My daughter has stuck a note for her mother directly on the screen of her monitor with duct tape! Guess I won’t be getting her an LCD panel monitor anytimes soon. I also can’t convince her that her WordPress blog is far better and more powerful than her Xanga blog. At least she improved the appearance of her Xanga a little.
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Waking on the numbers
I woke this morning at 4:44. I love doing that! Of course, we are limited to 5 (technically 10) opportunites to wake when the digital clock reads all the same numbers. The day I wake to 6:66 I’m hiding under the covers! (And yes, I know, I really should be more concerned about waking at 6:16)
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Frustrating but nice
I love my children. Evan’s "DadaA! hahaha"s are particularly nice. But the responsibilities of adulthood are often fraught with conflict. I have a phone interview in an hour and 15 minutes. I desperately wanted to get an introductory email to the company but have been unable to compose it. I wanted to take the two hours prior to the phone call to calm myself, review my resume, and prepare. Cathy is not feeling well this morning so instead of preparing myself, I am doing the right thing and letting her rest while I watch the children. Honestly, I do not need to prepare for an interview but my wife needs to feel better.
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Sometimes pictures need captions
I just had to add a thought bubble to this picture. To really appreciate this picture you should also look at this one a year ago (and another good one this month).
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Band Geeks Gone Wild
Apparently band trips are packed with excitement.
- A female band member told to suck on a sex toy in an apparent hazing incident.
- Women being forced to kiss other women in order to gain access to bus bathrooms.
- Women being forced to draw pornographic pictures for older male band members, recite obscene limericks or stories, and read aloud explicit accounts of their sexual preferences composed for them by others for older male band members.
- The practice of women swapping shirts with males.
- Demeaning and abusive demands for younger band members to run errands and refill beer cups for older members.
- Upperclassmen have been reported to have “taken over” the dorm rooms of freshman women, supplied alcohol and demanded they join in the drinking.
- In 2004, band behavior in a bus led to the driver pulling over and calling for police.
- forced to shave his head in a hazing incident
- semi-nude dancing
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Good Regular Expressions linkage
For you programmer types working through painful regexp problems, you may find The Realtime JavaScript RegExp evaluator very handy. If you are working in PHP, remember that PHP uses a couple of different regexp syntaxes.
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Put my wife in JPGMAG!
Please have a look at my wife’s submission and give her a yes vote for the October issue of JPGMAG. Thanks! Just referring to it as "my wife’s submission,"
noting that it is a picture, and hyperlinking to it should get lots of interest. I’ll entice you more and let you know the picture involves breasts.
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We are ready for Hollywood!
Hehe! Time flies and memories fade but the joys that fill our lives are forever memorialized in blog. I just re-read my family’s re-enactment of a Malcolm in the Middle sketch.
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Escargot – faster than rabbits!
Apparently to control the snail population in Tommy’s 6 gallon tank, we need a snail eating fish, like a Clown Loach, and a 30 gallon tank. Dr Helm explains. I didn’t know snails could grow to 3 inches long!
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Check Engine
Want to know why your check engine light is on? You can Do-It-Yourself (more software). You can mount a screen in your dashboard that will show you the data as you drive. You can also outright buy a reader. Steve Olson advocates going to Autozone before going to the dealer but some of his commenters that work at dealerships disagree.
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Have your burger your way!
Remember Kristyk is not blogging right now but this story was amusing enough to pull her away from home repair and back to the computer. The picture is hilarious! "Yeah mon. *giggle* I feel fuuunny. We just ate and I like got the munchies. Want a donut?" "You look gay." "No man. You look gay." "You look kinda cute in that uniform." Whoa! Took that one too far.
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Over 30? Don’t write funny stuff.
What’s this?!
Running ManLogan’s Run meets editorial humor!Thanks to Eric for the correction!
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Pala Ferry Mentioned in Orientation Tapes
Barry notes that the dock is labeled Pala Ferry not Sala Ferry. Lost Pedia gives us this information regarding Pala Ferry:
The Pala Ferry is a ferry system referred to in the Pearl Orientation Video. Dr. Mark Wickmund states “…At the end of your eight hour shift proceed to the Pala Ferry which will take you back to the barracks…“. There is a pier and dock on the northern shore of The Island that has a covered canopy with the words “Pala Ferry” on the top. Presumably this is the docking point for the ferry and location the Pearl team would travel to when they boarded the ferry. The Pala Ferry pier has been used by the The Others as a docking point for their boat, and by Jin, Sun, and Sayid to dock the sailboat. It appears to be grown over and in a state of general dis-use, though looks can be deceiving. [Source]