I took Wednesday off work so that I could be around to see my children’s Christmas concert (and to ferry them back and forth for the evening performance). This was Abby’s first and she performed smashingly. In fact, the kindergarten classes did a great job on their song, which was quite funny. Caleb had a snappy tune to sing with his class, which I still kind of have stuck in my head. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. LOL. If I get the roll of film developed soon, I’ll add a few pictures to this post (maybe with the other kids faces blurred, as I won’t be getting publication permission from them or their parents).
Christmas is around the corner (at least the commercial bonanza that is called Christmas). What are you going to be doing? What have you done? Ready? Celebrating something else?
In addition to the list of podcasts that I’ve gotten used to listening to, I have discovered The Jak Attack, with “Jon Watson and Kelly Penguin Girl coming atcha!” Its got a bit of tech, linux, and Nova Scotia all mixed in a serious but goofy-enough package. I like it!
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon this site, but I hope that it sticks around. If you want “entertainment”, check out
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
I’ve added it to my Links List.
From my inbox (thanks searcher 625):
A young farm lad from Texas goes off to college at Texas A&M University, but about 1/3 of the way through the semester, he has foolishly squandered away all of the money his parents gave him.
Then he gets an idea. He calls his daddy. “Dad,” he says, “you won’t believe the wonders that modern education is coming up with! Why, they actually have a program here at Texas A&M that will teach our dog Ole Blue how to talk!”
“That’s absolutely amazing,” his father says. “How do I get him in that program?”
“Just send him down here with $1,000″ the boy says. “I’ll get him into the course.” So, his father sends the dog and the $1,000. About 2/3 way through the semester, the money runs out. The boy calls his father again.
“So how’s Ole Blue doing, son,” his father asks.
“Awesome, Dad, he’s talking up a storm,” he says, “but you just won’t believe this - they’ve had such good results with this program that they’ve implemented a new one to teach the animals how to READ!” “READ,” says his father, “No kidding! What do I have to do to get him in that program?”
Just send $2,500, I’ll get him in the class.” His father sends the money.
The boy now has a problem. At the end of the year, his father will find out that the dog can neither talk, nor read. So he shoots the dog.
When he gets home at the end of the semester, his father is all excited.
“Where’s Ole Blue? I just can’t wait to see him talk and read something!”
“Dad,” the boy says, “I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just before we left to drive home, Ole Blue was in the living room kicked back in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal, like he usually does.
Then he turned to me and asked, ‘So, is your daddy still messing’ around with that little redhead who lives in town?’
The father says, “I hope you SHOT that old dog before he talks to your Mother!”
“I sure did, Dad!”
“That’s my boy!”
(The kid went on to be a successful lawyer…….)
If you remember, I wrote about meeting up with a pair of deer on the walking trail in town. It turns out that one was wandering around down town and entered the provincial Legislative building. He/she trotted around inside for a minute or so before busting through a window and running off. I bet that was one confused animal. Once the story hits the web, I’ll post a link. It was caught on security cameras, so maybe that will be posted with it. Cool.
Thanks to John, here’s a link to the story.
EDIT: link to a story (in French) with a video HERE.
And, here’s a YouTube video of it for you:
Now that’s nuts!A link to the YouTube video.
I’ve decided to try something different for commenting on this site. As I have mentioned in a previous post (not too long ago), I have disabled “first post” moderation on this site, to encourage those who would otherwise not comment to do so (and please do). I decided to rely on the Bad Behavior Plugin and Akismet (I know, I know - I said things about relying on an outside server…). I’ve done that for a couple of days and its worked so far. The thing is that Bad Behavior seems to be blocking certain IP ranges since the ISPs host these spammers in droves. The problem is that its blocks legitimate commenters like hari and Sindhu. This is not acceptable in my book, so I’ve taken a different approach. So, after seeing this article at Weblogtools Collection, I decided to disable BB2 and enable TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter. I still have “first post” moderation disabled. I hope that this works. This would be great if SSF and Akismet blocked all the baddies and everyone could comment right away. I have my fingers crossed.
This doesn’t mean that I’m done. I still think that this would work and sometimes I will just have to ridicule the bad ones.
