Month: July 2011

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Gaming Television & Movies

Making the papers

The Lawgiver reads the paperI recently dug up something from my past, just for laughs, to post on Facebook – namely, a newspaper article from over 10 years ago in which I’d been quoted. It took a bit of Googling to find the thing, and then I thought… why not save myself the trouble of looking this stuff up later if I need to?

So I’ve created this page to chronicle such things. Really more for my own amusement than anything else. Hopefully everyone else gets a chuckle out of it.… Read more

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...And Little E Makes 3 Funny Stuff

Pickled

What??!?Let me preface this by stating that I don’t know where any of this comes from… but it sure made for an entertaining evening.

LITTLE E: Dad, I need a pencil so I can draw a walking pickle with legs.
ME: This I gotta see. Here you go.

[a short while later]

LITTLE E: Dad, look! A walking pickle with legs and eyes!
ME: Wow! So it is. … Read more

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Funny Stuff Television & Movies Toiling In The Pixel Mines

TURN IT UP TO 11!

Part of my job at work is to make sure that there’s closed captioning on all of our programming. Airing something without captioning can net a heavy fine, and would probably get me fired if I wasn’t already staring down the barrel of being laid off in a couple of months when the operations center moves up north.

But sometimes, it would help, it really would… if the people who type in the captioning, even in an unpredictable live TV environment… would pay attention to what the hell they’re typing. … Read more

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...And Little E Makes 3

Little E vs. the hydrological cycle

7 Zark 7During a dicussion on the drive home from day care, while I was trying to explain the relationship of rain to the clouds in the sky, Little E offered his own theory:

“The raindrops are up in their room, playing and watching cartoons, and then they all fall out of the cloud… AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Splat.”

Thank you for your participation in our precipitation!… Read more

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Home Base Should We Talk About The Weather?

Dashboard Dinner

For the past couple of summers, it’s gotten to be ridiculously hot at this point in the year; the heat index yesterday around here was 120 degrees. Last summer, I decided to stop wasting all of this solar energy that was pouring down on us from above and start putting it to good use. Mission: cooking without adding one iota (either metric or imperial) of heat to the house.

Dashboard dinner … Read more