The Day After Tomorrow

Did anyone see the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" with Dennis Quaid? The premise was that global warming was bringing on a new ice age. And, of course, being movie time, the new ice age came in a couple of days.

Anyway, at the beginning of the movie, Dennis Quaid and his team were drilling on an ice shelf when a huge chunk of it broke off. It wasn't the cause of the movie disasters, but just one of the events. Well, lookee what happened in the arctic.

Link to BIG ice cube video

Hmm... wonder how I'll spend my kids' inheritance over the next couple of days?

Taking no chances with my health

Have you been hearing the problems with food and E. Coli?

1. You can't eat fresh vegetables from the store.
2. It's not safe to eat fast food.
3. And now, you can't even eat at a sit-down restaurant.

So, what's a person to do? Eat the only food that's safe anymore. And what would that be? Twinkies, of course! That's all I'll be eating from now on. I bet I'll outlive all of ya.

So close, and yet, so far.

Yesterday, after work, I stopped by the Wal-Mart near my office. Just jokingly, I asked the clerk where all the Wii's were. She said that they'd be getting some in today at 10am! I knew my friend was looking for one, so I told him that in our carpool this morning. He said that his kids already have too much, but okay, it would be cool to have one, so he'd go over with me at 10. (Wait, did I want one? Was I going? Oh, yeah, why not...)

So after my meeting, we drove over to the Wal-Mart and started getting really excited when we saw a guy walk past us with a Wii in a bag! The hunt was on! Then we got to the electronics department where there was a fairly short line, and where the clerk was handing them out. S-l-o-w-l-y... One by painfully slow one, we moved up closer to the front. My friend was getting really excited. And then it happened! Three people before we got there, they ran out!

So my friend goes into the classic phases of an unrequited Christmas present. "Oh, well. I didn't really want one anyway," and then to "If I wasn't playing with my cell phone, we could've been there early enough!" I'm now waiting for the "Oh, who wants one of those things anyway" phase.

Updates as they occur...

The right name for the job

I just read an article in an IT related magazine. "IT", in case you don't know, is for Information Technology, or the use of computers and data in business.

Anyway, the article itself wasn't that interesting, but the name of the guy they interviewed was. So what's his name? Art Data! Pretty funny.

A number of years back, I worked with a programmer named Jim Doss. Of course, this was before Windows. :)

How about you? Do you know people whose names match their jobs?

Believe in Yourself

It was just a cute picture. :)

Things that go "bump!" in the night...

Admit it, I'll bet you've all gone "bump" before.

Well, it will no longer be a worry. Not when you can have these headlight slippers! Why try to avoid waking your spouse up by going to the bathroom/kitchen/take-your-pick in the dark, when you only wake him/her up anyway by stepping on the cat?

Why do babies have to grow up? (Or, Help me! My teenager's learning to drive!)

Those of you who have taught your son or daughter to drive can probably relate. Those of you who are pre-driving teenagers can just look away. Those of you whose oldest child is under 15... Just You Wait!

Anyway, my child is learning to drive. Has her own permit. Got it awhile back, even. She's even driven to school -- with me at her side of course. There are laws, you know.

Well, for one reason or another, she has not been able to drive lately (or, I've come up with various excuses to not let her...). Anyway, it was time to let her at it again. Utah law says she needs 40 hours of driving with a parent before she can get a license. I believe she's keeping track of the time spent driving down to the second. Or at least rounded up to the next 1/4 minute...

So first thing she does is gets in and buckles up. (Good for her! The rest of you yung'uns should learn from this.) Then she tries to put the car in reverse. Except, umm, she needs to start the car first. Okay, once the car is started (a story there too, but not her fault) she guns the engine! She meant to put on the brake to put the car in gear, but forgot which pedal it was... So, okay, correct brake pedal depressed. Now, she puts the car in Drive to back out of the garage. Yes, Drive! As in, all-she'll-be-able-to-do-is-go-forward-about-12-inches-into-the-wall Drive!

After I finish freaking out (luckily, she still hadn't released the parking brake), and after she calms down from me freaking out, we finally back out of the garage and take a nice leisurely 45 minute drive downtown. She actually did pretty well except for the left-turn-episode, but that's a story for another day...