Sturgeon’s Law

Ninety per­cent of every­thing is crap.


Derived from a quote by sci­ence fic­tion author Theodore Stur­geon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of sci­ence fic­tion is crud. That’s because 90% of every­thing is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invari­ably changed to ‘crap’.

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Miles Per Gallon

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A Thousand Stories To Tell

Unfor­tu­nately for my few read­ers, I have a thou­sand and one excuses.

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Finally feel like writ­ing some­thing, but I can’t think of title…

We drove the Miata to work on Thurs­day because we *could* ride home with the top down. But we didn’t drive it today even though it was warmer than yes­ter­day. We rode the tandem.

I found a fool proof method on how to get your wife to agree to let you buy a new com­puter: While she is in the mid­dle of shuf­fling the con­tents around in the kitchen cab­i­nets (for who knows what rea­son other than to con­fuse me) just walk in and ask if you can spend $425. Well, that and the fact that I have been moan­ing about it’s slow­ness for a cou­ple years (it was pur­chased just shy of 9 years ago.)

Like the plethora of fra­grance com­mer­cials that show up on TV before Christ­mas, you can tell it is Jan­u­ary because of all the ads for diet plans and gym memberships.

Which leads us to: “A gym is not designed to make you feel instantly bet­ter about your­self. If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly bet­ter about your­self, it would be a bar.” which is Rule #1 for Con­quer­ing the Gym, go read the other 26.

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Came Pretty Close Tonight

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I Almost Blogged Tonight

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I Should Be Blogging Here

Santa Claus

But instead I’m avoid­ing it. I also should be fill­ing in the sur­vey from Hyundai about our recent Pur­ple Whale ser­vice, but I’m avoid­ing that too. Instead I’m procrastinating.

Oh, and, happy birth­day Jen­nifer Mor­ri­son. No, not the one that is on the show Once Upon A Time, but the daugh­ter of Donna’s older brother. Coin­ci­den­tally, she is an actress too, she just isn’t star­ring in her own TV show. Yet.

Plugging Away

I would like to tell you the rea­son that I did not post any­thing yes­ter­day was because it was National Day of Unplug­ging 2011, but it wasn’t, it was pure unadul­ter­ated BA. And if it wasn’t for me stum­bling on news of this event I prob­a­bly wouldn’t have writ­ten any­thing tonight either.

But now that I’m here I will update you on my day. Break­fast at the same old place, clothes shop­ping for the niece and nephew in WA at the Kid­sign­ment Sale, fol­lowed by book shop­ping for the wife and I at the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Uni­ver­sity Women Books ‘N’ Things Fair. We stopped at home to off-load our booty and then fin­ished our out­door activ­i­ties with the weekly gro­cery shop­ping at Kroger after brief stops at Rite Aid & Home Depot.

The after­noon and evening were spent watch­ing TV and eating.

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Version 3.1

I’ve updated to Word­Press 3.1 and I couldn’t be more excited.* Down below is my new desk­top wall­pa­per and has noth­ing what­so­ever to do with Word­Press, it is just a pretty pic­ture and it is help­ing me fill up space. Click­ing on the pic­ture should net you a full 1920x1080 ver­sion if you want to use it too.

*here would have been another place for the use of that sar­casm font

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