I love evil plans. We are meeting my friend and her husband for dinner tomorrow night, only hmmmm.... We don't show up. She wonders why? She tells her husband that I am always on time. Maybe she will call me. Oh wait, she doesn't have my number with her. Guess they'll have to go home and see if I called and cancelled. They pull up to their dark apartment. Nothing seems unusual. Her husband goes in first. SURPRISE! It's a party for his birthday. I love evil plans. (Disclaimer: Evil plan is not in fact intended for evil purposes.)


I'm a Common Toad!

The largest toad found commonly in Europe, the Bufo Bufo species can grow up to 20cm in length with a rotund body. Active mostly at night, this toad will walk about slowly, sometimes making short jumps, in search of insects, worms and other invertebrates. This makes it of great help to farmers. At the end of autumn it buries itself in the soil where it remains until good weather arrives again.

What kind of Frog are you?

Today (2-23-05) was Tell a funny story about your kid day. I don't know why and obviously I don't have a kid but it made me think of stories from my childhood. So I will relate one of those to you. I can't remember anything funny about myself when I was really little at the moment. I know I frequently unrolled the toilet paper and took out all the cans from our bottom cupboards, etc. My parents have about 72 pictures to prove this. Most of my funny stories revolve around my brother. Remember the banana sticker thing. Anyway, one day myself, my brother, my cousin Sam, and my friend Stacey Cummings were outside playing and my dad had a wagon of corn out in the barn lot. These were always fun to play in because you would sink in like in a ball pit and could bury yourself in it. (Hey, I grew up in the middle of nowhere without cable tv, what else were we supposed to do? ;) So we are playing around, burying each other, when my brother starts to scream. Somehow, the silly boy inadvertently lodged a kernel of corn in his ear!!! His ear!!! My dad had to flush it out with water and we probably got in trouble because we probably weren't supposed to be playing in there in the first place, whoops.

Alternate quiz answers:

1. Harrison Ford (Star Wars to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
2. Liv Tyler (Armegeddon or Jersey Girl to Lord of the Rings)
Bruce Willis (Armegeddon to North)
3. Crispin Glover (Back to the Future to Charlie's Angels)

Oh, and I thought of another one for my exampe: Julia Roberts (Hook to Steel Magnolias)

Sorry it took me so long to put these up, but my internet was out of commission for a while. Very frustrating. I can't remember the last time I have been so angry, like really angry. Let's just say some poor comcast guy got an earful, long story. Anyway.....

Answers 2-18-05:
1. Sarajevo
2. Heart and Souls
3. Deposition
Bonus: Surface Tension

Where I grew up we have this local potato chip, Kitchen Cooked. When I was young, I never much thought of it, but now it is one of my favorites. A couple weeks ago I was in my local Super Walmart and I saw them being sold. They have never been sold here before and I was very excited and bought a bunch to share with my small group bible study. Well. I was munching on some of their cheese puffs the other day and noticed they have a website. You can order Kitchen Cooked online now AND they have sweatshirts and stuff. It seriously takes very little to amuse me. I will have to let my aunt and uncle out in North Dakota know because they take like 2 boxes full home everytime they're back. ;)

Kitchen Cooked is online! Check it out:
http://www.kitchencooked.net

"Your tongue lives in a wet place, sometimes it may slip."
-Pastor Steve Best on James 3

Tom fell asleep on the couch wednesday night while we were watching Lost. So I stopped the tape so we could watch it later, and told him to go to bed. He didn't listen, he just fell asleep again. I went on watching tv for a while, played my video game for a while, and told him three more times when he tossed around to go to bed. Finally, when I decided to go to bed, I kind of pushed him awake and took the blanket he had over him off. He grumbled and got up. So I follow him into the bedroom where he proceeds to start putting on his long underwear. This confuses me slightly, so I ask, "Are you cold? Why are you putting those on?" To which he replied in a 'why don't you know why I am putting these on' kind of way, "I have to go outside sometime, don't I!" ya, he was still totally asleep... So I am like "Tom, why don't you take those off and lay down.? He glares at me for a long time with his long underwear only half on, so I repeat it two more times and finally he decides that this is ok and takes them off and goes into the bathroom. This was so bizarre, I have heard him talk in his sleep before but never anything like this. Of course, he doesn't remember any of this and feels really bad for being mean to me. ;)

I think I will make Friday my quiz day. It seems to work out. Hmm, I will have to change the name to random 3 question quiz of the week. Sorry, I know this week's is kind of hard, so here's an alternate type quiz.

Can you link these two actors through another actor that has appeared in movies with them? (This is not fool proof, I am just going on my knowledge so feel free to prove me wrong)

Example: Robin Williams to Olympia Dukakis
Answer: Sally Field (Mrs. Doubtfire to Steel Magnolias)

1. (Easy) Carrie Fisher to Sean Connery

2. (Medium) Ben Affleck to Elijah Wood (Two possible answers, Can you get both?)

3. (Hard) Michael J. Fox to Lucy Liu

2-18-05 Random 3 question quiz of the day:
1. What city was Arch Duke Ferdinand assissinated in to start WWI?
2. What movie stars Rober Downey, Jr., Elizabeth Shue, Kyra Sydwick (sp?), Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, and B.B. King?
3. What is the phase change from water vapor to ice called?(Like liquid to water vapor is evaporation, water vapor to liquid is condensation)
Bonus: What property of water can allow you to in a glass float a penny on it's surface?

Answers 2-11-05:
1. aurora borealis
2. Jules Verne
3. Dick Clark and Donny Osmond
Bonus: Will Ferrell (Besides Curious George, he will be seen in "Bewitched" as Darrin and in "The Producers" with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick)

2-11-05 Random 3 question quiz:

1. What's the real name of the Nothern Lights?

2. Who wrote 20,000 Legues Under the Sea?

3. What two people have hosted the game show pyramid ($25,000 pryamid)?

Bonus: Who portrayed Jeopardy host Alex Trebek frequently on Saturday Night Live?

( Side note: The answer is going to be the voice of "The man with the yellow hat" in the upcoming animated Curious George movie)

I was in Doc Brown's class the other day and we were talking about the usual sort of things that you talk about in a graduate class, geographical statistics, Arnold Schwartzenegger, how the picture of the F-statistic curve looks like the "whale" that ate Jonah. And as you can see I should be completely enraptured by the aforementioned topics, but alas I was instead intrigued by the back of my colored pencil box and I noticed something. I have had these colored pencils for about 3 or 4 years dating back to my days of drawing weather maps, red for temperature, green for dewpoint, etc. For some bizarre reason Crayola felt the need to include on the back of the box the name of each colored pencil next to a sample of each color. Not only that, the sample color next to the label "black" is very obviously not black. It's a dark green color. I have had this confirmed by no less that three other people who were all as flummoxed as I. It also just so happens that as I was sitting here, I noticed that we own another box of crayola colored pencils which I can only assume once were employed by Tom as the box has about 3 feet of scotch tape wrapped around it for some unknown reason. His box has the correct color displayed and according to the copyright date his box is three years older than mine. (Side note: Also during the span of three years they must have had a block in their creative department as the exact same "Fun Drawing Idea" of a swimming dragon is displayed on both.) So apparently somewhere between 1997 and 2000 the colored pencil division at Crayola began mistaking dark green for black. Maybe it's because in 1997 they were made in Italy and in 2000 they were made in Brazil. I think this suspicion holds greater truth that I think. My box also says that it contains no tropical rain forest wood. Now maybe my geography is a little off but I don't think Italy has tropical rain forest wood but isn't Brazil all tropical rain forest wood???

February 5 is National Weatherman day (who knew there was such a thing). So in honor of National Weatherman day, here is a poem by George Mindling (Weathern Bureau Office, Atlanta, GA - 1939)

Soliloquy of the Weather Man

If I should say, "It's going to snow
And folks won't need a fan,"
They'd smile and say, "He does not know;
He's just the Weather Man."

And if I'd say, "It will be fair,"
They'd still be much in doubt;
"The Weather Man," they do declare
"Knows not what he's about."
And if I'd say, "The rain will freeze
And break down all the wires and trees,"
They'd grab my neck before I ran
And choke the pesky Weather Man.

I do my best to let men see
How earnestly I work;
Right down to tenths of one degree
I never dare to shirk.
When my barometer I read
It is no simple cinch;
A fine vernier is what I need
For thousandths of an inch.
I measure rain with equal care;
I gather telegrams from far
Throughout our country everywhere,
But pay no heed to moon and star.

The drift of clouds, also their forms
Throughout all States I learn,
Positions of approaching storms,
Which way they seem to turn,
How much they have increased in size,
How fast they move along.
I wish each one could realize
Why I sometimes am wrong.

No storm comes rolling on a track
Like that of railroad trains;
And yet there is no utter lack
Of order in the course of rains.
My greatest trouble's in their speed;
Sometimes they come too late.
A rigid schedule's what they need,
A bit more steady gait.
Then I could tell just when they'll come,
How long they're going to last,
And I would not appear so dumb
As often in the past.

http://www.lib.noaa.gov/edocs/weatherpoems.html

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