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And still alive! Feeling much better than yesterday. R and I never did hang out but that's just as well, I slept a whole bunch. And now I am doing laundry and putting off doing the dishes and my weekly Cooking Spree. To be fair, I've kept the flat pretty clean this week so I'm giving myself something of a pass, but the dishes definitely have to be done soon. And my baker's rack needs reorganisation before something collapses and there's a cataclysmic avalanche of SunChips bags and sugar cartons....

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Dear Google Chrome web browser,

Yes, you are very shiny, and you certainly have grokked the design concept and the operating concept behind Web 2.0. Nice homage to Mac operating systems as well.

On the other hand, you don't appear to be moving any faster than FireFox does, and while I am capable of living without the File menu I think you should know I'm going to miss it. Also, I would like all the customisation options I can get with FireFox, not just the ones you think I should have, plzkthx.

I'll give you a fair shake and all, but you're off to a rocky start. I don't buy a car if the hood is welded shut, sweetheart.

Love and kisses,

Sam

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A friend of mine recently started watching NCIS, so I thought I'd rewatch it in order that we might properly gossip about how Gibbs and Abby are doing it (or want to be).

I'm watching it streaming on a Korean website, with the original English dub but Korean subtitles. Some of the proper names and titles are in Western characters, which occasionally leads to amusing mistranslations:

DiNozzo: The scuttlebutt --
Kate: Scuttlebutt?
Gibbs: Marine for "water cooler gossip".
DiNozzo: The scuttlebutt is --
Subtitles: *ideogram ideogram ideogram* SCUTTLE BUDDIES.
Sam: *IS ROFL*

I feel as though I ought to get some hermit crabs purely so I could call them SCUTTLE BUDDIES.

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WHERE TO BEGIN.

So R buzzed my place this evening and asked if I wanted to go to Byron's and then play some Wheel, and I said YES PLZ.

On the way back, he said, "I have to show you something."

AND THEN HE SHOWED ME THIS.

Say what you like about the man, he has mad duckin' skills. We watched it like five times. In slow motion, in reverse...our mutually agreed-upon favourite part is when the translator reaches out for an interception of Shoe #2.

We were going to dive straight into Wheel, but Saturday Night Live had Hugh Laurie on last night, so we watched that; it was above the usual standard of SNL, though Laurie totally lost it during the Bronx Talk sketch. Fun to watch. Does he wear a hairpiece in House? Because they don't often show the back of Greg House's head, but they got some really shiny lights on Hugh Laurie's enormous bald spot.

Then, after Wheel...

"So I have a strange question," R said.

Nothing good ever comes of R saying that.

"What?" I asked.

"What's the name for...you know...fake pubic hair?"

Now it's sad that he asked this to start with, and more sad that I knew the answer.

"Merkin," I said. "Why on earth do you ask?"

"I was going to make a joke, but I don't think it'll work."

"Well, I know about it from costume history, and also all the jokes made about how George W. Bush is proud to be a merkin."

"So many jokes. Merkin Beauty."

"Merkin Pie!"

"Merkin National Anthem!"

"The Great Merkin Pastime."

"The Merkin Dream!"

"AND THEY ARE ALL," I announced, "PUBLISHED IN THE MERKIN TREASURY!"

We make our own fun. (I totally smoked both him and Bland at Wheel.)

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Oh man, I forgot the best part of this evening.

R: So who is this Laurie guy?
Sam: Hugh Laurie? He does House on American television, he used to do comedy in the UK. He's cool; House is into Blues music, and Laurie plays a few instruments, so every few episodes he'll be playing the piano or something.
R: This...this isn't the guy with the terrible blues band, is it?
Sam: What?
R: The guy who needs to pull his pants up.
Sam: *facepalm* No, that's Gareth David-Lloyd.
R: Is he on House?
Sam: No, he's on Torchwood.
R: The show with all the....*arcane gesture*
Sam: The...? *arcane gesture*
R: The show with all the gay.
Sam: Yes, Torchwood is in fact the show with all the available gay.
R: I didn't realise there was a shortage.

Sometimes I feel like some kind of cultural ambassador, but most of the time I just play "Guess the point at which this becomes a blog post".