Mar 31 2008
Deep Water — I’m slowly losing my taste for films about people who do adventurous but stupid things (e.g., Grizzly Man, Into The Wild). Deep Water is a documentary about a guy who enters a competition to sail across the world non-stop by himself, and fails. It’s mostly a sad story and not nearly [...]
Mar 31 2008
I’m taking our 14 year old cat (the black and white one) to the veterinarian in about an hour to be euthanized. She never was a friendly cat, but she’s become worse the past year: swiping at our other cat and anyone who gets to close to her; not using the litter box regularly; isolating [...]
Mar 27 2008
The phone rang around 7am. I was just waking up. It’s one of my wife’s friends: her basement is flooding from a water leak near her clothes washer and she doesn’t know what to do.
“There should be two pipes leading to the washer,” I say. “One for hot water, one for cold. [...]
Mar 25 2008
I’m thinking about getting a hair cut. Might even shave, too.
(Looks like the poll below doesn’t work with Internet Explorer, which you shouldn’t be using anyway. Get Firefox.)
Mar 23 2008
I normally don’t give a fuck about my birthday; I’m not one to care about celebrating it or receiving gifts; however, this year’s birthday is beginning to turn into an event: emails from relatives I normally never hear from, a party with balloons and streamers (for the kids more than anyone), lots of gifts…
Turning 40 [...]
Mar 23 2008
I was surprised to discover this worked for me:
Concentrate on the 4 small dots in the middle of the image for about 30 seconds.
Turn away and look at a smooth, blank surface, like a wall.
Wait a few seconds and spots of light and shadowy shapes should appear.
A familiar image should appear.
Don’t click the following until [...]
Mar 22 2008
A friend’s dad used to make dentures or something. He collected teeth. Lots of teeth.
They’re probably worth something on e-bay.
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