SuburbanAdventure

My watch didn’t know it was a leap-year.  I’m fine with that, really but it was a sufficient excused to come into work late.  After work, I headed to Friday Night Magic where a player had an unusually good selection of cards he’s looking to sell.  I bought about $200 in cards for about $120, [...]

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Dave came over after a girlfriend-induced 2-hour delay and we planned operation “Is this beer too small” begun in a previous post.  The 23 oz glass seemed to barely accommodate much more than a single 12 oz soda and I restrained myself from speed-dialing the Department of Weights and Measures and instead chose guerrilla science.
Dave [...]

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Two groups presented case studies today in BA 4196.  For once, the humor was not from marketing majors fumbling to come up with financial justifications or accounting majors trying to explain how a solution could be sold but the instructor.  Over the semester, the number of students using laptops has continuously increased and today the [...]

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I’m a pretty strong advocate of Creative Commons, in dreams after I fight Communists with Superman Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow and I fight patent trolls and shorten the copyright sunset period.  Anyway, I purchased two books licensed under Creative Commons from Amazon, because I wanted the pretty binding and not having to read from a [...]

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“Due to global warming all pictures of the sun in requirements for Soil and Water Conservation must be drawn with an angry face rather than a happy face”
“Stabbing yourself in woodcarving will no longer be accepted for the wound dressing requirement of First Aid merit badge”
I still want to do the byproduct of combined merit badges.  [...]

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I’d really like to run a Headline News segment to open camp in some way incorporated each week’s troops into consideration.
Idea: Due to the demands of Troop (largest troop of the week), the airband competition now has a Air Marching Band award.
I don’t know if it’s too narrow, but hey at least I’m not making [...]

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I saw the below lolcat

Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest!
and realized it was a reference to the New Yorker cartoon linked here.
I think this may be the first lolcat New Yorker reference.

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In a previous episode, I had a terrible run in with Men’s Warehouse but in that Today’s Man is out business and Men’s Warehouse has launched a Big and Tall line (euphemism for “we fit fat people”) I gave them a try.  The fellow that met me at the door had bleached teeth and unsurprisingly, [...]

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I’m not quite sure how I got there.  But through wiki-jumping I found how Darkwing Duck’s tagline “Let’s Get Dangerous!” is translated into other languages.

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Gregg Wilson was over my house.  I can’t quite remember why but it was past midnight and we were hungry.  Gregg is one of the few friends I have that’s “In College” and has the budget, clothing and tastes associated with that.  I wanted to do my guerrilla measurement work but Applebees was priced out [...]

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