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A good start on not being a hermit like dad

How do you doLittle E already has his first invitation to a birthday party this weekend. Wow! This means his social calendar is 100% more busy than his dad’s. Apparently the theme of this shindig is going to be Batman, so there’s no telling what the boy wonder will get up to.

Every day at work I see a commercial for some hair coloring product where a grey-haired guy says “My hair says experience,” while his darker-haired doppelganger says “My hair says energy!”

All I can think of is: “…and my hair says AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!”

Guess you kinda have to be there.… Read more

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It’s a NEW CAR! Wait… WHAT??!?

Well, that gives a new meaning to what's in the box...One of the things I do at work is to “prep” and check shows that will air later that night, the next day, etc. etc.; I also have other duties that occasionally mean I have to stop that task in its tracks and come back to it minutes later (or longer). If something urgent happens, I don’t even look at where I stop – I’ll just have to figure it out later. And when I come back to it later, it’s still sitting in the middle of the show I was working on, and I see something like this.

Susie’s picked Door #3! Dr. Oz, tell her what she’s won! … Read more

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Little E vs. sleep and parental authority

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz...Little guy really didn’t like my suggestions that his little tired butt needed to go to bed tonight after a long cranky day of refusing to take a nap. He was also kinda difficult to have any kind of a conversation with:

LITTLE E: I don’t want to do what you say. I just want to watch cartoons.
ME: Well, I’d like to win the lottery without the morally reprehensible and mathematically inadvisable step of buying a ticket, but we don’t always get what we want.

[pause]

LITTLE E: Can I watch cartoons?… Read more

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Little E vs. the theory of evolution

LITTLE E: Dad! This [stuffed] puppy turned into a tiger! RAAARRRRR!
ME: Puppies don’t turn into tigers.
LITTLE E: This puppy turned into a tiger. [pause] RRAAAAAAARRRR!!
ME: Puppies turn into big dogs like Xena.
LITTLE E: THIS. PUPPY. TURNED. INTO. A TIGER!!!!
ME: Okay, if the puppy started out as Catherine Schell, then it can be a puppy that turns into a tiger.
LITTLE E: RAAAARRRRRR!!

I can see we’re not quite ready to tackle stuff like genetic drift and mutation just yet.… Read more

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You keep using that word

Pizza the Hut!Conversation with the little guy on the way home today:

LITTLE E: I want to go home and eat pizza.
ME: I think Mom’s already got dinner planned.
LITTLE E: But I don’t like dinner. I don’t like it!
ME: Dinner isn’t pizza or green beans. Dinner is what time you eat at night. You like dinner just fine.
LITTLE E: I don’t like dinner.
ME: Do you like to eat food?
LITTLE E: Yes.
ME: Then trust me, you like dinner. At dinnertime, you get to eat food.
[pause]
LITTLE E: I don’t like to eat food.
ME: Great – that’ll save us a lot out of our budget. Thanks, buddy!

Me and Little E, solving the world’s problems together since 2007. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.… Read more

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Podcast of Extraordinary Magnitude: OVGE Tales & More

Here is the newsAmazing true tales from OVGE 2010, a candidate for the dumbest prime-time TV promo ever, Pac-Man as a spectator sport, and lots of incoherent mumbling!

Listen here:
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/11142010-ovgetales.mp3]

Right-click here and “save as” to save to your hard drive or MP3 player; leave feedback with this post or in the forums.… Read more

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Podcast of Extraordinary Magnitude: Oh Poopy

Here is the newsThe true (but necessarily vague) tale of the time I had to sue someone for stealing from theLogBook.com. 😯 Also included: more weird radio stories, waterproof droids and… a cat on crack.

Listen here:
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/10292010-ohpoopy.mp3]

Right-click here and “save as” to save to your hard drive or MP3 player; leave feedback with this post or in the forums.… Read more

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Brain scan

A couple of my Facebook friends recently posted some personality and intelligence test results courtesy of an app there. I’ve taken those same tests before, but it’s been a while; I went directly to the site for the tests rather than do the Facebook app (even before the recent revelations, I just don’t do Facebook apps) under a silly pseudonym. But what the heck, I’ll post the results here, even if I don’t want them to have my info. … Read more