Category Archives: weird

Otto’s, for the cure

Posted by on February 12, 2012 Comments Off

Otto’s Cure.
The German Remedy
for Throat and Lung Diseases

Part of my Dad’s old medicine collection.

War of Words

Posted by on August 19, 2010 Comments Off

Your writing might exhibit more venustation as a result of visiting Save The Words. No need to pull out the odynometer when learning perantique words, but the flash interface may cause some strain.

Shapeshifting

Posted by on June 30, 2010 Comments Off

So, I am sitting in between the Psychology and Religion sections at Borders doing some work before a church event. It is the “Metaphysical Studies” section. I look over and see the title of one of the books: “The Magic of Shapeshifting”. For some reason I do not think it is referring to this kind of shapeshifting. If I could shape-shift I think I would make myself look exactly like my brother. That or a large red panda.

Kitchen Math & Pi Day

Posted by on March 14, 2010 Comments Off

Pi Are Squared.

I had a fun time trying to explain the concept of Pi to my daughter. Not sure it took. If she remembers 3.14 tomorrow I will consider it a success.

Special thanks to Jennifer Hampton for the pun.

Going to the hardware store

Posted by on June 24, 2009 Comments Off

This will appeal to some friends who enjoy browsing the isles of Lowes or Home Depot. Hardwarestore by Wierd Al

Random Scenario Generator

Posted by on February 27, 2009 Comments Off

I made a random plot/scenario generator based on an article over at IBM. I hope you have fun playing with it. If you wind up writing a book as a result make sure to name the protagonist after me.

Random limerick

Posted by on January 16, 2009 Comments Off

I wrote a program to generate random limericks. Here are two example results:

 There once was a man in crowded
 Who thought they were quite shambled.
 They had their observation's,
 And some abbreviations,
 But could not really unheeded.
 There once was a lady from miserably,
 Who thought they were quite fashionably.
 They had their coupon,
 And some hellion,
 But could not really provably.

Cat Away

Posted by on June 24, 2008 1 comment

And the mice play. The rest of the family is away. I am all alone. Can you say “Recipe for Disaster”©? I have a history of doing weird things while Camille is away. What should I do this time?

. 1 Mad Scientist
. 1 Empty House
. 11 Days
. 1/2 tsp Chaos

The Super-duper Bowl

Posted by on January 19, 2007 Comments Off

I am not a big football watcher these days, mostly owing to the fact that I do not have a TV. While in Ithaca over Christmas, I managed to catch a couple ‘bowl’ games. The sportscasters were mentioning how for a couple teams this was their first bowl game. No wonder when you now have the ‘Pioneer Purevision Las Vegas Bowl’, the ‘Meineke Car Care Bowl’ or the ‘PapaJohns.com bowl’. I think things are getting a little out of hand. There are still teams that cannot make it into a bowl game, so here I submit my suggestions for the next bowl games:

    Campbell’s Soup Bowl
    McCormik Salad Bowl
    Dole Fruit Bowl
    Long John Silver Fish Bowl
    KoolAid Punch Bowl
    Iams Dog Bowl
    Snickers Snack Bowl
    SweetTart Candy Bowl
    DirtDevil Dust Bowl
    KitchenAid Mixing Bowl
    Kohler Wash Bowl
    MrClean Toilet Bowl

New Neighbors and Bearing Gifts

Posted by on October 4, 2006 Comments Off

Our new apartment will be 1.9 miles (as the google drives) away from the Toppens. I estimate it to be about 793 meters away (as the waterballoon flies). They graciously invited me over for dinner last night, and I got to see their two cute kids as well. I just wish I knew the area better to have been able to bring flowers or something, like a good guest.

In separate news, we no longer have the Deep South…