i track the value of my portfolio daily (because i don’t have enough to be bitter about already) and i’ve noticed a very interesting trend, my portfolio can rise in dollars a day but almost always drops in hundreds…
previous: July 2008
| idea of the day | 2008.07.31 |
| idea of the day | 2008.07.30 |
after returning home from seeing the dark night, natalie needed some schooling on two-face so i turned to the ever handy wikipedia. there is almost always something in wikipedia entries that makes me smile and this time i found it in the preamble ensuring i had landed on the right page:
this article is about the dc comics villain. for the nigerian musician, see 2face idibia. for the brazilian soap opera, see duas caras. for craniofacial duplication, see diprosopus.
you know i clicked on the craniofacial duplication link (right after duas caras of course)…
| idea of the day | 2008.07.29 |
our attempt to teach our children to speak spanish by having in home, native spanish language child care since they were babies has been on so successful. both our children have great spanish comprehension but neither speak it much.
except logan has a collection of words like the following which she only knows in spanish:
bolso (purse/bag)
princessa (princess)
cenicienta (cinderella)
vestido (dress)
pelo (hair)
in case it isn’t obvious, she knows these words in spanish because she has never, or seldom heard them in english…
| idea of the day | 2008.07.28 |
i’m going to do you a favor today. instead of wasting time with my drivel, go read something worth while over at the field negro.
you can thank me later.
| idea of the day | 2008.07.25 |
this is what you like to hear when your customer is commenting on your application’s diagnostic messages:
not quite that, but pleasantly rude nonetheless!”
| idea of the day | 2008.07.24 |
i’m not impressed that someone is busy or important because they always have to cancel or reschedule meetings.
i’m disappointed they aren’t capable of the rather simple task of managing their calendar.
| idea of the day | 2008.07.23 |
the automobile association “aa” of new zealand rated the top 101 must-do kiwi experiences.
turns out we’ve had a lot of those experiences so far and all of them were worth doing.
# experience been there
done that1 Mitre Peak & Milford Sound 2 Doubtful Sound 3 Bay of Islands 4 Fiordland National Park 5 Abel Tasman National Park 6 Aoraki Mount Cook 7 Coastal Kaikoura 8 Hanmer Springs 9 Camping Country 10 Tutukaka / The Poor Knights 11 Marlborough Sounds 12 Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers 13 Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro 14 Waitomo Caves 15 Southern Scenic Route 16 Otago Rail Experience 17 White Island 18 Stewart Island 19 Arthur’s Pass National Park 20 Tongariro Alpine Crossing 21 The Blue Pools of Haast Pass 22 South Westland 23 Waipoua Forest 24 Mount Taranaki 25 Lake Tekapo 26 Ulva Island 27 Otago Peninsula 28 Canterbury Plains Hot Air Ballooning 29 Punakaiki 30 Cape Reinga 31 Auckland Gulf Islands 32 Kicking the Autumn leaves 33 Akaroa and Banks Peninsula 34 Glenorchy and Dart River 35 Farewell Spit 36 Queenstown Adventure 37 Hokianga 38 Whanganui National Park 39 Cape Kidnappers 40 Fine Wine 41 Lake Waikaremoana 42 The Queen Charlotte Track 43 Lake Matheson 44 Arrowtown 45 Orakei Korako 46 TSS Earnslaw 47 Rotorua Geothermal 48 Dunedin City 49 Winter Mountain Fun 50 Mount Maunganui: Mauao 51 Karangahake Gorge 52 Eastland 53 Animal & Crazy! 54 Hollyford Valley 55 Hot Water Beach 56 Auckland’s West Coast 57 Rotorua Luge, Skyrides and Skyswing 58 Marlborough Wine Trail 59 Kapiti Island 60 New Chums Beach 61 Christchurch City 62 Mount Tarawera 63 Te Papa 64 The Bridge to Nowhere 65 Coromandel Township 66 Lake Taupo’s Top Water Attractions 67 The Pinnacles 68 Te Mata Peak 69 Rotorua Rafting 70 Be A-mazed! 71 The Forgotten World Highway 72 Moeraki Boulders 73 New Plymouth’s coastal walkway 74 Seafood City 75 Castlepoint 76 Wainui Beach 77 Ahipara and Shipwreck Bay 78 Buller Gorge 79 Taranaki Gardens in Paradise Tour 80 Cape Palliser 81 Auckland War Memorial Museum 82 Raglan 83 Takaka Hill: Rameka Track 84 Whakarewarewa 85 Waitangi Treaty Grounds 86 Rere Rock Slide 87 Spa and well-being destination 88 SkyJump & Sky Tower 89 Devonport and North Head 90 The Interislander Experience 91 Auckland Volcanoes 92 Central Otago Curling 93 Port Waikato 94 Golf in an Alpine Amphitheatre 95 Hundertwasser Toilets 96 Wellington Writers’ Walk 97 Cross-country skiing 98 Stonehenge Aotearoa 99 NZ Rugby Museum 100 Beehive and Parliament buildings 101 Attend a Must-Do Event…
| idea of the day | 2008.07.22 |
a professional photographer came to our apartment yesterday because the landlord is getting ready to rent the place after we leave. on his way out he said:
“i rather like your glasses. they quite suit you.”
i rather like the source and content of this remark and since my inbox isn’t overflowing with praise so i might as well echo the little bit i get myself.
| idea of the day | 2008.07.21 |
last month the gym i belong to began a promotion and gave away two weeks free trial memberships. it was like january second in the u.s. when all the ‘lose weight’ resolution lemmings flock to the gym. well, we’re to the end of the promotion and just like the end of january the migratory lemmings have come and gone.
all gone but one that is. one incredibly large woman started coming during the promotion and long after her tribe came and went she has kept coming. she comes every day, works her tail off, turns a frightening array of colors, leaves and comes back the next day to do it again.
truth is, i’m highly motivated by this woman. she’s obviously pushing herself hard and according to the book i just finished, the hate directed at a fat person is nothing compared to the hate directed at a fat person exercising.
i’d really like to tell her that i think its awesome she has made the cut when everyone else washed out but unfortunately my most sincere compliments always come off insulting (just ask the relatively small group of people who still put up with me). so i’ll just give her props here and hope someone else closer to her recognizes all the efforts she’s putting in.
| the brief wondrous life of oscar wao | 2008.07.20 |
my gangster image might take a hit if i acknowledged how much of this book i could relate to. but then again, if you’ve read anything else on this site you already know my nerd cred exists in buckets where my gangster cred exists in a thimble. on the comforting side, wao won the 2008 pulitzer prize for fiction so my people are obviously now in control of pulitzer. from the author: he tried to give magic a chance, tried to put together a decent deck, but it just wasn’t his thing. lost everything to an eleven-year-old punk and found himself not really caring. first sign that his age was coming to a close. when the latest nerdery was no longer compelling, when you preferred the old to the new.
| idea of the day | 2008.07.18 |
watch these videos in order, the first is from new zealand travel and business, the second is 100% truth.
100% pure new zeland
100% truth
| idea of the day | 2008.07.17 |
last night, and i couldn’t make this up, carolina made dinner from a recipe in a kids book about rationing in england during world war ii.
the verdict, you’d have to be starving to eat it.
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