SuburbanAdventure

An age old Robinson family condition is that my brother gets plastered and then challenges me to a flexibility contest.  We once broke the door off of a microwave when we needed something between countertop and window sill.  I have brought this tradition to camp and yesterday we engaged in one using a staircase.
It was [...]

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Leader: There’s a problem in the adult male shower house
Me: Oh… What’s that?
Leader: One of the toilets is clogged.
Me: Isn’t there a plunger, sit?
Leader: Well, I tried plunging, but stopped when the water started over flowing.  Someone had a very loose stool and some of it got onto the…
Me: Thank you, sir.  I’ll take care [...]

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I’m currently sitting on a bench outside a Dunkin’ Donuts between the Reading Terminal Market and Market Street Station thinking of the exam I could have probably done better on by selecting answers through analyzing the entrails of risk management majors.  The exam itself wasn’t too bad, I felt good that I had a strong [...]

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I received my degree today.   Finally.  It nicely states my name and degree and university in a lightly serifed font like an elegant combination of Copperplate Gothic and Cooper Black.  I take it out of the protective case, show my dad, he shakes my hand and I put it on the table to clear space [...]

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I finally resigned myself to the knowledge that I’d never get an iPhone from a store while in stock and went to the Apple store to order it.  I walked in to a very angry woman chastising the attendant for getting the wrong color iPhone, she wanted a black one and didn’t get it because [...]

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I heard radio chatter that the new air conditioner in one of the buildings.  They were complaining about it not cooling as well as a pipe leak in the room.  I went down to check on it to see what the problem was:  The room wasn’t cool all right, but that was because the air [...]

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I tried to embed it and my page threw up.  Here’s a link to CollegeHumor’s greatest font joke ever:

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This Saturday, Zack Kantner and I went on a trek to find a new iPhone and at the first store found the wait to be 3 weeks.  At the next store, it was 10-20 business days or 2 to 4 weeks.  I visited a 3rd store after dropping off Zack and the third store it [...]

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WiFi access is now available at Totem Lodge for Leaders and Staffers that sign on to our licensing agreement.  Some leaders like it, really like it.  Today I realized how this changed the camp dynamic when I received this email:
Hi Terry,
What time is BSA Kayaking?
Thanks, (leader name)
That may seem unspectacular except that the leader was [...]

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Gizmodo had coverage of an amazing phone headset.  If only I had a spare gun.

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