Highlight the line below the joke to get the punchline. It is so late at night and I had caffeine today so I am wide awake but would rather not be. Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Because he was dead. Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree? Stapled [...]
Archive for ‘June, 2009’
Today was our co-op student’s last day in the office but since he left at 11:30, my boss took him and the rest of us out for lunch yesterday. We went to Real Sushi (or Real Shusi, if you’d prefer the name on the back of the waitstaff’s t-shirts). Amy and I have been going [...]
though i walk through the wilderness
Today I will be tackling the rigidly enforced rhythm of haiku. I would like to share a series of haiku (haikus? haikai? anyway, more than one) on the general theme of people I see near my office. Sick Kids’ Hospital Fundraisers Oh, you fundraisers Standing in the rain with your Clipboards, pens and vests Everyone [...]
One of the things that came with our new house that we really didn’t expect was a really large and nicely set up garden. Here is a picture of part of the rear garden from earlier in June: The front garden is also rather pretty. We have these pink flowers: And also these purple flowers, [...]
I have, as some of you know and others have inferred, a really ridiculously large vocabulary. I’m not really sure how it came about (probably the copious quantities of books I inhale) but here it sits. I don’t use it for much (until I started trying to class up my poop jokes like yesterday’s post) [...]
This evening post-worship we had our usual get together in the backyard. It began to rain tremendously and I went to blow out one of our citronella candles which proceeded to spray hot liquid wax steeped in anti-mosquito chemical all over my glasses, shirt and eyebrow and also directly into my right eye. As I’m [...]
Inspired by Anthony’s work and to a lesser extent by the poem he originally read, I submit for your perusal: Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Living Room I Seating for five, Six if two are good friends This is the living room. II The bookshelves rest against the walls Like trees that have been [...]
Besides the aforementioned Wondermark, I have a whole bunch more webcomics accounting for roughly a quarter of the feeds I follow with Google Reader. I started reading them over a decade ago (oh and there go my old knees, again, get off my lawn you kids) when a friend in high school (hi, Kevin!) showed [...]