All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

     I admit it, my sense of humor is very random.  I often find things funny just for the sheer absurdity of them.  For example, I was walking into the Creamery on 9th a couple days ago and sitting on the flower bed was: a single shoe.  That’s it!  There was no mate anywhere in sight.  It would seem that someone managed to somehow lose a single shoe and then someone else fount it and put it in a prominent position on the elevated flower beds out front so it would be noticed.  So completely unexpected and out of place was it that I actually burst out laughing right there.  I did feel a little silly about laughing over a shoe, but it’s these simply odd and bizarre moments of life that I love and find humor in.  I truly believe there is humor everywhere if you are only willing to look for it.

     So with my love of these inanities, it shouldn’t be hard to see why I love humorists like Dave Barry.  They take what would ordinarily be a very dull and ordinary event and show a zany side to it.  Either they analyze it in ways that are completely absurd or they point out the already ridiculous assumptions we all make that allow us to take what is really an outrageous situation and accept it like it were nothing.  They have a gift in forcing us to make new, albeit absurd, associations with common, everyday events.  They teach us how to look at life from a different perspective.

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Sorry, but the comic was too large for my setup so I’ll just provide a link to it. So you know, it’s a Dilbert comic.

Also, my cousin in Roy, UT sent me this mass e-mail. Usually I despise them, but this one was actually funny. However, rather than spam you all with it, I’ll just post it here on my blog:

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You know your day is going to suck when the first thing you do upon coming into work is accidentally blow away a very important file.  Then you have to field a dozen or so calls, explaining to each person that the reason they can’t log in to a certain program is because you blew away said file and that you are feverishly working to recreate it.  I’m glad I have excellent typing speed and accuracy otherwise I probably just would have gone home and cried.

*LATER NOTE*

     However, it was largely cheered up after finding the following joke on a relative of mine (he’s probably a cousin somehow, as that seems to be the trend of late in finding relatives):

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I would like to remind everyone I still would like help if possible.  I just don’t want this new post to push it out of everyone’s mind.

     I spent all of my afternoon and evening until sundown today weeding.  There were a lot.  A LOT!  I mean, I have had more plant matter in weeds than in what I planted and wanted to grow.  It was a lush green carpet of…weeds.  Until the past week I’ve been pretty busy and on days I didn’t have something else calling my attention, they were usually days I had work at stupid in the morning, so I came home and napped instead.  While my last day off (the 4th) I used to de-nastify the house a bit, today I took to the garden pulling weeds.

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The following link discusses why perpendicular rather than the standard “flat” storage system for digital data is superior. Now, it’s pretty technical so don’t worry if it’s a bit too complicated for you, but I strongly suggest you see it.

Get Perpendicular!

     Well, this weekend has been somewhat busy, and yes, eventful.  I guess I’m not sure where to begin.  To basically sum it up, I have a garden update, a website update, I washed my car, and went on a date.

     So first item: garden update.  I would like to say that I am still planting flowers.  I finally have the herbs in and two rows of flowers, but I still have more flowers to go.  Time has really been a problem lately.  While the days are extended (I LOVE summer!), I have more projects than time.  As such, the update is really just to show you how my garden grows (ha ha, catch the reference?).

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Is your refrigerator running?

     So I have an interesting story to share.  Just the other day, I was walking down the street and I saw that this cute girl was coming my way in the opposite direction.  So I thought to my self, “Self, today’s going to be the day you break out of your shell.  Strike up a conversation with her and see if you can’t get her number.”  Unfortunately, as she started coming within greeting distance, I had to sneeze.  As it was going to be unavoidable, I was hoping she’d say “Bless you” or something and that I could use that to springboard into a conversation somehow (hey, I’m new at this!). 

     So, I sneezed.  Well, you know how you usually tilt your head forward and close your eyes when you sneeze?  Well, after I sneezed and opened my eyes, I saw all this hair on the ground.  Intrigued, but not wanting to miss my opportunity, I looked up to say hello to the girl.  She was stopped dead in her tracks, her eyes and mouth wide open, pointing at me.  Now I was thoroughly confused and self concious.  What was her problem?  Then I had a dark realization.  I felt the top of my head…MY HAIR WAS GONE!  Yes, that’s right.  I sneezed my hair off.  Some people worry about their eyes popping out of their sockets, well, my hair came off.

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     So my likes in this world do not always fall in the realm of science/techie stuff.  Just most of it.  For example, Dave Barry would be my deity were that position not already well spoken for.  At the very least, he ranks a Buddha, though.  You may disagree with me, but that is simply because you have not achieved enlightenment yet.  Either way, I have an article of his I want to share.

     In addition to that is this crazy e-mail Mom sent me.  By crazy e-mail I mean chain letter.  You know the kind of things ignorant teens and pre-teens are obsessed with FWDing to everyone they know?  Twice?  Yeah, that’s my mom.  And my uncle-cousin-grandpa (he’s of the age of my grandfather, I think of him as an uncle, but I think he’s technically a cousin removed somehow).

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If you haven’t checked out www.askaninja.com yet, you really need to!  But here is my favorite so far.  It’s a fan remix, not his work actually, but I about died.  So funny!  So random!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caspTsRGdos&eurl