I get it that a watched pot never boils. Also, watching a pot is super boring when there’s other stuff to do.
But here’s my problem: a pot you leave alone has this tendency to boil without you knowing it and then you forget about ever wanted hard boiled eggs in the first place and then [...]
Category Archives: Journal
Science: get on this.
February 5, 2009 – 6:30 pm
From The Desk of Barkley Q. Barkerton
January 19, 2009 – 5:54 pm
Dear Computer-lookers:
It has come to my attention that winter is thoroughly unacceptable.
Please tiptap whatever you must into your machines to make this outrageousness stop post-haste.
Today I had to walk in SNOW.
One cannot be expected to carry on in such squalor.
I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.
BQB:vkl
Why I Love This City
January 15, 2009 – 3:41 am
On the train ride home tonight, the conductor came on the PA system.
“Folks, I hope you’re having a wonderful evening. Be safe on your way home. The wind chill’s going to be 30 below, so don’t go out if you don’t have to. Just stay home, have a bowl of soup or … wine. If [...]
Fool’s Gold
January 10, 2009 – 2:25 am
The King enjoyed more than just peanut butter and banana:
In February 1976, Elvis Presley combined his passion for peanut butter and free spending ways and flew a party of friends in his private jet from Memphis to Denver. The purpose was to dine on a heroic peanut butter sandwich called the Fool’s Gold Loaf, a [...]
A public service announcement
December 30, 2008 – 2:36 am
Yelling “I want to talk to a person” over and over at United Airlines’ automated help line does, in fact, get you a person.
Steve points out that sometimes it pays to think like the elderly.
December 11, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Steve and I subscribe to a local vegetable service, which I love. Every Thursday is now Produce Christmas. Will I get the onions I hoped for? Will there be another weird variety of radish that doesn’t go with anything I cook? Of course, the winter months can get a little monotonous (There is a legion [...]
two is the lowest number
November 26, 2008 – 2:59 am
On the way home from work today I saw the first digit in the price of regular gas was a “1″. I assumed the sign was broken until seeing the price really was 1.99 a gallon at another Citgo down the road.
My initial, cynical judgement on the rapidly dropping oil prices was that this was [...]
Magazines for Babies and Toddlers
October 21, 2008 – 3:36 pm
That is the subject line of an email I just got from amazon.com. I am now having daydreams about magazines with headlines like “How to Poop Yourself and Look Like You’re Smiling” and “He said he had my nose: true stories of deception”.
