October 30: mantrum
when a grown man throws a tantrum when he can’t have his way.
Rick had a mantrum when he found out he couldn’t have McDonald’s for dinner
I’m happy to report I have married a man who has never had a mantrum in front of me. Last one … not so much.
October 31, 2006
The Top 17 Signs Your Halloween Party Is Sucking
17> Over half your guests came as either “Fat Elvis” or
“Fat Britney.”
16> Best costume award belongs to Eric, who is simply wearing
a name tag that says, “Bill.”
15> Spooky moaning and wailing on the stereo is drowned out by
moaning and wailing from everybody who tried the clam dip.
14> Those Taliban fellas in the corner aren’t liking the bunny
ears/burqa combo.
13> Mr. Whiskers makes a cute pirate and Buttons is a perfect
fairy princess, but your other 38 cats don’t seem to have
the holiday spirit.
12> Elvira showed up wearing a turtleneck.
11> Those guys dressed as the Indian, the cowboy, the sailor and
the construction worker are getting their asses kicked on your
front lawn by about a dozen guys in really good cop costumes.
10> “Sure, we’d LOVE to hear you rap ‘The Monster Mash’ again,
K-Fed.”
9> You asked the wife to think up something *really* scary, so
she threw out the liquor and stocked the fridge with Aquafina.
8> The girl in the hooker costume you thought was the babysitter
is “sitting” for your husband and his friends in the locked
basement.
7> By nine, the three remaining guests are huddled around your
TV watching “Sabado Gigante.”
6> Oddly enough, “Congressman Foley” and “Harry Potter” have
both disappeared.
5> After you showed up in that Grim Reaper costume, half of the
Quiet Acres Retirement Home residents had to Rascal back to
their suites and change costumes.
4> The woman dressed as Angelina Jolie insists on taking your
newborn with her when she leaves.
3> Just as you’re meeting your boss’s wife, your 4-year-old
enters the room with your wife’s strap-on dildo on her head,
proclaiming she’s a unicorn.
2> “Dick Cheney” waterboards the hostess to find out where
the good beer is.
and Topfive.com’s Number 1 Sign Your Halloween Party Is Sucking…
1> Disappointed, hungry zombies are shuffling their way over
from Jessica Simpson’s house next door.
[ The Top 5 List www.topfive.com ]
[ Copyright 2006 by Chris White ]
A very deep sleep where you are unable to hear telephones, text messages, and even the Air Force.
Named to honor the two fine pilots from Northwest Airlines and their little “in flight snooze”
“Dude, I was so tired yesterday afternoon, I took a Northwest Nap. My girl called me 15 times and I didn’t hear a thing”
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Heh. Gonna be awhile before they live that down.
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This just in:
Off-course pilots were laptopping-while-flying
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 10:57 AM PDT
Two pilots on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis, MN flew past the airport in error last week, and federal investigators now report that this was caused by laptop distraction in the cockpit. Northwest has just gone through a merger, and the pilots were apparently kvetching to one another about the confusing new scheduling system imposed post-merger.
“Each pilot accessed and used his personal laptop computer while they discussed the airline crew flight scheduling procedure,” the NTSB report said. More from the New York Times.
The pilots told the National Transportation Safety Board that they missed their destination because they had taken out their personal laptops in the cockpit, a violation of airline policy, so the first officer, Richard I. Cole, could tutor the captain, Timothy B. Cheney, in a new scheduling system put in place by Delta Air Lines, which acquired Northwest last fall.
heh. Good one.
This came from Eleasaid via Twitter today.
a.k.a Rad, the birthday boy. I’m pretty sure by the look on his face that Mair is his bitch.
Rad, enjoying a carrot.
Mom sent this for Rad’s 2nd birthday 🙂 Katie, the cat in the picture, is the bane of Rad’s life. Rad is Mair’s dog. Katie is bigger than the dog. If Mair would send me a picture of the dog, I’d be happy to post him, too.
“Balloon Boy? Well that’s just great. Now I got over 1,000 ‘Helium Lad’ T-shirts that Kinko’s won’t take back.”
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🙂 I get so surprised at anything that makes me laugh these days …
this is from today’s Top5 list – courtesy of Danny Gallagher, McKinney, TX
Cheap Naked Chips Snap a Perfect Picture
New Scientist (10/07/09) Marks, Paul
Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (EPFL) engineer Edoardo Charbon and his team are developing a gigavision sensor, based on an ordinary memory chip, which they say can operate well with both bright and dim light.
In the past, light has been the bane of the memory chip–it “simply destroys the information,” says EPFL researcher Martin Vetterli. But Charbon and colleagues learned to aim the light hitting a memory chip so that each cell that is corrupted by the light changes depending on how much light is hitting it.The light effectively creates an image that the chip preserves.
The researchers say the new sensor could enable cell phones and other devices to take richer, better pictures. Moreover, the process is far more efficient than sensors based on charge-coupled devices (CCDs) or complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS).
Both technologies use similar methods to store images. Each pixel holds a charge whose strength corresponds with the amount of light that hits it. Charges in a CCD are passed from one pixel to another, so that the image forms in a wave of light starting at one edge of the chip and finally reaching the other.
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) labels the pixels according to an 8-bit grayscale from zero to 255. CMOS uses the same scale, although it transforms charges into voltages before doing so. However, Vetterli says that because a memory chip creates an image immediately, its cells will always be 100 times smaller than those belonging to CMOS sensors.
This means that it can pack 100 pixels in the space of just one digital camera sensor–a gigapixel camera. Memory chip sensors can only store zeros or ones–light or dark–and cannot yet record shades of gray. EPFL’s Feng Yang is working on an algorithm that can assign shades of gray to 100 pixels of information. Dubbed spatial oversampling, the technique is more accurate than ADC. Vetterli hopes to have a functional gigavision memory chip by early 2011.
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I admit it: I posted this primarily because the title made me look twice. 🙂
Yuba City, that is. Chickens, looking for a rental I guess. This is in the shopping center where the husbeast works. Right near Chikins R Us.
Yes, he has lots of chickens in the parking lot. Yes, we live less than 60 miles from the state capitol.
October 8: shoe whore
1. Someone who owns too many shoes. [not actually possible — ed]
2. Like a bag hag but obsessed with shoes.
Carrie from Sex and the City is a shoe whore.
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I’ve slacked off a lot on my shoe buying, so by this definition, I’m probably more of a shoe slut than a shoe whore anymore. Say, is this sexist?
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