SuburbanAdventure

During Scrabble:
Joe Naylor: Why did you spell FACE, you could have spelled FARCE and hit the double word score.
Anthony: FARCE, I thought that was a made up word.

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I only heard the Admin side of the conversation but I think what’s excluded is obvious.
Answerer: Yes, he’ll be expected to sleep outside in either a tent or Adirondack.
The tents are canvas.
The Adirondacks are wood and have three walls.
The cots are canvas too.
The Adirondacks have wooden bunks.
Wood.
Yes, they’re supposed to have three walls, and also [...]

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Now that I’m at camp I can’t have my traditional breakfast of a Scotch and a handful of Tums.
-Rob Scafidi

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Todd Warner plays racket ball with a bowling ball and a waffle iron.
-Kevin Ott

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Coworker:  My son’s looking for a good sci-fi book, nothing too tricky, he’s 13.
Me: Hm…. Ender’s Game would probably be a good start, or if he likes it a little darker, Neuromancer.  What’s he reading now?
Coworker: Some fantasy crap, chipmunks with swords and shit like that.

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After the Camporee, Teejay Green, Valerie Green and I got together for gravity ribs at the Churchville Inn.  It was 6:58 and I needed to be there by 7 PM, so needless to say, I was early.  I got a table and while waiting dicked around with my new IR thermometer shooting various things around [...]

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In the last week, I’ve been sent a document in WordPerfect format, Corel Draw format, observed 2 people using Lotus Notes and discovered a piece of software at work that only runs on Windows ME.
I think these are signs of the end times.

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One of my class mates mentioned that she was born on a flight from Tallinn to Riga, Estonia which are a bit over 100 miles apart.  I find this feet impressive in both that someone flew such a short distance but was able to give birth during that period of time.  She’s a junior so [...]

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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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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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