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

Part of my Dad’s old medicine collection.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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…