This morning I was stumped by a choice of K-Cups forced onto me. Timothy’s brand “Colombien La Vereda” or Green Mountain brand “Colombian Supremo”? How am I to choose when I have no idea of their contents of milds?
Also, recently gleaned from
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You Say Colombien, I Say Colombian
: Regular Mini Doses of Caffeine More Energizing Than Morning Mug. Well, duh, porcelain does not contain any stimulants. -
Greenstein Plumber
A drying machine duct that serves both as an advertisement and a piece of artwork.
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Tremendous Gobbling Capability
Fowler’s custom gobble tubes “make excellent yelps and clucks but are noted for the tremendous gobbling capability. ”
“Once you have mastered the yelp you should now be able to make the notes necessary to gobble. With the call positioned the same as the yelp, begin by saying the notes “ticka” “ticka” “tooka” “tooka” “tooka” “tooka” “tooka” “tooka” with more emphasis placed on the first note and less as you move to the end.”
TiVo® Newsletter, Volume 50 on “TiVocabulary”:
“tooka-tooka (too’ka-too’ka), n., v., —n. 1. the sound the TiVo® service makes in 2x fast-forward or rewind (or 3x, in the interest of brevity). 2. the desire to speed past acts, events, or people that don’t interest you. —v., 3. to skip past the boring stuff, such as when Ryan Seacrest won’t shut up during American Idol. “
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Piled Higher And Deeper
I visited my college recently to pick up my diploma. As usual I looked through the college newspapers.
Well, the political climate is rather interesting at good Old BC. There are two political parties – PHD (conservative) and USL (liberal). For most of my college career PHD, which name as far as I know is not an abbreviation, but like Häagen-Dazs® just a pleasing combination of letters had a long winning streak. That streak ended right after I had a pleasure of being quoted by a college newspaper reporter saying something to the effect that I think that PHD will win again.
What is interesting to note is in the last election United Students League had a very narrow victory amongst allegations of running a smear campaign. By just 21 votes Mohammed L. Hussain won over Yehuda Katz. I am not making this up, people.
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Summer At Brooklyn College
(a dude stuffing himself with McDonalds and two benches werephotoshopped outerased using Adobe® Photoshop® software)
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Still Round The Corner There May Wait
Sign of the door of my favorite professor’s office.
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The Worm Oroborous
I was reading Barrington J. Bayley’s The Knights of the Limits which Amazon in its wisdom recommended for my consumption. The title story is about space travelers from a universe which inhabitants move in patterns through discrete points in space, like chess pieces.
This got me to think – 5 days a week a stainless steel worm moves me in a roughly L shaped pattern, from one tower into another, from one island onto another. And in both towers there are two computer screens and a chair. The two Ls form a Kekule snake, the Worm Oroborous.
I like to think that I am a Knight, but I am really a Pawn.
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Lunchtime Observations
Girls who work at Wendy’s downstairs have the coolest names: Tenece, Girly, India, Carlotta.
There used to be a poster signed by Dave Thomas there, but after Dave died it was replaced by a different poster of him waving goodbye with a spatula.
At Wendy’s customers are always referred to as “guests”. I wonder if that is true in all other fast food places.
Mike’s lunch: two pieces of GG Brand Scandinavian crispbread + Classic Triple® with cheese – onions – buns.
789 calories + 6 net grams of carbs. Interesting, the patties contain 40% of daily value of iron and 6% of calcium. What’s in them? Teeth and cowbells?
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Man, Am I Tired Of This
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect. That’s a mighty fine product, but I’d like to see more variety: Enterprise Plumber, Enterprise Electrician, Enterprise Carpenter, Enterprise Mason.
