Quote of the Day
“You know when you have a really ugly baby and you just want to throw it off a cliff?” – Nameless person who will never babysit my theoretical children
Archive of entries posted by Jeff Boulter
I’m home
Well, I’m physically home I think, but mentally, I think I’m somewhere over the Rockies. I’ve got that surreal feeling that I always get when I spend the day flying. What time is it? Should I eat or just go to bed? We had a good Thanksgiving x 2 again this year and got to …
Where Not to Geocache
‘Homeless Island’ is kind of like Survivor, but instead of food rewards, the reward is heroin. The San Francisco Chronicle is doing a very revealing 5-part series on the homeless problem in SF.
Question of the Day
Where does mouse gunk come from? You know, that crusty stuff that accumlates on the contacts underneath the ball. Is it dust, skin, or something even more sinister? I’m not sure I really want to know the answer to this question.
On the move
Today is our first day at the new Yahoo building. There was much controversy about who was going to move across the street. Personally, I don’t care. The buildings look nearly identical inside. Some first impressions: – Something’s weird with the floor. My monitor is constantly bouncing. – I have a window cube now, which …
I’m a world record holder
Well, not by name, but yesterday I participated in the world’s largest group yodel. Not that I can yodel really, but I can move my mouth and pretend to, just like in church. The event was sponsored by Yahoo as some promotional thing. It was actually quite a bit of fun. They lured employees, family …
Thank you for choosing Sprint
I got this email from Sprint (my cell phone carrier), suddenly thanking me for being a customer and explaining how much better they’ll be in the future. Methinks they’re a bit worried about number portability kicking in next week. — Dear Jeff, I want to thank you for choosing Sprint. It is our commitment to …
Please help me kill my answering machine
I really hate my answering machine. It’s the type of device you can’t really try out in the store and you have no idea how well it will work until you get it home. Ours has a particularly bad interface for indicating when it has messages – it flashes a light. The light flashes faster …
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It’s a braaand new car!
Anne is tired of taking the train to the city and I’m tired of walking to to work in the rain, so we’ve been talking about getting another car. We’ve been a one-car household for 4 1/2 years now. We really like our CR-V, but it’s sometimes inconvenient to rely on only one car, especially …
Finally, God is doing something about Los Angeles
Frogs will be next.