The boy, on helping clean up the Nativity scene: "Mom, I put baby Jesus in his place."
The girl walks into the front room, wearing a cowboy hat.
Mom: "Where's your horse?"
Girl: "I'm just pretending."
Dad, in the car, asking about the seat belt that is NEVER ready to go when we are:
"Are you in like Flynn?"
Girl: "I'm buckled like fuckle!"
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
New (to me) digital point and shoot/Mouth tennis.
(Unnecessary Introduction--if you want to see the video, it's after the jump, as they say):
I was thinking the other day as I saw some strange things in Wal-Mart, "I wish I had a little digital point and shoot that I could carry around with me." As luck would have it later that weekend, during a casual perusal of Savers, I came across a Nikon digital camera that couldn't have been more than a couple of years old. It was priced at $20, which was so strange for how Savers has been pricing things lately (I've been meaning to rant briefly about how uppity Savers has been getting, but that will have to come later). It didn't have a memory card or charger, so there was no way of knowing if it functioned. The clerk told me that there was a seven-day return policy on it, so I risked it. Once home, I ordered a charger through Amazon (I think it was $0.18, but shipping was $7 or $8), and ran to Wal-Mart to get a 2 gig card (another $15 or so). Luckily, the charger came in time, the battery charged, and voila! I picked up a $175 camera for $42ish. Not bad. Add another $1.49 at my favorite thrift store, and I've got a little Lowe Pro case for the thing.
I was thinking the other day as I saw some strange things in Wal-Mart, "I wish I had a little digital point and shoot that I could carry around with me." As luck would have it later that weekend, during a casual perusal of Savers, I came across a Nikon digital camera that couldn't have been more than a couple of years old. It was priced at $20, which was so strange for how Savers has been pricing things lately (I've been meaning to rant briefly about how uppity Savers has been getting, but that will have to come later). It didn't have a memory card or charger, so there was no way of knowing if it functioned. The clerk told me that there was a seven-day return policy on it, so I risked it. Once home, I ordered a charger through Amazon (I think it was $0.18, but shipping was $7 or $8), and ran to Wal-Mart to get a 2 gig card (another $15 or so). Luckily, the charger came in time, the battery charged, and voila! I picked up a $175 camera for $42ish. Not bad. Add another $1.49 at my favorite thrift store, and I've got a little Lowe Pro case for the thing.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Konica Pictures (or, rather, Pictures of the Konica)
Here are a couple of shots of the camera I talked about/obsessed about here. Now I need to shoot some pictures and post those.
This is the switch that will hopefully make all my dreams come true.
This is the switch that will hopefully make all my dreams come true.
Self-referential Palindrome.
I know most of my palindromes are short and only involve one word, but this one was great because it makes reference both to me (my students who are too lazy to say all five syllables of "Mr. Archiblog" call me "Mr. A") and my wife (who goes by the nickname "La"):
"Alarm Mr. A, La!"
"Alarm Mr. A, La!"
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