Category: Daily Life

I want to thank Jude for providing Tim with this Rwandan Proverb:

“You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you.”

I so needed that!

I need our camera

Good movie

Three year old works the dvd and volume controls like a pro

A computer hath been repaired! The symptoms on this one: It would boot to the user login prompt for Windows XP, wait 20 seconds, then reboot. The cure: virus cleaning, adware/malware removal, operating system updates, driver updates, software conflict removal, outdated software removal and live linux boot cds to be able to apply the fixes.

Rain today.

We as guys make mistakes. Sometimes they are big and we hear about them from our wives far longer than we feel we deserve. However sorry I feel for Hulk Hogan, I think he will take this one (WARNING! NWS! Privates shown.) to his grave! If I’m not mistaken though, despite her dark roots Mrs. Hulkster is a natural blonde!

I can hear her now. "You want it? Go look at the picture because that’s the only time you’ll ever see it again!"

As for the rest of us, we guys wish to thank Mr. Hogan for making our errors in judgement so insignificant in comparison.

I remember when I lived in Kenner, Lousiana (4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades) that we had charts and would track the hurricanes. The feeling that a hurricane was coming was not one of fear but of joy that school would be cancelled but sadness that for every inch of water I had in my street a friend of mine had an inch in their house. The rains would come and they would stack their furniture on bricks. Neighbors would chain off roads or sit on porches with shotguns to remind people not to create wakes while driving past their houses.

Well now that everyone has become hurricane watchers, The Severe Weather Information Center is a website that should be part of your weather bookmarks.

Boing Boing has been featuring strange vending machines from Japan including a vending machine that distributes eggs, one that distributes beer, and my favorite one that delivers live lobsters.

More balloons

Criminals

Hot air balloons

Katrinacane Friends continue to update on their trials and tribulations.

Of course, the best New Orleans stories have come from The Interdictor who reported the levee leaks nearly 12 hours before CNN.

This site does an excellent job of combining data on hurricane Rita with Google Maps. Boing boing pointed the site out and notes that the change from Category 4 to Category 5 and back corresponds with ocean depth.

This picture from the National Hurricane Center reveals Rita to be male not female! For those virgin minds out there that evade potty humor and just can’t see it imagine the Atlantic as a female with Florida and Cuba as…well…enough said.

Of course, this could be similar to the Phallus on the cover of The Little Mermaid.