I was hoping Google could help Joel and me recover from semi-accidentally jumping ahead 3 levels in Super Mario Brothers and started typing "How to..." Here are the commonly requested options offered by the drop-down menu.
How to...
tie a tie
train your dragon
kiss
destroy angels
lose weight fast
draw
write a cover letter
get rid of fruit flies
knit
write a resume
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The never-ending saga
After gluing all my state pieces and Pawl and Babe together in three-dimensional wonder, I still felt something was missing. The overall effect was too yellow (curse you, millet seeds!) and I worried about how Pawl would show up against a background of whatever crazy stuff would be displayed nearby (not to mention the awful yellow and green background paint chosen by the crop art curators). So now I am covering three oversized pine trees with raw pumpkin seeds (photo shows one completed, one in progress, and one painted and outlined only). These will be mounted to form a esthetic screen behind the piece.
Many thanks to Joel for all his work with the jigsaw!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Database Delirium
For the past five months, I have been putting in a number of hours every week correcting and standardizing 43,000+ entries in a work database. It is exceedingly mind-numbing work, has little practical significance (as I don't think the final product will do what the boss thinks it will), but pays the bills. I amuse myself by listening to music, laughing at typos (favorite: "Sots for Tots"), and fondly recalling visits to cities listed, from NYC to Woonsocket, South Dakota.
Today I got a chuckle when using Google to check on the address of a "Springfield Clinic." One of Google's listings for the clinic read, "Careers at Springfield Clinic" and the first 'career' listed was "brain tumor removal." Now I realize this is probably all automatically generated, but it struck me as funny all the same. Are there hundreds of brain tumor removal sub-specialists searching the Internet for a job? And is that really a job title? (wouldn't you be called a neurosurgeon or something?)
And for some reason, that all reminded me of another funny from years ago when a friend and I were working for $7/hour as teacher's aides so we could start an art program at our kids' elementary school. At our city-wide mandatory training session we were told there was a way we could earn an extra dollar an hour. Our interest evaporated when informed that the job would then include intubating students (for whom intubation was indicated, of course!) Now that would be a job title--Teacher's aide/art and theater instructor/intubator.
Today I got a chuckle when using Google to check on the address of a "Springfield Clinic." One of Google's listings for the clinic read, "Careers at Springfield Clinic" and the first 'career' listed was "brain tumor removal." Now I realize this is probably all automatically generated, but it struck me as funny all the same. Are there hundreds of brain tumor removal sub-specialists searching the Internet for a job? And is that really a job title? (wouldn't you be called a neurosurgeon or something?)
And for some reason, that all reminded me of another funny from years ago when a friend and I were working for $7/hour as teacher's aides so we could start an art program at our kids' elementary school. At our city-wide mandatory training session we were told there was a way we could earn an extra dollar an hour. Our interest evaporated when informed that the job would then include intubating students (for whom intubation was indicated, of course!) Now that would be a job title--Teacher's aide/art and theater instructor/intubator.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
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