From the NY Times:

Ms. Fisch added. “From an average-citizen standpoint, what would you rather have Martha Stewart do, work on future plans for her company or make license plates?” she asked, and then added, “Although they would be very nice license plates.”

Finally downloaded the pictures from Cincinnati. The aquarium pictures turned out far better than we expected.

Just some random slacking…

And a note that blogging may or may not be light for the next several days.
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I haven’t had much to say recently. Between recovering from the visit of the 3 1/2 year old, and the sudden onset of an icky cold, I just haven’t had much to say. So…

If you were bored, here are the top ten things to be found on my website:

Yup. Other people besides me don’t know that puncuation is actually spelled punctuation.

And if you’re really really bored, there’s always Corn Cam or the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (both old favorites)

Similar to the top 200 books, only different.

Bold is what I’ve seen, which is more than most people would expect, all things considered
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Happy Belated Birthday West Virginia!

Yes, we are a separate state.
No, we’re not near the beach.
Yes, we do get snow here.

It’s so cold in parts of the building today, that I’m expecting frost and snow to appear in the hallways.

If we build a snowman, I’ll take pictures.

Don’t forget that tomorrow (June 19th) is World Sauntering Day!

Go out and saunter!

And since I’m home, I’m printing off the picture of my grandfather and his siblings so I can send the original back to my dad’s cousin. Since I’m conviently off work, this is also a good day to go to the post office.

If you’d like to see a copy of the picture, it’s here. Unlike some of the other pictures I have, it only needed a little bit of cleaning up.

The next picture is of Uncle Ben, who everyone remembers as always making people laugh.

I wanna go to the Cincinnati subway!

(Heard last night on All Things Considered)

In case you were curious, here is a picture of me:
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While working on documentation today, Victor Borge’s “Phonetic Punctuation system” came to mind. We found the system, although you don’t get to listen to the short story.

Which internet subculture do I belong to? [CLICK] You are a Conspiracy Theorist! Holy cow! You actually did an online quiz? Little did you realise that the information you gave us is being sent to an unknown government agency for evil use against you! Don’t try to leave, we are already watching. More Quizzes at Go-Quiz.com

Am I cool or uncool? [CLICK] You are a Square! You are a total dork. The pocket protecter and thick-lensed glasses give it away. Try watching some popular TV.. Get yourself some fashion sense already! On the plus side, no wait hang on, there is no plus side! Nerdsville, population YOU! Cool quizzes at Go-Quiz.com

Neither of these should come as much of a surprise.

My weblog is 39% evil, 61% good according to the Gematriculator.

Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God’s number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. Another important aspect in gematria are the numerical values of letters: A=1, B=2 … I=9, J=10, K=20 and so on. The Gematriculator uses Finnish alphabet, in which Y is a vowel.

How could this be anything but true, when it tells me:
“Value of phrase “health care rant health care in the us website stuff site redesign danger!”: 3889 3+8+8+9=28=7×4″

It also gives me points of interest:
Amount of letters: 31318 31318=7×4474
Amount of different words: 1813 1813=7x7x37 1+8+1+3=13
Amount of different words beginning with vowel: 357 357=7×51
Amount of different words beginning with consonant: 1456 1456=7×208 1456=13×112
Amount of words: 7158 7+1+5+8=21=7×3
Amount of words beginning with vowel: 2051 2051=7×293
Amount of words beginning with consonant: 5107 5+1+0+7=13
(via Language Log)