Archive for February, 2006
I think Jack Johnson is the new Paul Simon. (no offense Paul)
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This guy, named Paul Dell, decided to register a domain name and start a web design company.
He picked the obvious name for his venture - dellwebsites.com.
Unfortunately, he didn’t realize that he wasn’t allowed to use his own surname. Michael Dell already used it, and we all know it wouldn’t be fair for Paul to use it too! At least that’s what Michael Dell wants you to believe.
Paul is now faced with the dilema, either give up and hand over the domain name or fight the beast. At this point, it looks like he’s going to try and fight.
Check out Paul’s battle with Dell at help-paul-dell.com and pauldell.blogspot.com.
This kind of story makes me dread buying any more DELL Computers.
Good Luck Paul!
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Who’s the guy sleeping in our parking lot?
I walked outside and saw this pickup truck just outside the warehouse door. and this old guy sleeping in the driver’s seat.
The sun was in a wierd place - that’s the little black dot in the picture (really try to take a picture of the sun with your camera phone sometime!) - that’s why it’s not such a great picture. If you look reeeaaaal close, you can see the slumped over mass of some old dude sleeping in the truck.
I was going to walk up and take a picture through the window, but what if he woke up? There I would be standing outside his truck with my camera phone at the window - right in his sleeping face. ummm, what would I say??
“Hi, just wanted to make sure you were alive.”
Yeah, PLUS, it’s a pickup truck. He might have a SHOTGUN in there! Then I guess I’d be showing you a great picture of me running for my life with buckshot in my ass.
So, anyway, there was a guy sleeping in the parking lot today.
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What happens when you combine a handful of rubber bands and a near blind guy?
If you ask my brother, he’d probably say a whole lotta fun.
We hired a new telemarketer a couple of months ago. Real nice guy, very talented, unfortunately he has very poor vision - near blind. I think he said his vision was like 20/200, meaning that what he can see from 20 feet away, we can see from 200 feet away.
(Here he sits very close to his monitor.)
As he was leaving today, Scott grabbed a rubber band and fired it his way. Whish, right past him. He didn’t notice.
Fire #2, whish right past his head, didn’t notice again.
Scott now getting frustrated with his rubber band firing abilities, carefully aims another. Direct Hit!
He STILL didn’t notice. Not only didn’t he notice, he was still talking to us. Scott fires again and again as he is walking out the door - one more miss, and another hit. Slowly the door closes and he disappears.
At this point, I’m trying to contain my laughter (I also feel a little bad about this.)
I look over at Scott, and the only thing he has to say for himself?
“Man, this must be a new low.”
Yeah, a new low, but great blog content! 
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We are giving Sid anti-biotics hoping that there is a very slight chance that she is only suffering from an infection. If anyone is wondering what I am talking about see this post.
I’m pretty sure the vet believes the anti-biotics are a waste of money, but suggested them to help give us a little piece of mind. It’s not like it’s going to hurt to try.
It’s hard watching a family member (yes, a dog is a family member) getting sicker and sicker. She doesn’t act sick, but her abdomin is swelling more every day. Once we notice she is suffering, we are going to have to put her to sleep. Probably even more difficult, we are going to have to explain this to Charlie. Lori and I started talking about it tonight, so I hit the web in hopes of finding wisdom about how to tell a 4 year old that the family pet is going to die.
The end result? I found several articles that (hopefully) have a little wisdom, and Lori ended up heading to bed crying. This just made things worse since Sid was already in our bed asleep.
Here are a few of the suggestions.
- Tell your child what is happening as soon as possible.
This means we have to talk with Charlie soon.
- Do not lie.
Lies like “the dog ran away” or “went away” can cause confusion. Children should not expect their pet to return or quesiton whether they did something to make their pet leave.
- Use words like death and dying to make your meaning clear.
Avoid euphemisms like “put to sleep.” Children will not understand and can take these words literally and develop sleep anxiety.
- Let children say goodbye before euthanasia or burial.
- Make sure that your child understands what dying means.
They need to understand that your pet’s body stopped working. It’s important for them to know their pet will not be coming back.
- Be sure to show your own feelings.
If your child does not see you grieving, they may believe that you didn’t think the pet was special, or be afraid to show you their own feelings.
- Avoid getting a new pet right away.
You do not want to convey the impression that a pet or family member is replaceable. It’s also important to take time to grieve the passing of your pet. If emotions are still in turmoil, a new pet might be resented for “taking the place” of an old pet. Children may find loving a new pet to be dis-loyal to a previous pet.
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I found myself in a small village surrounded by mountains. The sun was bright, but I wasn’t even slightly warm. When I looked around everything seemed familiar, but I was sure I didn’t know this place. Every hut I peeked into was occupied with members of my bowling league. There was Dave, eating a melon to my right. Rick was to my left having a drink at the tiki bar. Just across a large dirt courtyard I saw Bill, Cyndi, and Denise whispering to each other. I thought I was alone here, but my wife and 3 or 4 close friends were with me, also looking quizzically around the village. Funny that I didn’t notice them before.
It was suddenly the next morning. This was odd, I didn’t remember the passage of time, but I knew time had passed. I was now sitting in a large hut with a wide rectangular open window. As I looked out over the village, I noticed everyone was gone and it was quiet. I was just coming to the conclusion that I should find all of this odd when a rather large group of aborigines started charging toward us with their spears overhead. They looked mad. We needed to get out of there quick.
I looked up from the picnic table we were now sitting at. There was Dave, eating another melon.
“Dave,” I asked “Why were those aborigines trying to kill us?”
“Keith, I tried to tell you that you have to put two coats of paint on the hut, or it will upset the natives.” he said.
“Oh, that’s right, I forgot. We’ll get the second coat on right away.”
I looked over my shoulder as we were starting our second coat of sky-blue paint. There was the leader of the aboriginal tribe. He waved and gave me a quick smile and the bright sun glinted off his gold tooth.
I slowly opened my eyes and found myself staring at my bedroom ceiling with one thought going through my mind — “Aborigines have gold teeth??”
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I needed a definition for the word “brunt” today, so I headed over to answers.com.
You can see the definition page from answers.com below. What I thought was odd was this Line:
Or did you mean: List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters
Just seems like an odd question to ask.
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I have 16 jars of pickles in my fridge.
Does anyone find that odd?
I would love to know what the average PPH (Pickles per Household) is in this country.
I think my household might be a touch high.
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Never walk in the grass outside a vets office.
Your weight should be less than your bowling average.