‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market : Discovery News.

It is the year 2009 and we are behind schedule. Flying cars were supposed to appear in 2000. As a kid raised on Star Wars I expected nothing less. We could have waited until 2001 (a spacey odyssey). But, it is 2009 and . . . → Read More: ‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market]]>

‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market : Discovery News.

It is the year 2009 and we are behind schedule. Flying cars were supposed to appear in 2000. As a kid raised on Star Wars I expected nothing less. We could have waited until 2001 (a spacey odyssey). But, it is 2009 and we are just getting started with flying cars?! Better late than never. It seems like a good start though it is no 2015 as seen in Back to the Future Part II. Here’s waiting for driveways to turn into runways!

A detail they should not leave out: yeah, sure it flies and can run on the road, but when I turn the key, does it play the Jetsons theme song?

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 . . . → Read More: It came from outer space]]>

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 maybe it was originally from Area 51 thought to be a radioactive meteor. Nope. This was from one of my friend’s garden which begs the question, “What the hell is this garden popping, ThermoGain?” What’s growing next to the asteroid yams, caveman club zucchini?

Thanks to whoever it was that thought of me and gave me this surprise. I have been laughing my ass off all day. But, what am I going to do with it?

This monster is big enough to feed the inhabitants of a small town; too bad the next day they will die of food poisoning.

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 . . . → Read More: The Yam Song]]>

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, let’s do this one more time:

The Yam Song

I love to eat some chocolate chips
And smack them on my lips
I love the way that Whoppers taste
I eat them fast, in haste

Honey Buns are good with glaze
Sends me in a daze
Rolls of Cake, from Swiss they come
Makes a dinner done

Taco supper is the best
Beats out all the rest
But, a certain veggie invades my feast
To which I’d rather drink some grease

It grows inside the ground below
Not a friend, a dreaded foe
Disguised in name and shape and look
To something that is normally cooked

It’s pulled from Earth to torture kids
And those who never tell a fib
It’s not a steak, an egg, or ham
But goes by the name, the disgusting YAM

Don’t say that word, oh please do hush
It’s another word for barfy mush
It’s sometimes called a Sweet Potato
Don’t be fooled, that ain’t no tater

It’s hardly “sweet” in all that gunk
Nor is it a “potato,” yams are junk
Taters are white and made to French fry
Yams are orange, same as puke pie

But oh my sweet tongue, the worst thing of all
The awful thing I wish not to recall
Is when they serve it, with things they think dandy
And make the impossible claim
“It tastes like candy”

So keep your yams away from me
Content without them is what I’ll be
Don’t ask if I like them, to that I’ll say
“YAMS ARE POISON, SO KEEP THEM AWAY!”

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 . . . → Read More: Oh, I see. So I’m not dead?]]>

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 no extra lives and no continues. So, I’ve pressed Reset and starting all over. Big boom! Welcome to the afterlife.

Luckily I had a lot of things backed up on my hard drive and at the SDF so I have started to rebuild this all in pieces. But how much do I want to rebuild? Well, not everything. I’d like to make a nice new clean start, reshuffle the deck, go back to square one, and <insert other starting-over idiom here>.

I think I want to focus everything here on foxtwin and not have other separate sites. I still want to post to my todd man out blog, but why don’t I just post it here and keep it all in one place? I was going to just put my online projects on foxtwin and do my blogging elsewhere, but why not just have it one place? … because I really like the title todd man out! But, alas, perhaps this crash has taught me to simplify things. So, for now at least, here is my one simplified and minimal site. What’s dead is new again.

Now … to cause some mischief …