“It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.”
— Woody Allen
03/05/2007
Yesterday we were in church, sitting behind our friends Rich and Christina and their kids. At one point during the service, their youngest son Elliott (age five) started unbuttoning his shirt. Christina leaned over to him and whispered frantically, “It’s not Muscle Time!”
Curious, I asked her later what Muscle Time was. She said Elliott really enjoys stripping down to his underwear and running around the house flexing his muscles and showing everyone how strong he is. In fact, she said, he often does this for an hour or two at a time. Of course that’s not a big deal at home, but I imagine she’d be mortified if it happened at church.
On the other hand, sometimes church could really use a little incident like that…
03/02/2007
“There once was a city planner who chose land at random. It was his lot to allot a lot of lots by lots.”
— Shane Hathaway
03/01/2007
The weather this winter has been both a blessing and a curse for skiing. Three times now I’ve had to cancel ski trips because it was bitter cold. I was all set to head up to Copper Mountain tomorrow, but NOAA says this about conditions:
Snow showers likely with areas of blowing snow. Mostly cloudy and cold, with a high near 10. Wind chill values as low as -35. Windy, with a northwest wind between 31 and 36 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Fresh powder is always a bonus, but a wind chill of 35 below zero? Brrr.
02/28/2007
This has to be one of the most awesome spam messages I’ve received in a long time.
That’s right, ladies– you can win a dinner date with Steve-O! And just looking at ol’ Steve-O, we can all see what a strapping young hunk he is. Hopefully he puts on a shirt and hikes up his underwear a bit more prior to the date, but hey… maybe girls like that kind of thing.
02/23/2007
Craig and I were discussing how yet another one of our clients has a critical end-of-the-world problem whose deadline is completely unreasonable, and boy, if we don’t get right on it, it’s likely civilization itself will come to a crashing halt and perhaps endanger the very fabric of space.
His response cracked me the heck up:
We get that a lot. We must be at the center of the vortex or something. Maybe we’re like the Ghostbusters.
02/22/2007
I found this in Alex’s school folder today.
02/22/2007
Seen on Fark:
02/22/2007
One advantage of having a domain registered to a company called Thought Monkeys is you get funny envelopes in the mail:
Now I just need to get some business cards and I’ll be set!
02/22/2007
Mmm… credit card offers.
Normally I trash them, but when I saw that I could get a free iPod by having a new business card, I took the offer, purchased a few things for the company, and waited.
Today my iPod came!
Now I just have to cancel the card (heh) and wait for the next offer…