“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Category: humor
Sep 15
One of my favorite gifts
This is the front of my Mac at work. The attached clipping is from a Pearls Before Swine comic that was clipped out and given to me by my wife. This is one of my favorite things that I have received—not because of its intrinsic value—but because of what it represents. At work I am …
Sep 13
Quotable: Road Warrior Hawk
“We snack on danger! We dine on death! And dead men don’t make money!”
Sep 06
Quotable: John Moltz
“As for the Surface, Microsoft was forced to write off its unsold inventory to the tune of $900 million, which is a really lousy song. Like Coldplay, Nickelback, and Creed all got together and collaborated on a song.” –from his MacWorld article on device philosophy
Sep 03
Theology of Air Conditioning
Jonah 4:8, “…and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Aug 24
Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome
A humorously named but very sad real disease that affects domesticated African Pygmy hedgehogs.
Aug 22
Overheard: 65 yr old male
“Jack, I’m gonna give you a D minus if you promise you’ll never take Spanish again.” “I’ll take it.” A missionary to Mexico since 1967, relating his college Spanish class experience. He would later go on to graduate at the top of his class in Spanish language school.
Jul 28
Overheard: 34 yr old mom
“…you try to put ’em in the car seat and they do this [go stiff] and we call that the board baby, and you just wanna karate chop ’em right in the middle–wa-CHA!”
Jul 15
Overheard: 70 yr old male
“Down in interior Mexico it’s no more dangerous than driving in Kansas City at night.” –missionary to Mexico, who was saying that as a positive thing
Jul 10
Title page
“His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”. –the self-bestowed title of African dictator Idi Amin
