Category: General

  • Off he goes

    After being home for less than a week, Daniel left for Australia yesterday.  He has to write a journal for class while he is there, so we talked it over, and he decided that he would like to have a blog to record everything.  You can find it at Daniel Down Under.

  • Yoplait Delights

    They’ve been pushing the hell out of these 100 calorie yogurt snacks for some time in the media.  This morning there were some sitting around the office.  So I tried one.  My opinion: Don’t bother — eat some real yogurt, or a pudding cup.  Icky texture and flavor.

  • Baseball

    Now that we have outdoor baseball, all kinds of strange things are happening, like this flash mob organized by the Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association.

  • Happy Easter

    When I went down to make coffee this morning, there were two bunnies playing in the back yard.   I yelled to Jill to get her camera.  She went outside and captured one of the culprits in the yard.

  • Gonk

    The product code on this can of Diet Mountain Dew I was drinking the other day had the most interesting combination of letters.  G-0-9-K, or gonk.  I just thought it was a cool word, but apparently it was also a toy.

  • We’re all Bozo’s on this bus

    Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal.Corey Doctorow

  • Cooling the planet

    Slashdot reported that, “A Harvard University physicist has come up with a new way to cool parts of the planet: pump vast swarms of tiny bubbles into the sea to increase its reflectivity and lower water temperatures.”A couple gallons of Amway Dish Drops should do the trick . 😉