Dec
29-06

Posted by Jim @ 12:59 pm
Shelved under Music
  1. The Middle (Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American)
  2. Ruined In A Day (New Order - Republic)
  3. I Don’t Blame You (Finns - Juco)
  4. Three Little Birds (Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus)
  5. Creep [acoutstic] (Radiohead - Pablo Honey)
  6. Blasphemous Rumors (Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward)
  7. Burning Down The House (Talking Heads - Sand In The Vaseline)
  8. I Don’t Know Anything (Finns - The World You See, The Things You Dream)
  9. Exhuming McCarthy (R.E.M. Document)
  10. Stories Of Old (Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward)
  11. Avalanche (New Order - Republic)

Dec
22-06

Posted by Jim @ 12:58 pm
Shelved under Humor
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Marquess No One Of Consequence the Sage of Lower Slaughter
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I had a choice of that or:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
The Very Reverend No One Of Consequence the Inexorable of Chalmondley Chumleyton
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Dec
19-06

  • Dude (n) - An infected hair on an elephant’s butt (source: Danielle)
  • Flungamunga (n) - A moldy flamingo (source: Allison)
  • Garboozal (n) - 1. A name.  2. A place.  3. A nonsense word. (source: Allison)
  • Dec
    15-06

    Posted by Jim @ 12:49 pm
    Shelved under Misc.
    1. Warakurna (Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust)
    2. Low (R.E.M. - Out of Time)
    3. Talk To Ya Later (The Tubes - The Completion Backwards Principle)
    4. Last Dance (The Cure - Disintegration)
    5. Opinion Of Feeling (7 Seconds - Live! One Plus One)
    6. Since You’re Gone (The Cars - The Cars Greatest Hits)
    7. Mexican Women (Throwing Muses - Just Say Yo)
    8. This Time (INXS - Live Baby Live)
    9. To the Kill (Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes)
    10. Love Less (New Order - Technique)
    11. Special (New Order - Republic)

    Dec
    15-06

    Posted by Jim @ 12:46 pm
    Shelved under Misc.

    I’ve noticed A LOT of people misspelling the word the as “teh”, to the point where it seems intentional.  It is usually when the author is mocking bigots against some group, for example:

    • You know it’s all teh gays fault - written by someone who is not homophobic
    • I blame teh liberals - written by a liberal



    I guess I should have written teh post this way:

    I’ve noticed A LOT of people misspelling teh word teh as “teh”, to teh point where it seems intentional.  It is usually when teh author is mocking teh bigots against some group, for example:

    Dec
    14-06

    Dec
    11-06

    Posted by Jim @ 12:40 pm
    Shelved under Family, Science/Math

    Justin joined a Lego Robotics team this year with his cousin Ryan and some other kids from his school.  His team, MIB 835 (Molecules In Black)  took 10th place out of 40 teams in the competition and won the Team Spirit award in the state competition.  The goal was to have their robot complete all 9 missions in under two and a half minutes. 

    lego.jpg

    The team had 3 runs at the board.  The first run they scored under 100 points.  The next run (Ryan’s run) they scored 170 out of a possible 400 points.  This score was good enough to allow a programming/strategy change, using ideas we picked up from others at the competition.  Justin and Tyler anchored the game, with Ryan ready to tag in.  Things did not start off perfectly (they karate chop arm freed the stuck nano-tip, but it re-attached, so they had to run that program, costing them valuable time).  After that, things went pretty well, but two other missions missed their mark, by 1/2 an inch or less on each.  Ryan tagged in to line up a mission he specialized in, and they managed just under 200 points for the round.  With a little luck, they would have jumped up several more spots in the competition.

    Besides the robot portion, the team had two presentations in front of judges.  Justin was calm and did a good job answer questions about the robot, the attachments, and nano technology.

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