When I’m not reading while brushing my teeth (I take a long time) I often hum along to my Sonicare. Sometimes it’s the same tone, usually it’s harmonies. Today on the way to work on my way to work on the electric scooter, I found myself going not at full speed so the tone of the electric motor could match that of the leaf blower I was passing.
Oct 122006
Oct 012006
Some people are surprised at my low (42%) nerd score. Let me help assure you of my nerdiness through a little nostalgia…
The other day I decided to search to see if any information was out there for the TRS-80 Color Computer. My first computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer. You can see a picture here but the information isn’t quite correct since ours came with 32K RAM. The CoCo2 was just a smaller package and nicer keyboard. The CoCo3 offered a faster processor, more memory, and better graphics. How much better was it? People are still hacking away on it! In 2000 a game similar to Castle Wolfenstein 3D was made for it. Sure it was low resolution, but this is a 2MHz processor we’re talking about here and it does it! People have also built IDE controllers for it, SCSI controllers, someone is working on ethernet. It makes me want to pull out the computer, get this stuff, and start playing again!
Why does this add to my nerdiness? I still have mine all boxed up in the shed because I can’t bear to throw away my first computer and I went to two conventions centered around these computers when I was in high school.
Sep 032006
Nicole and I were walking down the sidewalk and I dodged a branch which made me head-butt the bee. The bee fell a few feet but looked a little irritated so I hurried along.
Then down by Aldo’s at the yacht harbor (they serve dinner now) two little girls were selling jewelry they made. After we passed them on the way out we heard them start calling “Jewelry for sale” but it kept getting louder and louder like there was one specific person they were targeting (it wasn’t us). Finally it was up to full blown yelling and screaming “JEWELRY FOR SALE!!!!!!!” I’m thinking they’re going to be going for a swim in the yacht harbor today.
Mar 022006
A recent report showed that girls are finally outperforming boys in school. A lot of speculation about why has been thrown about, but the reason has finally become clear. Another study just released showed that for the first time girls have surpassed boys in the uptake of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs.
Feb 022006
Well, according to the Weekly World News anyway. Here they are:
- I am the one God of all faiths. Thou shalt stop bickering about it.
- Thou shalt not make thee a graven image upon toast or other comestibles and declare it to be holy.
- Thou shalt not make war to obtain thy neighbor’s resources.
- Thou shalt hold thy mother and father close to thy bosom, putting them no tin rest homes.
- Thou shalt not abondon thy children upon divorce.
- Thou shalt not allow thy God-given girth to exceed thy height.
- Thou shalt speak and frolic with thy offspring and not place them before colored boxes of gaming.
- Thou shalt not press makers of noise or gesture in anger whilst in transit.
- Thou shalt discard containers of plastic and metal appropriately.
- Thou shalt not worship the housewives who are desperate, nor their box, upon the Sabbath
Also…
A black hole from space has been found in Black Rock Desert, NV
The government is creating a Department of the Paranormal
and Haiti’s first president was a zombie
Nov 182005
What’s your honest reaction to this story from The Week:
Waco, Texas
Church tragedy: The pastor of a Texas church was electrocuted this week when he grabbed a microphone while standing in a baptismal pool. About 800 people watched helplessly as the Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, of University Baptist Church in Waco, began flailing after he stepped into the waist-deep water. The woman being baptized had not yet entered the water, and was not hurt. The church was more crowded than usual because it was homecoming weekend at nearby Baylor University. “He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear,” said one church goer. “It’s the only way you can be loud enough.”
Sep 202005
We have an area in the front of our house where we put stuff that still has some life in it but it isn’t worth the time it would take to sell it. When stuff goes out there I also have to put up a sign indicating it is free or it will sit there for over a week while people wait to see if it really is free.
Monday morning while I was taking my scooter out of the backyard I saw an old guy on his electric cart by the pile and heading back to the sidewalk. When I left for work a few minutes later I saw a bowl was gone and a cane was added to the pile. I looked up and down the street but there was no sign of him.
My favorite theory about why he left it is that he took the cane of someone that irritated him and that was the easiest way to dispose of it.
Sep 042005
I was getting the car ready to trade with mo for her journey to bring supplies and maybe help with flood relief. I was already goignt o clean out the inside, but while I was getting gas I noticed the outside of the car was more of a brown than the normal black so I got the little coupon for the drive-through car wash since it would be good enough and very fast. We started through and that was no problem. Sage was laying down ignoring everything and Grover was checking out what was going on. Then the washing tentacles came along the side and Grover backed away and Sage saw the tentacles and started freaking out and moaning and trying to climb into the front seat to be in my lap. I stopped her but the moaning continued. Finally we passed through to the brushes and they were still nervous but not moaning and on the to the final rinse and dry. They were sooo happy to get out of the car wash.
Aug 182005
Ok, I’m sure it’s been heard this way before, but Nicole was talking about her picture of an oddly dressed kid with “Your momma dresses you funny,” on it and I heard it for the first time (at least to me) as “Your mom addresses you funny,” which I did think was funny.
Nothing to see here. Move along.