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Yes, I know my car is beat up.
No, I do not want to hire some sketchy guy who comes up to me offering to fix it “really cheap” in the Trader Joes/Home Depot parking lot.
Seriously this happens like EVERY time we go there. Assuming I ever DID want to fix the dents in the car (which I really don’t care enough to) I think I might find someone more reputable then “parking lot guy” to do so.
The story of the letter in the pond.
Short version is someone bought a house, went to remove a small garden pond that was on their property and found this letter laminated under the bottom liner.
I am totally signing all my notes “Oh, and by the way, I hope your head falls off” from now on! 
Watching TV we just saw an add for some “As seen on TV” electric shaver that they are billing as better then a normal three head electric shaver because it has…4 shave heads!!!
All I could think of was This is Spinal Tap:
Nigel: This is a top to a, you know, what we use on stage, but it’s
very…very special because if you can see…
Marty: Yeah…
Nigel: …the numbers all go to eleven. Look…right across the board.
Marty: Ahh…oh, I see….
Nigel: Eleven…eleven…eleven….
Marty: …and most of these amps go up to ten….
Nigel: Exactly.
Marty: Does that mean it’s…louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see,
most…most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten
here…all the way up…all the way up….
Marty: Yeah….
Nigel: …all the way up. You’re on ten on your guitar…where can you go
from there? Where?
Marty: I don’t know….
Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra…push over
the cliff…you know what we do?
Marty: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top…
number…and make that a little louder?
Nigel: …these go to eleven.
It being the Christmas season and all I had a hankering to hear the “You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch” song. I found a mp3 on the net, but also saw in the search results there was a Brian Setzer version. So I wondered how many versions of the song there could be and did a quick search on the Itunes store to see. There are no less then 55 hits for the grinch song, done by almost as many different artists. They range from straight re-recoring to to the down right bizarre. Aimee Mann is one of the few women singers, and there is even an instrumental version by the US Air force Band!
Someone spotted these stickers on the L train her in NYC and both Meg and I though it was quite funny:
You can see more here: http://a.parsons.edu/~dprovost/nycsubwayprank.php with a few other pictures and source materials. I just want to know where I can get some for my self!
Check out this picture of a found cat poster and help him find his way home!
So the girl and I went out for dinner tonight. Ended up at CA Pizza Kitchen because the other places we were thinking of going had a 40+ minute wait. Um no thanks. But dinner there was really good. Then after we went to the Amish market to get desert and also ended up picking up some alcoholic refreshments for the weekend. Meg got some of her Woodchuck hard cider that she likes and I was looking for something new/unique. The beer selection at the Amish market is more about micro brews and specialty craft brews, rather then stuff like bud (which I think can pass as water in some states). Well after a few minutes of searching one look at the package and it was in our basket:
It was just too good to pass up! Haven’t tried any yet but being “messiah bold” it HAS to be good!
So I guess Woodhaven Blvd. is just where all the people with the cool license plates live. Just two weeks after my first find I see this on my way to work today:
Using a “Redraft of the Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660” over a current map of manhattan you can see the original size of the island vs. what it is today. Part I find most interesting is how most of the main streets still line up and how you can see the original wall where wall street now is.
Baby boy born with twelve tiny fingers, twelve tiny toes
From the story:
“Jeshuah Fuller is just over 7 pounds, but in the eyes of his proud parents, he’s as mighty as Goliath. Like the biblical giant, Jeshuah was born with six fingers on each hand and six toes on both feet.”
“While Jeshuah is healthy, he will have his extra fingers and toes surgically removed in mid-September, Morris said.”
Both Jenn and I agree. Were that our kid he would keep them! Think not just of the natural typing advantage they would give but also the uniqueness factor. Who will you remember more after a job interview the guy with the MBA or the guy with 12 fingers? I know who *I* would hire!
Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks
One of my favorites is:
The Raven
There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door
And a guy with depression
And a whole lot of questions
And the bird always says “Nevermore.”
EDIT: The folks over at metafilter have taken the few ones posted on the site above and run with the concept, at over 200 comments by 6:30pm (I even threw one together and posted it based on The Cremation of Sam McGee)
A man by the name of McGee
Came south from old tennessee
A hunting for gold
he always was cold
when cremated he said let me be
So a few months ago I found an old wooden box on the curb of our street. The box it self caught my eye but what made me end up taking it home was that it was full of hundreds of photographic slides from the 1950′s (mostly 51 and 52). From what I could tell from looking and the little hand written list the were a mix of someone’s family events (weddings, Christmases, anniversaries) and tourist/vacation stuff (Niagara Falls, Vermont, Florida, and even Cuba). I wanted to try and scan some of the more interesting ones in because I have a thing for old cheesy tourist stuff (and it didn’t get more cheesy in my opinion then 50′s touristy stuff). I finally found a scanner than can do slides so I am slowly digitizing some of the better ones and will probably put them up on line at some point (possibly on some free hosting site like flickr, though if I get ambitious I might self host them too). Also included in the first set I have looked through were a few shots of a parade here in Glendale, NY. One was going down Myrtle ave and to my amazement the Wolf Jewelry store sign is visible in the picture, which is the very same sign they still have outside the shop today. There also was a picture of a group of boy scouts marching down Central ave going right past our Street.
So being the huge geek that I am I took out my camera and tried to take the same pictures from near the same spots as they exist today.
Myrtle Ave 1951 and 2007:
Central Ave 1951 and 2007:
I think its interesting to see the same places 56 years apart. I have a handful of other slides scanned so far but likely won’t put them up anywhere until I have a good sized set of them done which will take a while (while I have managed to get the scanner to go a bit faster by turning down the resolution a bit, there is no real way to automate the process so for now its load three slides into the scanner and scan each one, replace with the next three and repeat.) So if cheesy tourist photos from the 50′s sound interesting keep an eye out here for more information
