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Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon, USA, 750ml
October 7 at 12:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Master Distiller from only the finest maturing whiskey. Long years of slumber in the oldest surviving aging house in the Commonwealth have produced a bourbon of exceptional depth and character, with a complex, full-bodied taste and uniquely smooth finish. Since its inception, Woodford Reserve has developed an international following, culminating in its coveted Gold Medal award at the 2001 International Wine & Spirits Competition in London. And it is already the best selling super-premium bourbon in Kentucky, the homeland of bourbon." - MikeAmundsen via Bookmarklet
ok, i see chocolates, wine, even puppies. figured i'd toss in my vice-of-choice when i need to unwind. cheers, y'all! - MikeAmundsen
I have a bottle at home and with the weather turning it's time to put it to good use. - Eric @ CS Techcast
he-he. i keep a bottle in my bottom desk drawer here at the office. every friday @ 5:30 i pull it out for a short relaxation before heading to the bus for home. - MikeAmundsen
+1 Mike. I would be fired, but it still might be worth it. - Eric @ CS Techcast
@Eric: well, we have a very small shop (six). i get a few chuckles if anyone is still hanging around. offering to share has mitigated any animosity, too[grin]. - MikeAmundsen
Damn dry campuses. :-P - Jill, Superhero Librarian
@JMShoes: LOL! - MikeAmundsen
Nom nom - RachelW
I drive past the exit for Woodford Reserve every time I am home. I keep meaning to stop in to see what I can get in their gift shop. - Alan Simpson
I was in Louisville last weekend & didn't get a chance to visit any distilleries. *pout* - Amanda
@Amanda: they have a whole 'tour' thing going now. Also, you can do a 'pub crawl' of a set of bars that feature bourbon. for me, this is a bit too 'tourist-y', but i bet it can be fun. - MikeAmundsen
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a message
“I ask my lil bro, "What the hell are you doing here?" He says, "Well, you see, when the bell rings after 7th period, we all go outside and get on a bus, which eventually drops us each at a spot close to your homes." *sigh* my family never gives straight answers. LOL”
October 1 at 11:40 am - Link
hahaha, great response ;) - Nicholas Kreidberg
*chuckles* - Kamath ॐ
That's great! - Matt Hilton
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Shey posted a message
“For the last company picnic, Management decided that due to liability issues, we could have alcohol, but only one (1) drink per person. I was fired for ordering the cups.”
For the last company picnic, Management decided that due to liability issues, we could have alcohol, but only one (1) drink per person. I was fired for ordering the cups.
October 1 at 6:26 am - Link
ha ha!! no refills! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
+1 Susan lol - Shey
hilarious! - Jasmin Smith
LMFAO!! - ♫ Rahsheen™
ha - Cee Bee
Shey, you've a grown man crying from laughter. Thank you!!!!!! - Matt Harwood
Two Girls... - abacab
HILARIOUS! - Nicholas Kreidberg
Need one of those for my Diet Coke! - Josh Haley
Anytime Matt! :) - Shey
LOOL - LarchOye
That's great. LOL! - Trish R
aww man, that's brilliant! :) - Zee.
OMG, My liver it's complaining already.. - George The Writer
Aren't those the specimen cups for the company drug test? - Scott Kitchen
Genius! - Kevin Bondelli
I think that kind of foresight and planning should deserve a promotion - LarchOye
still making me laugh! I want those cups! - Jasmin Smith
Lol - Flippity
Totally funny. - Daniel Schildt
Great idea! Reply sent - Shey
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Top Ten Complaints of the Geek Wife
Top Ten Complaints of the Geek Wife
Top Ten Complaints of the Geek Wife
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September 23 at 9:29 am - Link
"10. He wants me to dress as Yeoman Rand every Halloween. Seriously? She's a Starfleet petty officer and she doesn't wear pants? And the wig too? They wear bouffant hairdos in the 2260s?" - RAPatton
"9. Yes, I know who Yeoman Rand is. That's actually in my head along with the fact that she was played by Grace Lee Whitney who was let go after only eight episodes, and all the factors that played into her being let go. This is occupying much-needed space in my brain. I think about this each and every time I forget where my keys are." - RAPatton
"7. I have to sit through endless arguments with his friends on who would win in a fight between Aquaman and the Sub-Mariner. Apparently, that's the only crossover super-hero battle that can't be settled with "They wouldn't fight, they'd be friends." Trust me, I've tried it." - RAPatton
"1. When I said that the children should take up an athletic hobby his suggestion was "Broadsword". Now I get to bus the kids from church to the Society for Creative Anachronism on Sundays. Try explaining the SCA to the minister. I dare you." - RAPatton
Sub-Mariner would kick Aquaman's ass. Aquaman was a pussy. - Jason Carreira
I have seriously considered getting my kids into both archery and fencing :) - RAPatton
SCAdians and churchies have a heckuvalot more crossovers than there are super-heros. Your kids will be much better balanced for having lived the SCA experience :) PS I always felt SCA should allow real battles, with live blades and sharp pointy arrows, bruises don't scar as well as punctures, contusions or lacerations (or broadsword wounds) - AaronTheLibrarian
do it RAP. i used to fence in HS. it was fun. i was thinking of joining my local fencing club. - Anika Malone
I think I would start with archery. I almost did the classes last year, but other sports interfere and I don't like overloading the kids. One activity at a time is enough. My youngest has an interest in archery, I would have to drag my oldest and get him to try it. I suspect he would be better at it and would enjoy it. An added benefit of archery, is I can take the classes with them. - RAPatton
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Mark Trapp posted an entry on Mark Trapp. Blog.
September 22 at 7:00 pm - Link
I was just talking to Mike today about the "one-way" friendship... I might feel I have a real connection from reading someones content on say, Friendfeed.. and they might hardly know I exist! :) Nice job, looking forward to future posts. - Tim Hoeck
Thanks, Tim. As much as people deny the connection between online friendship and real friendship when asked point blank, I think there are common elements to both that allow for almost equivalency: being a bad friend online is the same as being a bad friend in the real world. To take what you said: unrequited or non-reciprocal online friendship stinks just as much as unrequited friendship offline. - Mark Trapp
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“OOOH season premiere of criminal minds Weds. And they didnt kill of Shemar Moore. SCORE”
September 21 at 11:59 am - Link
Do we know who? I am thinking the blonde with the Cajun boyfriend - Candy Schwartz
They showed her looking pretty pitiful on the ground, it might be her. She was whiny and boring anyway, so I wouldnt mind. - ωαřмaiden
Wasn't it JJ? It sure looked like her in the previews. - Trish R
Maybe she'll just be horribly damaged and live but have to leave the show so they can bring in someone with some energy and, um, character. - ωαřмaiden
I would not mourn the loss of that character. I assumed it was her because they played up her pregnancy announcement and the boyfriend in the last episode. - Trish R
My money's on the dark-haired girl. Emily? As long as it's not Reid or Garcia, I'm fine. - Nine
I *love* garcia. And Morgan. Anyone else can be murdalized and not affect my viewing much. - ωαřмaiden
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September 19 at 6:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
In honor of Pirates Day.... - Amanda via Bookmarklet
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ωαřмaiden posted a message
“I wonder if the world would explode if Hillary just pointed at Palin and said, "You have got to be kidding me."”
September 18 at 11:16 am - Link
I would seriously love to see that. - joshua m. neff
Yarr twould matey - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
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September 17 at 12:25 pm - Link
God this pisses me off. I'm Catholic and a Democrat. The Pope does not control whether I go to hell or not. Geez! - Melissa Kiser
easy Melissa! the Panzer pope hears you talking like that, he'll excommunicate you, and *then* how will you talk to God?? ;) - ωαřмaiden
Apparently he DOES. LMAO I love moral imperatives. They make everything so clear cut and easy (said with heavy sarcasm). ;-D - W!cKeD
Well, if you go to Hell, you get to hang out with me. I'll save you a seat in the cafeteria. - joshua m. neff
Ive always told my friends that i have a handbasket reserved with my name in gilt on it - ωαřмaiden
@Melissa +1 - anna
WarMaiden: one of my gran's fav sayings...:) - WorldofHiglet
Nobody gets to claim the fastlane to the hot place before the W!cKeD - W!cKeD
If that is the argument, then the same logic should apply to supporting the death penalty. Or a war the Vatican has determined to be unjust. Be consistent, people. Sheesh! - Wayne Loftus
I remember he pulled this shit back in 2004 and it didn't scare me then either. - Melissa Kiser
Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket? - Abigail (Hε₫§εhσ§ ĺﺃβ)
Ummm, the article doesn't actually give any evidence that supports what the headline is claiming. - Amanda
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FUNNY PETS: Cute baby panda twins
September 15 at 2:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
OMG nomnomnom - ωαřмaiden
tree/red pandas. cute - Cee Bee
I think Otto would LOVE it if i brought home a baby pandabear... - ωαřмaiden
I want to wear overalls and carry these guys around in the front pocket for a while... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I wanna dunk them in my coffee. If I drank coffee - ωαřмaiden
Double Panda Power!! - RAPatton
Red Pandas are the cutest animals on earth. Seriously. - Rachel R.
Super cute! - Abby Martin
Just makes you saw AWWWWWWWW! - Jill, Superhero Librarian
aww man, they're adorable. - Zee.
I want to give birth them! - MLx
wow. you realise what you'd need to do to make that happen right...? And this is Panda's we're talking about. - Zee.
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ωαřмaiden posted a message
“PR pal at University of KY reports gas just hit $4.75 in western KY. Holy shite.”
September 12 at 10:20 am - Link
Am thinking her planned road trip to Nashville w/her man is going to be cancelled. - ωαřмaiden
We're at $4.85 in Springfield IL - Amanda
great, hope it goes to 10, it is the only way we will redesign our transportation system - Gregory Lent
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Meredith Farkas posted a message
“Ok, am officially horrified by Freshmen's lack of ability to spell. In grading assignment, found words like "magnit" "benefishal" "enviromint". WTF?”
September 12 at 6:51 am - Link
though, to the credit of Freshmen, many of them can spell things just fine. - Meredith Farkas
You'd think that "digital natives" might be familiar with spell-check. - David Rothman (☤)
I dated a girl who was very intelligent but a horrible speller. She consistently spelled "bowls" as "bowels," which never failed to crack me the hell up. - joshua m. neff
The first day of my 4th year English Honors class in HS, my teacher gave us a pop spelling quiz. When she returned the next day, she asked how I expected to get through life with such poor spelling skills. I told her by using a dictionary. - Amanda
I think the problem is that they're too familiar with spell-check. They had to do this in-class w/o their computers. - Meredith Farkas
Maybe they're writing their papers in lolspeak? - Karin Dalziel
(If I had to write a paper w/o spell check, I'd be embarrassed about my misspellings. I never have been good at it, and thank god for spell check.) - Karin Dalziel
I can haz diploma? - Sprague D
I've had to stop my subscriptions to online dating sites because I can't stand the misspellings and general illiteracy. (Yes, I judge strangers I havent met on their ability to woo me with text) - ωαřмaiden
spelling ability is not genetic. Ms 13's spelling is absolutely atrocious - DJF via twhirl
As long as the person in question recognizes that his spelling is atrocious (Yes, I had to look that word up to check the spelling), then I wouldn't be too worried. - Amanda
@Warmaiden, when I was on online dating, I used spelling as a great way to weed out people I didn't want to write back to. If they can't make the effort to write well in an email to me, I'm not interested. - Meredith Farkas
I once graded exams for a music appreciation class (ie. easy A if you show up). In a class of about 500, I gave 3 students a zero out of 100. One complained, so I asked the prof to grade it. He gave the student a 3 out of 100. It really jaded me as to how much a percentage of students see university as a game to test the limits of B.S. - RyaП Ðeschamps
Maybe they're trying to be Melvil Dewey. - Katy Southern
For the record: I did spell "atrocious" correctly on my own, but I did ask google to confirm it when I thought it didn't look quite right. - DJF via twhirl
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“What's your favorite word that's not actually a word ?(ginormous, interwebs, etc.)”
September 12 at 7:24 am - via Ping.fm - Link
automagically or absosmurfly - AJ Kohn
cromulent - Mo Kargas
I like "bnick". It's just a word I made up because I liked the sound of it: http://www.urbandictionary.com... - Grant Fitzgerald
nerdgasm - Johnny Worthington
Coolio. - Bonnie Dean
+1 for embiggen - Laura B. is for Bleagh
Neato Completo - Tad, better than boredom
Craptastic. Beautimous. - ωαřмaiden
"Blorf" is the word my wife and I use to describe how we feel at the end of a long day. Best accompanied by a large exhale of air and a nice glaze over the eyes. :) - Nathaniel Payne
Boxen to refer to more than one computer. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Chocogasm or automagically. - Yolanda
omg chocogasm. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
gonna go have one of those RIGHT NOW. check my feed for details. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
favoritist...As in 'this is my favoritist book' - Amanda
...crap-tastic... - JA Castillo
mentalist. - Iain Baker
There was an ice-cream van that used to drive around Edinburgh with the slogan "We're everybody's flavourite". I like that. - Grant Fitzgerald
Hatiest (as in most hated). Cromulant. Embiggen. Specifiction (specifications that are faked because no one knows what it's supposed to do). - Nine
my fave words date back to 6th grade: ginormous, craponastick, idiotstick, craptastic, absotively., sheeple...we used to have so much fun making up words. it's cool to see they're in everyday use. - Anika Malone
Automagically. - Roberto Bonini
Betterer . - Zee.
lol - Olivier
Alot, as in "a lot". Growing up it was a constant misspelling, but then became a trademark of sorts. - Michael W. May
funner *runs away* - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Intergoblins. Scourge of the internet who run around and steal your money and lint. - Jennifer Dittrich
Doucheknob - Steve Isaacs
Wrecktastic. My new fav - Jezmynne Dene
automagically, craptastic - jönαthaη via Alert Thingy
Also kwyjibo. - Laura B. is for Bleagh
@laura Kwyjibo! My favorite scrabble word I've never been able to play. Aptly defined by Bart Simpson as "a large north american ape with a balding head and a short temper" (or something along those lines) - ROFL - Carlos Granier-Phelps
Actually, "niters" ties with "alot" for me. - Michael W. May
+1 Jonathan - my exact 2 word choices! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Strategery - Dave Martin
conversate; yada ...as in "yada, yada, yada" - .LAG
woot, bleh, meh - Lindsay Donaghe
"fantabulous" - ♫ Rahsheen™
gynaherpasyphalaids - Amber Horner
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ωαřмaiden posted a message
“I always highlight that with library databases you can do research from home with no pants on. I just received student email saying "I started tonight and haven't been able to get the Illiad to work from home (I've tried it with pants on and off)."”
September 11 at 7:00 am - Link
Seriously. I love my students. - ωαřмaiden
Excellent. - joshua m. neff
Proves they're semi-listening to me at least :) - ωαřмaiden
lol. I would love to see you teach! - RudĩϐЯaЯïaȵ via twhirl
He gets at least 5 points extra for that, I'd say. - Yolanda
I would love to see you teach as well. Record yourself, for the common good! - Karin Dalziel
Ha! Great student. - Låura Harris
What was the ILLiad error? Mind telling the guy that might fix it? :-P - Jason Griffey via twhirl
@Jason - not sure if it's an ILLiad error or user error - he'll come visit my office adn we'll see what he was doing - he didn't describe in email. When I find out, you'll be first to know :) - ωαřмaiden
@WarMaiden: Will he be wearing pants? - bentley
@bentley - ooh, unknown! - ωαřмaiden
too bad he isn't really trainerboi - Katy Southern
10 points if he's cute - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
I'' let you all know when he makes it in. (@Katy - I've offered to proof trainerboi's papers for him :) ) - ωαřмaiden
@WarMaiden: You need to recreate all the original variables, after all. - bentley
Hey, pants/no-pants is an important factor to consider, right? - ωαřмaiden
she/he gets 5 points - Geoff Schultz
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September 8 at 8:25 am - Link
I love her smackdowns :) - Abigail (Hε₫§εhσ§ ĺﺃβ)
by the book. - W!cKeD
It'd be hilarious if Rochelle sent her the "larger PLs" thread from yesterday to see what she'd do with it... - Dorothea Salo
i can do that! maybe some day i'll get a straight answer. ;-) - r0c43LL3
Rochelle: you certainly won't get a "straight" answer from her ;-) - DJF via twhirl
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Advice for New Indexers - Amanda
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September 5 at 8:02 am - Link
wonders how all those faith-based initiatives would get done sans community organizers... - RachelW
Amazing that community organizing seemed to work for the founding fathers of this country so why couldn't it work again? Seems that Obama even thought he is an eliteist-wimpy-no governing experience-terrorist-leftist-pinko-out of touch guy has more in common with the founding fathers than John "I want you to let me clean up My mess" McCain. - ♫baldgeekinmd aka mrcarb♫
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10 Movies Needing a Muppet Remake | Geekdad from Wired.com
10 Movies Needing a Muppet Remake | Geekdad from Wired.com
10 Movies Needing a Muppet Remake | Geekdad from Wired.com
September 5 at 5:53 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Have you ever considered just how funny a lot of movies could be, if only the producers had cast Muppets instead of humans?  I mean, if you think the Terminator movies couldn't get any more awesome, imagine them with Animal playing Schwarzenegger's role.  Hear Animal saying "Come with me if you want to live" in your head, and try not to laugh. Now that you've got the idea, here are ten cast lists for movies (including that one) that would be made awesome or even more awesome by the replacement of the core actors with Muppets:" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
Scooter as Marty McFly - casting perfection. - Patricia Hanrahan
A scary amount of thought and Muppet lore and knowledge went into writing this... - Michael W. May
This just makes me want to go back to California Adventure again so I can watch Muppets 3-D for the eleventy billionth time. - Jason Toney
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“oh i see, being the boss means being the crutch for those who dont want to make decisions.”
September 4 at 12:24 pm - Link
Damn tootin! That's why we are here, right? ;) - Robin M. Hastings
Get an "Executive Decision Ball". "Better not tell you now" "outlook hazy" - Orphan Spinster Librarian
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searches for photos of people - Amanda
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