July 3, 2009

Remember when I had a ridiculous beard whilst in Ecuador?

I videotaped myself shaving it into a smaller more respectable beard.

To be honest, I really don’t know who this appeals to or whether or not it is enjoyable.

I imagine the demographics this may appeal to are:

1) Ladies interested in what it looks like to trim a beard.. as their current boyfriends don’t have beards…. this upsets this demographic very much as they love beards so very much.

2) Gentlemen looking to pick up some tips on how to tame their face.

3) Girls with paramount crushes on me.

4) paul.dudevice.com

5) Get Up Kids fans.

enjoy.

I am on the mend, unfortunately my work computer is not! Unfortunately I lost a lot of excel work, fortunately it is Friday and a holiday in the states… it can be redone on Monday.
I am on the mend, unfortunately my work computer is not! Unfortunately I lost a lot of excel work, fortunately it is Friday and a holiday in the states… it can be redone on Monday.
July 1, 2009
The Renegade may or may not be the reason that I am sick.
Unfortunately, it is also the reason I live.
More to come on what this is, and why you should love it soon.

The Renegade may or may not be the reason that I am sick.

Unfortunately, it is also the reason I live.

More to come on what this is, and why you should love it soon.

Jail!?!

Today was the first day that I ventured out of my bedroom area since Sunday. That is a pretty long time to be confined to one space, but, when you are fevering it goes by rather quickly. It’s upsetting as I had some really fun things to blog about from the weekend and now i have completely forgot the intricacies of them. What really happened to me is blurred with all of the Mad Men and True Blood I watched while drifting in and out of feverish consciousness.

The worst part about the whole thing has been completely losing my voice (other than throwing up blood). Not being able to make 30-34 second internet jingles is really hurting me.

Let me tell you a story from the weekend and then yesterday:

When waiting to go for dinner on the weekend, a conversation went down as such:

Luke: OooOOh! I really hope we can eat on the patio outside.

Matt: Yeah man, I wonder if we could go down and talk to the lady there and see if she could hold one for us.

Luke: Yeah that would be great.

Matt: Yeah, maybe we could get her to do something like put our name in for the spot. Like, get her to write down our name and put our name in for the spot…

Luke: Yeah Matt, that concept already exists. It’s not called “put your name in” it’s called a reservation and it’s very common in restaurants.

Matt: Whatever dude, I call it “put your name in”.

Then it turned into a 3 vs. 1 make-fun-of-matt-fest for the balance of the night as we made fun of him for using the term “put your name in” instead of reservation. A story I loved… until 1950s diction proved Matt correct.  Mad Men Episode 02 of Season 2… Final 5 minutes… The term ‘put your name in’ was used instead of reservation and it caused me to enter a near fatal laughing fit.

FYI: the web URL putyournamein.com is still available to buy… thank me later.

It Pays to Have Friends who are University Professors

proflyons.tumblr.com correctly identified my problem with Daffy Duck being called Pato Lucas in Latin America from my post here

proflyons stated:

Luke, it seems that Spanish speaking people are as perplexed as you about this issue. My favourite explanation - Lucas is a spoof on ‘loco’, which means, roughly translated Daffy.

Thanks Pato Prof Lyons!

June 30, 2009
I apologize for the lack of updates.
I am remarkably sick… with a flu that may or may not be swine related.
Hope to be back soon.

I apologize for the lack of updates.

I am remarkably sick… with a flu that may or may not be swine related.

Hope to be back soon.

June 25, 2009

Did you know that in South America Daffy Duck is called ‘El Pato Lucas’? Pato means ‘duck’ so his name is basically ‘the duck lucas’. Whenever I talked to spanish people while away in Ecuador and I told them my name they would be like “Ohhhh PATO LUCAS”. Which I later learned was daffy duck..

What I don’t get is why they switched the name to Lucas. It’s not as if they did it keep alliteration in check. They had beautiful options in ’El Pato Paul’, ‘El Pato Peter’. or ‘El Pato Perry’. Why even switch from Daffy at that point? Why not be ‘El Pato Daffy’.. 

I would love to know why they renamed him what they did. If anyone knows anyone who worked for Disney South America in the 1950s please let me know.

I have enabled answers for this question, please let me know… Cher can you use your tumblarity to get this some legs? If not, terrible.

Do you know of any popular western characters renamed for different countries?

June 24, 2009
Regina Spektors new album is out! I purchased it on the 407 this morning on the way to work. I recommend you do the same… (on whichever highway you are on).
Regina Spektors new album is out! I purchased it on the 407 this morning on the way to work. I recommend you do the same… (on whichever highway you are on).
June 23, 2009
me trying to type right now is more awkward than this…

My left hand is dead..

and i can’t type with it. please hold while my body repairs…
June 22, 2009
June 21, 2009

Life without a Cellular Phone

My 2nd iPhone bricked on Thursday night when trying to update my iPhone with the new software patch. (bricked = was rendered useless after the update)

I did not have a phone all day Friday, it was interesting. I used this thing called ‘house phone” which you apparently can’t take in the car with you… or text on. Really strange.

I received a new iPhone from apple on Saturday at 2:30 and had a working cell phone until 6:30 when this iPhone was also bricked by the software update. I was scared to leave the house….

I spent the entire day today (Sunday) without a cell phone and it has been interesting. Those of you who know me know that I would rather wake up without a nose than without a cell phone. But, I am slowly getting used to it. Today I went driving and used this thing called “map” to navigate, and listened to these round things called compact disks in the stereo. When I left my house I left something called a note explaining that I had gone out and when I planned to return… all really weird stuff.

I have an appointment with apple at 8:45am tomorrow morning and am excited by the possibility of potentially being reconnected with society. 

June 20, 2009

This is the catchiest auto-tune the news yet…

I want to do this for a living.

June 19, 2009
I work with a nice young lady from Montreal named Jenny.
A situation involving her arose at work yesterday which had me in non-literal stitches:
It was another colleague of ours wedding anniversary and he goes:
“Hey it’s my anniversary today”
Jenny then looked soooo excited and was like “Oohhh how come you didn’t tell us! Give me a hug” and she gave him a big hug… then she was like “and a kiss” and kissed him on the cheek… and was like “two kisses” and then kissed him on the other cheek… and then was like “I can’t believe you didn’t tell us sooner”. I can’t stress the degree of inappropriateness that surrounded the hugs and kissed that went down.
Being analytical, I tried to comprehend why she was so excited about his anniversary. I knew she didn’t know his wife… and it didn’t really make sense for her to be so physically affectionate towards him on his anniversary unless she was trying to do some form of ‘tempt my colleague on his anniversary’ kind of deal.
Then, I remembered that she was French… and for those of you who don’t know french: Birthday in French is Anniversaire.
Bless her little French heart, she thought it was his birthday… she wasn’t a homewrecker after all.
We are going to the movies next week… on my wedding anniversary (or so she thinks… )

I work with a nice young lady from Montreal named Jenny.

A situation involving her arose at work yesterday which had me in non-literal stitches:

It was another colleague of ours wedding anniversary and he goes:

“Hey it’s my anniversary today”

Jenny then looked soooo excited and was like “Oohhh how come you didn’t tell us! Give me a hug” and she gave him a big hug… then she was like “and a kiss” and kissed him on the cheek… and was like “two kisses” and then kissed him on the other cheek… and then was like “I can’t believe you didn’t tell us sooner”. I can’t stress the degree of inappropriateness that surrounded the hugs and kissed that went down.

Being analytical, I tried to comprehend why she was so excited about his anniversary. I knew she didn’t know his wife… and it didn’t really make sense for her to be so physically affectionate towards him on his anniversary unless she was trying to do some form of ‘tempt my colleague on his anniversary’ kind of deal.

Then, I remembered that she was French… and for those of you who don’t know french: Birthday in French is Anniversaire.

Bless her little French heart, she thought it was his birthday… she wasn’t a homewrecker after all.

We are going to the movies next week… on my wedding anniversary (or so she thinks… )

June 17, 2009