Rands writes a post more akin to a love letter to, than comparison of, notebooks. One excerpt that matches me completely:

… when I see a store with notebooks for sale, I always stop. I examine. I flip the pages and figure out if there is anything new. I do this regardless of current company, country, or convenience. I am a social introvert, but will stop a complete stranger on the street if they’re sporting an unknown notebook.

Great video dedicated to alpacas.

While making dinner I remarked to The Partner that something in the fridge was stinking. I open the door and ask, “Smell that? What is that? Is that your carrots?” He pulls out the two bags of carrot sticks, smells them, examines them for rot, says no.
He pulls out [...]

Me: Dude, you can’t use caps in your XHTML code.
The Partner: I can use whatever I want.
Me: No you can’t, not if you want your site to be accessible in the year thirty-one hundred.
The Partner: Did you just hear what you said?

For Ms Lauren:
Why Watching The L-Word in Sweat Pants Is NOT Better Than Us:

We are REAL LIVE BEINGS!
We are more REALISTIC than L-Word characters
We most certainly do not make more than $50K/year
We hardly ever have perfectly coiffed hair
Our clothes are NOT designer labels,
nor do we care if they are
We sell our art for $50-$300
We [...]

Hall & Oates music video for “She’s Gone”:

vs. Hall & Oates music video for “Out of Touch”: