Absent For A Bit ....
Notice: Blogger has screwed up and lost a bunch of photos out of my blog! They are replaced with a gray silhouette of a human head. I will eventually get them replaced with the correct photo, it may take a while to find and fix everything. So some of my stories don't make much sense without their photos, sorry for the inconvenience.
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2013-03-14
Pi e Day
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2013-03-07
The I-Paw-d
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Candy Caution: I noticed that the tips of Hershey's Kisses break off veRy easily when unwrapping the candy. It appears that the size is approximately 0.01 grams or less, which is a smaLL portion of the 4.6 gram candy, but it may cause tiny chocolate stains on your clothing, skin, or leave unsuspecting treats for rodentia.
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I ordered a new toy today. It is an Arduino microcomputer with sensors caLLed the Sparkfun Inventors Kit. It looks like great fun and I might learn a new thing or two about programming, robotics, and electronics.
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I am off to a great day in the outdoors: painting
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2013-03-06
Excess Duckage
I have an excess of ducks.
A semi-long time ago (around Christmas) I watched the first season of Duck Dynasty on a DVD that was my son's Christmas present. I enjoyed it so much that I pre-ordered the second season. But then I forgot about this pre-order. Since that time I upgraded my cable teleBision and the second season has been playing several times. Then yesterday I got an email teLLing me that my second season DVD is coming.
What makes this so terrible is that I think the first season was wonderful, but the second season seems a little more fake and contrived. I have enjoyed Uncle Si, though, he is delightfuLLy insane. I know someone in real life who is almost just like him. I won't mention any names, but I wiLL say he is a goat rancher.
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You know it is going to be an interesting day when you mess up counting to five. And the game isn't reaLLy that hard ....
I love it when something that accidentaLLy looks like a plan comes together.
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Another Five: I saw a picture where someone had constructed two large human shaped feet out of snow, maybe a couple meters taLL. There was a caption on the photo: "Another Two Feet of Snow"
INVENTION: So we should start measuring in Toes as a unit of length. Look how easily it allows us to convert to the metric system - 10 toes equals two feet. I suggest TZ for the unit abbreviation. 5x5280 = 26,400 TZ per mile. So the distance to the sun would be 2.455 trillion TZ, and if the number of people on earth is 7 billion times 10 toes, that would be 70 billion toes.
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Good-Bye Mr. Hugo Chávez. It is probably a quite siLLy thing to blame your death on a secret US government plot to kiLL you with cancer. If the White House would have tried you would have been gone a long time ago. Maybe the people of your country can be free soon.
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2013-03-04
Soon There Will Be Less Then More Then Less Then More ...
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My wife has stolen my iPad most of the time because her new game crashes on her iPad. Her iPad is older and doesn't run the same operating system version. Both operating systems are the latest versions possible for their particular hardware. Strange.
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I left out a veRy good story from Saturday evening simply because I wiLL have to see a particular teleBision commercial again before I can teLL you the tale. Sorry. But I have most of it wrote, just waiting on some details.
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2013-03-02
An Egyptian Cat Walks Into A Bar
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2013-03-01
pope adod ...&... YES!!! - I am old enough
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My wife picks me up at the entrance of the maLL. I teLL her that I think I got my eXercise in for the whole month. She replies, "A whole month's worth in one day?!?!?" I teLL her, "weLL, February is a short month."
T-"Did you want to go to Wal-Mart before we leave town?"
E-"No, because we would interfere with eXercise scheduled for the month of March"
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This Is Cool: Use google search engine to balance chemical equations!
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I have a new name for the neXt pope.
pope adod
What is cool about that name is that it is the same when viewed upside down.
This is useful if the pope puts his name tag on upside down.
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Waste what little time I have left on earth.
That's what some people do. I stop at a convenience store on the way home to get a six pack for a get together at my house. I am not actuaLLy drinking this but getting it for others.
The C-store clerk asks me for my ID. I crack up laughing because I am not even close to the legal age limit. I am old enough that when I was 18 that was the age limit, and now I am over THREE times that number! But then I notice that she isn't ringing up my purchase and find out she seriously wants to see my ID. She actuaLLy reads my ID.
I am not sure if I have ever been carded in my entire life. She told me that they card everyone.
I can't wait to turn 18 x 4 = 72 to see if I continue to get carded. ... or 90 ... but hopefuLLy I am no longer driving by then.
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2013-02-23
Bizarre Bubble Bug in Blogger
Every once in a while when I try to leave a comment in Blogger the comment form suddenly acts bizarre and doesn't work. When I press a button, a bubble momentarily appears then disappears asking me if I want to Copy or Paste the mail button to the right. Of course I don't and never would. So it just wastes my time and I lose my typing, as copying it to the clipboard rarely ever works in this situation, but as you can see I was able to do a fast screen capture.
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2013-02-19
This Old Microwave
A Washington state friend: A dog house for a tiny dog
From me: A bow tanker
From me: Donate the glass plate to Badger from Vienna, as the glass plate of his microwave oven committed suicide this morning.
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2013-02-15
Wolffalos
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Valentines Disaster! The chicken took too long to cook, I left the flame on under the veggies and scorched them, and the new style of home baked bread was below average .... I wiLL try harder neXt time!
I can usuaLLy manage to do two things at once, but not three. The problem involved baking two things while stir frying. Now I have a mountain range of dirty dishes.
I did manage to find a Valentines present for the both of us. The cooling racks for bread loaves come in a package of two.
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2013-02-13
Nyet
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I have a question: the Wall Street Journal has a photo of a Chinese performer putting a SINGLE live snake in his mouth and out his nose. WHAT does that have to do with the business world?!?!? Thank you for grossing me out today WSJ.
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Yesterday I taught my wife about the sand delivery systems that locomotives use to maintain wheel traction. I had read about them but had never seen them in action until we were waiting at the crossing on Wilson Street and happened to be the vehicle closest to the track.
Link to Wikipedia Article for Sandbox for Locomotives
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I learned today that throwing shoes at your opponent is an insult in Arab societies. I wonder if the Pentagon has ever thought about using shoes as a weapon for drone strikes?
As a shoe salesman I have mixed feelings about this practice. I guess if they aren't Vibram FiveFingers shoes that would be okay.
Dirty socks might be considered chemical weapons and banned under the Geneva Protocol of 1929.
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My new hobby: Studying Russian Spies, etc.
I have been busy with math projects. I wiLL publish them soon. I also put up some more photos in my blog Finding The Cute of the Universe
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2013-02-05
Double Your Words, Almost
Down to Earth
Thursday February 7, 2013
After dying before his time, an aspiring
comic gets a second shot at life...by being
reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likeable
businessman. After dying before his time,
an aspiring comic gets a second shot at
life...by being reincarnated as a wealthy
Did I see that right? I took a screen shot save just to be sure. After aLL it is 6:25 AM and I am operating on only a few hours sleep.
I found that veRy hilarious. I had to read it carefuLLy three times, not just twice. After the first pass through I asked myself A) I had already seen this movie, right? AND B) Did they reaLLy repeat the same sentence twice?!?!? ... Yes, they did repeat it, but then I noticed they had fiLLed the tiny pop-up box and truncated the last few words. Of course then I had to check it again to be sure it was eXactly same words and same order, yes, same and same, just incomplete. Then there was the whole process of copying it and formatting it into Blogger, so the amount of laughter got stretched out over a long complicated time frame, so it had a feeling of constrained diluted laughter, no, not laughter, there was no boiling, just hilarity, evaporation. Yes, that's it, comedic evaporation.
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Bigfoot
Bigfoot in South Dakota? How come I have NEVER heard of this before ... what a load of crap! Animal Planet channel is getting stupidly desperate for programming material. There are enough people with rifles that somebody could have & would have shot one by now. I think I wiLL start looking for Medium Foot.
Then I thought about the massive number of animals that have become eXtinct through the actions of humans.
Message from my aunt in South Dakota: Big Foote was Indian Chief, My address road named after him, killed at Wounded Knee.
Message to my Aunt: I had remembered your road name & the sign's wrong speLLing at the Interstate 90 exit, but there are people chasing a Bigfoot creature in South Dakota and elsewhere of course. I have seen some of the humans from the teleBision shows "Moonshiners" and "Duck Dynasty", and they could veRy easiLLy seem Bigfoot-ish from a distance, and that distance would not have to be that great.
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I am watching someone walk towards the entrance of the cardiologist office but then had to pause to finish their cigarette.
Then she threw the remains on the ground, nasty.
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2013-02-03
In Seconds Place
60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 365.25 days per year = 31557600 seconds per year
The approximate value given on http://m.xkcd.com/1047/ for the number of seconds in a year was 75^4 = 31640625
31640625 is 0.263% higher than 31557600
Today I was playing with differences of factorials on my TI-89 and found a closer approximation.
317! ÷ 314! = 31554200 which is 0.0108% lower than 31557600
Update: After reading Rob's comments I decided to see how long the 0.0108% of a year was in hours, and eXpress that value as a factorial division.
31557600 - 31554200 = 3400 seconds
One hour equals 60 x 60 = 3600 seconds per hour
So 16! ÷ 13! = 3360 which leaves 40 seconds
40! ÷ 39! = 40
But that last step is just cheating to get to an eXact number, because
X! ÷ (X-1)! = X
So one year equals (317! ÷ 314!) + (16! ÷ 13!) + (40! ÷ 39!) seconds
But then I noticed that 17! ÷ 14! = 4080 which is fairly close to 3400, and keeps the equation pretty with translational symmetry, the repeating of the 17 and 14's.
So calculating an approximate pretty value 317! ÷ 314! + 17! ÷ 14! = 31558280 which is 0.0022% larger than a real year
Pretty is important!!!
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How To Properly Celebrate Ground Hog Day
Ground Hog Day is February 2nd.
Ground hog meat is sausage. So one way to celebrate is by eating sausage.
Mmmm ... sausage
Another way to think about ground plus hog is to remember what form of ground (The Earth) that hogs like best. And it is ... just add water ... Mud!!! There are so many things you can do with mud such as making mud pies and imitating pigs by roLLing around in mud. But there are a few delicious desserts that have the word mud in them as weLL.
If you are like me and tend to completely forget about yesterday being Groundhog Day, you could celebrate by watching the Bill Murray movie over and over until you have it memorized, or insanity or divorce happens. Another sneaky way to celebrate Ground Hog Day is by waiting until September 21st, which is Bill Murray's birthday.
Another feature of Groundhog Day is the ability of the animal to predict the near future weather with some shadow nonsense. I decided to try directly talking to a hog but I couldn't understand them. They are s'pposed to be rather intelligent. So I decided to try something else. I cooked sausage in a pan and then shook it to see if the pieces would reveal a message. The secret to doing this properly is to aLLow plenty of eXtra skillet space. A pan with bumps on the bottom probably helps.
The words that appeared were "ROB BANK"
I thought this was a bit strange, especiaLLy the part about using the B twice. But then I reasoned that the sausage was being efficient and entropy being what it isn't in this story. I figured the message could be interpretted a couple of ways. One, I have a friend named Rob and maybe the sausage was teLLing me to give Rob eveRything I have in my bank account. But then I remembered that it isn't a bank, but a credit union. So then I thought maybe the sausage is teLLing me to rob a different bank, a real bank. But I decided to shake the pan of sausage again and this time it gave me a dollar symbol inversed. I thought, wow, inverse, veRy creative sausage. So I went to the bank after eating my mystical message meat.
I approached the bank teLLer and politely gave her a piece of paper with this message:
"Please give me aLL your money. I was cooking sausage this morning and it spoke to me and told me to rob a bank."
This particular bank is where my wife set up our commercial account, so the people know me quite weLL. I go there often enough that a few of the teLLers even have our checking account number partiaLLy memorized. The teLLer reads my slip of paper and cracks up laughing. I wasn't being taken seriously! I even showed her the video of the shaken sausage saying and $ symbol on my iPhone. She laughed some more, soon foLLowed by even moRe teLLers roLLing on the floor laughing holding their abdomens. I felt this was veRy unprofessional. I puLLed out my hand gun and fired three warning shots straight up. But then I realized there was office space above me, and I heard screams both above me and the shocked teLLers in front of me. They slowly got off the floor and gave me some money. I thanked them and told them I was just obeying my (now) inner sausage, sorry for frightening you with the handgun.
But I don't know how much money it was because just as soon as I walked out of the bank I was kiLLed in a hail of police buLLets.
Then in true Bill Murray form I woke up in my bed this morning, and it was and wasn't Feb 3rd.
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2013-01-30
Followed by Dumber and Dumbest
Today's Dumb Joke: The magician David Copperfield was going down a road when he suddenly turned into a driveway.
Today's Dumber Joke: Do you know where to find Ukraine on the map?
U look right between Tkraine and Vkraine
Today's Dumbest Joke: What are the two hottest days of the week?
Fryday and Sunday
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Yea! I heard the position for King or Queen of the Netherlands is opening up, but I would have to wait until April. Bummer. I could do that job.
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Time is magical on computers. The iOS 6.1 software update says
'9 Minutes To Go'
and I close my eyes to rest.
A few seconds later I open my eyes and it says 11.
I try closing my eyes longer. This time it's 12 minutes to go (!)
I try one more time .... Wait .... wAit .... waIt .... waiT ...... 13 minutes (?)
I must be sleeping wrong.
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I was able to fix a door yesterday. I think that technicaLLy makes me a-door-able.
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They have a local newspaper in Oklahoma that covers four counties. The unique purpose of the "OK Jailbirds" is to give you information about the recently arrested, and fugitives. The issue I photographed at a convenience store in Enid OK covers Garfield, Kingfisher, Major and Noble counties. It is published once a month on the 2nd Saturday.
Then I found out today that there are several local editions for different chunks for most the state of Oklahoma. I found the online site and this map. The western part of Oklahoma is very sparsely populated, so that is my guess as to why they don't have jailbird coverage (yet). Or maybe the people in those counties are better nicer people? After aLL, they do live closer to me and perhaps I am a positive influence on the crime rate in western Oklahoma.
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2013-01-28
Almo$t Forever
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2013-01-24
A Bridge Adorned
While traveling across Oklahoma I noticed a strangely adorned bridge. It is narrow on the east side, but bra'd on the west.
(Just west of Woodward Oklahoma)
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2013-01-18
Goodbye Old Friends ..OR.. My Wife Made Me Throw Away Gold
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2013-01-16
And Then Something Else Happened
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I heard the Aflac duck is hospitalized and suffering from mysterious injuries. I think their main suspect should be Gilbert Gottfried.
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The local sports coverage was on just now but I wasn't listening too closely. But I did notice something odd in the annoucer's voice as he was narrating the action of the game highlights. Suddenly he said, "Oh, sorry, wrong tape." I think he suddenly noticed the words on his teleprompter didn't match the video being presented.
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I am having trouble finding the right frequency to shave. Every ten minutes seems too often, and every ten days seems a bit too gorilla.
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It is now 4:30 AM. You may think I am up early but I am actuaLLy down late.
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I originaLLy titled this blog post "And Then Something Happened". But that was the second to the last thing that happened, the naming of the blogpost. The last thing was adding the word Else. But now I realized that isn't true, because the last thing I am actuaLLy doing is writing about the titling process. What would be truly horrible is if in the future I accidentaLLy add something near the beginning of this blog post while forgetting that this declared final part being right here, totaLLy destroying my integrity. I think I need a sandwich.
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2013-01-15
The Star T B Utton
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Link to Going Below Absolute Zero
Also, the snow in the shadow of the foot bridge at the park was reaLLy neat. Link to PHOTO
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No, I Was Not Also Standing On My Head
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"At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer" - Marshall Lumsden
FOW -> FOPW -> TOPF
his -> hits -> _ith
After that, it was easy.
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2013-01-12
Sweet & Smokin'
I came to bed only to find I had been replaced by my mate.
There by my piLLow was a large opened bag of Ruffles UltiMATE potato chips.
At least the flavor was Sweet & Smokin' BBQ.
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So ... There is a teleBision show caLLed 'King of the Nerds'.
Big Question: Why did they not invite me to be a contestant on this show?
A friend from long ago in high school responds: Because it said King of the nerds, not Lord of the nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I took that as a compliment.
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(Afternoon) Cooper and I watch it snow from the comfort of the living room couch.
Just a light amount of snow. My neighbor's house has almost a complete white lauer over the sections of the unheated parts - garage and front porch, whereas the rest of the house has almost no snow.
More importantly, pizza is on its way. I must prepare the fresh vegetables for the meat pizza that I ordered. I add red beLL pepper, purple onions, and jalapeño peppers - aLL diced - to the meaty pizza, mmmm, good eatin'!!!
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2013-01-09
No, I Want The McSack Not
Yes, a double negative.
I had to work reaLLy hard to keep from laughing during this episode.
When The Sack arrives 15 seconds later I carefuLLy take the McRib package out of the sack, place it on my tray and ask her politely not to throw away the useless sack. She complies for at least the three seconds until I turn around to leave. But when I turned around a second later to check it was no longer in her hand.
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2013-01-08
Amber Alert Alert Alert
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I just got a text message on my ceLL phone saying there was an Amber Alert in my area BUT it didn't give me any pertinent information, so that was an Amber Alert Alert. This is an Amber Alert Alert Alert because it is alerting you that I was alerted that there was an alert without any real alert info. My s'ggestion is to watch the news later.
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We are headed into a store walking across a cold wintry parking lot and enter the shadow of the building. The wife is in a merry mood and has been humming some tune when her throat suddenly makes a strange unadorable noise just before we reach the door. I am slightly behind her and could have possibly heard something wrong, so I ask, "What was THAT?!?!?" - and she laughed and said, "I suddenly yawned"
(it is 5 PM - who yawns at 5 PM in mid song?) so ... I thought for a second, and asked her, "So, ... you were yaw-ny-ing?" with three distinct syllables.
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2013-01-06
On The Twelfth Day After Christmas ...
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If you can't cherish every day, then try for every other day. It wiLL give you an interesting hobby keeping track of cherish and non-cherish days. If that becomes too difficult for you, then try going with an odd-even day scheme. I would recommend picking your birthday as a cherish day when trying to pick odd-even. For mathematicaLLy challenged people who don't know or care what odd and even numbers are, you can just flip a coin at the beginning of the day, heads equals cherish.
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Update: I just realized I got two gifts in one - I can use the old large pots for my pineapple plantation!
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Update: I have left and right socks. Then tragedy struck this morning. One of the left ones was missing. I thought, "Oh no! This wiLL lead to the remaining left socks wearing out slightly faster than their right counterparts." But then a short while later I found the prodigal sock, and everything is now okay. You may now resume whatever it was you were doing before reading this.
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2013-01-05
Take My Sister-In-Law, ... Please
My wife asked me to take her sister to the doctor later today, but I accidentaLLy wrote my reminder as "be at her house at 3 to take her to the vet". (Cooper's annual appointment was the neXt day)
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I am having serious graffiti problems in my dreams. They are mainly blue.
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"I didn't know we were in communist Sweden" - one of the best lines from The Office (I don't remember ever hearing that one before.)
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Today's Discovery on The Discover Channel: The Amish Mafia
Plus "Moonshiners", same channel.
I think there is something seriously wRonG with the logic processing of people who commit criminal activities while being video and audio recorded. But then its similiar to having law enforcement agencies and the military bragging about some of their special techniques and processes.
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What I became aware of yesterday while glancing at New Jersey: There are three state forests in Delaware, but if you want to go to Delaware State Forest you have to go to Pennsylvania.
One friend commented: Peculiar
My favorite lawyer friend responded to him: He is, but you get used to it (Smiley Face)
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What a siLLy dog. I blow my nose and Cooper starts barking in the other room (thinking its an intruder). At least I hope thats what he is thinking. I hope he isn't just making a general complaint.
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After eXtensive linguistically archelogical, stellar, solar and lunar research, I have determined the Mayans were off by a month and reaLLy caLLed themselves the June-ans. So the world doesn't end until Jan 21st, 2013.
My best friend simply told me to "Shut up"
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2012-12-24
I Should Have Stopped At Fourteen
I am going to name this condition "I'll Hum In Error A Show Tune"
I have it narrowed down to one in about 3,247 movies.
(Pause as I dig through my DVD's for the answer after being unable to find it on iTunes)
Its from the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, chapter 19 on my DVD. Its the alternating merged practice scenes where it switches back and forth rapidly between Eric and Harold working with their trainers, and then the music ends just as Harold runs through the finish line and Mr Sam Mussabini clicks his stopwatch.
(An hour later) I actuaLLy figured it out several minutes ago, but then I had to spend time finding a pair of double A batteries for the Blu Ray player remote control device, to confirm it and figure out eXactly how far into the movie the scene was located.
I probably should not have watched this movie 20+ times. I should have stopped at 14.
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2012-12-22
A Puzzling Christmas Present
One year I was groc shopping and saw a can of diced tomatoes, and I thought, "Hmm, I wonder if they could do it?" - and sure enough they were able to reassemble a tomato, weLL, the 93 percent of the tomato that actuaLLy made it into the single can.
NeXt year's puzzle took them a little bit longer - I mixed two cans of diced tomatoes.
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2012-12-18
Pineapple, Size Seven, Please
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2012-12-17
The Lost McRib
I decide to do an eXperiment with a McRib sandwich. I don't like the giant pieces of white onion that come with the sandwich, so I decide to swap them with diced purple onions from my own kitchen.
I take my diced purple onions to McDonalds and order a McRib with no onions, but I teLL them that I want the usual pickes.
The process of getting a speciaLLy made McRib with less on it takes over twice as long as usual. But I survive.
I open it up at my table and the onions are stiLL on it like normal, BUT the pickles are not on the sandwich.
So I take it back to the ordering counter and eXplain the situation to my clerk. She takes it back to the kitchen area and eXplains what needs to be done. The tiny short chef appears confused and starts to walk away from me, but then someone says something to her and she throws my incorrect McRib sandwich in the TRASH can! My heart stops and sinks at the tragic loss.
So they give me the new improved pickled sandwich, this time a little faster than before. I get to my table and open it up - yes, the pickles are there, two of them, no onions, BUT this time there is only a tiny amount of BBQ sauce.
So I return the sandwich to the ordering counter and beg them to not throw away my precious McRib this time, but only add some BBQ sauce. So about 5 people gather around a dipping vat as my meat is twirled in a BBQ bath. One person twirling my meat while four watch. Five - if you include me. The sides of the BBQ bath are transparent so I can see it rotated about six times.
Yea! I finaLLy get my McRib to the table so I can put the purple onions on it. The only problem is they put so much sauce on the sandwich that probably 1/3 of my tiny onions ran away with the eXcessive sauce.
Badder luck neXt time.
Future Experiment: Jalapeño Peppers on a McRib
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2012-12-16
The Hunt for Something I Read in October
I just woke up from a dream where I am solving Sudoku puzzles verbaLLy, but I am a different person, Michael Weatherly, the actor from the teleBision show NCIS who is the character named Anthony DiNozzo. So I am DiNozzo doing Sudoku instead of fighting military crime, and I am arguing with someone about whether I should help my enemies with their Sudoku problems, and I am against helping them.
Suddenly I am no longer DiNozzo, but now I am the tiny old cranky funny lady from the spin-off series, NCIS: Los Angeles, an actress named Linda Hunt who plays Henrietta Lange. And Henrietta, (the new now me), must have been the one that DiNozzo was arguing with about Sudoku, because she says, "Well, I always help my enemies with their Sudoku puzzles!", and takes a sip from her cup of tea.
Then I woke up.
The worst part of this is that I woke up and my left shoulder stiLL hurts.
And I wasn't even playing Sudoku right before I feLL asleep, I had been studying about bone marrow transplants. So this is the only logical eXplanation I have to offer: don't study bone marrow transplants before taking a nap.
So I grab the telephone book and turn to the M section.
I walk by my wife in the livingroom and she asks, "Who are you caLLing?"
I say, "McDonalds"
She questions, "Why, did they do something wrong?!?!?"
"No, I'm caLLing to get you a job there."
She laughs and says, "NO! You can have a job there!"
I caLL McDonalds and ask them if their store in my town is currently seLLing McRibs. But it is noisy on his end and I have to repeat my question. I said, "Did you say 'Yes'?" and he responds, "Yes", and I echo his yes message.
And my wife just a few feet away asks, "Do they have McRibs?"
I say, "Honey, I said yes twice."
Now I wonder if my wife wiLL faLL back asleep and have dreams about McRibs. I s'ppose that is better than her dreaming about Tony DiNozzo.
Now I am hungry.
(several minutes later)
My wife walks into the kitchen.
I ask her, "WiLL you go to McDonalds and get me a McRib?"
She laughs and says, "You want ME to go to McDonalds and get you a McRib?"
I answer, "No, I want two of them. No french fries."
She walks away from me and says, "Does the back of my head (hair) look okay where I slept on it?"
Without looking I say, "It looks fine."
She responds with a snort, "You didn't even look!"
So she backs up to me and I lightly run my fingers through her hair, s'pposedly making an (hah!) improvement. I make positive affirmations similar to when I am teLLing Cooper how good a dog he is.
She responds, "I'm not Cooper!!!" and begins to laugh but then starts coughing and not so much laughing. So my humor delayed getting my McRibs by a few moments.
She puts on her jacket, "So, two McRibs, no fries, no drink? ... Sorry, Cooper, you don't get anything since you didn't eat your breakfast."
I respond "Yes" and she is out the door.
We eat.
A half hour passes by.
My wife is antagonizing Cooper trying to take away his dog biscuit, its a game they often play.
My wife says that she is leaving to go shop at a store named Maurice's. She asks me if there is anything she can get me while she is gone.
I respond, "Could you get me another McRib?"
She responds with a shocked voice, imagine an unusually loud whisper, "Are you kidding me?!?!?"
I say, "Yes."
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2012-12-14
Goodnight
I must sleep now,
there is too much sadness today,
things private and public.
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2012-12-08
The Insanity of Albert Ine-stine
I published the first paragraph in Facebook and I wonder how many of my friends think I reaLLy flipped a coin 17,454 times. Of course the people who reaLLy know me would have realized that I would have built a huge bank of multiple coin flipping machines or robots and then I would have used video surveillence with optical scanning, looking for something besides heads or tails, aLL of it completely automated with a reporting system that sent me an email complete with the photo of the coin on its side.
And then the winning robot would have informed the other robots that they could stop. Then the losing robots would give their coins to the winning robot, after examining the photographic evidence. And that is basicaLLy how the Roman Empire got started.
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Labels: Albert Einstein, Coin toss, Insanity, Robot
2012-12-05
Very Pretty
What history teachers have been saying: It was what it was
What Australians are saying: Wallabies will always be wallabies
... pretty stupid ...
... pretty dumb ...
... pretty long ...
My favorite?
... pretty ugly ...
T: "Can you take $94.11 away from $191.52?"
E: "Yes."
I woke up from a veRy vivid dream that left me in a state of eXtreme agitation. In the dream I had a kitchen drawer that was a couple inches high, but because it was the top drawer there was a higher internal dimension, so there was a larger cooking pan trapped in the drawer that I couldn't get out. So now I reaLLy need to go back to sleep to figure out how to tear the cabinet apart to rescue this trapped pan. I just hope nothing bad has happened to the pan since then, because it was yesterday morning that I had this dream, not today. It would be terrible to go back to the dream to find out that someone else had solved the problem and then not showed me how, or worse yet left me with a kitchen drawer to repair. I have better things to do in my dreams than repair other people's destruction of my kitchen drawers.
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2012-12-03
Pie Are Shared, Cornbread Are Square
After a minor mathematical error on a routine report, a worker's boss tried to belittle him in front of his peers.
My Responses: Lovely. Absolutely wonder-fuLL. Pie are squared, not pie are shared. [Now I have an {un}eXplained desire to drive aLL the way to To-n-To to get a fried cherry pie, why?]
Glossory For Non-Locals: To-n-To is an abbreviation for the convenience store chain Toot-N-Totum, my local spot for fried cherry pies, cappuccino, and diesel.
My Synthetic Sound World
I have been adding new sound toys to my life lately. I have had a Yamaha keyboard for quite sometime, but I haven't been playing it. But I got a Korg Kaossilator Pro synthesizer and fed the Yamaha into it, and use my Bose NR headphones. Then I found two fabulous iPad apps that emulate real Korg devices, the MS-20 monophonic analog synthesizer and the Electribe synthesizer. So now I am making lotza strange sounds and having fun. The two iPad apps were 10 and 15 dollars, and the Kaossilator plus cables and tax was around 500 dollars.
Driving Miss Crazy
My most recent Facebook Status (and almost totaLLy untrue story)
I came to a stop at a 4 way intersection with 3 other vehicles at nearly the same moment. I had wanted to go straight but aLL three other vehicles simultaneously turned right, so I did too. It just felt like the right thing to do.
From my favorite attorney: Steer pressure?
My Response: You are 50 percent correct. The other 50 is peer stress-ure.
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New Blog for My Abstract Art ... Come Visit
These are pieces that I have generated mainly using computer art tools. Enjoy !
Something New:
I am also in the process of linking my poetry blog entries together. This project is only partially finished. A "Poetry LINK" at the bottom of the blog entry points to the next older piece of poetry.
First poem in the series of linked poems ....
Turn Gold Out of the Darkness
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