Today I decided to search my local library’s catalog for John Hodgman’s book “The Areas of My Expertise”. They don’t have it, which is disappointing. However, the list of books that most closely match my search criteria are listed below.
- Area seven
- Bared fangs
- Career smarts
- Career strategies to last a lifetime
- Careers
- Arena /
- Arena: Sports SF /
- Aren’t you forgetting something, Fiona? /
- Aren’t you glad!
- Parenthood by proxy
- Parenting agreements that work
- Parents’ complete guide to day camps
- Parent’s guide to childhood medications
I would like to think that if you took the best parts of these books and put them into a single book, you might have something similar to the book I was searching for.
Has anyone else seen this? The sharks in Lego Agents Speedboat Rescue have frickin laser beams on their heads. Classic.
I’m in Vegas for Devconnections and after a ridiculously huge portion of Shepherd’s Pie at the Cheesecake Factory I put $4 in the penny slots. Well, it must be my lucky day because I won $65. I REALLY wish they had the kind of slots that actually dispense money instead of just beeping real loud because it would have been AWESOME for 6,500 pennies come flying out of that sucker.
Someone has stabilized the famous video of Bigfoot. I can’t believe it took so long for someone to do this.
My sister-in-law grew up to be DJ Lance of Yo Gabba Gabba, which is weird because she doesn’t have that much orange stuff.
I’m sorry, but even though he says the rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated, I’m not so sure. I think there’s a good chance that Steve Jobs died recently and his ghost appeared on stage at the iPod event today.
So I’m doing a mock-up of something at work and I needed a list of names to use. I’m tired of using the names of my co-workers and other people I know so I did a quick search for a random name generator. The first one that came up was, not surprisingly, called Random Name Generator. When I generated my list of names, this was the result:
- Burt Kunkle
- Bo Toke
- Andrea Armstrong
- Tyrone Focell
- Melvin Christman
- Dorsey Lalty
- Corey Frankenberger
- Sydney Vorrasi
- Emile Beck
- Elliot Porter
This site could potentially provide minutes of fun.
I’ve read the following quotes from Ray Nagin over the last couple of days:
- “You need to be scared”
- “If you decide to stay, you are on your own”
- “We really don’t have the resources to rescue you after this”
I was reminded of the scene where George Costanza pushes children and an old lady out of the way to escape an apartment fire. I’m sure Ray was the first one out of the city.
During the Table Tennis Gold Medal match between Ma Lin and Wang Hao, the following remarks were made by the commentators:
- “Break it down, style-wise”
- “The strongest forehand on the planet, pure power”
- “Whoever controls the short, soft balls…”
- “Ma Lin has really developed a reputation as being the Jim Kelly of table tennis”
- “They respect one another’s power”
