Making lunches for the next day: my daughter’s, then my own. My daughter’s is simple: peanut butter and honey, carrot sticks, CapriSun, GoGurt, cheddar cheese sandwich crackers. Oh yeah, throw some candy for dessert in, too. Pack it all up in the Barbie cooler. Start on mine. Bologna and cheese on wheat, very original. Retrieve… Continue reading Making lunch (a vignette)
Author: Jon
Truth(?) in advertising
So there’s this article that appeared in the New York Times about Activia, Dannon’s yogurt that is filled with “live cultures” that are healthy and good for you. And they’re marketing it like it’s something new and revolutionary. Ummmm, okay… Except every bit of yogurt I’ve ever bought—regardless of brand—has been full of live cultures… Continue reading Truth(?) in advertising
Oregon Lottery Space Invaders!
I find it rather surreal that the Oregon Lottery is now offering Space Invaders lottery tickets. Seriously. It’s part of their “Travel back” line of Scratch-Its. They look rather complicated though, and cost $3 a pop. Now they need to come out with other classic arcade games: Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids…
Links
Just a collection of links to things I like and/or found amusing recently. dive into mark: Spaceships “Parenting is like an ongoing episode of CSI. You’re always following the evidence back to the crime.” The Bend Bigfoot stuff: Jake’s original link The KTVZ story My Hack Bend post My photographic evidence of Bigfoot on Pilot… Continue reading Links
2007 Chuggnutt Zeitgeist
Yes, it’s that introspective time again. Since I’ve done these for the last two years already, I thought it would be interesting to put it all together in a table format to compare years. 2006 2005 2004 Number of blog entries: 155 244 306 Total words written (approximate): 29,894 39,810 45,537 Average words per… Continue reading 2007 Chuggnutt Zeitgeist
Words written in 2006
I’m adding up the numbers from my three blogs, and it turns out that between them I wrote approximately 101,192 words among 511 blog entries for 2006. Wow… the previous year the numbers were 78,181 and 466. Another way to look at it: that’s roughly the equivalent of a novel a year.
Where is the time going?
Time has been passing too quickly lately. Seriously. Where has it been going? I keep finding myself surprised to discover that something I thought happened just last year was really three years ago, for instance, or that I’ve been at my current job for four years, and it doesn’t seem nearly that long. Part of… Continue reading Where is the time going?
My favorite posts of 2006
I did this same thing last January, and thought it was good fodder for looking back on 2006: my favorite posts over the last year. I noticed that I wrote less here as I stepped up my writing on The Brew Site and Hack Bend, and I wonder: if quantity went down, did quality go… Continue reading My favorite posts of 2006
Auld lang syne
I suppose the measure of how good a New Year’s party is would be the hangover you have the next day… if so, then the party we had last night was a pretty good one. It wasn’t wild or crazy or anything like that, we just had friends over (a bunch of them brought their… Continue reading Auld lang syne
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On this day… Hanukkah ends at sundown Festivus is “traditionally” celebrated The Night Before Christmas was first published, in 1823 Eddie Vedder was born in 1964 The Emperor of Japan Akihito was born in 1933 Van Gogh cut off his ear in 1888 A whole bunch of other stuff happened …and oh yeah, it’s my… Continue reading 34