Entries from February 2007 ↓

Hi Karen,

You might want to check out this page: http://www.nbc.com/Grease/vote/register.shtml

I believe that voting is only live through Sunday nights for a few hours after the show.

I want to vote for number 12 if its not to late to do so. Five of my friends would like to vote for her too.

Will our votes count?

It's funny how words work when you're 4 years old. You understand that "plus" means addition and "minus" means "take away". But "times" already meant something, it means repeating something some number of times, but when you say something like "three times five", it makes no sense. You wouldn't say to a person "I spun in a circle times three."

So as I teach Katherine her multiplication I've simply switched it to the end of the sentence. Instead of asking her "three times five" I ask her what "five three times" is. This is far more intuitive, she understands that "five three times" means "five and five and five". She can do that math.

I have no idea how to explain division yet. All I've got in my head is that old clip from the Beverly Hillbillies of Jethro talking about his "gazintas". Two gazinta four two times, two gazinta six three times, two gazinta eight four times…. 🙂

So now it's "official", Mitt Romney is running for president. I think that Massachusetts feels about Romney the same way that New York feels about Giuliani (hint, it's not good).

Luckily, there's an easy way to make sure that Romney never gets anywhere with the Republican party. Every time he has a public appearance, somebody raise their hand and say, "Umm, yeah, weren't you governor in Massachusetts when they decided to legalize gay marriage?"

Done.

(I should set something up so that posts on my other blogs show up here, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Seems spammy – if the audience for blog A wants to hear about B and C then I wouldn't need three different blogs, would I?)

But then there are times when I'd like to think a post is useful to all my audiences. Over on Commute Smarter I've got Five (More) Things To Do With A Laptop And No Net Connection. This comes on the heels of a popular post that went around the blogs last week about what to do with your PC when your net connection is down, and included things like taking it apart to clean out the dust. Well, I have about 20-30 minutes every day on the train with my laptop, so I can't really take the thing apart. But that doesn't mean I haven't found ways to keep myself busy!

Well, now, wait – I called Springer "an underdog to cheer for". I think that also covers O'Hurley and Hamilton as well, although I agree that "elderly" is a more obvious way to put it :).

The actresses? eh. I don't know how you can categorize Monique Coleman, who is brand new to the scene and star of a very popular recent movie, with Tia Carrere, who I don't think I've seen since Wayne's World.

I see on the Wikipedia page, by the way, that they note the same thing I did, although they include a "model" category (for Rachel Hunter and Tia Carerre) and call the Jerry Springer category "debonair old men".

I think you got it wrong; although Jerry Springer does fit into the comedian category, he's supposed to be in the elderly category (every season the people at "Dancing with the Stars" puts an old guy into this show; it was George Hamilton in Season 2 and John O'Hurley in Season 1). Also, Vivica Fox, Monique Coleman, and Tia Carrere are not "random actressess"; there supposed to be in the "actressess that have recently become famous (again)" category. And finally, all they need is a NEWSCASTER to be thrown out in the first episode (Tucker Carlson in Season 3 and Kenny Mayne in Season 2)

Last night at dinner I was trying to get Katherine to talk about her day. She has a bad habit of asking her mother what they did, and pretending that she's forgotten. In particular we were stuck on what they did for lunch, because Kerry wouldn't tell her and she swore she couldn't remember.

So the conversation went something like this.

"Ok. Let's work our way through the day. What did you have for breakfast?"

"Life cereal."

"And what did you have for snack at school?"

"Daddy, I didn't have snack, but I can tell you what it was. It was Oreo cookies and Pirate Booty."

"And what did you have for lunch?"

"I can't remember."

"Sure you can, you remembered breakfast and snack and those came first."

"Daddy, I have a memory book in my mind but my head forgot to sign it down!"

….Well, that's different.

Wow.  Wow wow wow.  Never before have I been downright infuriated by Scrubs before.  Somehow they managed to turn Kim into the most hated character in the history of the show.  I don't know why.  But I don't like it one bit.  Not gonna spoil it in case people read the quotes before seeing the show, but man, I don't think you're gonna like it either.

Oh really, Donna, I'm ruining the neighborhood?  At least I'm quiet.  Were you guys having sex last night or raping a baboon?
  I wasn't home last night.
My bad.

It's for my retirement, so Enid and I can see the country in luxury.
  So it's wheelchair accessible for her, sir?
Ted, I'm not retiring for at least three years.  If she's still alive, I'll deal with it then.

You smell like my mom.

Dorian!  You have been wrong about so many things that I'm not even gonna say something's "wrong" anymore, I'm going to say it's "Dorian."  And the fact that you'd be willing to skip seeing that child's heart beat for the first time is just plain Dorian.  I mean hell, Jordan's having her second ultrasound and I couldn't be more giddy.  I can't wait to find out the sex of that unborn tax break.
  Jordan doesn't let you know the sex until the baby's born.
Dorian again.    I don't know if it's the hormones or the baby's actually eating the bitch cells, but Jordan has softened.  In fact, last night she asked me to cuddle.

I think not giving you permission to do this for your friend would be totally Dorian.
  How is this spreading so quickly?

Man check!

He can't possibly make this my fault, right?
  Dorian.  Damnit, now I'm doing it.

Your sorority sisters probably loved you.
  Keith, they tried to sell me.

Adios, Pickle.

Woohoo!  I got friends!

Hi cutie.
  Hey.
Oh like there's a chance I meant you.

No, mean's good.  I like mean.

You could find out the sex, not tell Perry, hold it over his head and play him like your little bitch boy.

Perry was so wrong about you.  You're not an idiotic, scalpel-toting, basketball dribbling, blood sugar watching, idiotic manboy.

Carla's got some serious moves.  She can even do an inverted split leg pole spin.  You know, if that's what they're called.  It's not like I took a poledancing course or anything.

Jordan, the boy already lipsynchs into your tampons.  Must we put the final nail in his tiny gay coffin?
  Mama wants that trophy.

That was awesome!  But uncool.

Then I realized that my dad had hugged me at graduation.  Not with his arms, but with his brain.

Excuse me, my mom sleeps with men! I've seen it!

I'll tell you what I was not doing here, I was not taking a nap on company time on Doctor Kelso's mobile home.  Not this guy.  Back to work.
  I don't think he knew we were moving.

So can I stop squeezing out brats, or is it another stupid boy?
  Uh oh.  Excuse me for a second.
Uh oh?  Don't say uh-oh.  Follow him!  He said uh-oh!

Hey wait, no, coming back.  Hello.  Who's making pancakes?
  See?  He's great.

Can I say something?  I don't know this young man.  I wish I did.  I admire his spirit.  And if he says we must continue onward, then I say I am in!

First off, I'm not a neo-natal surgeon.  Second, you ruined my roadtrip.  And you just gave my baby to Rochelle, the only nurse to get kicked out of the nursery for using a baby as a ventriloquist dummy.
   I don't like being spanked!
    That's because you haven't found someone who's doing it right!
Give me that.  What's the matter with you?

Go take care of Doctor Cox.  Tell him Gladys is thinking about him.  He'll know it's me.

Farewell, stranger.  I shall toast you with my heartiest wine.
  Maybe you should lie down.

And you know damn well I would never be that inappropriate.  Thanks, Sugarboobs.

Sir, do you think I know Al Green just because I'm black?
  Plan B.

Bummer.  Now why am I back in here again?
  Because I couldn't wait to rub a little jelly on your treasure trail.

And I could never be mad at Kim for giving me a bad surprise.  Because at least she was straight with me.