September 2011
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How many Aggies does it take to change a lightbulb?
One, but he receives three hours credit.
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"It was a scheduled outage."
"Scheduled by whom?"
"The Universe."
He went to the bathroom, picked up his stepping stool, came to the living room, put it under the light switch, got on top and turned the light on.
I’m pretty sure we never told him which switch turned the light on.
Every day is a little more fun, and little more of a forewarning.
“It’s okay, they’re just talking about socioeconomic disparity and...”
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The forecast has us at 100º on Sunday. It was fun while it lasted, I suppose.
http://i.imgur.com/146cD.jpg →
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“There is something odd in the fact that when we reproduce the Middle Ages it is...”
– “The True Middle Ages,” The Illustrated London News, 14 July 1906 – G. K. Chesterton
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“I try to avoid big dicts.”
– Overheard
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Tons of Toys for Thunderbolt →
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RackMac →
Sonnet has always had my undying love, and this just warms my heart a bit.
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SQUEEEEEEE Extreme →
To be fair, I have zero income-related use for this. But that doesn’t stop me from wanting it. :)
How I know he’s not asleep #8: I sneeze and he says “Bless you!” over the monitor.
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And now for something completely different… →
ungenius:
It’s a new beer with some unusual characteristics.
Only 12 bottles were brewed, and they sold for $765 each.
It had an alcohol content of 55%. Can you even get that without distillation? Does it even count as a beer? Does it taste like beer?
It comes in a unique bottle wrapped in preserved roadkill.
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Teaching the boy how to say “crab” went about as expected. School tomorrow will be interesting.
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“Real men test in production.”
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Someone said they could see the Bastrop fire early on from the area I work at, but yesterday I saw nothing. Today, the western sky is dark and the fire map shows Perdenales in that direction. A not-so-gentle reminder that we’re surrounded by disaster even as life in Austin carries on.
http://ticc.tamu.edu/Response/FireActivity/
If the presidential race forces me to pick between Perry and Obama I’m going to vote Canada.
“Polyamory is just wrong: you should never mix Greek and Latin roots!”
– Overheard
“I don’t want to have this discussion right now. Remind me some other time...”
– Overheard