SuburbanAdventure

One of my coworkers is preparing to have her first child in early April and as the delivery date approaches she’s scheduled lab testing such that tests involving loud startling noises occur far from when her baby’s due.  She was not amused by my attempt to schedule random double-blind starter pistol testing for late March.

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I use hardback, spiral-bound notebooks to jot down ideas and so on but mostly as a to-do and a to-post list.  I was rifling through an old one when I found the following entry: “God 215-917-XXXX” (don’t want to just give out God’s phone number).  I should probably call him/her sometime.
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Anthony’s Birthday shindig elicited two wonderful quotes:
Tom Leitz about Matan Shavit spending his first year in the Trading post as Rob Scafidi’s assistant: ‘Matan is not there to be your predecessor.’
Bill Schilling on his dog’s ability to eat: ‘My dog downs more wood than a Chicago prostitute’

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moar funny pictures

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Next Friday, everyone at work is encouraged to wear red to support women with heart disease.  I think the Friday afterwards attractive women should wear low cut purple tops and short skirts to support men with erectile dysfunction.

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Anthony turned 21 on Friday and wanted to celebrate. We met at Applebee’s and as I arrived first I ordered a round of drinks where Tom Leitz requested that Anthony not get a girly drink so I got him a Philadelphia Black and Tan in a 23 oz. glass. Everyone arrived and I [...]

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In actuarial modeling we discussed estimating parameters as represented by phi.  We went over various methods of  estimating and other determinations and one student was having trouble figuring out what phi was doing.  After a tense interchange the instructor finally blurted out “don’t make a point estimate, only God knows phi!”

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Mark Lutz and I were assigned to do troop 280’s election.  Troop 280’s been dropping off a lot at their active roster list 32 Scouts.  Only 13 were present so we couldn’t do the election until the adults started calling Scouts to get them to show up.  Three eventually did, two of which were playing [...]

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As winter descends, the mice have returned to the house of Robinson and the cabinet containing our cookies, crackers and cereals has fallen victim to several daring midnight raids.  The mice have become smart enough to avoid the traps, maybe because they smell like dead mice, so I tried a new tactic.  I took all [...]

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The Argument from Incredulity is a pretty little fallacy that arises whenever someone states a statement is false because they personally believe it to be false or are unwilling to deal with a fact being true. The Argument from Incredulity is frequently ventured forth by the dumb so tends to be bundled with other [...]

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