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Aug 10
Mmmmm…cloves
Cloves are one of the greatest things ever. If you don’t know what they are, they are those little spiky things you see sticking out of Christmas hams. I first got hooked on cloves back when I used to smoke. I know, I know, I was supposed to get addicted to tobacco and not the …
Aug 03
Quotable: Roger Moore
“I like cats. And I don’t like people who don’t.” –Roger Moore as Rufus Excalibur ffolkes in ffolkes.
Jul 29
So I Watched a Boring Movie
Before my wife met me she had gone on a date with some dude, no doubt neither as smart or handsome as me, and they went to see Mike Myers’s So I Married an Axe Murderer. She said it was so boring that she fell asleep. Years later when I started my current job, Jimmy …
Jul 27
Amen, brother
Back in the old Mac OS 9 days, when an application wanted to get your attention, it would just sit quietly and blink without interrupting what you are doing (like Windows did). However, ever since Apple shipped Mac OS X ten years ago, this has not been the case. Now when an application wants to …
Jul 22
Sad but true
From the Wikipedia article on bonded leather: “Bonded leather is not as durable as other leathers, and is recommended for use only if the product will be used infrequently. An example for the use of this type of bonded leather is in Bible covers.”
Jul 20
Overheard: 9 year old female
“You can pee in this water.” She said this when she was about two feet away from me in the lake.
Jul 13
Cousaunts & Cousuncles
k’ZANT, k’ZUNKLE, n. member of a family who was one’s cousin, but through intra-family adulterous relationships, have now also become one’s aunt or uncle. I heard these words from some friends of mine who are a married couple, and who had these unique relatives on both his and her side of their family.
