I find some of this recession talk hard to believe, at least in Seattle’s retail industry. Every time I go shopping the past month, the parking lots are crammed to the limits and there are tons of people in every store. Here’s proof from the mall today.
About a month ago, I asked our admin assistant to order me something. Eventually I got an automated email saying the order had been placed. Then I got an email saying that the item wasn’t on the standard list of items our company orders, so it needed approval from a higher-level manager. Then I got a third email saying that it was finally approved.
Today I received a big package. I didn’t even realize that it was what I ordered until I opened it. Here’s the box:
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I’m running a round three to my new form of poetry. For those of you that didn’t read my previous posts #1 and #2 on this, the new version of Adobe Soundbooth comes with speech transcription, allowing you to take recorded spoken word and convert it into text on your screen. I wanted to know what it would do if I gave it a sound that wasn’t a human voice. So this time I took a sound recording of my garage door opening and then closing.
Editor’s Note: I took one one extra copy of the word “the” and I also added the line breaks myself. Other than that, this is exactly what it said:
The yen the euro and yen
do you think the league
the news the union the euro
and then in the eye
in the league and the unit
If I were to interpret this poem, I would say that my garage door wants to give the United Nations more power over national currencies.
Last night I hosted a Halloween party and it was a ton of fun. I posted two pictures on my Picture page. Here’s one, of some of the decorations.We played some self-made Halloween pictionary/charades, carved some pumpkins, and ate a lot of unhealthy food. I think everyone had a great time!
