Back in college I used to enforce the following rule in my apartment: If Teletubbies were encountered while flipping through channels, the tv must remain on that channel until the baby in the sun shows up.
Whether they admit it or not, everyone loved this rule and it provided endless entertainment.
Now I'm considering a similar rule with Hannah Montana. Apparently there's something of a catch phrase on the show (don't ask how I know, I've got a good reason) and I think it would be humorous to watch whenever it's on until we hear it. Amy disagrees but she probably also disapproves of this entire post.
The internet keeps tabs on such running jokes as the couch gags and the chalkboard gags on The Simpsons. I hope that someone somewhere is cataloging all these Say-What lines.
This show is hilarious, just look at these guys...
Here is Drobo. He's in charge of storing all of our media (iPhoto library, iTunes library, pyTiVo folder, whatnot).
But see those blue lights that run almost all the way across the bottom? That means Drobo's running low on space. See that orange light on the bottom right of his face? He's hungry.
Yep, down to 8% free space. Normally 45 GB of free space would seem all right, but Drobo would like more, and he's acting noticeably sluggish.
Here you go, little guy. Out with one 320 GB drive, in with two 640 GB drives, courtesy of Newegg.
Ahh, 623 GB of free space. Drobo is fat and happy. I'm happy too.
I also noticed a few months back that El Chupanibre was only running 1 GB of RAM. For some reason I had been under the impression that he had more than that when I bought him. Crucial helped fix that. As of two days ago El Chupanibre is maxed out at 3 GB. He's much zippier now.
Here's a picture of El Chupanibre on the day that he was born.
The lady who delivers our mail is clinically insane. That might just be a rumor I've heard. Our mailbox is on a common post with our neighbors' boxes, and a couple of months ago she drove her truck into the post and knocked the boxes loose. Our box was completely knocked off and she made a pretty poor attempt to reattach it. The post office was supposed to send some one out to repair it but this weekend I got tired of waiting and nailed it back into place.
I don't have a 'before' picture, but here's the 'after' photo. Ours is the one in the middle.
It required very little effort and I really should've done it weeks ago, but I thought the post office should show some responsibility. Jerks.
I'm pretty sure I've never seen a moose before in my life. At least not a live moose. I'd say I'm about 90% sure on that. I might have seen a moose before. I'm not going to lie to you, it's possible.
How about this weather, huh?
I watched the first season of Dexter and cried at the end. My wife thinks I'm weird. Is it strange to feel bad for serial killers?
Who am I expecting to answer such questions?
I spent the last week following a salesman around. I don't really know why. A salesman is something I definitely am not. A bit of a pointless exercise that was.
A bit of a pointless exercise this is. Still I will continue.
Blogger is a bit obsessive compulsive with the frequency of its autosaves. Blogger used to be the big thing in our circle. Not so much anymore.
I have seven dollars in my wallet right now. A five dollar bill and two ones. If you took the average amount of cash I carried around with me on any given day over the past few years, it would be pennies. I don't really refer to one-dollar bills as "singles" but that guy on that one SNL skit did. The fake commercial about the bank that specialized on making change. It was hilarious. If I were more pretentious I wouldn't say "it was hilarious," I'd say "Hilarious, that."
My daughter sits in a laundry basket. Without pants.
I just rinsed with a bottle of Listerine that was 14 months past its expiration date. And now I wonder if I should expect hallucinations tonight. I always prefer the unexpected hallucinations over the expected ones.
My wife and kids are in Texas this week due to the fact that I'm supposed to be really busy at work for a while. (That's the first time I've used the phrase "My wife and kids" which makes me feel quite strange). However, the particular job that's supposed to be keeping me busy has had several delays so last night I found myself home alone. So I did what any normal person in my situation would do, I went to go see a movie by myself.
I'm not averse to going to a theater by myself- I've done it four times in my life if I remember correctly. Dumb and Dumber in 1995, Blair Witch Project in 1999, Superman Returns in 2006, and Watchmen last night. Anyway, I don't feel weird sitting there by myself and I don't think it's weird when I see someone else who's alone in a movie. I got there last night right before the movie started and I think there were only about 5 other people in the theater. After it ends I walk into the men's room and there's this kid who's maybe 14 years old standing there and he's looking at me with this weird smile on his face, almost like he's smirking at me. I kinda give him a half-smile back and go into one of the stalls because the only empty urinal is the one right next to him. When I come out after a couple of minutes he's standing next to the hand dryer and he's still just smiling at me. And it's the kind of smile that you give someone when you know something and you want them to ask you why you're smiling. But I'm almost positive I've never seen this kid before and I think if I ask him "What's funny?" or "Why are you smiling at me?" it would come across as either defensive or hostile or something like that. So I just wash my hands and kinda nod at him as I leave the bathroom. It left me feeling pretty odd and I guess he must've been in the same theater and couldn't believe I had sat and watched a whole movie by myself. And the whole time that I was walking out of the theater and out to my truck I kinda wanted to go back to the kid and tell him that HE was a loser.
Jukkity: What's up? Jeremy: Hey man. [Pause] Jeremy: Whatcha been doin? Jukkity: You know, not much. Jeremy: Cool. [Long Pause] Jukkity: You? Jeremy: Same. [Pause] Jeremy: Looks like it might rain. Jukkity: That so? Jeremy: Yep. [Another long pause] Jeremy: Well, good catching up. Jukkity: Yeah, take it easy. Jeremy: See you around.
Me: I want to take it to work with me tomorrow and record the drive..
Amy: Isn't that kind of weird?
Me: Yes.
This video is sped up a little to make it a bit shorter. I can't decide where I land on this issue, it's either stupid or genius. I think if other people followed suit and posted videos of their commutes I'd watch them. I'm not like most people though.
C'mon, haven't you always wondered what the drive to Halliburton looks like??
On a completely unrelated note, I was watching PTI earlier and they pointed out that today was Cher's 62nd birthday. And that reminded me of this, and I feel cheated because I never heard if that dream came to fruition. (I'm sad to say that the original story isn't on that website anymore. For those who don't remember, it documented Cher's plans to pose nude on a beach on her 60th birthday) I'm still fond of the comment left by "guess_who" on that post.
I'm not sure if it's been a conscious effort or not, but I've been reading more over the last year or so than I have in a good while. I'm going to list the last several I've read, for no real reason other than that it gives me something to post.
1. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis - I've been working my way through the Narnia books and I just finished this one on Saturday night. I'd read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe a few times when I was growing up, but hadn't read any of the others until I read The Magician's Nephew when we were in Pitkin with the Silverthornes in July 06 (Observe: ), so I'm going through the rest of them now. I liked this book all right, but I'd say it's probably my least favorite of the four I've read so far. Thought it was a bit Gulliver's Travelsesque. On an unrelated note, I can't believe I lived so long being unfamiliar with Reepicheep.
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell - I didn't realize we owned a copy of this until I was going through our bookshelf trying to find Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We didn't have that one, so I read this in the interim. This was one of those books that I was always a little bit ashamed to admit that I'd never read. I was surprised at how short it was, and also surprised at how far off some of my long-held assumptions about the story were.
Fans of the series often have strong opinions over the correct ordering of the books. When the books were originally published, they were not numbered. The first American publisher, Macmillan, put numbers on the books in the order in which they were published. When Harper Collins took over the series in 1994, the books were renumbered using the internal chronological order, as suggested by Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham.
It seems pretty stupid to me that people would read these books in chronological order rather than their published order. C.S. Lewis wrote Prince Caspian as a sequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and it seems to work pretty well as such. Jack and Evie will eventually start with the first book published, not The Magician's Nephew, that is all.
4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - I think I was in high school the last time I read this. When I was growing up we had a VHS copy of the 1979 animated version which we watched a bunch. We still reference/quote it every once in a while, and these are the characters I hear in my head when I'm reading the books now. Which is kinda odd because the kids' british accents are pretty inconsistent.
The entire thing is on youtube apparently.
5. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - True story about some New Jersey divers who discover a sunken German U-boat from WWII, but nobody knows which U-boat it is or why it was sunk off the coast of New Jersey. Including both the U.S. and German military. I bought this book for my dad on his birthday after hearing the panel on This Week in Tech rave about it. He read it and liked it so much that he immediately mailed it to me so I could read it. It's pretty fascinating, Amy tore through it when I was finished, and I think it's now been passed on to my brother. It sounds like it would really, really, really suck to get the bends real hard.
6. Watchmen by Alan Moore - I went entirely too long without reading this. Back in 2005 it made Time magazine's list of 100 all-time greatest English language novels. I'm sure I'll pick this back up and read it again once every few years. As a side note, I fairly enjoyed the first season of Heroes, but after reading the Watchmen I lost any respect I had for the show. Some serious plagiarizing of ideas there.
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling - I guess I'm still coming to terms with my disappointment here, the last few chapters really hurt my appreciation for the series as a whole. I had let myself believe Rowling was setting things up in the first six books for a smarter payoff at the end, which I guess is really my own fault. I might come around on it eventually.
8. It's Superman! by Tom De Haven - I read this because of some statements I'd read in random movie reviews of Superman Returns. I thought it was all right since I like Superman, but there are very few people I could recommend it to.
Well, I'm not sure why I did that. If anybody read the whole thing, congratulations, you must have been bored. I think I might end all my posts from here on out with something along the lines of "Why did I post this?"
Thank you very much, Space Ghost, for having me on your show.
From Wyoming's Department of Motor Vehicle website:
If you are partial to the photo on your out-of-state license but have set up residence in the Cowboy State, you have up to one year to trade in your license for the Wyoming version.
If I remember correctly, the rule in Texas is that you have to update your license within 30 days of moving. I interpret Wyoming's policy as "if you're hoping to live in our state for less than a year (and we wouldn't blame you) then you don't have to bother getting our driver's license." I figured we wouldn't be so lucky, but I still waited a healthy 14 months to part with my Texas license. (Kudos to Amy who is still holding out and claims that she "can't find" her birth certificate so she can't get a new driver's license).
I thought I'd post a comparison just to show the supremacy of the Texas design.
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New:
I seriously considered blurring out that picture... and I probably should have because it's pretty awful. And now I'm trying to remember why I thought this post was gonna be a good idea, I'm just gonna hit publish now.
