I got nailed...almost
This morning my youngest son had a soccer game so the whole family loaded up in the van and headed out. About half way there, while in the left lane, with a car next to me in the right, I see something on the ground right in front of us. I realize what it is immediately but it's too late to hit the brakes and its not possible to swerve into the other lane. I would have been going too fast to get in the other lane in time anyway. And the "it" in question, was a big bucket of roofing nails that had fallen out of someone's trucks, and spilled all over the left lane. It was obvious what had happened because the bucket was lying in the left turn lane. Someone made a left turn, and their bucket of nails didn't. Anyway, I immediately feel nauseous as I drive over them, and am haunted by the words I recall saying to a group of co-workers a few days ago, "I've never had a flat before". All of a sudden I see how my day is going to shape up. I'm going to have to drop the family off at the game, find the nearest tire center, find a way to get my family home. And that's the good scenario. The bad one being we don't even make it to the game, I get 4 flat tires and I have to have a flat bed truck carry my car somewhere for me. And I've been looking forward to this day all week. Its the day of the OU-Texas game. This will be OU's biggest game of the year. And there's a good possibility now that I will miss if for having to babysit the van all day. Well I said a little prayer, headed on to the soccer field, and by some miracle there was not one nail in any of my four tires. Not even anything stuck between any of the treads. How I escaped that I have no idea.
posted by Scott | 1:17 PM
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Celebrity Look Alike
I came across this blog entry just now. How cool, it will perform face recognition and tell you what celebrities you resemble. So I tried it. I decided not to post my full results as they did in their post, but I will mention 2 of my celebrity look-alikes. One, Mark Hamill. Cool, Luke Skywalker. Ok, well known, not super handsome or anything but I wasn't trying to kid myself. Celebrity number 2 that I'll mention, and this was quite insulting; former First Lady Barbara Bush. I don't know who should be more insulted, her or me. Anyway, check their website out for yourself at http://www.myheritage.com
(Update 5 minutes later) Ok to add insult to injury this stupid application is quite accurate. I uploaded a picture of Brad Pitt and it matched him to himself with 97% accuracy. It also matched him to Topher Grace, Goran Visnjic, Nicolas Cage, David Boreanaz and Matt LeBlanc among others, and my point being here is that if you are a handsome man, you are likely to resemble other handsome men. So apparently I really do look like a crusty old lady. But to redeem myself some I uploaded a second picture of myself and this time the results were all men, a couple I'd heard of, but nobody too famous...or handsome.
posted by Scott | 3:51 AM
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Testing
I'm up. Its 2:27am. I'm doing some testing for work. Things we can't do during the day. Super secret things that only qualified technicians such as myself can do. Or a monkey. Basically I'm pushing a button and then sitting back looking at some different screens. It's kind of like watching TV really, so I guess I am qualified. While not looking at the super highly technical screens I'm also spending time trying to beat my own record at "Monkey Kick Off". Its good to have goals in life. I wonder if this is frowned upon. I'm working right now, but at the same time, I'm at home. And I won't be going into the office for a regular work day, so this counts for my 8 hour day. I will justify it by saying that because of the off hours I am allowed some perks. An additional perk that I may also take advantage of here in a few minutes is a big bowl of Frosted Flakes. No they're not on Phase 1, but neither am I.
posted by Scott | 2:32 AM
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