Mimi Smartypants tells the World

Mimi’s is another blog I started reading years ago. Her style and format are completely unique and even though a little dated (code-wise), that too has become part of her style. Careful! You’ve been warned — if you visit the Smartypants blog, you’ll be trapped for hours. You’ll say, “just one more entry, then I’ll go to bed…” And then it’ll be 4 in the morning.

Her book is just like that. I’m currently half way through and that’s because I stayed up half the night unable to put it down. The book is candid and brilliantly humorous. She’ll make you laugh at things we shouldn’t (even if you feel guilty about it), because we’ve all commiserated about the same things and she words it such that you can’t help it. I haven’t laughed so hard while reading a book since the last David Sedaris collection.

In her blog, Mimi Smartypants has gone from single Chicago bar hopper to adoptive mother of Nora. Regardless, the wit remains. It really doesn’t matter what Mimi ruminates about — you’ll love it anyway and ask for more.

* but recall my warning.:)

Team Zissou ~ MN, Freshwater Chapter

Nico and Tiff — Team Zissou ~ MN

Okay — this is just brilliant. I loved the Life Aquatic movie and had no idea we had a local chapter of the Zissou society. I think I may have to inquire about this unpaid internship.

Learn more here.

New things on goobertech!

There’s new stuff to explore.

I’ve finally gotten around to writing a friggin’ bio page. Go ahead read it if you want. Mostly it’s just me bragging about myself and the memories I haven’t destroyed with beer yet.

And even niftier: a Tag Cloud! If you don’t know what that is, look to the lower right of the page and you’ll notice a new block full of random words. Although it’s not complete yet, I’ve been adding tag words to each blog entry as they’re created. Then you can sort them by category. The bigger the word, the more entries in that category. Pretty clever, huh?

I’m still going back through the archives so only entries from the last year or so are included thus far. Go ahead and try it. How about “Sid” — you’ll get all entries written about him !