the awesome intellect and/or the alabaster body

Much as she likes Lie to Me, my wife is quite perplexed at how often gorgeous women throw themselves at Tim Roth. I suggested that they're drawn to his awesome intellect and/or to his alabaster body. Or maybe it's his conk, the prominence of which makes me suspect he's the love child of Jimmy Durante.

somewhere along the infinite corridors of time

"Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time."

If I had access to a time machine, I'd go back to 1998 and hit my younger self on the head with a bat to thoroughly convince him that telecommuting is a BAD idea when the rest of the group is one thousand miles away.

presents to me from me

Today I got in the mail two Girl Genius presents I had ordered for myself. Sort of an early-Christmas treat. One of them is Agatha's "Coffee is ready" brew mug. The other is the 2010 calendar featuring Dupree in all her psychotic splendor.