Archive for the ‘My Life’ Category
On effective counter battery fire
My friend had a beach house. Yeah, I know, I was excited the first time he invited me out as well. A beach house! The reality was somewhat less grandiose though. Cinderblock walls, shabby marine carpet partially covering a cement floor, and as God is my witness an 8 track cassette deck. These details rarely [...]
A tale of profound drunkenness
I got most of my drinking done before I ever left college. Now I might have a drink occasionally when I’m gaming and otherwise do designated driver and chuckle with wry amusement at the antics of the drunkards. I recently played in an ironman hockey tournament about 45 minutes from home. After the first night’s game [...]
Overkill perhaps
Recently I interviewed someone for a QA position. This is rarely if ever fun — what do you ask potential QA people? — and I was likely even more predisposed to a negative opinion right off the bat due to the resume. This was a person with 5 years of experience. The length of this [...]
Mosquitos with good taste
During a recent conversation, as I was applying neosporin to what seemed like Julia’s entire body: “Boy, Julia, you’re covered in bug bites.” “What kind of bug made the bites, Daddy?” “Probably mosquitoes. They looooove sweet little girls. They can’t get enough of sweet little girls to chew on.” Pregnant pause. “Boy, I’m in big trouble.” (Picture from Julia’s recent preschool [...]
Blingo wins and fails in the same breath
I recently talked about how I had won cash money with Blingo. One of my buddies took me up on the offer to become a Blingo friend at that point and he wrote me today telling me how he had won a movie ticket meaning that I also won one. Yeehaw, win-win! Then I went to [...]
Gizmodo - hopped up juveniles
Gizmodo loves shiny gadgets. Gizmodo went to the Consumer Electronics Show as one would expect. What one wouldn’t necessarily expect is that Gizmodo is staffed by sugar-rushed 12-year-old mouth breathing imbeciles. In a heart-felt, placating tone they admit and ever-so-sincerely apologize for the fact that they ran around the show like halfwits and used a [...]
The $2,500 Ribbon
It might not look like much but that small piece of ribbon has an apparent worth hovering right around $2,500. I’m sure it retailed for less than a dime at one point but, in a process quite similar to that responsible for kopi luwak, it has been imbued with incredible, undeniable value over the course [...]
I’m sure that’s close
“‘Similar analysis strategies are applied for the peptide mapping of glycoproteins’,” I read aloud to stymie my daughter. I should note that it may become apparent in the near future why I’m reading about glycoproteins, but humor me for a while. “What in the world are glycoproteins? I have no idea.” “My neither,” she replied. “I [...]
