2004 in Review: Part May
More of my year of blog entries in review. This time our featured month is May. (more…)
More of my year of blog entries in review. This time our featured month is May. (more…)
It's New Year's Eve, I'm at work, and it's not insanely busy. The insanely busy will occur monday. Computer Modelling(tm) suggests 1/03/2005 will be our busiest day of the month, possible of the year to come. Since the end of December seems to be The Time of Lists, I thought I'd make a list of all my blogging for the year with annotated comments. click that "more" thing to read more –> (more…)
When we closed on our house, there was a ton of papers to sign. I commented to the notary..
quick aside: when I was little I used to think that the phrase "Notary Public" was actually "Noted Republic" I had a hard time understanding why you had to sign Important Papers in front of some guy who apparently had declared that his house was an independant country.
So I commented to the notary "My name is too long, and I'm tired of writing it, can I just switch to an X?"
She didn't think it was funny.
Note: Don't make jokes about your signature when signing a deed and a mortgage. You only get nervous laughter.
This guy decided to just see how far he can change his signature before people noticed.
I think my favorite is when he drew a little stick figure as his signature.
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But on closer inspection…
it appears to be a pot leaf.
on a side note, when googling to make sure I spelled the title of this post correctly, I found Johnny Ganjaseed which I found mildly amusing. (0)
Sausage Party Trays.
they were sold out (!?!?) so I don't didn't get to see what kind of tray you need to bring to a sausage party. (0)
The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455. How does that relate? You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash.
The most dangerous thing we do in Houston, of course, is drive our automobiles to work every day, so you know how dangerous that is and how many people get killed doing that. But wiping out civilization. …
It's not the point that we should move (to another planet). It's the point that the technologies that we need to live and work in other places in the solar system will help us survive on Earth when these bad things happen.
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