Hey, Mouseketeers! Sorry for not writing more lately. While school’s in session, our weeks tend to be busy but homogeneous, and our weekends totally unpredictable, neither of which is much good for the discipline of getting things down on paper (or electrons). Here’s the latest: After returning from the conference in Springfield (where I had [...]
Today’s brilliant idea: novelty sonograms for expectant mothers. For a little extra, your sonogram technician can do a “Glamour Shots” version, use a little photo editing to have your developing baby riding a surfboard, add in amusing word balloons, or (my personal favorite) make a sepia-tinted “Old West Sonogram.” I hereby release this idea into [...]
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Posted 21 October 2008
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Back when dinosaurs roamed the Internet and you could get a cup of coffee and a shoeshine for a nickel, before the kids all had their newfangled “Mybook” and “Facespaces” and the blink tag still seemed a pretty nifty idea, there was Brain Sausage. Brain Sausage was an early proto-weblog, created before such things actually [...]
On one of our recent dates, Kathy and I had stopped by the local pet store to browse around a bit. While passing by the fish, I noticed tank full of fish that were even more brightly colored than the usual tropicals. When asked, a salesperson explained to me that they were GloFish: zebra fish [...]
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 [...]
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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Posted 26 March 2008
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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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Posted 24 February 2008
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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 [...]
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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Posted 16 February 2008
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Our department has an annual white elephant gift exchange. If you’ve never participated in one, they go something like this: Player A chooses a wrapped gift from a pile and unwraps it. Player B then can select another wrapped gift, or steal Player A’s. Player A then selects a new wrapped gift. Player C selects [...]
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Posted 31 January 2008
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Pranks
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