Category: Humor (page 10 of 12)
Here’s a lucky guy.
A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.
CNN.com: Doh! Man follows GPS onto train tracks — when train coming
Some consultants will just do whatever they are told to do.
KITT car from Knight Rider is up for sale. Someone call the Mythbusters!
Last night Lily and I left work early to catch the 5:22 PM train. The plan was to go to Toys R Us and pick up toys for all the kids we know.
It went well except we got charged twice for one of the items. Lily always checks the receipts before we leave the store so we got it fixed immediately. The customer service lady actually refunded the toy twice and we had to correct her so we didn’t walk out with a free toy. It’s the season and we just wanted to be charged for what we bought and not get anything we did not pay for.
Once we got to the car we realized that one of the kids (not ours) was getting an er, really cheap toy. I would have hated to become that kid’s Uncle who he actually wants cash from instead of a toy. We went back and exchanged it for something nicer.
There seems to be some psychological thing with kids and toy shopping. All kids that I know recognize that grown ups buy toys for other kids, but their toys all come from Santa. I used to have the same thing. Birthday toys are from grown ups, but Santa gets 100% credit on Christmas day. Santa can do no wrong and the kids idolize him.
Santa reminds me of a politician running for office. I think December 25th he gets a bounce in the polls.
Shopping took less than 40 minutes and that is just not bad. I suggested to Lily that since we were so early that we go to the mall and do some more shopping for grown ups. She is taking off tomorrow just to shop and I was informed that she enjoys shopping more when I am not around.
I don’t mind but I know I will be carrying what she buys tomorrow.
Wonder if these Rodents of Unusual Size were found in Fire Swamp?
On my son’s birthday I got him a G.I. Joe Sigma 6 Arctic Duke. This one is from Hasbro’s web site.
Its very different from the one’s I had growing up (but still has the kung-fu grip). For starters it looks like it could survive anything I could do to it. I don’t think I could break this and I am sure that a 6 year old would have trouble too.
I want to start getting the kids more appropriate *cough* less expensive *cough* toys. Right now the basement is filled with toys that are wrecked and should be tossed out. Between uncles and cousins, those kids can out stock a toy store.
His grandparents had gotten him a Lionel train and he is nuts about it. I was talking to him and asking him if he likes the G.I. Joe:
Me: Do you like it?
Son: It’s okay. It doesn’t do anything.
Me: Well, I got you this doll so you could play with it. You played with your sisters dolls and I thought you’d like this one better.
Son: (Looking at me like I need pity) Daddy, It’s not a doll. It’s an action figure.
Sigh. He started playing with it some more but he’ll always prefer any Lionel train over an action figure…
Wow, so dangerous he shoots himself. This guy might want to consider a second career.
The kids like the show Pucca; it’s really funny in a less than 6 year old sorta way…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zgfj9ycOVtw
It’s good addictive fun. The other show they like is Power Rangers.
Amazing. This is the King of Spain. For him to publicly admonish someone like that, Hugo Chavez must have been off the rails.
I sometimes check the blog against Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer to make sure that something I did to the theme works in browsers other than Firefox.
Here’s what I saw when I loaded my home page in Safari.
Google Adsense sure has a good sense of humor.
