Photos of the day

I love peaches.
But something about peach skin makes my skin crawl.

Photo of the day

The color here doesn't quite do justice to the electric shade of blue that shines down when making coffee on my office's single-cup machine.

I feel like I'm making the coffee ... of the future!!

Like a good game, a good conversation can be pleasant for everyone

Hey, it's been ages since we've enjoyed an educational film together at The Velvet Blog.

Here's "Ways To Better Conversation," starring Meryl Streep and Dakota Fanning.



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Sorry, did I say Meryl Streep and Dakota Fanning? I meant, "Starring nobody."

(From the AV Geeks collection.)

A unicorn? A Laz-E-Boy made entirely of quarks? An entire field-dressed moose? A monkey (finally)?

I see via the Blogger interface that yesterday's post was The Velvet Blog's 1,300th. I'm really not sure what the traditional gift is for that, but I'm sure it will be very special. You'll think of something.

Oh, and the rest of SNL sucked

I know this is posted in a gazillion places, but, hey, it made me laugh.



We already knew Tina Fey looked like Sarah Palin, but, wow, she really has the vocal inflections down. (Amy Poehler ... eh, not so much.)

Still, the cafeteria is supposed to be outstanding

From a story I just edited:

The Google model involves having employees use 20% of their time for innovation. They test and grow projects. Some are nurtured and provide the company with revenue. Others are killed off.

"Do no evil" my ass.

You can can give an Earl Scheib paint job to a '76 Gremlin, but it's still a '76 Gremlin

On behalf of the magazine where I am copy chief, I'd like to retroactively apologize for this cover image, which ran in July 2006. Obviously, if we had known that two years into the future the Republican party would trademark the concept of lipstick, we would not have used it.

(Yes, it's a tech magazine. ERP = enterprise resource planning. It's ... it's ... um ... software that helps you plan resources for your enterprise.)

(Punkinsmom has some lipstick info here.)

I'm disappointed that the super-dupercollider hasn't ripped a hole in the space-time continuum, thereby turning the Earth into a puddle of gray goo

Is that wrong?

Alternative folksy sayings that The Velvet Blog offers up to the Obama campaign

--You can smear mayo on a poop sandwich, but ...
--You can can give an Earl Scheib paint job to a '76 Gremlin, but ...
--You can have Meryl Streep guest star on According to Jim, but ...

Northern exposure

Boy, it's like a banana republic with polar bears up there.


(h/t)

It's enough to make you plotz

Quotation of the day, regarding Asif Ali Zardari's controversial run for the presidency in Pakistan:

It's very common in Pakistani court systems that to avoid appearances in courts you produce medical certificates that are not really kosher. --Pakistani political analyst Shepcap Mahmoud on NPR's Morning Edition, Sept. 5

That's just meshuggeneh.