Monthly Archives: June 2004

Extraordinary – QOTW

Posted on June 14, 2004 | Leave a comment
If you could wake up tomorrow morning and have an extraordinary talent that you currently do not have (within human capabilities… no x-ray vision, or super-strength*), what would that extraordinary talent be?
Probably something artsy: like painting or something musical. I’ve just never been able to grasp those things to well (kind of like languages)

From the Question of the Week.

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Does Anyone Watch Two and a Half Men?

Posted on June 14, 2004 | 46 comments

It’s gotta be the most sitcom-ish show I’ve ever been hooked on and I generally laugh out loud at it. I was very pleased to see that my TiVo taped an episode I hadn’t seen before on Saturday (it’s a Monday show). It wasn’t as polished as some of the episodes but I still laughed.

Here’s the question! Do you like the short-sleeve shirts (with the odd patters or strips) that Charlie Sheen wears? I’m not sure, I saw some at the store the other day and just couldn’t decide if I liked them…

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The case for more Earths…

Posted on June 13, 2004 | 1 comment

So I found this Ecological Footprint survey which (kind of) lets you figure out how much of the Earth’s resources you consume (waste). Actually what it lets you calculate is if everyone on Earth was like you, how many Earths would be need to supply them all. Not knowing enough, I left 0% room for other species and if everyone were like me it would take somewhere around six Earths to support everyone. Actually I did it a few times and got answers between 5.3 and 7 depending on how I answered some of the borderline questions. Either way, I’m a pig in the world ecology (my low score is just that above the average american). If I gave other species 1/3 of the planet my number jumps up to somewhere between 7 and 10.

Now some of this would change if we had good public transportation in Detroit (the motor city) and if I knew how “local” my food was produced. I.E. If I lived in Battle Creek I’m thinking my eggs, bacon, beef(?) and cereal would all be considered more local. I got nailed for air travel (10 hours a year), living alone and home square footage (but I live in a condo, not taking up any more space than the person below me, no yard and I walk a lot of stairs to get up to the third floor).

The funny thing is that it appears that I scored (lost) lots of points for living alone which (likely) means I’m not increasing the world’s population. And I’d gladly give it all up to increase that number by one or three…

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A Bit On Birthdays – The Weekly Bit

Posted on June 13, 2004 | 1 comment
1. When is your birthday?
September 11th.
2. As a child, how did you celebrate your birthday? How do you celebrate it now?
I’d have to say totally different every year. Some times a big deal, sometimes not.
3. Do you dread your b-day or do you still love having them?
They’re okay, don’t like them so much when I’m single.
4. What was your best birthday?
I’m not at liberty to reveal that in a public forum. But I do recall a birthday party with all the kids in the neighborhood when I was little (probably about five or six).
5. Did you ever get a gift that you didn’t like?
Sure, usually when people are over-compensating. I’m pretty happy with the little things. I just want to have a nice time.

From The Weekly Bit

Sunday Brunch is about birthday’s too, how odd…

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Unconscious Mutterings #71

Posted on June 13, 2004 | Leave a comment

I say … and you think … ?

  1. Colorblind:: Black & White
  2. Shallow:: Deep
  3. Erotica:: Sex
  4. Figment:: Imagination
  5. Eviction:: Notice
  6. Composed:: Stern
  7. Chill:: Rain
  8. Girl:: Friend
  9. California:: Sun
  10. Bond:: James

From Unconscious Mutterings

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Productive? Relaxing!

Posted on June 12, 2004 | Leave a comment

Today was a nice day, I’ve been working on my To Do list and adding things almost as fast as I can cross them off. But I’ve been getting lots done. The one annoying thing was buying an additional bathroom rug (which I thought I did a week or two ago but searched the house/car/house/car many times for) and after being home 5 minutes I found the one I already bought… Back to Kohls!

One of the High School teachers was having a barbecue and I got an invite which was nice, sometimes things like that just go out to the specific buildings and I don’t hear about them. I’m on that odd borderline of Administrator or Person, depends who you talk to, what their mood is and how upset people are with other administrators. It was a lot of fun, we grilled, played croquet ate and played with the kids. There were some babies, one that finally warmed up to me and let me carry here around, and some older kids. Got to meet some spouses and that’s always interesting. I felt bad taking off as some others were showing up but the allergies had been starting to kick in and and then the neighbor started mowing (cut grass is my kryptonite).

On the way home, talked to some older gentleman at Borders who was looking at the O’Reiley’s Essential Blogging book and hopefully I gave him some good info, he want to get into it but wasn’t sure where to start. I pushed Movable Type but suggested TypePad if he just wanted to try it out. I found a few winners myself: Two 2004 O’Reiley’s books PHP & MySQL and and Pocket Linux guide.

Plus I found out a person I dated was getting married soon. For some reason I always find that interesting when I find it out about someone…

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(De)Evolution of Language

Posted on June 11, 2004 | Leave a comment

I’ve talked about this before (but it was BB*). Last fall I was in England and no one cares about how many minutes they get, just how many text messages they get. It completely blew my mind. Now it was nice, it was quieter on the trains, busses and restaurants. But for not much more they could have actually talked and interacted a little more. It was kind of odd.

If you assume you can count smilies ” :) ” and abbreviations “IMHO” as symbols we’re at stage 8. Maybe symbols should be earlier since they’ve been around a while with e-mail, but it still puts us at 8. While we might have 9 as an option it isn’t completely common yet (if we’ve talking phone photos). I don’t agree with stage 10 but I thought it was very interesting.

So here’s the list (pretty much lifted this from A Blog’s Life.)

Stage 1 The birth of language
Stage 2 Communicating with smoke signals
Stage 3 Communicating with symbols
Stage 4 The written word
Stage 5 Telecommunications
Stage 6 Mobile telecommunications
Stage 7 The texted word
Stage 8 Communicating with symbols
Stage 9 Photo smoke signals
Stage 10 The death of language!

* BB=Before Blogging.

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Stuck on You! Save Your Prom dollars!

Posted on June 11, 2004 | 1 comment

Prom Dresses and Tuxes made from Duck Tape (actually it’s Duck brand Duct Tape). They offer a $2,500 prize too. These are a few of my favorites, but you have to check out the Stuck@Prom Scholorship Contest.

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And don’t forget next week is the Annual Duct Tape Festival!

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