The Mom Song
Thanks to Brian M.
I should make a check list of the lyrics - I'm pretty sure I've said 95% of those things myself
November 14, 2007
August 27, 2007
Spellcheck Is Your Friend
Someone at work asked if I knew when the new version of Office would be released for the Mac. Last I had heard, it would be...August. So, I went to Microsoft's Mactopia Website and while there wasn't any information on Office 2008, I did see that there was a back to school offer for Office 2004.
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That's right! "Buy Office for Mac before September 6th and RECIEVE an extra $25 rebate"
It's a good thing Office comes with spellcheck. Or someone at Microsoft might have to learn that whole i before e except after c thing....
March 24, 2007
American Idol, Chris Sligh or Engineer, Dan Blance? You make the call.
While my mom likes to watch American Idol, it really isn't my style so I haven't paid much attention to it in the past. *BUT* this season, we've tried to watch (at least part of) each episode because of Chris Sligh.
Now understand, I really do like his voice and his style. He's not some cookie cutter/Ambercrombie and Fitch catalogue model/singer wannabe. He's got a wicked sense of humor and takes the p*ss out of Simon every opportunity he gets. I do like this guy. But, the biggest reason we're watching, and rooting for him.....
HE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE DAN.
The morning after the first episode of the season, Dan had about a dozen people come up to him at work to tell him what a good job he did on American Idol. The dj for team trivia called him 'Chris Sligh' the entire night. Carpool Dan saw the image above of Chris Sligh and thought it was Dan. I was demo'ing 'iPhoto' to a group of graduate students using a bunch of my photos and one asked why I had so many pictures of 'the guy from American Idol'.
Let's hope he wins. Dan could have a second career as an American Idol impersonator!
February 1, 2007
Ok, (Carpool) Dan. You Win.
I’ve been carpooling to work with a couple of people - but usually it's just me and (Carpool) Dan. We've been having a small war going on of who can come up with the 'worst' playlists on our ipods. The only unofficial ‘rule’ being you can't put anything on the playlist that you wouldn't normally listen to.
So, the war has sort of died down the last couple of weeks due to one or both of us being out sick and poor weather conditions that have dictated we take my Blazer and that I focus on driving.
...until this morning....
As I mentioned before, (Carpool) Dan usually listens to 'goth' rock, some classic rock and general weird stuff I've never heard of before. We took his car this morning and carpool rules dictate that 'Driver chooses music', so he plugged in his iPod. He didn’t so much as crack a smile.
Now, as many of you know, I can usually identify a song within the first couple of notes. I kick @$$ at ‘Name that iTune’.
The first song starts playing, and I just LOST IT. I am laughing my fool head off because we are listening to the opening notes of a song by ABBA (It was either ‘Dancing Queen or Take a Chance on Me’.) After I finish cracking up, I manage to say 'What the hell is this??'
Dan: “It’s the ‘No Shame’ Playlist”
Me: “Oh God, it gets worse??”
Dan: “I wouldn’t say worse…”
The next song is the BeeGees.
Me: “Don’t tell me you have ‘Staying Alive’ on there…”
Dan: *grabs the ipod, presses the click wheel a couple times*
Me: “Noooooo!!”
It alternated between Abba and the BeeGees (Saturday Night Fever)
with Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Celine Dion thrown in for good measure. Though it was mostly 70s disco and such…“The Theme from Shaft”, “I Will Survive”, “Jungle Boogie”, “Disco Inferno”….It went on like this for the entire ride to and from work. It was hysterical.
Me: “Run Like Hell - (Pink Floyd)?”
Dan: “It’s exactly what the Southern Tier radio stations need…”
Both: “More Pink Floyd”
Me: “Gotcha”
The thing is, I don’t think I can beat that. I didn’t see it coming and there’s no way I can top it.
I think (Carpool) Dan may have won. I just hope to God he doesn't break out any Mariah Carey CD's....
December 16, 2006
The Evolution of Dance
During one of the 'carpool' conversations, we got on the topic of 'pop culture'. 'Carpool Dan' (as he is now know, as to distinquish him from 'My Dan') tried to use the Dukes of Hazzard as an example of pop culture knowledge from his childhood that he thought was useless. I tried to point out that I'm sure he thought it was the best thing ever when he was a kid. Which he conceded, but now it was just taking up valuable cerebal real estate.
Here's how I proved him wrong. I told him about an episode of 'Smallville' where Clark Kent's Dad (played by John Schneider) goes to open the door of the car driven by his friend, the state senator (played by Tom Wopat). The car happens to be an older model Dodge Charger. As Mr. Kent attempts to open the door, the Senator points out that the door has been stuck shut since he bought the car and he should just climb in through the window.
Carpool Dan says "Really? They did that?" and then starts to laugh. Which made my point. If he had no clue who Bo and Luke Duke were, then he wouldn't have got that little inside joke as it played out 25 years later on a tv series about the teenage superman - and laughed.
I love pop culture/inside jokes like that. Next time you run into Kristi K., and you want to see her break out into giggles, just say "They were cones!!!" and then follow it up with "Chaka Khan!!!"
Anyways, I told you that story as a lead in to this, "The Evolution of Dance". You can tell that the audience is full of children of the 80s based on their response to certain songs.
If you don't know 99.9% of those songs, you lead a VERY sheltered childhood.
September 22, 2006
Quote of the Day
From an IM conversation with Chris W. about his issues with his formerly functioning windows machine and the lack of solutions on Google.
Chris W. : If I pulled out the PCI card, the on-board video worked fine. If I pushed the PCi card back in, the on-board video ceased to exist in this Continuum.
Chris W. : This was antithetical to the situation that the BIOS and Windows supported only 16 hours previous.
Chris W. : Not a cosmic ray had intervened since.
Chris W. : Google offered nothing.
Chris W. : I invented new swear words.
For the full on funny effect, you have to imagine hearing this conversation in Chris' very proper British accent.
June 25, 2006
Read the Rules Carefully
This is the 'Safety Precautions' for riding the 'Superman Ride' at Darien Lake
So, are they giving the ok to bring your cat on the ride? Or is this aimed at the folks that live too close to the nuclear power plant?
March 14, 2006
Reason #42 you shouldn't name your children after your favorite character from a movie
Man faces jail time for selling crack
A City of Poughkeepsie man faces a stint in jail for dealing crack in the city last year.
Landocalrissan Butler, 25, of Winnikee Avenue, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in Dutchess County Court to attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony. Butler told Judge Thomas J. Dolan he had five small bags of crack in his pocket Dec. 22 when police arrested him on Morgan Avenue. He said he intended to sell the drugs.
In exchange for his plea, Butler was promised a sentence of six months in jail and five years on probation. He will also be required to forfeit a cell phone and $432 police said he obtained through illegal drug sales.
Butler remains jailed pending his sentencing, scheduled for April 4.
The guy was born in '81...what movie was released less than year before that? That's right, this poor guy was named after a character from "The Empire Strikes Back".
I assume no one was surprised he would up becoming a crack dealer!
To my brother, Chris - aren't you glad you weren't born a few years later? You could have wound up "Yoda Doty". (Say it out loud for the full on effect)
January 4, 2006
You know you're getting old when...
On the way home from dinner tonight, we were listening to the radio which was tuned to the local 'classic rock' station. About half way through a song by Black Sabbath, my youngest daughter asked "Is this Mr. Osborne?".
Yes. She said 'Mr. Osborne'. As in, since she had seen him on 'The Osbornes' on MTV and because he was 'the dad', she figured she should refer to him as 'Mr. Osborne'.
I doubt anyone else on the planet has ever called Ozzy, 'Mr. Osborne.'
December 1, 2004
Separated at Half-Life?
On the left, are Diane (former roomie and fellow blogger - fyzixphrog.com)and Scott. On the right, are two characters from Half-Life 2.
Uh...Where did you guys say you went on your honeymoon?
November 23, 2004
On ICE???
BRRRRRRRR...
November 21, 2004
No, that's not my car
*Flame On!*
I spotted this in the parking lot outside my office. By the way, there has also been a "Mac User" car in the same lot. Though I haven't seen either since last semester.
September 28, 2004
God VS Bush
