Apr

30

Weekend photos

April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Friends, Vacation, Photography, Texas

Justine and I had a great time this weekend with our good friends, Josh and Tara. We went down to Galveston and did some strolling around. This is some of what we saw.

Apr

24

Springtime for Houston

April 24, 2007 | 6 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Friends, Texas, Weather

It’s starting to get humid here in Houston. I’m not talking about the flash flood warnings tonight and tomorrow because of the big storm currently tapping the city on the shoulder. I’m talking about the moist air and the cool evening breezes that make me appreciate Houston every now and then. The […]

Apr

23

If anyone’s keeping score, it’s hungry crocodiles 1, taunting boy zero

April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Weird

File this one under “hard lessons learned.”
Apparently some young boys in China were taunting a pen full of hungry crocodiles with sticks and slingshots (what they call “catapults”).  A boy got  alittle too close and yoink…
One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by […]

Apr

22

Hot Fuzz

April 22, 2007 | 3 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Film

Justine and I went to see Hot Fuzz today. I have never heard Justine laugh so hard during a movie before.
The movie starred Simon Pegg (Sgt Nicholas Angel) and Nick Frost (Officer Danny Butterman). You may remember them from one of my favorite zombie movies of all time, Shaun of the Dead.
The […]

Apr

21

Individual emissions calculator

April 21, 2007 | 2 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Science

The EPA has a calculator on their website that will tell you how many pounds of CO2 you are responsible for creating in a year.  This does not, in fact, have anything to do with the number of burritos you eat in a month (as I originally thought).
The calculator is located here.
Justine and I produce […]

Apr

18

Weng Weng - miniature Filipino secret agent

April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Film, Humor, Weird

According to Wikipedia: Only 2 foot, 9 inches (83 cm) tall, he is listed in the Guinness World Records as the shortest adult actor in a leading role. He played Secret Agent 00 in For Your Height Only and The Impossible Kid. He had an active film career in the 1970s and the 1980s, […]

Apr

17

The Virginia Tech massacre

April 17, 2007 | 1 Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Current Affairs, Media

I have nothing of real value to add to the unbelievable distress that this is event is causing so many people other than a sad-but-true quote from Woody Allen:
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray […]

Apr

17

Analogies and metaphors

April 17, 2007 | 6 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Humor, Writing

Dan sent this to me earlier today and I thought so many of them were good that I’d post them all.  Thanks Dan.
Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers […]

Apr

17

Kucinich to file impeachment papers against Cheney

April 17, 2007 | 1 Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Current Affairs

From the Washington Post:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.
Kucinich has made ending the war in Iraq the central theme of […]

Apr

17

RSS bloat

April 17, 2007 | 3 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Web, Productivity

It’s dawned on me that I can’t possibly keep up with all the RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I subscribe to 192 feeds. The refresh rate on them varies from multiple times a day (Lifehacker=16 posts per day) to maybe once a month. My account looks like someone shoved a grenade […]

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