I just saw one of the smartest, sneakiest uses of the English language ever! My wife was looking through eBay, trying to find out what sorts of things are selling these days, and lo and behold, on the “Pulse of eBay” she found This auction: 2 Cardboard Boxes – Yes, our hero, the auctioneer, had … Read more
The military has begun fighting a war on new front: Attempting to combat declining participation in science education. The US Air Force and Army have setup a boot camp to train scientists to write and sell screenplays, in the hopes it will improve the quality of the science in Hollywood movies. read more | digg story
Earlier in the week, The Ninja Team Video Project got listed on Podcast Alley. Before we were listed, we had 3 subscribers… no doubt myself, John and Chu-Wan. But now, unbelieveably, we have 9 subscribers! That’s a 200% increase in subscriptions! 6 people I probably don’t know have probably seen one of the episodes and … Read more
Today when I was driving home, I came up to a traffic light that was backed up about 2 stops. I was heading west. The light had just turned red, so the eastbound traffic had almost completely passed by. In my lane, we were just beginning to inch forward as we filled in the gaps … Read more
I’d like to think they guy ahead of me at lunch today learned his lesson, but I know he didn’t. He wanted 4 6″ sandwiches, three of them identical, he also wanted them to be “specials” – that is, sandwich, cookie, chips. Pretty simple, eh? Yeah, you’d think. Instead, our protagonist decided he was going … Read more
I wonder if this lends any more credence to stories of giant octopi attacking ships in the old days? Perhaps old sailing vessels looked like tasty sharks or whales passing by? Follow the digg story link back to a video of an octopus killing a shark at an aquarium in Seattle. Impressive! From DIGG: A … Read more
DSC00270.JPG Originally uploaded by Gridman. Chu-Wan and I had our first christmas tree in 1999. It was a live tree that was about 3 feet tall when we planted it. Now it is about 12 feet tall and I noticed today while cleaning the pool that it is forming pine cones for the first time!
08-06-05_1210 Originally uploaded by Gridman. This is not a review. This is a promise! Manhattan Pizza & Subs has been on 7th Street in Phoenix since 1984. I’ve been eating there since 1987. In all that time, only once, in 1987, did I eat a pizza there, at lunch time on a work day. It … Read more
I was just checking the statistics on my web site and I’m always surprised at what people are looking for: Here are the top search phrases that lead people to my page. kung fu I must have mentioned this somewhere but cannot remember where or why lee’s sandwich OK, fair enough, I like to eat … Read more
Magnetic distortion due to lightning strike Originally uploaded by JohnKit. Tuesday night my office building was struck by lightning. Most of the monitors in the building were left on, but in power saving mode. This was the result! Wednesday morning, many of the older CRT type monitors looked like this when we turned them on. … Read more