Author Archives: SeanMcTex

Bo Jon’s Surf & Gifts: Beware

April 24, 2008 – 11:49 am

Sunday, April 20, 2008
This past weekend, the family was down in Port Aransas for Sandfest. As we were leaving town, we decided to stop by Bo Jon’s Surf & Gifts, a big gift shop near one of the central intersections with an entrance made up to look like a shark’s mouth, about 2:00pm. While we [...]

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2 Jokes

April 13, 2008 – 10:06 pm

Some original jokes to recently come* out of the humor mines where we mercilessly work our children night and day:
From Liam:
Q: Where do you get cold, hard cash?
A: At Frost Bank! (Note: this may be only regionally funny; I’m not sure how far away the aforementioned financial institution has branches.)
From Maggie:
Q: What does a crow say [...]

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Gambling More Reliable Than Voting

April 11, 2008 – 8:07 am

Over at his weblog, my friend Jim Roepcke posts an interesting comparison of the regulations governing slot machines and those over electronic voting machines. It’s pretty sobering, and makes The Onion’s story on the election results being released in advance look alarmingly plausible.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that software that does something as straightforward as polling should [...]

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Sundries

March 31, 2008 – 3:59 pm

A few goings-on of late that bear mentioning:

Liam has started playing Little League baseball. It’s a load of fun, and significantly more action-packed than Major League, since stealing bases is allowed and the boys aren’t so hot at catching the ball. During the last game, which due to time limits was only 4 innings long, [...]

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Waving Hands

March 26, 2008 – 7:59 am

Last night, Kathy and I went to see Keith Wann, a stand-up comic, at the Texas State student center. The interesting thing about Keith is that, though he himself is able to hear, he was born to deaf parents and has lived a fair portion of his life in deaf culture. He performs using American [...]

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Goings-On

March 10, 2008 – 9:03 am

“I’ve been one poor correspondent, I’ve been too too hard to find…”
Sorry about the scant posting of late, my little chickadees. Lots of life going on, and the A Photo A Day project was sucking up a bit of time in February, even though I didn’t manage to totally complete the challenge I set myself.
Here [...]

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My New Favorite Book

March 9, 2008 – 4:56 pm

Last week, Liam brought home a small book that he had created in school. I thought it was great, so am posting its entire text verbatim here. Enjoy!
Playdate with my dad pg 1
“OOOOOOH” this is going to be fun I said gleefuly on an early summer morning.  I am going on a very long play [...]

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Best. Warning. Ever.

February 24, 2008 – 8:27 pm

Found on Coke machine at Texas State University:

I love it both for the excruciating graphic and for the text, which sounds like a warning more to proctologists and gynecologists than soda-drinkers.

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Two Heroes

February 20, 2008 – 11:29 am

Two people that I have found myself looking up to lately:

There’s an 91 year old woman who volunteers at the Hays County Food Bank. While I will likely consider it a fairly major accomplishment to keep my nose hair well groomed and those darn kids off my lawn when I’m that age, she’s out there [...]

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Birthday Sculpture

February 16, 2008 – 8:40 am

For her friend Michael’s birthday, Emily made these casts of her hand spelling out “LOVE”, mounted them on a board, and gave them individual paint jobs. It has now assumed a place of honor in his room next to the audio-animatronic Gene Simmons action figure.
Spectacular work, Em!

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