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06.13.2010

Quickies

Attention all idiots with babies:

The movie theater is not a daycare center.

That is all.

As you might have guessed, we went to the movies the other day, where we saw the new, Jackie-Chain-infused Karate Kid.  With its emphasis on Chinese culture and locales, should have more appropriately be renamed the Kung Fu Kid, but I digress.  One of the first trailers before the movie started was for The Last Airbender, which despite still being helmed by M. Night Shamadingdong still appears to KICK. ASS.

The Ladybug is similarly excited about the movie, and in fact went so far as to design her own movie poster for it:

In case you’re missing some of the subtle details, the Ladybug offers this explanation:

Speaking of the Karate Kid, which by the way was awesome itself, I just about died watching Jackie Chan Hates Karate Kids.

Last Sunday, the Ladybug, Queen B, and I went on the annual Crazy Horse Volksmarch, which I apparently only undertake on even-numbered years.  Its a 10K hike (that’s 6.2 miles for the metric-impaired) that goes up to the face of the ever-imcomplete Crazy Horse Monument.  Early on, we passed another family, where I overheard the following:

Brother: Ugh, this is tiring.

Sister: We only just started.  We’re not even a mile in.

Brother: I wish I was a bird, so I could fly to the end.

Sister: With your luck, you’d end up a penguin and still have to walk.

Brother: [Stops]

Brother: You just broke my dream.

On June 3, torrential rain caused a massive, 66-foot-diameter sinkhole to form in the middle of Guatemala City, devouring a 3-story building in the process.  As yet, scientists do not know what caused it, although I have a theory.

03.5.2010

My karma ran over my dogma

When driving home tonight I went by a sign that read

DALE’S TIRED
RETARD CENTER

I was aghast that anyone would name thier business that, much less think that was a business niche that required filling.

However, before my indignation reached critical level, a noticed I had misread the sign, which actually was

DALE’S TIRE
RETREAD CENTER

So now I’m in a bit of an existential pickle as to what speaks more to my character — that I was appalled someone would use such terms, or that I subconsciously interpreted the sign like that in the first place?

Filed under: Quickies

01.24.2010

Uphill, both ways

Hilarious comment overhead between two gamers in the cafeteria:

Yeah, well when I was your age, I had to blow on the games to make them work.

Filed under: Quickies

10.27.2009

Gloomy

On Sunday, I broke my left pinky toe accidentally slamming it into a corner.

On Monday, I came down with the flu and lost my voice.

On Tuesday, I fell down a flight of stairs on my way to proctor an exam.

At this rate, I may not live to see the weekend.

Q: How do I know I’m giving exams this week?

A: I’ve been getting emails and phone messages from students that never show up to class at all who are angry at my unwillingness to schedule a suite of office hours especially for them immediately prior to the exam to “catch up on what they might have missed.”

Perhaps I’m just grumbly from the irritating students, my throbbing and purple toe, by pounding headache, raspy throat, and swollen vertebrae, but when the hell did The Learning Channel become a twenty-four-hour-a-day celebration of excessive breeding?

Filed under: Day to day, Quickies, School daze

06.23.2009

Apropos

This morning I took the Queen B and the Ladybug to the airport so that they could fly to Florida to spend some time with the B’s family.  There, we stood and waited while slack-jawed staff at the Delta counter refused to check-in anyone until the very last minute, whereupon they tried (poorly) to ram through all of the passengers ain a single chaotic mess before finally returning to their previous torpor.

I didn’t realize that Delta customer service was modelled on the Delta function.

Filed under: Math musings, Quickies
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