Tag Archives: Personal Blather

I admit it, I’m a gaming geek… Fortunately so is my Fiancee, so there’s little danger of her becoming a dice widow.
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Carbonated water, caramel color, aspartame, phosphoric acid, potassium benzonate, caffeine, citric acid and ‘natural flavors’.

Why natural flavors? Did they run out of bottles in their junior chemist “Fun with Science!” play set?

I mean, you can make a lot of different flavors from 100% natural ingredients. Not all of them are ones you’d want to lay claim to.
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“Your attention please! A ‘Controlled Burn’ is being conducted in the Nichols Arboretum. Repeating, a ‘Controlled Burn’ is being conducted in the Arboretum. Thank you.”
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It’s been less than a month since there was snow on the ground. How could people have forgotten how to drive on it?

Normally the commute between Ypsi and Ann Arbor doesn’t take ninety minutes. Today was an exception. I’m tempted to bring my camera along on my lunch break and take some pictures of the springtime winter that we’ve got going on.
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We’re sending an Easter basket off to my Fiancee’s grandmother!

Ok, so maybe it’s not all THAT evil. But we’re at least a little bit wicked. You see, there are four different types of candy in there, and they’re all the same shape and the same pastel colors. Her eyesight isn’t the best in the world, so it’ll take a bit of guesswork for her to figure out which ones are the chocolates and which are the peanut butter eggs.

Bwah ha ha!

I was recently accused by one of my co-worker’s friends of having no “sense of wonder,” whatever the heck that means. The thing is, I’m a natural skeptic about some things. Especially internet ‘magic tricks.’ Most of them are variations on ‘mind reading’ parlor tricks.

Here are a couple that are fairly well done. Check them out, then come back and read the rest of this entry to see how they were done…

Playing Card Mind Reader

The Psychic Flash Movie
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I need nested digression tags for this entry… Just assume everything that’s indented by the same amount is related, ok?
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Break room coffee is the driving force behind progress. Without it, office work would grind (no pun intended) to a halt. The trouble is the coffee you usually get is provided in bulk by the lowest bidder. It usually sucks.

Caffeine is a harsh addiction though. You need the coffee, but you can’t stand the flavor of the free stuff… If you don’t want to go broke buying gourmet coffee from the pushers around the campus then the only thing you can do is modify the mud to make it drinkable.
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From the Brunching Shuttlecocks: it’s the The Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator
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