burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness

( neuroticism and crypticness )

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This afternoon at work, my cell phone rang, and it was an HBS number that I recognized, though it didn't occur to me until afterward that that's 'cause it was my number.  (I do know my number, but it's not like I'm used to seeing it come up on Caller ID.)  In a bad computer-generated voice it was "This is Joss Whedon.  Will you marry me?"  Even without being able to make out the name, I knew it was clearly from Eric (who else knows both my work and cell phone numbers?).  He and Katie came by a couple minutes later to find out if I'd answered it :)  (His computer was being worked on, so he was up next to Katie for a couple hours.)  Apparently this comes from dialpeople.com (via bored.com)

There have been times when I've watched/taped something and come back to the living room later and noticed it was still taping and stop/ejected it.  I didn't check after VMars on Tuesday, though, but when I went to swap out the tape this morning I saw it was already ejected.  It had played to the end.  I put it back in, rewound, and found it had taped NBC.  wtf?  (Yes, I checked and the timer setup was for the channel my tv tells me is CW.)