Like I don't have enough to worry about concerning The Boy's future safety in the big, evil world, now I have to add sock stealing predators to the list. Thanks, world. Seriously.
Also, it would be nice if the folks making the dispensers for the foamy variety of bathroom soap actually constructed soap receptacles that, you know, DISPENSED SOAP without my having to get all kung fu fighting on their asses. I shouldn't be working up a lather while trying to work up a lather, if you know what I mean.
And those super cute "bubble goblets" from Crate and Barrel? Yeah, they hold A LOT more wine than you realize, particularly if you're used to drinking from garden-variety wineglass sized wine glasses. Which explains this morning's slight headache, and is a possible explanation for my inexplicably growing attraction to Tobey Maguire. I am such a hopeless geek.
Let me leave you with some friendly advice that comes from hard-won experience: If you get a coffee stain on your pants, and you think that you can just, you know, rinse it out in the bathroom, don't do it. Just live with the coffee stain. Because odds are that halfway through your "gentle rinsing," you will end up at the sink in your underwear trying to wrestle foamy soap out of the dispenser and then realize that your (light khaki) pants are VERY absorbent and that the "little spot" has now turned into a water-drenched crotchal area and that you have absolutely no way to get back to your office without everyone IN the office thinking that you left your Depends at home. So. Live with the stain, is all I'm saying.
Finally, I like Lileks best when he's screedy. I mean, sure, I relate to all the super-cute toddler stories and DirecTV travails, but sometimes I just want some down-home screedy goodness. And he's really good at it. Guess that's why he's paid to write and I'm paid to sit here in wet pants and attempt to learn php. Well, I'm not paid for the wet pants part, but you know what I mean...
Posted by Big Arm Woman at July 8, 2004 08:57 AMWhatcha doing to try to learn php? I was stunned to learn that my library has not a single PHP book in its collection! Isn't that weird?
Posted by: shell at July 8, 2004 11:29 AMLoved the Bleat screed. I showed the picture of Saddam and the twin towers to my kid, and was awarded with this limerick which she picked up somewhere:
While Saddam smoked a Cuban cigar
A whistling sound came from afar.
It blew off his ash
And left his mustache
And the rest you could put in a jar.
(But I'm glad that that's not what happened. A trial is better.)
Posted by: Laura at July 8, 2004 12:16 PMShell -
Thus far, I am doing my introduction via the For Dummies series: PHP and MySQL for Dummies, and the companion desk reference Apache, MySQL and PHP Web Development for Dummies.
Horribly non-nuanced, but as I am a dummy about these things, it's a place to start.
Posted by: BAW at July 8, 2004 12:35 PM