonder if it's zombie cheese.

Watching the Detectives...

I don't watch reality TV. I can't stand it. And it's not because I am being above it all, feeling superior to the raging idiots who want to be on reality TV. I know that there are some great reality shows out there with really great consequences for the people on the shows. I love Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson; and Nene Leakes turned out to be pretty damn funny as a comedic actress (granted she is just playing herself). But the other shows make me angry. I know there are a million actresses out there who want to make their mark, but is being on The Bachelor going to get you to the next step?

The real reason I don't watch reality TV is it makes me really nervous/crazy to watch those shows. I mean, the Amazing Race and Project Runway give me heart palpitations. Just thinking about them make me overwhelmed with stress. American Idol/Dancing with the Stars/The Voice take too damn long to get to the point. Dance or sing and then judge. Stop it with the bios and sad stories in between, and what's with the two days to get around to kicking people off the show? That just makes me want to throw things at the TV. Which would be bad because then I couldn't watch what I really do like: criminal dramas.

I am a crime show addict. If there is blood, people standing around waving neon lights to show traces of blood, or chasing serial killers and their minions around a dark maze of a bunker, I am there. I don't watch all of them and some come and go, e.g., Law and Order and its clones. But they are the bloody meat and potatoes of my TV watching. But I do realize the flaws in these shows. All of them are not conducted like real cases. I mean, no detective in her right mind would wear 5" heels and designer clothes running after perps like Beckett on the show "Castle" and why don't these people where booties when they enter a house where a murder took place. And why are they always touching things without gloves on?

Of course it's TV and not reality. Which is why I like it. Give me a good story. Let me suspend belief and reality for a while. There is one thing about these shows that I can't ignore. These police procedurals make it seem as if there are millions of serial killers out there. According to some stats I looked up (which probably alerted the Feds) there are possibly a couple of thousand worldwide. Of course, there are probably many who haven't crossed anyone's radar. But not the impossible number which Criminal Minds have identified and caught each episode. But of course, it's TV. Suspended belief. Except for the Following - that show seriously creeps me out.

In Cleveland at Big Fun

I went to visit my bro, SIL and nephews in Cleveland for T-day and we went to this place called Big Fun, which was big fun.

Before Big fun, we passed this hair salon called Crazy Mullets.  AWESOME NAME!

Big Fun is a store chock full of fun things. Hence the name.  Big Fun.  Reminded my brother and I of Spencer Gifts, which turns out is still around! 

The window had an AT-AT holiday window.

And someone bought this hat while we were there.

And I couldn't help myself.  I bought Oriental Barbie.

Second office move

So when I first started working at my job I had an office by myself with a window. And I was told early on I would be moving to cubical land. But then I got into this office which I shared with a very funny lady.

And we had a window. But hierarchy being hierarchy we got moved to cubicle land.

So now I sit at at D. Sigh. I think I need to print a giant window for this corner. 

New Year's Cards Past

Every year, I have created New Year's cards which have a bit of a twist.  As I find more (I am still digging out bags of the past), I will post them.

In my neighborhood, in my neighhhhhbooorhoood!

In your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
Say, who are the people in your neighborhood?
The people that you meet each day...

...who put this awesome sticker on the back window of their car.