A friend on Facebook recently asked me about my status updates. He said he very much enjoyed them and wanted to know whether they were spontaneous, carefully thought out and stored in some huge database, or whether I stole them from some website. I thought about a simple answer like "yep, sometimes, and never," but something inspired me …
The shortest path
My eldest son, three-year-old Logan, attended a friend’s birthday party at Jumpity Jump on Saturday. As you might glean from the name, it’s one of those event hosting places that caters to kids’ parties with huge inflatables and so forth. The kids spend an hour bouncing off the walls, get plied with sugary cake and …
Project Management 101
I think parenting is the perfect training for aspiring project managers. Logan: Daddy, I have grass in my shoe. Me: Ok, take it off and shake it out. Logan: Ok! Long pause. Logan: Daddy, I don't have my shoe on. Me: Ugh, put your shoe back on, son. Logan: Ok! - Greg Windows Live Tags: …
White and nerdy
Following yesterday’s dissertation on Word macros, here’s a short one, just to keep it real. From Weird Al’s album Straight Outta Lynwood, here’s the video for “White and Nerdy” (apologies to Chamillionaire’s original video for “Ridin’”, but it’s better if you’re familiar with the original first). White and Nerdy This kind of fast-paced rap and sharp, …
Portmanteau o’ the day
Blackhole (n): A BlackBerry™ user who acts like a complete asshole by incessantly fiddling with his or her device at inopportune moments, including meetings, seminars, weddings, funerals, and intimate relations. Blackholes are characterized by near-sightedness, sensitivity to vibration, callused thumbs, and a complete disregard for people around them. See also, CrackBerry addict. This word may …
Young whipper-snappers!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things when they were growing up. How they had to walk 25 miles to school every morning, uphill, barefoot, both ways. Yada, yada, yada. I remember promising myself that when I grew up, I wouldn’t lay …
C’est lamour…
Ginny, Logan, and I were Wal-Marting (it’s a verb, look it up) yesterday, and I decided to pop over to the greeting card aisle to grab a card for my dad, whose birthday is this week. As I was surveying the available selections, I noticed several other patrons (mostly women) who were browsing nearby for …
WAF
Gleaned from the Australian Media Center Community (link): Wife Approval Factor (n.): Applicable to an object, especially an electronic device, that normally appeals only to men. Also refers to any features added to or modified in the object to make it acceptable to women. See also, Wife Acceptance Factor. It's clear that men are generally …
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