A Little Poem to Live By

“When troubles fall within your dish,
And things don’t tally with your wish:
It’s just as well to laugh as cry–
To sing and joke, as moan and sigh;–
For a pound of sorrow never yet
Cancel’d a single ounce of debt.”

Joseph Plumb Martin 1777

Some Goals of Mine

I’d like to eventually be embedded with the troops. I want to report on war. I don’t care how many press credentials I need for this type of thing — really. I have this weird, almost ridiculous desire in my gut to see the worst of things. I’ve been like this since I was younger, always wanting to go to the worst neighborhoods in the city to see what it was like. Working in the News industry and talking to colleagues who have done it makes me want it even more. Reading about it, watching it on TV… I can’t express how badly I want this to happen.

First – I want to go to Gaza at the moment.
Second – Afghanistan.
Third – Iraq.
Fourth – Africa.

Even though I’m probably the last person anyone would want to go – I’m beginning to feel incredibly strongly about this.

Sarah Palin On SNL

Sarah Palin is scheduled to make an appearence on Saturday Night Live this week. Lest I remind you what happened to Hillary after she made an appearence? Rock on Sarah! You go girl. Make sure everyone knows you can take a joke — thats the way to win the election for McCain!

Joe the Plumber’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame

During last night’s presidential campaign, Joe the Plumber, or Joe Wurzelbacher from Holland, Ohio, was mentioned more times than the war in Iraq. Why? What does a small town plumber have to do with the big time issues in this presidential campaign?

Mail Goggles: Possibly the Coolest Thing Ever

If you don’t have a gmail account, it’s time to get one. Recently, google labs added an application to prevent you from sending emails you shouldn’t be sending (cough cough) drunk emailing (cough cough). When activated, mail goggles makes you do math in order to send an email from 10pm – 4am on weekends. The setting is customizable, so if you are a weekday drinker, a morning drinker, etc, you can tell it to quiz you whenever you feel you need it most. Also – the quizzes come in different levels of difficulty, so if you suck at math, don’t worry level 1 isn’t too hard. If you are good at math when you’re drunk, set it to level 5.

This makes me miss AOL’s unsend feature a whole lot less. Google rocks.