The kitchen sink in our new place still doesn't work. After two weeks, we're still washing dishes in our bath tub, which is starting to feel real 19th century-like. The handyman guy who the landlord was gonna have come by today is absent, and we can take it any longer so we're going to hire someone ourselves and then deduct the bill from our rent.

Can anyone on estrip recommend a plumber they've had good experiences with?

Boss wants it done, but
Each new feature requested
Moves the goal posts back.

I had this dread today that someone who I knew was on board the plane that crashed.

An hour or two ago I got an e-mail from my synagogue mailing list informing us that our cantor, Susan Wehle, died in the crash. I didn't know her very well, but she was a lovely person, had a beautiful singing voice, and was very enthusiastic about her job. She was the person who would have done the blessings at Ari's bris if the Rabbi weren't around last April.

We'll miss you, Susan.

Every time I hear talk for/against the stimulus package, this video I saw a year and a half ago keeps playing through my mind.



I hope for all our sakes that President Obama will be careful to strategically place bacon in the right areas to fix the economy and not listen to stupid people who would dilute the spending into powerlessness.

I'm at Duff's right now my car's getting some maintenance. And while I am looking at my plate of wings I ponder one of the great mysteries of life: why is something as bad for you as wings almost always served with celery? I've never understood it. Are you supposed to eat the celery and then pretend that it balances out the enormous amount of fat you've put into your arteries? Or is there some more sinister purpose for this bizarre paradox?

Confirmation that I'm not some weirdo for being intensely annoyed by the Toyota Commerical.

Right now, I am laughing so hard that my stomach is aching and tears are rolling down my eyes. I almost never laugh this hard this genuinely.



Yeah, I guess I do have a really odd sense of humor.

I turn 33 today. In an effort to avoid writing a haiku and to waste more of (e:paul)'s bandwidth, I will post my results of hitting up wikipedia for all significant 33's.

33 is the largest positive integer that can not be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers. It is also the smallest odd repdigit that's not prime (unless we consider 1-digit integers to also be repdigits).

33 is the eighth distinct biprime comprising the prime factors (3 > 11). Its aliquot sum is 15; itself a discrete biprime (3 > 5) in the following Aliquot sequence 33,15,9,4,3,1,0. (Note 33 is the 8th composite number to descend into the prime number 3, the others outside of this sequence being 30,26,16,12) Since 33 is a semiprime with both its prime factors being Gaussian primes, 33 is a Blum integer.

The sum of the first four positive factorials is 33. Adding up the sums of divisors for the 1 through 6 yields 33. 33 is the smallest integer such that it and the next two integers all have the same number of divisors.

It is also the first member of the first cluster of three biprimes (33,34,35); the next such cluster is (85,86,87).

Since the greatest prime factor of 332 + 1 = 1090 is 109, which is obviously more than 33 twice, 33 is a St�rmer number.

3 is the first number that repeats in Pi, making it 33.

33=00+11+22+33

The atomic number of arsenic

Messier object M33, a magnitude 7.0 galaxy in the constellation Triangulum, also known as the ]] object NGC 33, a double star in the constellation Pisces

The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -1982 August 2 and ended on -485 January 17. The duration of Saros series 33 was 1496.5 years, and it contained 84 solar eclipses.

The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1662 May 22 and ended on -364 July 10. The duration of Saros series 33 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 lunar eclipses.

Fastest number on planet earth.

The number symbolizes truth (33)

This number has the meaning that good will always triumph over evil.

Lag Ba'omer is a minor Jewish holiday which falls on the 33rd day of the Omer

Jesus's age when he was crucified in 33 A.D., according to many, though not verified historically.

In the religion of Islam the Muslims believe that the dwellers of Heaven will be existing eternally in a state of being age 33.[citation needed]

The number of innings played in the longest baseball game in history (a 1981 minor league game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox in Pawtucket, Rhode Island).

Retired numbers of former basketball star Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and former baseball star Eddie Murray.

Number of retired hockey goalie Patrick Roy.

Jersey number of baseball player Justin Morneau in honor of hero, Patrick Roy.

Jersey number of basketball player Patrick Ewing. The number was retired on February 28, 2003 by the New York Knicks.

Jersey number of basketball player Scottie Pippen. The number was retired on December 9, 2005 by the Chicago Bulls.

Jersey number worn by Redskins great QB Sammy Baugh during his record smashing time in the early years of the NFL

Number also worn by Grant Hill and Alonzo Mourning.

Kerry Earnhardt's Nextel Cup Series number for Richard Childress Racing sponsored by Holiday Inn

Race number of MotoGP rider Marco Melandri.

Race number of New Zealand Speedway driver, David Foxall.

Worn by Detroit Red Wings Own Chris Draper.

On most occasions, the traditional number of racers in the Indianapolis 500

In reference to gramophone records, 33 refers to a type of record by its revolution speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute. 33s are also known as long playing records, or LPs. See: 78 and 45

The best-known car number of retired NASCAR driver Harry Gant

A significant number in modern numerology, one of the master numbers along with 11 and 22

A song by the Smashing Pumpkins on their Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album. Also a song by Coheed and Cambria on their The Second Stage Turbine Blade album (the songs are not related)

The title of the first episode of the new Battlestar Galactica television series

In French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese, the word a patient is usually asked to say when a doctor is listening to his or her lungs with a stethoscope (Trente-Trois, Trentatr�, Treizeci şi trei, Treinta y Tres and Trinta e Tr�s)

The code for international direct-dial phone calls to France

A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually

A website has devoted research in sightings of the number 33 at: www.uc33.org

The number printed on all Rolling Rock beer labels

Number of maximum European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System credits that Instituto Superior T�cnico's students are allowed to achieve throughout one semester

The namesake of the private club, Club 33, located in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.

The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry has 33 degrees.

Number of victims, including the suspect, that were all killed at Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007.

The double triangle is another word for, "33."

33 were Uruguay's national Independence Heroes that liberate the country in 1825 from the Brazilian Empire, they are popularly known as "Treinta y Tres Orientales" (The Thirty-Three Orientals), one of Uruguay's national states and its capital city is named " Treinta y Tres" after them.

A religious image of the Virgin Mary from the XVIII Century is known in Uruguay as "Virgen de los Treinta y Tres" (Virgin of the Thity-Three) consecrated by Pope John Paul II in his visit to Uruguay in 1988.

2008 is the first time in 33 years that the United States has sent a satellite to explore and orbit Mercury (January 15, 2008)

Progressive Metal band Meshuggah releases their album "Catch 33" in year 2005.

In 2008, musician Teddy Geiger gives clues to fans about his new single, "march" which dropped March 3, or "33". In late May he announced 33 brand new songs that his fans could choose from to create their own album, called TG33.

In 2004, Los Angeles Rock group 33DEGREE released the 5 volume CD-set titled "regret the heredity", which is an anagram for Thirty Three Degree. The bands logo, shoes, and website all emphasize the number '33'

'33'(three-three) is an Nigerian produced brand of beer.

33 number worn by Redskins great Sammy Baugh

N.A.S.A's Pathfinder lands on Mars, location 19.5� N by 33.3� W, on July 4, 1997.

The number 33 appears in the occult by manipulating numeric data associated with events like the date, time, degrees, and much more. With basic math and specific obscure methods, the number 33 is teased out of the data, and such an event could be regarded as mystical deviation or attributed to an esoteric agenda.

The number of the French department Gironde

In a previous relationship several years back, I had the experience now and then where I dreaded the breakup, but when I contemplated how I would actually feel if we did break up, I felt a sense of relief. Especially when I actually got near to the point of breaking up a few times.

Being an employee of a business can be very much like being in a relationship. Things are getting increasingly dysfunctional at work right now, and my mental quality of life is being seriously diminished. To the point that I nearly forgot to pick up my son at daycare today. While I won't go into details, I'm feeling very much the same way I felt several years ago about this person that I dated.

The last several halloweens (with the exception of my sparse elf-hat appearance at (e:ladycroft)'s halloween party two years ago) I've attempted to go make an usual costume making use of a well-known cultural reference that is not typically the subject costume design. Two years ago, it was a "have a nice day smiley face". Last year it was "D*ck in a box". I wanted this year to go as the freecreditreport.com pirate complete with guitar, but the time constraints of new fatherhood make that unworkable. I'll still do something that's unique and a cultural reference, but I guess I'll have to settle for a bit of cop-out this year. It won't be great, but it probably won't make failblog.org