Archive for 2008

Poor Baby Truck part iii

So today, I’m running some errands when I get pulled over by a cop. Since I was sitting at a red light, I couldn’t imagine why. I looked in the bottom corner of my windshield and I knew. DAMMIT.
Emil and I never miss inspection or registration. We are so careful since it’s so easy/cheap. I [...]

Poor Baby Truck part ii

Emil is in the Northgate Dart League. I’m an unofficial alternate only because having a warm body is better than being short a team member. So, every Wednesday night from we are at Fitzwilly’s or Dudley’s. We have wings and beer. I either play with the guys or work on stuff for As You Wish. [...]

Poor Baby Truck part i

I have lost track of how many tires we have repaired or replaced on Baby Truck.  Once there were even so many repairs in the same tire, that we expired the warranty early. I even had two flats at once back in April.
It’s interesting because I drive ~all the same places Emil does and he [...]

UMiami “Pet” Croc Murdered

When I attended the University of Miami, there were always wonderful animals in our campus lake (which was formed via the canals to the bay, so the water is brackish). After Hurricane Andrew, we had a resident pelican who stuck around for ~3 semesters before he presumably headed back to the beach. Manatees used to [...]

Meet me in the Middle

Thanks to Lani of Agent Genius, I saw this graph.

I work to find the middle of this graph all the time!

Register to Vote

Voter Map for 77807

September Maddness

Thanks to TechCrunch for this humorous look at the banking economy.
Basketball fans who’ve been watching the bank failures and consolidations recently will understand and appreciate this September Madness chart.

This is so sad.

Tissue Entertainment

more cat pictures
One of my mom’s favorite stories about me: I was probably almost a year old and had learned to climb. Mom left me alone with Daddy so she could run an errand. She included a warning something like, “if she’s quiet, something is wrong.”
I helped myself up to the tank on the toilet [...]

Snow

more animals

KBTX Accidentally Uses Quotes

Quick, someone tell Grammar Girl!
Our local TV station ran a quick story about a shooting in College Station. Unfortunately, their mis-use of quotation marks around the word accidental implies that there is more to the story—that perhaps the shooting was intentional or made to look like an accident.
Shame on you, KBTX! Unless you have factual [...]

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