Sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful, always a good time
Wise words from a software developer:
What you say: “I have a working prototype.”
What management hears: blah blah WORKING blah.
Moral: Never say you have anything “working” until you’re really done.
All of my three or four loyal readers have been clamoring for me to add comments to this blog, and I finally caved to the peer pressure. Click the little paper-and-pencil icon in the top bar to post a comment.
Right now it’s wide open– no CAPTCHAs, no approval process, none of that other annoying anti-spam stuff. It’ll be interesting to see if I get obscene comments or if the spambots find me and start posting fun stuff about Russian girls on web cams…
The digital and analog worlds mix in this cool photograph from Flickr.
Laralee bought juice boxes to hand out to trick-or-treaters tonight. I was astounded. Juice boxes? Really? I mean, how exciting is that? I figured the kids would pause for a second as I handed them a little fruity drink, then drop it wordlessly into their bag, and make a mental note to themselves not to come back to that house next year.
To my great surprise, many of the kids were thrilled. They would run down the sidewalk yelling to their waiting mom, “Mom, we got juice boxes!” Maybe they were really thirsty from walking around so much, maybe there’s a rising generation of kids who crave healthy snacks (okay, scratch that), or maybe it’s just different.
In any case, it was kind of cool to see.
Is it wrong to think this Halloween costume is funny?
Now that we have a Wii, the spending begins.
My first purchase– using some Amazon gift cards– was another remote (Wiimote?) and a steering wheel.
That way the fam can play Mario Kart head-to-head, which is much more fun than beating a bunch of computer players. And there’s nothing quite so humorous as listening to a ten-year-old girl talk smack as she’s ahead of me in a race, only to laugh right back at her as I blow past her to the finish line.
You can’t argue with a weather forecast like this for late October:
Game on for ultimate!
I was at a book fair the other day and this caught my eye:
Heck, for a buck it’s worth it. Maybe it’ll make me smarter about how to take that hard-earned money and put it to good use…
We’ve had the Wii for a few days now, and I just have one thing to say.
Mario Kart frickin’ rules.
We watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tonight, and it reminded me of how awesome it would be if I had a tie like Sallah:
I would totally wear that to church. So if any of my three loyal readers are thinking of Christmas gifts for me, a short tie (it can’t come past mid-belly) with an obnoxious pattern on it would be the bomb.