August 2007
15 posts
“Parents will lose treasured baby photos, but when their baby becomes a teen, the...”
– Paul Saffo
Create Your Own Ongoing Time Capsule →
Cheap digital storage will ultimately prove my undoing in the form of infinite useless projects.
A joke too far
The Wife: I got an email from Dede.
Me: yeah?
The Wife: "We have a beach house on Fripp Island, South Carolina for the first two weeks in July. We have plenty of room the first week and would love for you to join us. The island is beautiful, has four pools, oceanfront house and we’ll cook lots of good food!! There is a 4th of July parade and I’m sure Sam would win the cutest baby contest!! Of course our Riley will give him a run for his money on best hair!! Think about it!!! See you at the wedding!!
Me: I think this is all part of an elaborate plot for mom and de de to steal their grandchildren. I think they have some sort of airship docked on Fripp Island and will use this parade and baby contest as some sort of distraction to load up and launch.
The Wife: ha. but really, I'm going to respond with a thanks for the invitation and we'll talk about it but it mostly depends on our job situation.
Me: yeah, it's best not to let them know we're on to them
The Wife: seriously...is that okay with you?
Me: Sure. But we should poke around mom's house for receipts for canned food and hydrogen
Me: Just to be safe
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
– Steven Wright
Patton Oswalt: Sweep the Leg and Wake the Gimp →
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we...”
– Vannevar Bush US electrical engineer (1890 - 1974)
Captain America was killed by a sniper on the... →
“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Potential Grave Markers
A shovel stuck into the center of my grave
A cast of my head, lying next to a battle axe
A full size 1977 Ford Thunderbird, frozen in an upended barrel roll, sporting copious body damage
A well
A sculpture of myself as Han Solo frozen in carbonite
The symbol for the band Slayer, but in stone. And on fire. Forever.
A vault door, slightly ajar
My arm reaching out of the grave and grasping...
“Tim O’Reilly has good ideas, and one of them is this: he proposes that the...”
– Avant Game: If I had a secret diary…
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can...”
– J.B.S. Haldane
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
– Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784