I-45 is lovely this time of year
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Construction to shut down NASA 1, I-45
Archive for the 'Stuff' Category
National Gorilla Suit Day
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Today is National Gorilla Suit Day, as originally imagined by Mad Magazine’s legendary Don Martin. You can read more about National Gorilla Suit Day here, here, here, here, and here.
We got to install microwave ovens, Custom Kitchen Deliveries…
Friday, December 19th, 2008Watch it. You’ll like it.
Happy Birthday Leigh Ann!
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Better late than never.
This site is 100% kid-friendly!
Monday, April 14th, 2008Apologies to Elvis Costello
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Fooling around with Photo Booth and PhotoShop:
Summing up last night’s NCAA championship game
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008The Dead Guy has the best summary of last night’s victory by the Kansas Jayhawks over the Memphis Tigers to win the 2008 NCAA men’s basketball championship. Even his title is great: “Score one for Decent Society…”
Could there have been a more fitting end to the college basketball season than what occurred last night? Joey [...]
How penguins fly
Friday, April 4th, 2008On Tuesday, I posted a link to the best April Fool’s joke of the day, produced by the BBC. Today, courtesy of the Laughing Squid, I found out how they made those penguins fly. It’s amazing the kind of magic that studios can accomplish today.
When penguins fly
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008As you might have noticed, today was April Fool’s Day and the Internet was full of jokes, gags, and spoofs as the online crowd, mostly the geek types, tried hard to outdo each other. Most were lame, a few were entertaining, and a few were actually funny. But the best of them all came not [...]
And Great Lyrics Quiz Rock Roll The
Friday, March 21st, 2008I saw an item today on Kyrie O’Connor’s blog at the Houston Chronicle that’s a lot of fun. Take the words of a classic rock song, put them and alphabetical order, eliminate duplicates, and then try to recognize the song. It’s harder than it sounds, but it’s fun too. Spoiler warning: if you want to [...]
Congratulations to the Pearland Academic Decathlon team
Monday, March 3rd, 2008The Pearland High School Academic Decathlon team will be representing Texas at a national decathlon next month.
After outperforming students from nearly 80 other Texas schools, Pearland High School earned the right Sunday to represent Texas at next month’s national academic decathlon meet.
While the nine-member team entered the weekend state contest as a favorite, it didn’t [...]
Genius comes in many forms
Monday, February 11th, 2008By Jerry Beck at the Cartoon Brew blog:
One of the highlights of the Annie Awards last Friday night was a small video concocted by the cast of Spongebob Squarepants (M.C. Tom Kenny, along with presenters Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence and Bill Fagerbakke), created to prove they shouldn’t be stereotyped simply as Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward and [...]
