Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#134)
Food disappearing from your refrigerator?
Does your pay-per-view bill seem to be getting a little higher each month?
Do your kid’s stories about her “invisible friends” seem to get more and more realistic every day?
Maybe somebody is living in one of your closets…
A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Japan, the Apocalypse by ME
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Search ME
I think this is the first time I’ve done “Search ME” from the road.
We’ll be evacuating our motel room in Chicago in a few minutes and I’ve just got time to get this in.
The most popular search engine terms that brought unsuspecting denizens of the interwebs to my blog during the month of May were:
elrod [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in search ME by ME
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Caption This Friday
1 Comment » - Posted in caption this by ME
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Vox Bloguli
Yay, it’s Friday…
Arkansas Blog: VIP Viewing
The Proletarian: Faculty Tension Over Courses
Political Cartel: Clinton Countdown
Think Progress: Foreclosures in military towns quadruple the U.S. rate
Slate.com: Yes, Virginia, There Will Be Another Woman Candidate in Your Lifetime
Hermits Rock: LatinObAmeric
No Comments » - Posted in general, vox bloguli by ME
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Chicago AM
We’ll be running around Chicagoland today…
A visit to the Art Institute of Chicago - I’ve made about a dozen trips to Chicago and I’ve never been to the Institute.
A drive to Wisconsin - There are only four states that Tish hasn’t visited and Wisconsin is one of them (Alaska, Hawaii and North Dakota will have [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Chicago, Chicago Cubs, baseball, travel by ME
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Al’s Day in Court
We got into Chicago late last night; we had to take a slight detour through Mountain View, Arkansas that added about a few extra hours to the trip.
Our detour through Stone County was made necessary by Alan’s first (and last, I hope) trip to traffic court.
A couple of months ago, Alan [...]
18 Comments » - Posted in Alan, Arkansas, courts by ME
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Open Mic Wednesday (Road Trip Edition)
My guest moderator will be taking care of business for most of the day. Don’t be too hard on him…
I’ll going to be in Chicago for a couple of days soaking up the culture of the Midwest.
And yes; some of that culture involves baseball.
I’ve got tickets for the Cubs-Rockies game on Thursday night and [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Chicago, Chicago Cubs, travel by ME
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Maxwell Planck on Scientific Truth
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Maxwell Planck
1 Comment » - Posted in quotations, science by ME
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Help Wanted
If you’re one of the millions of American college students looking for a job this summer, you’re going to have some competition: the millions of other Americans who need a second job to pay for the gas they need to get to their first job.
In either case, as a public service, I’ve compiled a few [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in work by ME
Monday, May 26th, 2008
W. Somerset Maugham on Character
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham
