Category: General

Hallowe’en Costume for Mich’s office party

Mich’s office is having a hallowe’en party next month. We’re having some problems trying to decide on what to wear.

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Some of the costumes from last year were pretty cool (and some quite elaborate). To the left is a link to the gallery for that party. We went as “The Matrix”‘s Neo and Trinity.

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Mich is tending towards something slapstick/humorous while I’m tending towards something maybe more statement oriented (or sexy for Mich with me acting the foil).

BTW, based on last years pictures, I think Mich looks quite fetching with black hair. Opinions?

The Baby Names Wizard’s Name Voyager

Yeah, yeah it does seem odd for me of all people to be posting something about baby names, but this Java-based wizard is a slick visualizer showing you how popular various names were at various times. The bigger the name, the more popular it was.

Click here to see what I mean, it really is interesting to see how popular *your* name was when your folks named you. And was your aunt *really* given an old person’s name or was her name hip at the time?

Summoned for Jury Duty

It had to happen sooner or later, I received my first summons for jury duty. Apparently I’ll be a candidate for a “Petit Jury” – which I have never heard of – as opposed to a “Grand jury” that we all know and love from t.v.

I’m actually looking forward to it, thankfully I’ve got a job that can tolerate such an interruption.  The terms are hysterical mind you. I will be compensated the kingly sum of twenty-five dollars per day and I also get free parking (a good thing too as that would have pretty much eaten away the entire per diem amount…).  I’m not allowed to read local newspapers, but I can do something with computers – apparently modem connections will be available to me. I guess I can’t get any local news on the internet.

I can expect to spend up to a week on this enterprise. I’m *really* hoping that I actually get to listen to a case rather than sit in the waiting area for the whole time just wasting away my days with the other folks who have been seconded into this task.

Don’t get me wrong, my attitude probably seems a little jaded, but I really don’t believe that the judicial system has kept pace with folks and their modern predelections. I suppose it was fine to drag some farmers in from their fields (hopefully not at some critical harvest/planting time) and expect that they would be completely unaware of any current events, and would hold no opinions about most things judicial, but that reality is long gone..

My understanding is that the average person in early 20th century America had about the same amount of information squirreled away in their brains as one could find in a current edition of a New York Times Sunday edition newspaper.  We know a lot more now than the proles of any era this world have ever known and the idea that we would not have opinions about all that information is not a realistic one.

I’ll post what the experience was like when the deed has been done.

Air Tran’s sense of humor

Besides helping to keep down the cost of flying, I like Air Tran for their sense of humor.

When I first looked at these pretzels, handed to me on our (not so) recent trip to Toronto, I was wondering if it was a case of “lawyers gone wild”. The front of the bag says “How to Eat Gourmet Pretzels on a Low-Fare Airline”.

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Expecting to see something like “Open bag, eat pretzels” I turned over the bag and smiled when I saw:

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Gotta love that 🙂

I’m Back!

After upgrading my blog, photo gallery and the integration module I was faced with… the exact same issue I was facing before I embarked on this Odyssey. However the new integrator software (WPG2 2.0) has an option to simply wipe out all of your settings and start from scratch and that did the trick.

Overall I’m quite happy with the “New and Improved” site. I elected to keep the same look and feel for now ‘though that may change, but you should find things work a little bit faster.