Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Slow

I have most suspense movies I watch figured out in about the first 15 minutes (knew who Keyser Söze was in the first 5). On a crime show I knew whodunnit since the writers named him "Gil T. Parti" in addition to opportunity. For months I've been complaining about a volunteer who answers math questions for the website I work for. Today my boss told me it was his pseudonym -- he thought I already knew. I don't know why I hadn't figured it out before because "her" name is a variation on the phrase "pen name".

Dearest blog readers (all 2.5 of you), I need a pen name for the website: any suggestions?

Spidergoat, Spidergoat, does whatever a Spidergoat does

There is a company that injects spider DNA into goats to produce a lightweight but strong material. This is what I imagine the goats look like:

Take Time to Be Holy While You Brush Your Teeth

A friend of mine writes verses on index cards and puts it up on her bathroom mirror. As she brushes her teeth twice a day, she memorizes the verse with a new one each week. In our church children memorize weekly verses until they are 13 with the idea that the are old enough to do it one their own by then. How many of us continue to memorize verses? With this new school year I plan to memorize a verse a week while I brush my teeth.

That Thing Still On?

I say a commercial promoting the new season of ER. I realized that there are kids starting high school this year that ER has been on their entire life. That is mind-boggling.

Chris Throwing an Atlatl

Some People Should Not be Allowed to Own Computers

I was asked to update a website for a local private school. I've been emailing back and forth with the principal about the needed changes. This afternoon I posted what I have done so far and her reply was when she looked there was no changes. I wrote back instructions about how some web browsers save a copy of web pages and so when you visit it again it just loads the old version it has saved. I gave her instructions on how to clear the cache so she could view the changes I made. Her reply: the content had not been updated. ARgh. Grumble, grumble.

Live action Simpsons

Don't Send a Fish to Do a Puppy's Job

Meet Spot, he fetches files for me much better than a blowfish. Metaphorically it makes sense.

A local private school asked me to update their website for them before the school year started. They gave me most of the necessary information but I could not connect to the FTP server to save my life. I don't why I'd need to connect to an FTP server to save my life but I couldn't do it, I'd be dead like dinner.

I called the help desk of the web host and they gave me some useful information but not much of a help. I could connect through Firefox but not Dreamweaver or Fugu (the aforementioned blowfish). Of course no one at the help desk knew anything about the programs I was using or about Macs. Oy with the poodles already. While I waited for a supervisor to call me back I decided to try to download a different ftp program to see if I could get it to work. I read a review about Fetch and low and behold it worked. A puppy saved Janny's weekend

I'm not sure how that will help

I read "suspect" as a noun not an adjective the first time.
Health officials probe more deaths, advise tossing suspect meat

I think I forgot how to sleep.

Never Put Salt In Your Eyes

Spot the Problem with the Forecast

Latin Skills in My Sleep

Two nights ago I couldn't sleep. In my restless, half-coherent thoughts it bothered me that I couldn't remember what antediluvian meant. I figured out it had to do with something before a deluge so my restless brain was satisfied.
A couple of strange facts:
- I wasn't even aware I knew the word antediluvian
- I know "ante" refers to a time period before when I'm awake but how did I know that when I was half asleep.
- I rarely use the word deluge so how would I know the Latin form.

In conclusion, my brain is weird.

My summer thus far

I know I haven't been blogging much lately but click on the pictures to see what I've been up to!


Proof Ang and Errol will have 10 babies


"True Love" Forever


Aspiring to be like Ky


Thumbs up for good cake


Yes, those are flames

Never Put Salt in Your Eyes

New blog

I starting a blog for math, education and technology called Finnegan's Fidangle.

Chain of Command

In May I became an editor at a university math website. My main job is send visitor math questions out to the appropriate group of volunteers and then post the solutions on the website. There is this one volunteer who insists on sending her responses to the other editor. Since it has been assigned to me, he has to go out of his way to forward the responses onto me. It isn't a matter of her not knowing what to do, she is willfully doing it. The reason I was hired was to decrease the other editors work load and get the responses on the website quicker -- she is not helping the situation.

Ode to Photoshop 10

I love your new smart guides -- you make being a graphic design ninja that much easier.

NPH is the show fairy

Sesame Street: Neil Patrick Harris has Telly's new shoes

Grocery Shrink Ray

The Consumerist: Grocery Shrink Ray reports on the companies who decrease the size of their product but charge the same price.