adverbing weirds tacos

Have you noticed that Taco Bell now has "melty cheese" in their new burrito or taco? It's good to explain that it's not hot melted cheese and it's not cold, unmelted cheese. But melty.

And Jack in the Box has "melting cheese." Just a little odd.

andrews stick together

All though school, there had always been more than one Andrew in my classes. As of a few months ago, my soccer team contained 2 Andrews and an Andy.

According to the Social Security Online website (www.ssa.gov), Andrew was the 28th most popular baby name in 1975.

What's interesting is that in 1985, Andrew was the 11th most popular and remained in 11th place in 1995. But in 2005, it was the 6th most popular name. It's actually gaining in popularity.

In any case, my current workplace will have 1/4 of the employees (3 out of 12) named Andrew.

It's always nice to know that Andrew's around.

step onto the bus

On Wednesday, I start work at trails.com in downtown Seattle. The last time I had to use the bus to get to work was my job at Food Services of America when my car died. I've taken the bus to work once-in-awhile when I worked at Microsoft but ultimately, it was easier, and usually quicker, to drive.

...Now at FSA, as we called it, you would occasionally hear murmurs through the halls about food in the test kitchen. Sometimes you'd hear that the pears are available. There are three grades of pears available at Food Services of America, you know. Apparently the difference is great. Just ask Justin about stacks of white american cheese I took home or Colleen about the months worth of blue corn tortillas I gave her (and the equal amount I brought home.)

One day, as I was headed towards the bathroom, someone I didn't know said "dude....check it out...HAM!" and he had a big handful - not kidding - of ham. So people were going nuts for this ham. I felt like maybe I should get some since it was going like gangbusters at the FSA test kitchen.

On the way home, on the bus, I had a big ziplock bag full of ham. And I'll tell ya what, people kept staring at the guy with all the ham in the ziplock bag...

trivia night (revisited)

Last week, the trivia team came in first, beating the next team by 2 points - the first time we've come in first since we started playing every week. It was pretty great - we cleaned up on the basketball round and local geography. (Q: Which street goes uninterrupted from from Lake Union to Elliot Bay? A: Madison -- we answered Jackson)

There wasn't even a Simpsons round. David & I got a perfect 10/10 on this one from a little over a year ago:

1. Jasper Beardley (I think it might have just been Jasper...)


2. Dolph


3. Dewey Largo


4. Poochie


5. Troy McClure


6. Cleatus


7. Professor Frink


8. Captain McCallister (must have McCallister)


9. Snake


10. Uter

what are your asks?

While at Microsoft, I encountered an odd trend. In meetings, you would hear:

What are your asks?

or

I've been tasked to do...

The only response I have is this Calvin & Hobbes comic:

open-umbrella-poking-eyes-out-phobia

I don't have a fear of umbrellas.

I do, however, have a fear of the metal things at the end of the umbrellas poking my eyes out. Many umbrella-carriers will wave the umbrella around at eye-level.

I don't know if I was poked as a kid or if the phobia developed as I got older - when I grew into the right height where an umbrella thingy can poke my eye.

skittle bunny

skittles rabbit commercial. that's all i have to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HEF49nMsM8

can you hear the drums

Do you ever get, I don't know, Fernando by ABBA stuck your head all day because iTunes keeps 'randomly' choosing the same song?

For the past several years, all it takes is a phrase or two from that song and I'll be humming it all day.

This was particularly bad when passing by a former coworker's office - his last name: Fernando.