I’m the world’s worst (or best, depending on your perspective) fair weather sports fan. I’m not a huge sports fan to begin with. I do have some favored teams, but I’m generally content to follow their fortunes in the newspaper or online, after the fact. I can’t remember the last sporting contest that I watched… Continue reading Fair Weather Fan
Category: Just Plain Silly
Tool Fool
So, I was returning from Sonic with our foot-long coneys and tots (hey, don’t judge…you know you love ’em, too, especially topped with jalapeños and onions) and as I drove around the curve in front of the clubhouse, something black and tool-like resting in the middle of the street caught my eye. I backed up,… Continue reading Tool Fool
Restaurant Rant
Have you noticed that some restaurants have become rather stingy with their oven time? First, it was IHOP, doing away with their iconic warm syrup, forcing us to us the decades-old, occasionally mislabeled communal dispensers. Now, as a kid, I was always amazed at the bounty of available sweet and sticky substances to be found… Continue reading Restaurant Rant
And the Fails just keep a’comin’…
It’s a good thing I have the patience of Job, the calm of Buddha, and the wisdom of…well, never mind that. My life has been a living heck for the past few days and if things continue the way they’ve been going, I may be forced to do something drastic, like watch the Cowboys try… Continue reading And the Fails just keep a’comin’…
Monster Bike
My assumption is that this creation was commissioned by an orthopedic surgeon looking to beef up his knee replacement practice: Call me when they come out with a tandem version. Link via Cool Material
Scientific Dancing
Scientists have discovered what moves make a guy a good dancer, at least in the eyes of female onlookers (and, after all, what else matters?). It’s apparently very simple, which only deepens the mystery of why so many of us are such bad dancers. We just need to move our torsos and necks more. *forehead… Continue reading Scientific Dancing
My new “Life Verse”
A hilarious post entitled Having a ‘life verse’ appeared a few days ago on the Stuff Christians Like blog and it made me realize that I, like the anonymous author of that post, have never really adopted a favorite Bible verse that I could roll out to demonstrate my superior-yet-humble spirituality. For one thing, my… Continue reading My new “Life Verse”
Tattooed Teachers
Semi-interesting post over at the Freakonomics blog about the possibility that college professors who have tattoos could be more successful than their non-ink-stained counterparts. I’m pretty skeptical about the relevance of the study cited in the post, as are most of the commenters. If nothing else, showing male undergrads photos of tattooed female models* is,… Continue reading Tattooed Teachers
Conversation
Scene: Master bedroom, this morning Her: That’s not the same shirt you were just wearing. Him: No, I decided that other one looks like a clown shirt. Her: What?! Him: Well, those wide vertical stripes make it look like a clown shirt. Her: So, you’re never going to wear that shirt again? Him: Well, not… Continue reading Conversation
The Dance of [Unintentional] Mystery
Today’s “Close to Home” cartoon hits, well, close to home. However, in our case the caption is wrong. In our case, the neighbors would be saying, “The Siegmunds aren’t being tormented by wasps after all; they’re practicing the rumba.” Or the cha cha…or the foxtrot…or, well, you get the idea. Sometimes it’s hard to tell… Continue reading The Dance of [Unintentional] Mystery