I took a picture this weekend at a children’s birthday party. It was unaltered from the original; there was no cropping, brushing, exposure correction, filtering, or any other editing done to the photograph. I know it’s not a great photograph, and certainly not an example of my best work; it was simply a candid photo [...]
Hummers used to be so cool.
OK, they’re still pretty cool, but in the impoverished area of Silicon Valley where at least two Hummer dealerships profit from daily sales, the H1 and H2 are a dime a dozen — every Safeway parking lot has at least one of the massive vehicles awaiting the burdensome task of [...]
Yesterday, I settled the lawsuit I filed with Campbell’s Business Telephone Exchange and immediately collected the settlement in cash from the defendant. Yet, I’m still frustrated and don’t have a feeling of satisfaction that I’d expect.
The most annoying part was that the Santa Clara County Superior Court judge wouldn’t listen to a word I had [...]
Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, “Where the hëll is Harry Potter?”
Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: “The Ring.”
Ask everyone around you if they think Gandalf went to Hogwarts.
Talk like Gollum all [...]
barbequing
beekeeping
blacksmithing
break dancing
bull riding
carrying an angry cat
chopping firewood
climbing a fence
feeding geese
fencing
filing for divorce
fly fishing
frying bacon
glassblowing
hedge trimming
learning to rollerblade
making a snow angel
paintball
picking up a child from daycare
playing ice hockey
playing leap frog
roofing with hot tar
running for office
shoveling snow
sitting on an ant hill
sliding down a banister
sliding down a hot metal slide
training an attack dog
weeding out poison ivy
OK, it’s not much, but it’s a start:
IN PRISON… you spend the majority of your time in an 8×10 cell.
AT WORK… you spend the majority of your time in a 6×8 cubicle.
IN PRISON… you get three meals a day.
AT WORK… you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.
IN PRISON… you [...]
