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26 October 2005

Have you ever made notes to yourself... that make perfect sense to you, but would be baffling/amusing to others?→[More:]

Notes on my desk right now:

ELVIS CHRIST! Stubbed my vagina.

The Bees - Chicken Payback

Last phrase of Radiohead tune - soprano descant?!? Sectional Sunday.

Tim - Pat peeled you too

post by: Specklet at: 12:54 | 24 comments

ELVIS CHRIST!

My Post!!!

posted by matteo 26 October | 13:05

I tend to write lists of names as notes to self. Thus a list of: Mike, Deb, Steve can mean "email Mike, find out the name of that author to recommend to Deb, and buy nail polish (for Steve's wedding)"

posted by gaspode 26 October | 13:06

some excerpts from a text file on my computer i use to keep notes. taken as is.
--------------------------------------------------

cans. eg: bottle
lingering objectives presence?
sex chat for alien face huggers would be funny.

Taking night shift is a lesson in humility for an ungrateful child.

tilt web page 16 degrees

Why don't air conditioners have handles on them? Mine is a perfect cube. weighing at about the same as a stereo set and a speaker. It slides from my hand like a brick slides off a pizza.

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It goes on and on like that. I understand it perfectly.

posted by joelf 26 October | 13:07

oh i found this little gem:

But isn't that life?
for every enemy, theres a friend. and every person that has ever laughed at you has laughed with you inspiring someone else to laugh with you both. - why aren't i making pornos yet? that would totally rock.

posted by joelf 26 October | 13:12

1460
Sou En (J-food)
13th/univ

TRENDEES!

CREDIT ON BOTH APPLICANTS
...PROVING INCOME

JOE 1 no broker
poss 2 mo security

--

Somos Boricuas - Bomba y Plena en NUEVA YORK
.......-LOS PLENEROS DE LA 21
Bombaso - Grupo Afro Boricua
Ethiopiques, VOL. 7!! ere mela mela

Grapevine/Via Bus Stop
(Eliani 917-xxx-xxxx Thurs or tomorrow)

PAYROLL
perlorian

11th b/t A&B.......81x65xAT

posted by Hugh Janus 26 October | 13:24

Does the fact that I think that "The Bees - Chicken Payback" is about me make me self-absorbed and/or paranoid?

I have a note on my desk that says "Goat CDs NOW."

posted by mudpuppie 26 October | 13:47

I have a running text file where I jot things down, some (possible) highlights:
-- Ervin "after hours"
-- Measurements pensacola
-- differences between gauche and water color
-- Avoid this case by being an existing user w/ a cookie.
-- must write my own "un-written" rules of art, otherwise no guidance.
-- Get bob in on the conversation.
-- IS THIS MORE CURRENT THAN THE ABOVE
-- Week 12: shout out to gary....
-- bold on the date. Also, it's a book review.
-- schweet! I must do an emoticon portrait.
-- ziggi the punk rocker (917) NNN-NNNN
-- All bugs from last week have been addressed and delivered.
-- ’ = the curly apostrophe
-- new mix tape: subject = daily slog of the work week
-- ABC-10 Fuse.
-- birth, school, work, death
-- /* BEGIN test for netscape to fix slight cropping */
-- MetaChat: served with beer.

posted by safetyfork 26 October | 13:59

most of the notes on my desk are left by my boy, or are for class, so they are thinks like:

The difference between rabbits and pirates is that I never had a rabit named Cabin Boyarrh.

14-3-5

964-xxxx

D.G---- 19/25 HW3

Pretty intelligible, I think.

posted by muddgirl 26 October | 14:02

My Post!!!

Yep. Hee hee...

Does the fact that I think that "The Bees - Chicken Payback" is about me make me self-absorbed and/or paranoid?

No, you're not, and it's not about you. But that is so funny in light of our conversation that it should be!

posted by Specklet 26 October | 14:10

safetyfork:

MetaChat: served with beer.

oh, yeah!

posted by taz 26 October | 14:20

All bugs from last week have been addressed and delivered.

heheh

posted by joelf 26 October | 14:21

"Stubbed my vagina" is a Sarah Silverman quote, I think.

posted by jrossi4r 26 October | 14:46

Made me look at old notes. Mostly crap, but I liked this one:
"• freeranging selfpriming obsession device"
Motto!

posted by pliskie 26 October | 15:34

No, 90% of my notes are full sentences. Maybe that's why I am not more productive.

posted by Eideteker 26 October | 16:50

yes to the other version of this question
and yes to this except, i'm in fart joke territory and anything lacking easy access, geneality to the proletariat, and egregious self deprication is frowned upon.

posted by ethylene 26 October | 17:10

eth, you are unintelligble.

posted by Specklet 26 October | 17:22

and eating meatloaf

posted by ethylene 26 October | 17:34

I should write more stuff down.

One of you needs to remind me to open a retirement home for rock music fans. Out in the country where we can be loud, with kitties and coffee and beer. And really cool posters and t-shirts.

Any investors interested?

posted by cali 26 October | 17:48

for specklet: in general, jokes around these parts tend to go over best when they are of the "get 'er done" and "you know you're a redneck" variety.
except my friends who know about the dirty fork.
etc.

will stop commenting now.

posted by ethylene 26 October | 17:55

I abandoned post asking eth to ...share... because "the proletariat enjoys a good fart joke." It didn't seem as light hearted as I meant it, and I like ylene. It seems to me that abandon a lot of posts like that. Anyway, now that a dirty fork is involved I'm just begging for the sharing. 'Course, I'm headed uptown to see Chris Ware and Charles Burns now, so I'll have to check ya later (said in my best D&C: Slater voice).

posted by safetyfork 26 October | 18:17

I don't do post it notes, but here's the first line from the first few pages of my current notebook.
- Impressions, she thinks are everything
- and books - not leather
- For bric-a-brac that says
- in kibbleworth they put a statue up
- headlines in the local rag
- Cllr Davies - hundreds of years
- That year I never answered
- And I, not knowing what side my bread's
- home should be a church
- Claire Pollard - attempt at beauty poem ??
- The time you squeezed 8 pounds
- And every burnt out question sounds
- Sun between your toes
- In the parallax curve of a slow motion whip
- 2nd division writers for second division publishers
- Reincarnated as beaver - loosely defined rules

posted by seanyboy 26 October | 18:20

- Reincarnated as beaver - loosely defined rules

Yeah, so, that basically made my day.

posted by Specklet 26 October | 20:02

I normally dont write notes like that , but i do write down odd phrases at conferences and seminars.

Here's some from a recent conference:

the frog's dilemma
parasitising the attractiveness
mosaicism
system frozen in time
fossil language
attractiveness research
warp scores
fewer dimensions than traits
dispersal is a creative force
genetic swamping, genetic rescue
self compatible
ill-behaved regions
serpentine miner
leaf-mining guru
cue transfer
casual trait
engineered focal males

posted by dhruva 26 October | 22:00

I'll take "Engineered Focal Males" for a hundred, Alex.

posted by taz 27 October | 04:40

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