Archive for January, 2006
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Recipes
Here’s a very simple 2 step recipe to ruin a perfectly good day: 1) Open refrigerator.2) Have open box of chicken broth fall on you and the refrigerator. If you can get a dog or a child wet too, go for it.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
I fail to see the logic in this
So we went to the zoo this weekend, where we have a membership. I didn’t have the card with so I asked the woman to look me up. “I’m sorry but I can’t let you in because your name isn’t on the account”, she says. I wasn’t going to get into it that I’d done [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Who said the 100 day celebration was stupid?
Tonight I learned there are 35 to 40 olives in a 6oz can. That kind of knowledge is irreplaceable.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
email flow
For a little while I’ve been wanting to make a more direct distinction between “work” and “personal” email. There’s no particular reason, it just seemed like a good idea. I’ve been using gmail more and more, but am not very good about checking it throughout the day, and I don’t really care for its composition [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Dude, is it really that important?
As cell phones have infiltrated our lives I’ve seen some pretty bizarre behavior. Riding a bicycle and talking is one of my favorites, and I’m not talking with a headset on. But today was a new one, a guy talking on his cell phone while on the john in the company restroom.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
stupid itunes
itunes does a lot of crap that annoys me. Mostly it crashes a lot; that really annoys me. Today’s annoyance is that it won’t sync my ipod, because I don’t have enough free space on it. I’m annoyed because it refuses to sync at all, which includes syncing my ratings from the ipod back to [...]
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
Friday the 13th
Howstuffworks “How Friday the 13th Works” An interesting little piece on the superstitions surrounding Friday the 13th. I only took baths, not showers, until I was about 12 because of that movie. No wait, it’s about the actual date not the movie. Apparently it’s not just 13 that’s bad, but Friday used to be bad [...]
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
Good times
SNL Cowbell Skit I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell!
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
tea
Good sources tell me that tea steeped for 4 minutes is the optimal time to release antioxidants. It also seems to be the time that most maximizes its laxative effect.
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
paystubs
My paystubs never make it home, mostly because I don’t really care. For the past few months I’ve been throwing them in a box of kleenex on my desk. I wonder what kind of message I’m trying to send?