From the monthly archives:

October 2007

We want what we want.

October 25, 2007

As the first half of my work day had proved monumentally uneventful, I expected the second half to follow suit.
Not so, gentle reader.
Today was the first day in recent memory that temperatures fell below 60 degrees in Austin, whose new city motto really ought to be “Too Hot to Live, Too Fun to Die.” After [...]

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Where there’s smoke, there’s Marty…

October 22, 2007

Marty has discovered how to cook chicken in such a way that gouts of flame emit from the edges of the pan. He has for the first time ever set off two smoke alarms at once, located in different rooms at the other end of the apartment. After mollifying said smoke alarms and [...]

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Oh-whoa, sayee, cahan yoowoo seeEEEeee?

October 17, 2007

So, Megan told me this evening that most soap doesn’t really kill germs. ….huh? Apparently, only anti-bacterial soap kills germs. Regular soap just lubes ‘em up like greased pigs and helps you to send them squealing down the drain. She must have sensed my skepticism as to the effectiveness of this [...]

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