Alien Nation

Top Five Ways to Alienate yourself over two time zones [...or how I my life is completely ridiculous]:
1) Have your mom find your "bizness" (see previous post)
2) Accidentally set your cell phone to the most annoying girly 12 year-old-girl pop ringtone, then get a call in a public place...like, oh say, at an airport gate.
3) When talking to someone in aforementioned public place, ask them how "The New Pornographers" show was. Then try to back pedal by saying that it's a great indie rock band as the crowd around you glares at you
4) Follow up aforementioned embarrassing phone call with getting completely engrossed in your book.....and not realize until waaay too late that your reading "Lolita". I think I heard someone actually cluck in disapproval. Damn puritans.
5) Wake up from falling asleep on the flight (after feigning for a while) and find your head on the "shoulder"* of the large man sitting next to you on the flight....he didn't notice I don't think (or liked it)....and I'm pretty sure he also didn't notice that I drooled on him a little (see aforementioned sweating problem)**
[*editors note: the writer uses the term "shoulder" loosely, in reality this region was more akin to his right back flank that was jutting into the author's seat]
[**editors note 2: this list could go on for hours but the author needs sleep/lick his wounds...further items would be, for example: 6) Come home to find that the roommates had shown cute girl visitors the author's [un-elicited] copy of International Male to them and told them he actively orders from there]

even more links:
Yum yum get me some polysheet instant whiteboards...no really, get me some.

feel miserable? especially after reading about my life? well, don't feel so bad, these folks are worse off. (see the cases on the sidebar) Schadenfreude.

Make your old digital camera into an IR camera (via MAKE magazine, new issue available at Amazone)

How to make ski's...you know, it case anybody has a friend that makes skis

A page on how to do stupid crap: most recently, how to make your own Jesus toast