Friday, April 13, 2007

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Parapalegic Cockroach

Once a scientist conducted an experiment on cockroaches. First he caught a cockroach and put on a table. Then he cut off one of its legs and commanded it to walk. The poor cockroach tried to escape, but didn't get very far.

The scientist continued his experiment. He cut one more leg off the cockroach and again commanded it to walk. The cockroach again tried to escape, but couldn't get away.The scientist continued his experiment, cutting one leg at a time off the cockroach, commanding the cockroach to walk after each amputation.

The cockroach was able to propel itself forward after each amputation, right up until it became legless. After the last leg was amputated, the scientist again commanded the roach to walk. This time, it didn't move.

The scientist's conclusion?

WHEN COCKROACHES LOSE THEIR LEGS THEY BECOME DEAF!!!!  

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Friday, February 09, 2007

It's Friday!!!

And it sure feels like it.

(Wooo!!!! 17 minutes left!)


It's really not a negative feeling, just kind of... unproductively goofy. It feels like a Friday.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

What an awesome one-word sentence.

I took my Wills and Trusts exam this afternoon! It's done!

Two down, one to go.

I should celebrate or something.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Business Organizations is Finished!

For the time being, anyway.

I took the final exam for Business Organizations this afternoon. It was supposed to be a three hour test, so I was a bit surprised when the computer came up with a 2 hour time limit - it turned out the exam file I got from the college was slightly erroneous. But we got that straigtened out.

I'm sitting in Panera Bread right now, enjoying a (short) evening out.

It's nice.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I Like Money

I just finished thumbing through a stack of 30 sequentially numbered $100 bills.

It was fun.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Coffee Dan

We're having a conference here this week!

I have been charged with the honor/distinction of managing the audio equipment for the conference, which includes two translator stations and appropriate broadcasters and recievers for a group of spanish speaking attendees and a group of Romanian attendees. This has involved a lot of running around, obtaining and configuring all manner of cables and adaptors. And radios for the recievers.

I was up until 5:45 yesterday morning (Tuesday) getting things ready, got six hours of sleep (yeah, I know- that's plenty. Yeah, right.), then continued running around all afternoon getting everything ready to go for the opening session at 7:00 pm last night (Wednesday).

I was pretty zonked all afternoon.

Until I went to Coffee Dan's.

About two years ago, a friend of mine told me about the most wonderful coffee store right down the street from us. At the time (yea verily, until this evening) I was not a coffee drinker, so I never bothered to check it out. This afternoon, zonked that I was, I went to see what I could find at the coffee place.

Coffee Dan's is a side business of West End Roastery, a manufacturer of coffee roasting equipment which is reputed to be some of the best in the world. They sell a variety of coffee beans (whole or fresh-ground) from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Hawaii, and probably several other places I didn't notice. They also sell coffee beverages- coffee, esspresso, cappucino, latte, etc. I ordered a latte with macadamia nut syrup and was astounded. It was amazing. It was just incredible.

I also bought a pound of fresh roasted (1 or 3 days) fresh ground (on the spot!) Costa Rican coffee. I tried it out this evening (Wednesday), and I think I'm now a coffee drinker.

Quinton would be proud.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Online Spreadsheet

If you get a chance, you really should check out EditGrid, an online spreadsheet 'application.'

It's really slick.

Oh yeah- school's going ok. Everything is really busy, but it's all going well.