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Archive for April, 2004
Google mailI have a Google Mail account and I’m in love with it. I almost prefer it to my regular e-mail account because of their interface. I specially love the conversation-like reply system. Pretty cool. Today on an email reply from the Gmail team, I was told that these 3 things are going to be implemented very soon: This is really shaping to be an amazing free e-mail system once it’s released to the general public. (Thanks, Josh) More road rageI commented on road rage the other day. So of course I had some more of it this morning. Today a woman (it’s always a woman) in a big nice BMW was driving in front of me. She wasn’t just driving way under the speed limit, but she was also acting as if she were in an obstacle course. Whenever there’d be a small bump on the road ahead of her, or a manhole cover or anything, she’d swerve to avoid it. She was all over the place, constantly getting in the on-coming traffic lane. Finally it was time for me to turn, thank God. I got on the turning lane while she is still ahead of me and what does she do? She turns her signal and swooosh, turns from her lane, bypassing the turn lane all together and me and everyone else who was behind me. I had to slam on my breaks. And of course she kept swerving all over the road until she got to campus and we went different ways. I swear, I’m going to heaven. This is my trial.
Virus file nameYou just gotta love the file name of this virus that I just got at work.
Road RageI sometimes get road rage. And I often know deep inside that there is no reason for me to get upset with the person in front of me since, after all, we are going the speed limit and I shouldn’t be wanting to speed anyway. But when you are going well below the speed limit due to the person in front of you AND A PERSON IN A BICYCLE PASSES YOU, then my blood boils and I wish I could just press on the gas and push the car in front of me out of the way. That is all. Thank you.
DecisionsThere are a couple of things that I have decided over the last few days. #1 - I want to get paid but not go to work. If I figure this one out, I’ll let you know. Maybe. #2 - I’m done going to wedding ceremonies. You see, I went to a wedding this weekend. The wedding was nice. The people were nice. But the minister kept bringing up over and over and over and over again that marriage is between one man and one woman. I doubt that many people, if anyone, noticed, but I was getting upset. I wanted to just walk out but I couldn’t do that to the bride and groom. I was upset and hurt. So I’ve decided that I will stop attending wedding ceremonies. I will celebrate the bride and groom’s special day at their reception. But I can no longer be a part of something that makes me feel like a 2nd class citizen.
Kids sometimes say the darnest thingsI got to help with a fun project at work yesterday. We are putting together a videotape for a surprise birthday party for the university’s president who is turning 60. We had to go to an elementary school and interview children on what it is like to be 60 years old, what the world was like 60 years ago, etc. We talked to children from kindergarden through third grade. At first we were very excited to talk to the youngest ones. But maybe it’s because they were too shy or we were not phrasing words correctly, but the youngest of all hardly answered any questions and they just kept saying “I don’t know!” A small girl would only say “you are a bad, bad boy!” The ones we had the most fun with were the 7-8 year olds. They were willing to talk, think and theorize. It was almost a unanimous decision that anyone over 25 should not have a birthday party because they are old. But if we are going to have a party for the president, then we might as well have cake and ice-cream. But not for him, those things aren’t good for old people. One kid said that 60 year olds should only have roast beef for their birthday. Another one said that it should be meat-loaf. Several of them wondered what the world was like 60 years ago, with no electricity. They couldn’t call their friends, there was no music (because that also runs on electricity), no Chuck E Cheese, no TV and no computers. A boy suggested that the only thing they could do for fun back then was cutting down trees. But what if they lived in a place like Hays, KS where there really aren’t that many trees? Then they got to dig holes. One boy was extremely concerned with the fact that he was missing his recess and one girl looked at me suspiciously when I spoke in Spanish to her because I don’t have dark skin.
VentriloquismFrom The Onion website
Thanks to Josh for pointing it out.
Subservient ChickenAsk the chicken to do anything and he’ll do it. Jesus commercialI’ve come across a Jesus Christ Action Figure commercial. Maybe I should send it to the Jesus Lady.
SayingThis is a saying I read and liked. “It’s easy enough to be pleasant, when life hums along like a song. But the man worth while is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.” Where is this saying at? On a sign at Disney’s California Adventure’s Tower of Terror.
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