Here’s a completely random story I heard the other day:
The Tomato Garden
An old Italian man lived alone in the country. He wanted to dig his tomato garden, but …
The Archives: Humor
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When I walked in to the stake offices this morning for stake presidency meeting, I found the counselors and other executive secretaries clustered around the wall. The wall that’s …
My cold-from-Styx is nocturnal. It’s still awful during the day, mind you, but around ten o’clock each night it flares up into a hideous, shrieking banshee with blood on …
4. Six quickies
My mind is a bit slow at the moment, so instead of struggling to pull together a coherent post, here are a few really short tidbits:
1. For the statistically minded, …
1. Tonight I tried out speed dating for the first time. (It was a ward activity.) Holy smokes, I loved it! I love getting to know people …
From Fire & Knowledge, this lovely article from The Onion, headlined Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book:
Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as …
On my walk down the hill from campus this afternoon, two girls were walking a few yards ahead of me. Suddenly the one on the right hit a patch …
Every Christmas, as the Big Day draws nearer, I live in fear that someone will bring by a gift. Someone I wasn’t planning to give a present to.
It’s not …
[Each week I send out stories in my ward announcements, and since I haven’t posted any of my fiction on here in a long, long time, here’s the story that’s …
I’ve started trying to keep up better with my blog reading (and yes, I’ll be weeding down the list of feeds I’m subscribed to so it’ll be manageable), and as …
I got a nice early Christmas present today in my inbox:
BERKELEY, Calif. - November 1, 2007 - University of California is pleased to announce the launch of the beta version …
14. Freaky Friday
From Bart’s blog, check out this guy who thought he was going in for a job interview and instead found himself on live television, mistaken for someone else:
Guy …
Many of you may have heard of Einstein’s famous quote: “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit …
16. Rinse and repeat
My laundry luck ran out today. I washed a megaload of clothes — all my usual stuff plus the new purchases — but apparently it was too much for …
Hell hath frozen over. Indeed, verily, the end of the world is nigh, when the earth will reel to and fro like a rocker at the hands of a …
18. Mars and Venus
I just realized with a very pleasant surprise that all of the Victoria’s Secret ads have disappeared from Facebook — and I think it’s been a few weeks now, too. …
19. Flood the hood
[N.B. I originally started writing this intending for it to be precisely one line long. I got carried away. ~sigh~]
I’ll try to keep this post short,
But brief I’m mostly …
It’s past my bedtime (got back late from interviews), but I did want to blog today, so here’s some buckshot from the hip. I don’t think I’ve blogged about …
People with open minds should beware of birds overhead.
:P
22. Toupee, eh?
Once upon a time (yesterday afternoon, actually), my hair was long. Not girl-long, or mullet-long, but longer than I would like. (Personally, I’d like to be bald, but …
It’s springtime, and riding in on the wind come allergies. But I’m not talking about the kind of allergies that tickle your sinuses. (Well, I am, I suppose, …
Three little bits I found funny over the weekend:
1. Friday night I went to Winger’s with my old roommates and their wives. While we were waiting for our food, …
25. Gmail Paper
I’m an idiot. ~sigh~ When I logged on to Gmail this morning, I saw this announcement for Gmail Paper:
Practically drooling, I clicked …
Hell: a place where every phone call you get is a telemarketer, every e-mail you get is spam, and every piece of snail mail is an advertisement or an overdue …
27. Unsung melodies
If I were an animal, I think I would be a monkey.
Not because I like monkeys. But tonight as I was watching the BYU songwriters’ showcase, I realized that …
28. Tender mercies
This’ll be a quickie. I originally planned to go to grad school a year from now, in fall 2008, but I caught wind not long ago of a juicy …
* Since the whole point of dating is to get to know each other better, make sure you talk about yourself every chance you get (and don’t just sit around …
30. Holier than thou
Sometime within the last few weeks, a hole has eaten its way into the righthand pocket of one of my pairs of dress pants. Originally small (as most holes …
31. Family futurity
I got an e-mail today saying I was accepted as a beta tester for the latest FamilySearch beta, so I went ahead and signed up, and when I logged in …
Pearls Before Swine is one of my favorite comic strips. Here’s
today’s:
:)
And now I must go study …
33. One short of ten
1. I just took a humanities test in the testing lab downstairs. Shortly after I arrived, some guy came in and sat down in the row in front of …
34. More carrots
Yet another flurry. My mind has felt like a tornado these past few days, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all incoherent. Watch, I’ll come back …
From Katherine comes a hilarious set of match-ups based on the question, “Who would win in a fight?” Here are some samplers:
Stephen Hawking vs. Christopher Reeve. So wrong.
Emily …
For my Middle English class we had to give five-minute presentations on a person or event from that time period (A.D. 1100–1500). Today was my turn, and I couldn’t …
I was doing some research for a presentation a few minutes ago and was on the Wikipedia page for the Black Death when I saw this intriguing sentence in …
38. The Chaos
[Thanks to Rikker for this. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!]
The Chaos
by Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946)
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, …
39. Silent smile
Today seems to be a blogging day. :) (I have yet one more post I wanted to write today, but I’ll save it till tomorrow.)
Two things. First, the …
At work today one of my co-workers showed me the “phonetic index” to Birding by Ear: A Guide to Bird-song Identification. Here’s a sampling:
Bubble, bubble, zee — Brown-headed Cowbird, …
Today I came across a hilarious editorial on the opinion page of the Daily Universe:
“Birds of a feather”
I am not an attractive person. This does not bother me. Attractive …
42. Mayday, mayday
The other day I was sitting in my family’s van, helping my sister move apartments. My mom’s phone had locked up and so she handed it to me to …
Once upon a time, early last year, a satellite dawdled along several thousand miles above Provo and took this shot of the Joseph F. Smith Building here on BYU campus …
44. Brigham’s bliss
In yesterday’s devotional, Gerald R. Williams quoted a couplet written by Brigham Young:
“To live with Saints in Heaven is bliss and glory;
to live with Saints on Earth is a different …
Yesterday after home teaching, I came up here to the lab where I work to prepare my FHE lesson and do some research on my genealogy (as mentioned in yesterday’s …
Good title, eh? This post is actually about time management, but “Time management 101″ isn’t nearly as interesting as “Anger management 101.” But I suppose the false advertising …
