Month: July 2004

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Today I made a difference!

    Master: Everyday you make a difference.

  • Now your plants sing to you

    Singing Japanese plants

    Called the “Flower Speaker Amplifiers”, the gadget made by Let’s Corp is hidden in a vase or a potted plant and sends music at just the right frequency to vibrate up the stems and then be converted into audible sound by the plant as a whole.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Sometimes I feel like everytime I patch a leak in the dam, 3 new leaks form.

    Teacher: Maybe it is time to build a new dam.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Master, obligation gets in the way of desire.

    Master: Is it the obligation or the desire that is misplaced?

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

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    This Morning

    The basement flooded again…except this flooding came from an overexcited puppy. Thank goodness I haven’t put down carpet yet!

    I feel somewhat crazed today..like my temples are going to pop. My head throbs with stress.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Time is fleeting.

    Teacher: Time is mismanaged.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Have I ever been functional?

    Master: What do you choose to be today?

  • Do as I say!

    I’m always saying to the kids “Don’t put things down, put them away!” but I cannot seems to abide by this myself! I have a meeting in 30 minutes and my face looks like I’ve been living in the woods for a week. I need a shave and cannot find my razor. It is dead and needs a charge. The charge takes 30 minutes and I’m supposed to leave the house in 10 minutes.

    This makes me want to explode but I’ve been working very hard at not showing anger so instead I feel like breaking down in tears.

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

    Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

    This Morning

    I started my day at 4am by going back to sleep until 5am and eventually getting up at 7am. I swear that if I could force myself to do some serious exercise that I would quit sleeping so much.

    Can’t find my shaving razor. Today is all about meetings and coding.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I have too much to do!

    Professor: So fortunate! Imagine the horror of having too little.

  • Eight But Not For Long

    I am eight and act brain-dead but am alive

    No drugs in this body but perpetually glazed over eyes

    You are not talking about Yu-gi-oh, Playstation or Teen Titans

    So your words are foreign and frightening

    How dare you imply that I might do something outside!

    I am innocent and working hard to change

    I have grown up nice but some things must be re-arranged

    How can I truly understand by which values I will stand

    If I have not experienced them firsthand?

    My brother and father have taught me to curse

    Perhaps that’s the sin I will try on first

    Already I am willing to stand my ground

    I won’t do what the kids and my brother say

    Even if they push me around

    Time to have things my own way

    You don’t have to call me by my name

    From here on out just call me Burger King!

    I am sweet and nice and try to do everything right

    Still people get mad at me and sometimes they scream

    It blackens my heart and tears my soul apart

    Why don’t they say “thank you” and teach me right?

    I know, although I’ve been told I still mess up

    Give me a second chance, a third, a twentith! I can learn!

    I live to please you. I am too young to understand

    That whether your are eight or thirty-five

    We are all fallible because regardless of age

    We are simply man.

  • Needs

    I NEED A DRY ERASE BOARD!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I need more cowbell!

    Teacher: You need a lobotomy!