A while back the family and I were on our way back from Sunday lunch, taking the long way back, and talking about our favorite smells. It wasn’t as boring or short a conversation that you are probably thinking. Some of the mutual faves: pipe tobacco, rain, old books, decaying leaves, freshly tilled earth, clean […]
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So I was cleaning my study. I hate cleaning. But once in a while, usually while on vacation, I get this urge to clean. Everything. Yes, I’ve seen the meme. The problem with me cleaning, even when I am enjoying it, is that I clean the way I play Skyrim. No, I don’t mean I enter […]
My last employer was a Taiwanese-owned company and I worked with a lot of Chinese / Taiwanese people. One day Yahwen and I were comparing the worst whoopins we ever got as children. Here is his in his words, to the best of my memory: “In Chinese households there is this kind of bump that […]
My friend Mel, mother of the world’s most adorable baby, has a new baby. She coined this term based on a recent diaper change (I don’t know which baby’s it was). Thankfully, I do not have photos to confirm whether this qualifies for poop-mageddon status. Much as being a patient in a hospital debrides you […]
I logged in to my blog control panel to see about penning a new post, and was surprised when I saw one of the phrases searched that brought visitors to my site: Even weirder is that I have a post that matches is almost perfectly.
My friend B has a love / hate relationship with Friday. I won’t get into the origin story, but ever since he has worked with us he hates being reminded that it is Friday. And so every single Friday we try to make it a point to tell him that it is, indeed, Friday. Each […]
The first cassette tape I ever bought was the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera (I already had a pirated version, but wanted the real thing). Sarah Brightman played Christine, and I loved her voice. Shortly after I bought this I started hanging around with Noodles. She did not think very much of Ms. Brightman’s […]
Nostalgia You know how you have fond memories of a TV show or movie from when you were young, and when you finally get to see it again as an adult (or in this case, older adult), it isn’t quite how you remembered it? Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s amazing, but some other times, well, […]
I do some occasional computer work for an older lady outside of town. On her desk she has a framed picture of two mules, almost kind of a portrait. Finally one day I asked her about it. It turned out that the two mules in the picture were hers back in the 1950s. “People think mules […]
In the February 2007 Spline Cast, Spline Doctors Andrew Gordon and Adam Bergen interviewed Brad Bird, where they posed this question: SD: On that kind of same path, what is it that separates good CG animation from absolutely amazing CG animation, in your opinion? BB: Well, you know, are we staying purely on the topic of animation, or […]