Thank you, Slashdot:

Amazon.com Sales Rank: 910

Cool morning:

- Half Mast reviewed on Slashdot
- Invited to be part of a panel at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival (April 13)

I like these new typing gloves, but they smell of bacon.

Baby pics by popular demand.

I can't decide if this is amusing or not, but the #4 link when searching for the word "murder" on Overture is Amazon.com.

In other news, I dreamed last night that my little brother built a nuclear bomb and tried to get a crazy woman to detonate it. I turned him in and he got upset, but my mother was far angrier about the whole thing.

At what point do we just give up and put the money in our mattresses?

How awful does this sound? (From LexisNexis PR update newsletter.)

Movieline
Movieline magazine will change its name to Movieline's Hollywood Life in May. The magazine will focus on lifestyles in Hollywood, which is evident in its current issue about the luxuries of stars. The title change is an attempt to increase circulation. For more information, e-mail Heidi Parker, editor-in-chief, at heidi@movieline.com.

More tales from the darkside.

Rilly nifty dialect survey. Link courtesy Kayte.

This guy's water trick helped me unclog a long-suffering toilet. Recommended.

Is this what the moviegoing world is clamoring to see? Incidentally, you can skip Spacey's current movie. Oh, and as a final tidbit of movie news, here's a lawsuit I can get behind.

If anyone knows where I can get some Munchos, could you please let me know?

This is the first time I've ever been quoted in the New York Times, I believe. (registration required)

She must spend a LOT of money on this habit.

Whenever I do a story like this, I always worry about the perpetrators hunting me down and throwing their wrath in my direction.

I think the audience should be the ones with "terror fears."

Thanks to Blogcritics for this excellent Half Mast review. Hope to see you all tonight at the reading! (Barnes & Noble, Oakland, Jack London Square, 7:30)

Spotted today: Lisa Marie Presley.

Whoa! I can't believe this is happening! Wired.com has the details...

Which is sadder:

- Playing penny slots at casino.
- Trying on "leather jackets" at Safeway.

In Tahoe this weekend. Tried jumping a ramp (one with a launch ramp, a landing ramp, and a big gap in between)... and landed in the gap. Ouch.

Meanwhile, here's the laziest job description I've ever seen -- someone cut and paste right from the off-the-cuff comments in their email.

Searching for clips, I discovered an article I wrote was actually used as course material for a business class at Dublin City University. Neither the article nor the class seem to be offered any more...

After eating two cheeseburgers yesterday, this link is strangely apropos.

Job of the day (as e-mailed to me):

Your professional profile, which candidateseeker.com has on
file, indicates you may have experience or know someone
with experience relevant to the following position. I was
hoping you might be interested or be willing to forward this
email to an associate who could benefit from this opportunity.

INTERSTATE BRANDS COMPANIES is seeking several
well-rounded Sanitation Supervisors for its Biddeford Bread &
Cake manufacturing facility. This position will require the
applicant to oversee supervision of 30 to 40 (2-3 crews)
employees responsible for plant sanitation, ensuring the plant's
compliance with food processing industry standards. The
successful applicants must be familiar with FDA and AIB
regulatory Sanitation requirements, supervisory experience,
and strong communication skills.

Geographic Location of Position: SOUTHERN MAINE
COAST

Saw the post on Gretchen's blog re: your next 10 in the queue at Netflix. Here's mine

Hands on a Hard Body
Marco Polo
God's Army
Scarlet Diva
Going My Way / Holiday Inn
Sayonara
Two Women
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Most Dangerous Game/The Vampire Bat
Fishing With John

No, Hands on a Hard Body is not porn. Get in line. Like everything else, it's Very Long Wait.

I finally got DSL today. Wow, what a difference. However, is it normal that sending a fax on the same line will totally hose everything and make you start from scratch? Because that's no good, really.

Challenger will always be "the big where-were-you event" that sticks in my mind, mainly because I was asleep when the WTC attacks occurred. I was a freshman in high school, in band class, rehearsing on the stage in the auditorium. A girl burst onto the stage and screamed, "The space shuttle exploded!" Everyone got up and wandered into the main band hall -- I don't being officially "dismissed" to do so -- and watched the news reports on the TV there. Everyone kind of hung out for an hour or so then drifted away. I don't remember if I went home or on to class. I do remember one guy with a clarinet. He sat in a plastic chair placed directly in front of the television and stared at it silently, his clarinet in his lap the whole time. He had excellent posture.