January 2010
Can you engineer that for me?
isworeidneverliveinwisconsin:
One of my favorite things to ask Mike, especially since it rarely makes any sense. For example, I just asked him to engineer me some socks that are specifically designed for the big toe. He’s an engineer though, ya know, so he should be able to solve all my problems with math and stuff.
One of my least favorite questions to be asked and yet my family says it all...
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
1. Only makes me want to be an astronaut that much more
2. Sounds hilarious
3. Sounds like something out of a bad space movie or video game involving some sort of futuristic space combat
4. The future is now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Space_Medal_of_Honor
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This space heater is my savior
isworeidneverliveinwisconsin:
Just please don’t tell J.C…I’ll be back once spring gets here.
So will he
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Team Tryouts
http://muddy-buddy.competitor.com/
Who wants to do this with me? Mountain bike ownership preferred but not required.
Dominating in required.
Mbemba Effect. Learning? →
Note to self:
Set DVR to record Millrose Games tonight on ESPN 2 at 8pm ET.
It's mornings like this...
…when I’m glad I didn’t decide to run a race every month again. I don’t have races to look forward to, but I’m also not constantly checking the weather every weekend seeing how many layers I will need for the race and desperately searching for a close race so I don’t have to drive 2 hours just to freeze for half an hour and then come home.
Ahhh winter...
“…or is it Pap Schmeer… like cream cheese?”
– Michael Scott. Disturbing this was the first thing I thought of when I got my Friday bagel today.
Despite yesterday’s attempt and black body radiation humor, I think I’m getting dumber on days like today.
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Does this mean Catcher in the Rye 2: Keep Holden On will never come out?
Alternate titles include
Beneath the Catcher in the Rye
Escape from the Catcher in the Rye
Battle for the Catcher in the Rye
Conquest of the Catcher in the Rye
More Nicknames from the Past
B.F.G - Big Foreheaded Guy
BFG normally wore a baseball cap, while not supporting a baseball team it’s just simply the style, typically with a flat brim. This was to hide his massive forehead. He was not pleased with us when he found out what BFG meant, how I don’t know since we rarely talked to him. To the best of my knowledge he dropped out the next year. We are probably to blame.
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lefan:
yosamanthrax:
Whenever someone asks me how I’m doing, my response is now “Feeling good, feeling great, how are you?”
try “i’ve been worse.” it’s neutral and adds a bit of mystery.
”Can’t complain” to which the response, that is if I don’t already add it is, “What good would it do anyways?” and then we all laugh like it’s the first time...
Origins
I just finished reading Christian and Hunter’s draft script. In reality I could have finished it all in one day because it was simply just that good, but then what would I have done this morning? I knew where all the characters came from, and the references from real life drew me in deeply to the story. As it stands, the script would make an excellent piece of fiction, but perhaps since I...
Why do you run?
mayother:
emilyfarls:
I get asked this question a lot and I never feel like I give a sufficient answer. Running means so many different things to me depending on the day, so I decided to do a series of posts about why I run. So here goes…
Why do I run?
Today I run to think about nothing and escape my own head. Running is so simple, as long as I keep moving my legs and breathing, I can keep...
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Here's my biggest question about this iPad stuff
peterostrander:
idontgetrunnershigh:
What’s going to happen to all those hipsters out there who complained about the Kindle. How the Kindle doesn’t have the same feel and smell that they crave from their print media. Will they still go to a coffee shop and step up their macbook and use the iPad or will one get left at home? Will they need larger messenger bags?
You can’t dog ear pages on an...
I just remembered how I used to take old electronics and break them open and take them apart and save the circuitry. I would always think, maybe I can use this one day. I mean, why wouldn’t I need the circuit board for a Tiger handheld game, or a Tamagotchi. The solar panel from that old calculator should come in handy. This old CD burner will be useful again one day for sure. AC adapter to...
Reading the Draft Christian sent me...
… I’m only on page 2 of 93 and I’ve already laughed out loud in my cube three times….
Here's my biggest question about this iPad stuff
What’s going to happen to all those hipsters out there who complained about the Kindle. How the Kindle doesn’t have the same feel and smell that they crave from their print media. Will they still go to a coffee shop and step up their macbook and use the iPad or will one get left at home? Will they need larger messenger bags?
You can’t dog ear pages on an iPad, or spill coffee on...
If You've Got More Than 150 Facebook Friends,... →
(via godsmokesparliaments)
Wasn’t that obvious. I mean my fake Marlboro Menthol, (yes that was me, I admit it) Facebook account had about 60 friends, and I only knew one of them. Most of them were from Turkey I think. I don’t even smoke, let alone menthols
In approximately 10 minutes, Steve Jobs will...
(via yourdp)
who?
“I just feel bad for all those people who are cremated and can’t come back...”
– Me talking to Kim about donating your body to science
Pinstripin'-Boltzmann Law
Anytime I decide to wear the pants I am currently wearing, I never like how it looks when I get to work. In the closet I’ll look at them and my shirts and say, “Yes, this will work. These pinstripes are (this color, it varies based on sleep I imagine).” Then I will get to work and wake up and realize the pinstripes are in fact a very light green. (Insert clever comment about...
Bart: Look at all this great stuff, Lis!
[finds vanity license plate rack]
Cool...personalized plates! "Barclay"..."Barry"..."Bert"...
"Bort"? Aw, come on. "Bort"?
Child: Mommy, mommy! Buy me a license plate.
Mother: No. Come along, Bort.
Man: Are you talking to me?
Mother: No, my son is also named Bort.
palmface
I just spent 10 minutes explaining to an engineer I work with why an XKCD comic strip I have hanging up is funny. It had to do with some simple, in my opinion, math. You know, fractions and multiplication and junk.
After explaining it he said, “Well they should eliminate these numbers here so you can focus in on this (points to where the joke is). And I was thrown off by these little kids,...
Wow
The word was “peered”
I read it as pee red and thought, wow, that’s a problem.
peterostrander asked: Just think about Steve Jobs' tablet speech tomorrow. I'm sure that'll either garner enough excitement or hatred in you to get you through the day before it begins tomorrow. Then just watch the event online on Wednesday and you're at the tail end of the week. Apple.
It was really nice this past weekend to be able to talk to people about running, with a beer in my hand, and have them listen and be genuinely interested, not just calling me crazy. They wanted me to run races with them. Told me they were running marathons in the fall but needed to try the half first to springboard themselves into the full training.
Some were running Chicago and others the...
l3fan-o-rama asked: can you give any more specifics as to what you do for a living? just curious.
Anything to make a Tuesday go by quicker?
Lay it on me
Crossword Clue
”Raining Blood” Band (6)
Nice.
“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing...”
– -Kurt Vonnegut (via elpasajero:early-onset-of-night) (via lefan)
That’s the whole reason I use them; proof that I’ve been to college. Although, not a lot of engineering documentation needs them, sadly. I’ve managed to work them into a summary here or there. Ideally, I would have...
Pictures from my office’s party last Friday were loaded on to our server so that everyone could look at them. The guy loaded them under the file name CHRISTmas Party 01-22-10.
I’m not sure what makes me more upset
1. The CHRISTmas part
or
2. The fact that it wasn’t a Christmas party and he called it that