Some a-hole totally stole my idea for turning a useless, redundant product with a dramatic and sensationalized commercial into an even less practical version of itself. Okay, so that sarcastic sentence kind of got away from me, but you’ll have to forgive me because the Snuggie for Dogs exists and what the fuck shit hell zomg come on now.
Guess I need to get a dog now.
I’ve heard that people in Seattle talk about weather more often than other places, so you’d think I’d exercise some restraint in this post but GOOD GOD IT’S FUCKING HOT IN SEATTLE RIGHT NOW.
From the KOMO weather forecast:
Today we will make weather history. Whether you’ve lived here for 3 months, 3 years, 30 years, even 70 years… today will be the hottest day you’ve ever experienced in Seattle. Our forecast for this afternoon is 101 degrees. That’ll break the all-time record high, which is 100 degrees (set 15 years ago in July 1994).
Of course, it doesn’t help that few places in Seattle have air conditioning, which means that we’re forced to get creative to stay cool (read: “hanging out” at QFC).
I’d write more for this entry but each moment I’m typing at my computer is misery. Everywhere that my body is touching someplace else is uncomfortable. Also, the rest of my body is uncomfortable. Fuck.
Filed under: Bored, Out and about, Seattle | Tags: DollHouse, I'm single, Twitter, zombies
Things that I have done since I last blogged:
- Participated in the world record-breaking
zombie walk in Fremont. What do you mean, ‘What’s a zombie walk?’?? What the hell do you think it is!?? - Had nightmares about zombies. Which, unlike my fear of robots, is totally silly.
- Re-watched the first season of Dollhouse. And now that I’ve started watching BSG, my attraction to Tahmoh Penikett is blossoming nicely into a creepy obsession.
- Received a pedicure. Sometimes I do things that girls do.
- Hung out with my family. Like, almost all of them, and at the same time. Remind me to tell you the pickle-slicer joke some time.
- Went Nathan Fillion hunting in Seattle Center. One of the many advantages of following him on Twitter. Didn’t end up seeing him, but I did toss the disc around with a couple of cute boys. I gotta go to Seattle Center more.
Things that I have not done since I last blogged:
- Read a book. Books have too many words and not enough television.
- Trained for my 10k. Which will be a lot less funny when I actually have to run it in a few weeks.
- Gotten a job. I don’t have a time for a job anyway, I’ve got too many shows to watch.
- Gone on a date. Who needs a boyfriend when I’ve got cake? Well, I ate all the cake already, but I’ll get some more. Or maybe I’ll wait for the cake to come to me. Yeah, I like that idea better.
And this is why. News from the future, via Geekologie.
My friends have been subjected to a lot of fearmongering about robots lately (mostly from myself, caused by a sudden and inexplicable yet totally rational fear of robots), and I thought I’d just post this video as a bleak reminder of what will become of us all.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
If you live in Seattle, you might remember the little ol’ lady from Ballard who dug in her heels when developers came a-knockin’. Having lived in the same house for nearly her whole life, Edith Macefield refused to sell, and development continued on around her home, leaving her the only house on a block of concrete. Clearly, Pete Docter stole this story for his movie “Up,” which I hear is pretty crappy anyway.
While Carl Fredricksen was based on the real-life Edith Macefield, Wilderness Scout Russell has no real-world counterpart other than the countless chubby annoying Asian kids I know.
If you don’t believe me, check out the image I found on Digg today called “Here’s UP in Real Life”…
