Archive for August, 2005

Overheard in the nearly empty cafeteria, coming from behind the lunch counter

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

- You know what I hate? These computer guys come in here, making fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year, and they’re bitching about the price of a ham sandwich.
- Yeah.
- And I’m like, “guy, you’re driving a Lexus, you’re living in Lincoln… why are you busting my chops about the price of a [...]

‘Go For It!’

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

So Kate and I, realizing that we hadn’t made the time to drive 20 minutes to the gym in, well, months, pitched $30 at Amazon and got a copy of “Yourself!Fitness.” It alleges to be a personal trainer in-a-box, more or less, and they’ve got versions which run on Windows, the PS2, and the [...]

Seems plausible enough to me

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Open Letter
OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they [...]

Dan Rather’s Son

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

In my dream this morning, I was Dan Rather’s son, and he died (instead of Peter Jennings, I guess). For the next several days I hung around the studio carrying his lavalier microphone, hoping for my chance to sit down and read the news and take his place. Didn’t happen by the time [...]

Jeff’s Wisdom

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

“We’re here to eat the ice cream that is, not the ice cream that could be.”
— Jeff Yaus, on listening to me yammer about the various things I could have done to make the texture of my chai ice cream better