Jamaican me crazy!

Craig: Will you have dinner with us at Los Tios?

then

Craig: Will you come to Jamaica and shoot our wedding?

Eeeeeeee, I'm going to Jamaica in April!! 

then

me: I'm going to Jamaica!
Justin: I'm really happy for you and imma let you finish, but...I kinda hate you. In the most loving way, of course.

me: I guess I should renew my passport.
Collins: Haha, lasagna...Lasagna = maaaybe.

me: Chef, may I have two days off in April so I can attend Craig's wedding?
Chef Armstrong: No, because you have to expedite at Eve for me.

Mark: I wanted to send you a video of Oprah giving away trips like a madwoman, but I found this. It is way better.

One should always lead with food analogies.

Collin: You always test before the code goes into production. If you don't, you're asking for your customers to have a buggy, non-working experience. 

me: How do you test? 

Collin: Usually coders have three “environments”: development, test, and production. Development can be anything, but test is supposed to be just like production, except only the developers can see it. You write test cases that put the code into a certain state and ensures that whatever you ask the code to do - you get the results you expect. One of the metrics programmers use is code coverage, which maps what portions of your code (line by line) are used in your tests. One of the major coding paradigms is “Red Green Coding”, where you write the tests first, and they fail, then you go back and implent the features until they pass. This keeps you from faking passing tests. 

me: (vague idea of what he's discussing, but horrible flashbacks of my programmer/IT days kick in and mind starts to shut down)

Collin: It's like greasing a baking pan before cooking, rather than saying afterwards, “I meant to leave that stuck to the bottom.”

me: Ohhhhhhh. NOW I get it. 

(via text, after he made this sweet dancing gif of us dancing)
Collin: Finding a picture of you looking at the camera took the longest.

I'm racking up a nice little gif collection:
Dancing with Justin
Dancing with Meaghan

Who's next!?

The Hipster Dictionary

[via text]
me: (via I was just wondering about Facebook's new chat system) Wtf is this shit on the right hand side of my Facebook?
Collin: That thing on Facebook is a new thing. "New things are cool until more people know about them." - The Hipster Dictionary.
me: Oh no, hipsters have a dictionary? Is it sponsored by Moleskine?
Collin: Yes. And Natural American Spirit cigarettes.
me: Of course.

Enabler! Enabler!

What happened to this? Hmm?

Intellectual Gluttony

Each title was a single text. You're lucky we didn't take it to Twitter.

Me: Book noodle soup. Alice in Wonder(bread)land. War and Peas. Catcher in the Rye Bread. The Lion, The Witch, and the Watermelon. Angela's Apples. Lord of the Fries. Lord of the Onion Ring. Anne of Green Beans. Huckleberry Pie. Goodnight Moonpie. Pride and Pork Belly. The Kale Runner. The Importance of Being Edible. Tuck Everlasting Gobstopper. Uncle Tom's Cornbread. One Hundred Years of Spaghetti. Bury My Heart at Wounded Niçoise. Captain Corelli's Mandarin Orange. Memoirs of  Gumbo. Love in the Time of Chicharrón. The Lovely Oxtail Bones. Bridget Jones's Diner. Oliver Twist of Lime.

Collin: Book choy salad. The Old Man and the Sea Salt. The Telltale Artichoke Heart. Harry Potter and the Oven of Fire. Encyclopedia Cooktanica. The Grape Gatsby. Frankfurterstein. The Holy Batter. The Cornran. The Book of Kelps. The Adventures of Tom Strawberry. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Creme Brulee. Much Fondue about Nothing. The Merchant of Veal. Two Gentleman of Vino-na. A Christmas Casserole. David Copperfield Greens. Julius Caesar Salad. King Leek. (Country) Hamlet. The Taming of the Soufflé. Bearnaise Wolf.

Fiddy Moon

me: oh no, not the toe names.
Collin: And amazingly the kid didn't go insane.
me: I actually think Dweezil is the most normal of the names.
Collin: That's true. Although Moon is probably common among hippies.
me: Yes. But they added Unit to the end. That's hippie gangster. G Moon. Fiddy Moon.
Collin: "I'm gonna bust a flower into that gat, yo."

Collin: Oh! #vina2011 is trending worldwide right now.
me: oh shit, I am famous.

Hello, my name is vina and I am a tumblaholic.

me: I thought of a new tumblr. video vina, to post all the videos that I like.
Steph: just go down the whole V section in the dictionary. 

So the current tumblr head count is: 

• via vina
• viva vina
• vain vina
• video vina
• verbose vina
• I was just wondering
• Lucky Lemonade 

Collin: Have you considered a single "multimedia vina" blog, then tagging based on content?
me: No, I like organization.
Collin: But that's what the tagging does.
me: No, then it wouldn't be a v-something vina tumblr.
Collin: various vina
me: Ah, dang. That's a good one but no.

I created you!

me: He changed the password on Contemptuous Collin!
Meeks: :O what a hater.
me: I know! I landed him a random follower too.
Meeks: You should make another blog now. (Enabler! Enabler!)
me: Cantankerous Collin. Nah, he said he'd change it back though he doesn't have to.

Collin changed back the password. He's oh-so nice and not actually contemptuous (unless you are communist).
Nah, he'd probably still be nice.

It's not enough to have seven of my own..

Hey, remember that time I started a blog as a joke but then actually began to maintain it?

yeah..

You'll never shut down the real vina!

me: verbosevina.tumblr.com
Collin: I want you to swear on Helvetica you're done making blogs, or I'll make a greasemonkey script to change them all to Comic Sans.

Well, that's just mean! So I made Contemptuous Collin when I got home.

but then Collin posted this. Touché.

I think I'm good on new tumblrs for now though Bates gave me the lovely idea for vernacular vina. Ah, damn.

We'll see.

“jquery:  
the snooty version of jquestion.”

Collin 

Collin: If a tree falls in the forest while you're listening to Coldplay, do you lose indie cred? Yes.

hello hello.

Last Thursday's big-ass thunderstorm + thunder + power surge = broken cable modem, broken car cd player.

Sad times. I do, however, manage to update my tumblr every day on other people's computers. Skillz.

Comcast has given me a new modem though I haven't been home to install it.

Side note, if you are are in the DC NW area today, you are welcome to join me (and kennedy. and bates. and brittle.) for some Durkl block party fun.

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

photo via flickr

me: why in the world did you take five photos of Collin's crotch?
TJ: hmmm I guess it looked nice.