Published on Wednesday 19th January 2005 .
Yesterday, unlike today, I went ahead and woke up at 5:30 in the morning. I got up, took a shower right away, then went downstairs to start my car. I had to warm it up this morning because it was 4° according to the dashboard and frost had made a home all over it during the night. btw, I can’t wait to clean up the garage this year so that I can finally park my car in a garage regularly. It’s ironic strange that my mom had a two car garage and usually only had space for one car in it, but now that she’s got a three car garage, she can fit three and and a half cars in it.
Anyways, the reason I got up so damned early was because I had a CA2 meeting scheduled at SHS yesterday afternoon. My genius idea, which was later OK’d by the boss, was that I would go home after the CA2 meeting instead of driving all the way out to Palatine for two hours and then back out to Schaumburg to go home. To me, it was more an environmental thing, saving gas and spewing fewer emissions 
Not very long into the morning, I got a call from the new Director cancelling the meeting. One of the coordinators was sick, and with finals this week, us CA2s were needed around our buildings anyways. And, as it turned out later that day, I didn’t get to go home early. I didn’t leave until 4:45 because I was helping someone, and I rarely even attempt to leave someone hanging when I’m helping them, if ever.
The good news is that I was able to stop by the bank, stop by Portillo’s, and come home to watch five episodes (ep. 4-8) of Alias - The Complete Third Season. Now, don’t go spoiling anything for me and posting comments about Alias. I haven’t bothered to watch or even record the new season, and I’m not reading the liner notes of the boxed set to get summaries for the episodes. I’ve got my predictions of what is going to happen, and who is going to turn out to be evil. I’ll just have to watch and see whether or not I’m totally wrong.
Published on Saturday 15th January 2005 in Uncategorized
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Nicole writes again asking:
How do you cut a round pound cake into 8 equal pieces with 3 straight cut (sic)?
Read on for the answer.
Continue reading ‘An efficient cut’
Published on Saturday 15th January 2005 .
While checking through some live bookmarks in Firefox, I tried to check out Dee’s blog, but was disappointed to see that LiveJournal has been having some power problems. It looks like they’re having a hell of a time restoring their databases using a backup and binlogs since the backup. With the huge number of LiveJournal bloggers, this has got to be quite an ordeal. Good luck with the restoration, guys!
Makes me relieved that I’ve got some web space of my own to host my blog.
Published on Saturday 15th January 2005 .
A story at Ars titled Creationists lose round in textbook sticker fight shows that there is still hope for the proper education of our country’s future in states commonly associated with the religious right. I make no secret of my distaste for aggressive proselytizing, and I can tell you that if this were to happen in District 211 I would be one of the more vocal employees, as well as a member of the community, fighting the placement of stickers with such wording in our science textbooks.
While we teach Evolution in science, we also teach about various religions in social studies, from the main concepts of these religions to their stories of origin. I remember learning about Catholocism, Luther, Allah, and even Shinto in my history classes. I wouldn’t appreciate seeing a sticker in my history book warning me that the textbook contains materials about religion, and that the scientific community does not commonly accept these religions’ stories of origin as anything more than stories. The fact is that the concepts taught in school expose young minds to subject matter they might otherwise never encounter in their day to day lives.
Deduct a point from the close-minded camp.
Published on Friday 14th January 2005 .
Mel showed me this hiliarous video clip tonight before she went out. It was created by a group called PRANGSTGRÜP. The clip’s web page says, "Sometimes, you are moved by such a strong emotion that you can only express it through song." Oh, how right they are.
Published on Friday 14th January 2005 .
Nicole writes:
3 guys go into a hotel, the guy behind the cash says that it is $15 for the room. Each guy pays $5 = $15. After they go up to the room the guy behind the cash says he charged them too much, it should only be $10 for the room. So he takes $5 out of the till and goes up to the room and gives each guy back $1 and keeps $2 for himself. So now each guy has paid $4 for the room. 4 x 3 = $12 plus the $2 that the guy behind the counter kept, that equals $14. Where did the other dollar go??
Read on for the answer.
Continue reading ‘Riddle me this, bell hop’
Published on Wednesday 12th January 2005 .
Chris and I were out at dinner with some friends because Lynn will be going back to school tomorrow. During dinner, the topic of swordplay came up with Grant and Weise (surprise ;-)). Lynn joked about her brothers wanting to see if Weise could fend them off in a sword fight. Weise brought up the quality of decorative swords versus combat swords, and he or Grant mentioned this video clip they saw of bad sword quality.
I just Googled for video salesman breaks sword stabs himself. One of my results pointed me to this post at PsychicGoldfish Telepathic Transmissions. The blog post directed me to the clip at eBaum’s World.
OK, many of you have probably seen the various television shopping networks, like HSN, QVC, and SAH (I would actually link these sites, but even they are beneath my desire to post links to anything and everything on the web). I’ve seen this salesman many times dumping all sorts of crap on stupid uninformed shoppers. While it is unfortunate that the salesman got stabbed by his sword of inferior quality, it serves him right to get a taste of what some unsuspecting customers no doubt have experienced themselves while doing things with decorative swords that they just were not meant to do. Maybe I’m just skeptical of television scam artists, but I really do think the guy got what was coming to him.
On a more comedic note, you should also watch the hilarious video of the guy and the ladder on QVC.
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