Archive for the 'General' Category

Wisdom from Dave Barry

October 1st, 2008

15 Things that it Took Me 50 Years to Learn
by Dave Barry

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
There is [...]

It came from outer space

September 23rd, 2008

It is nice to be loved. It is nice to get surprises. It is nice to know someone is thinking of you. This note was on my desk this morning:

Todd,
Since I know how much you love yams, I brought the biggest one from my garden.
A. friend

Aww. How nice.
This thing must have come from Texas. Or [...]

The Yam Song

June 13th, 2008

Since my old blog, Todd Man Out, got wiped, this is one post I wanted to bring back from the dead. It’s a keepsake. I had a quick discussion about yams today and how they are different from sweet potatoes. True or not, it makes no difference in my level of disgust for them. So, [...]

Oh, I see. So I’m not dead?

May 16th, 2008

Hi there! And we’re back from the dead … yup, it happens to everyone at some point, your server crashes. In this case my hosts’s webserver crashed and lost everything–and I mean everything. See ya not! This site, and my todd man out blog died. And I’m looking at the proverbial Game Over screen with [...]