August 20, 2007
Funny help wanted sign...
Seen on the reader board outside Izzy's Pizza in Gresham on the way back from a service call Saturday night:Accepting ApplicationsEnough said….
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June 30, 2006
Breathalyzer Phone Claims to Prevent Drunk-Dialing
From NPR:
Breathalyzer Phone Claims to Prevent Drunk-Dialing
…It will then prevent you from dialing pre-specified numbers that could cause embarrassment…
Click for the story :)
Where was this during Tom's Bachelor Party?
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June 22, 2006
I'm a goober.
So while at work this afternoon I was engrossed in work listening to a podcast (type of radio show for the older folks), rebooting the PC again (I'm testing it for another user, 4th reboot in less than 30 minutes, not good).
All of a sudden a BlackBerry 7105t (type of cell phone for the older folks) falls off of the shelf above my desk.
I forgot it was sittin up there on its box, waiting to be configured. I guess I was shaking my desk, it slid off and I about fell out of my chair. A small swear word escaped my mouth. I thought someone had tossed it to me because as I had the headphones up a little loud.
Not that at all, just me being a goober.
That is all. Laugh at my expnese.
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January 16, 2006
Go ahead and laugh... at me
Do you have any idea how long it takes to get to Portland Adv when you miss the 205 south exit from 84 east and continue west, then obvde turned around, the mall 205 exit from 205 south?
It adds several minutes to say the least.
To say the least Shelley is questioning my ability to navigate outside of the trip from home to work. :-)
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September 07, 2005
You have to love the military...
I've been watching some other blogs that are written by people in the New Orleans area. My favorite has been by a group off guys and a gal keeping internet and other communiction lines open in downtown NO. Great pictures and great honest to goodness depection of what is happening down there… no spin on things at all.
To say the least they had a great wake up call last night from our own well trained 82nd Airborne :) Check it out:
I was laughing out loud on that one. Way to use your resources! I think grandpa would get a kick out of this too :)
TTYL… Back to work for me :)
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July 31, 2005
You know you're a geek when...
… you ask your girlfriend to move the shopping card down the isle so you can get some product by saying, “Scroll down.” I've tried hard to keep my geek life separate from my public life. I had to stop and check that I really said what I thought I did. Shelley was, “I'm not a computer, I'm your girlfriend.” :-)
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July 24, 2005
BINGO!
Want to know what awkward is? Be the only man at a Tupperware Bingo “show”. Yes that is right, after the 2nd wedding of the weekend Shelley and I attended a Tupperware bingo event. That is how I spent my Saturday evening from 6:30 PM to 9 PM, then the hour drive back north… The good news is everyone had a good laugh with me when I yelled out “I love Tupperware.” That was the replacement for “BINGO!” I have to say I did it the loudest and best. For I am the Tupperware king… until they brought out the new Heartbreaker™. It's really just a nut cracker.
That's one statement that strikes fear into a males heart… Nut cracker. Did they have to go and call it Heartbreaker™? Come on… I can see another Bobbit situation happen soon, but this time with Heartbreaker™ and not a Miricle Blade™ knife. :P
The good news is I won a set of fridge magnets that look like little measuring cups (they say Pinch, Smidgen, and Dash), a travel size salt/pepper shaker, a large set of salt/pepper shakers, two tumblers with spill proof lids, a larger tumbler, and last but not least a straw… one with ridges. You can blow through the straw an make noises, just ask Shelley :)
Her friends think I'm a keeper because I was a great sport for going. One big reason… Shelley was the ride home :)
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You're getting older when...
So Shelley and I were watching AMC today. They play a lot of the classics with John Wayne and the like. Well today Shelley said they've been playing some great films lately. Today it was St Elmo's Fire (1985) and The Money Pit (1986). I told her, “You know you're getting older when AMC starts playing 'great films'.” We both had a good laugh on that one. :-)
Oh yeah, I'm still alive. Been busy with a little lady ;-)
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April 30, 2005
President Bush Gets to First Base :-)
NPR's “Wait Wait Don't Tell Me” had a question about Prez Bush and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah holding hands on Bush's ranch this last week. The caller was asked what the were doing that caused so much talk in the press. First she asked if it was hugging, wrong. The host, Peter Sagal, was trying to help her out. He suggested it was like getting on first base with couples. Her next response, in a very concerned voice, was, “Did they feel each other up?!” OMG, everyone on the show couldn't keep a straight face. Sagal, or one of the guests, suggested that the Crown Prince did have, “one of those robes on.” One newspaper even had a headline of “You had me at lower crude prices” on the front page with a picture of Bush and Abdullah holding hands.
I love this country… I won't even mention how the Prez and Vice Prez were whisked off to a protected bunker because someone mistook a Cumulonimbus cloud for an airplane on approach to the White House. Can't we make a radar gizmo that can tell the diff? Nope, we have to scramble a Black Hawk helicopter to confirm the approach of the cloud, prepare the anti aircraft missiles, and pass out the shotguns to clouds (enough shots and you can disperse a cloud, really!). Oops, I said I wasn't going to mention that… darn ADD. :)
I love Wait Wait. It's a great way to get people to listen to news. OMG it is so funny, if you haven't heard it head over to the website and listen to the archives or at least this weeks broadcast.
Back to cleaning the apartment.
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April 02, 2005
New Fan Really Blows
Kiefer and I went over to Tom's after the Easy Rider bike show. (pictures posted soon) While there Tom gave me a fan that was left behind by someone. It is a Patton High Velocity Fan “Industrial Heavy Duty Air Circulator”.
The great news? It works! It really blows, all three speeds.
The bad news? It is better to test in either 1) a large room, house or apartment; or 2) if done in a small room, do so AWAY from a fireplace. Ashes will get blown around. I know.
Time to relax for the evening. Kiefer goes home tomorrow.
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March 30, 2005
Dates
I walked into the lunch room this morning at work. There was a gift box of dates on one of the tables.
That's the closest I've been to a date in loooong time :-)
Made you smile. You don't want to see me around a hardware store… lots of screws. ;-)
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October 18, 2004
Toshiba TV/DVD/VCR calls for help
Some things are hard to believe, but this is true. I know there are many multifunction devices out there, but I don't think Toshiba expected their TV/DVD/VCR combo unit to actually call for help, but it did. Can you imagine being the OSU student that has representatives from the Civil Air Patrol and Benton County Search and Rescue show up at the front door? I'd chalk that up to one heck of a party. ;-) Read on:
Corvallis man's TV mysteriously emits distress signal
BTW things with Ami are going very good. I'm still alive, but upset that the season is changing leaving Tess in the garage way too much. I'm busy as always, mostly commuting between Beaverton and home. I'll add more later when I'm not sleeping or driving or cleaning or washing or … where did the maid go?!
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September 24, 2004
Spammers Try Ad-lib Messages
Do you remember the Ad-lib stories from when we were kids? You had a short story but had to fill in verbs, nouns, etc to create the story. Very often the story didn't make any sense but was rather humorous.
Well I think the folks that send out SPAM are trying similar tactics. They will often put random sentences in the text of the SPAM. The goal is to make the message seem valid due to “normal” sentences and bypass any SPAM filters. Here is a sample of a recent spam. I found several to be funny. You be the judge:
You ski uphill. A police detective can only solve a case after he has been suspended from duty. I think I'm going to throw-up. “Will the company move my rock collection from California to Maryland?” Applicant refused to sit down and insisted on being interviewed standing up. You soak your dentures in coffee overnight. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. A German accent will do. I would have been more successful if nobody would have snitched on me. “What is it that you people do at this company?” I have no difficulty in starting or holding my bowel movement. You can jump-start your car without cables.
“Will the company move my rock collection from California to Maryland?” “Why aren't you in a more interesting business?” Heut will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
But only to the waist of the man lying beside her. One of a pair of identical twins is evil. You can jump-start your car without cables. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war. You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug.You channel surf faster without a remote. You can type sixty words per minute with your feet. Candidate announced she hadn't had lunch and proceeded to eat a hamburger and french fries in the interviewers office. “What are the zodiac signs of all the board members?” You channel surf faster without a remote.
A man will show no pain while taking the most horrific beating. My legs are really hairy. “Would it be a problem if I'm angry most of the time?” It doesn't matter if you are greatly outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts. People get dizzy just watching you.
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August 25, 2004
Rancher brings cow to Dairy Queen, gets a free treat
Ok all you ranching family member, better get the truck and trailer out for this promotion! I can think of a few members of the family that would seriously consider this. :-) I don't think the metropolis of Mitchell need to worry about a mass exodus of cattle as the cost of gas to Prineville can't quite outweigh a free “Moolatte” :-)
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July 12, 2004
If you find my brain, please notify the Management.
I decided to go grocery shopping as the cupboards were getting bare. Not a problem, I know how to shop. The problem is I am distracted by items I may not be looking for, aka the “Shiny Object Effect” (SOE). And to add to the issue I was a bit tired from yesterday's ride.
One of the items on my mental list (mistake #1: not writing down a list) was windshield fluid for the truck. Since it was the only non food item on my list I thought I should pick it up first. Well, I didn't. It was last. I filled my cart with produce, meat, cereal, pasta, and the ever important Full Sail brew and realized I forgot the fluid. Well I had to hoof it to the opposite end of this Fred Meyers. Piss poor layout if you ask me, way too much distance for me to be distracted.
I made it all the way to automotive just fine, it was on the way back that the SOE kicked in. They just had to put housewares between Auto and Grocery! Shiny objects everywhere. I parked my cart to look at some Rubbermaid storage bins, not the ones I wanted. I begin my trek back to Checkout and I remember a friend telling me to keep an eye out for FoodSaver food sealers on sale at Fredies. Nope not on sale this time. Return to previous mission: Checkout.
I find a short line and proceed to prepare to unload my cart. I reach for the lampshade… LAMPSHADE!?… Wait a minute how did my deli meat become a lampshade? Oh no! I had swapped carts back at housewares when I was looking at the tubs. My cart was next to another cart that had been left there, it had very few items compared to my cupboard load. I was embarrassed and hoping I didn't run into the owner of the cart I had… I can't believe I went across 2/3 of the store without noticing. I just hope security didn't have it on camera.
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May 30, 2003
Today's Favorite Line
Just found this in Reader's Digest:
“Failure is not an option. It comes with the software.”
That sound like my daily experience with some equipment at work, especially lately.
It's FRIDAY! Time to go to work and then come home and prepare for Adam's Grad party tomorrow afternoon. Pull weeds, wash windows, kill Morning Glory…
It never ends :-)
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