The typos in this post are so funny I cried.

This morning I glanced at my friends' Facebook updates and discovered the following:

• so ready for the weekend...


• First embarrassing brain failure of the working day: 9.49am.


• scribbling @ home.


• pondering the meaning of layogenic.


• still not caught up on sleep.


• trying to decide if he's going to come down with a cold.


• feeling blessed.


• got punched in the face by a stranger on the street this morning!

One of these statuses is significantly better than the others.

I was accused of being a little confrontational and harsh with my assessment that my friends' Facebook statuses are only about 10% interesting. That's not what I intended -- I meant to be very confrontational. So let me be clear: here are the 20 most recent updates -- and, depending on the amount of charity that I feel obligated to extend to my associates, there are somewhere between four and eight that are fully interesting pieces of writing. (So, fine; 20% to 40% interesting. It's still not a lot.) The remainder swerve between nearly-valuable information to not-quite-compelling gossip to why-are-you-telling-me-this.

That is to say: the healthy normal human reaction to nearly all of these tidbits is, "...and?"

• working
• two tickets for goldfrapp purchased
• applying ARG mechanics to virtual worlds
• transitioning back to the real world
• gonna make it through the day with Marlene Dietrich
• wants a choco taco
• prepping a sweater
• one day till spring break
• staying crunchy in milk
• blown away by Barack Obama
• in LA
• voting for American Idol
• never wants to see an Irish Car Bomb ever again
• there's a fucking queue for the bus
• in need of something fun to do
• working
• feeling crappy and the weather ain't helping his flu
• %$@%@$^$%.
• seeing Margaret Cho tonight
• went to a uconn law alum event last night

I know that the people with whom I am friends are capable of being interesting -- otherwise I would have ceased to be friends with them. But the Internet is a relentless dullifying machine.

I have just witnessed the greatest video on all of YouTube. I lose control of all bodily functions when it gets to "what about prom night."

Because they won't consider us married, the IRS got to tax me & the boy about five thousand extra dollars in 2007.

Of my friends who use Twitter or update their Facebook status, only about 10% actually write anything interesting.

Yesterday, I got a response to a Muni complaint that I filed on January 24 -- that's a lag of 41 days between complaint and acknowledgment. Here's a new one; I wonder how long a response will take.

Hi,

This morning at 9:25 I observed two 21 buses performing their runs while bunched immediately adjacent to each other, with no gap in between. The vehicle numbers were 5602 and 5551. Stricter schedule enforcement on this line would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Here's the house where my parents were living when I was born:

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And here's the back yard:

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I love all the vintage fabric reproductions that you can get at ReproDepot. In fact, I'm having a hard time choosing what to get. Should I purchase the "Wranglers" print?

... or the "Wizard of Oz Dorothy Rainbow"?

My favorite thing about that Wizard of Oz one is how one of the Dorothies is glaring angrily at another.