July 26, 2004
Join Clan, Earn Meat!
If you're cool then you probably already know about the Kingdom of Loathing. But if you're less cool, like me, then you may have yet to discover this wonderfully wacky waste of your work time.
In the KoL, I am a disco bandit named Didofoot and I am wearing bugbear pants and a ravioli hat and I have a pretty good amount of meat for my level (the unit of currency in the KoL is meat). You, too, could have a fine large store of meat. All you have to do is create a character! What could be easier! Healthy and fun!
I blog about this because I want all the CH people to join and then we can form our own CH clan and pool our meat and buy cool stuff, like a gym! Also, I don't think we're nerdy enough with just the blogs and the group website. I'd like to be a higher level of nerdy. I'd like to be twelve nerdy. So join up, people. In the largest nerd gathering in the internet world*, Cement Horizon cannot be found wanting!
*arbitrary measurement with no basis in fact
Posted by didofoot at 01:09 PM | Comments (19)
July 23, 2004
The search for the mythical ombudsman
Didofoot wrote:
Hi,
I'm a student looking for an ombudsman to talk to about some academic concerns I have. Do we have such a thing at Unnamed University?
Thanks,
DF
Unnamed University Outreach wrote:
DF -- We're confused. Are you a Unnamed University student? Or are you a prospective student needing general information about Unnamed University?
--Unnamed University Student Outreach Services
Didofoot wrote:
Yup, I'm a Junior at Unnamed University. I looked on the website but couldn't find an ombudsman, so do we have a similar position on campus?
Thanks,
DF
Unnamed University Outreach wrote:
DF -- It all depends on what aspect you have your academic concern with. If it's concerning your major, you would need to contact the department chair/dean. Or if you already have contacted the department chair/dean, then you would contact the Dean of your college. Or if it's concerning an academic issue with a student affair, you would contact Dean Blahblahblah.
Hope this helps and good luck,
Unnamed University Student Outreach Services
Didofoot wrote:
Hi,
Actually, I'm specifically interested in talking to a neutral third party rather than a representative of one of the departments or a staff member. Don't most campuses have a resource of this kind?
Thanks,
DF
Unnamed University Outreach wrote:
DF -- Hmmmm....Unfortunately, the University does not have a neutral third party, but if you need to speak to someone in confidentiality, then Counseling Services would be able to assist you. They can be reached at 415-555-2208 to set up an appointment. Or you could probably contact the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at 415-555-2206 for assistance.
Again, hope this helps.
--Unnamed University Student Outreach Services
Didofoot wishes she wrote:
Hi,
Yes, that would help very much if it in any way addressed my need. But as it is, no. Not remotely helpful to me. Nevertheless, I'm sure there's not a grain of truth in all the jokes floating around campus about the staffers of Unnamed University being utter jackasses.
Thank you for my time,
DF
Posted by didofoot at 02:35 PM | Comments (9)
July 21, 2004
Jump, lady, jump.
I passed some firemen on the street yesterday and we eye-flirted. I thought about how if there was a proposition to cut funding for the fire department and the SFFD held a parade to raise public awareness and they asked me to be one of the scantily-clad girls on the float, I would. Because I think they are pretty great, mustaches and all. By the time I got to the Lad's door I was mentally leading the other float girls in a pro-fireman cheer to the crowd, but I could only rhyme "your house in ruins" with "Newsom's goons" and I was worried that Sean might be in the crowd and be disappointed in me for writing such a terrible rhyme. So then I tried to invent a verse about how this is the fire department, Sean, not the Pentavirate, but I couldn't rhyme anything there either.
Before this, I wrote a song for the Lad which does rhyme excellently as follows:
My pumpkin bread
My peanut shell
My parakeet
My pimpernel
Sometimes when he is working away on the computer and I want him to come to bed for heaven's sake I lean my head over the edge of the loft and sing it to him with various different tunes that I am trying out. He really likes it.
Posted by didofoot at 12:46 PM | Comments (1)
July 16, 2004
We are nihilists, Lebowski
The baby-mama at work had these little candy bars made up for everyone with all the baby info (name, weight, birthday, etc.) on the wrappers. It is an adorable non-cigar item which I was really looking forward to eating, but it turns out there's an etiquette to this. Apparently, to some of the women in my office it's as wrong to eat the symbol of a baby as it would be to eat the actual baby.
The thing is, I would eat a baby if it was made out of tasty milk chocolate*. But announcing this fact did not go over as well as I had expected. So now I'm just sitting here staring at this chocolate bar which will slowly melt or go stale, even as the soul of the baby will gradually melt away to nothing or grow stale from disuse as he gets older and is forced to grind away 24 hours of every week in a thankless government job which torments him with chocolate bars he is forbidden to eat. Curse you, Adulthood, and the treats you promise but never deliver!
*whereas for the Lad a garlic bread baby might be more appealing.
Posted by didofoot at 02:37 PM | Comments (6)
July 12, 2004
And you thought no one would remember...
Stay nobody, birthday boy.
Photo brazenly stolen from CB himself.
Posted by didofoot at 09:16 AM | Comments (2)
July 07, 2004
Dom DeLuise said it best.
Our sweet dog Roxie got cancer recently. She got sick very quickly and was in pain and not going to get better, so on Wednesday last week we did the hard thing. She was the best dog and we miss her.
Roxie with Dad and the Moms
Posted by didofoot at 08:33 AM | Comments (16)
