Anyone who’s taken a high school physics class is familiar with potential energy; which is important because potential energy is le metaphor du jour. Tonight we made a discovery in the Kauffman Household… the existence of potential irony. This form of irony has the potential to change the perception of other objects around it. For example… consider dishwashing detergent. On it’s own…
I was just talking to someone about the Lightning this afternoon. For those of you not familiar with hockey… we were not discussing the weather. We were debating whether the new goaltenders were a disappointment this season… too bad it had to be before tonight’s game against Minnesota.
What a tough road win against a good team (with a great record at home), and a really good third period for…
“This is Verizon Wireless, how can I help you?”
“Yes, I wanted to know if I could port the number for my land-line phone over to a new line on my wireless account – and keep my two existing wireless numbers.”
“Let me get this straight, you currently have two lines with two numbers on your Verizon Wireless account – which you want to keep – and you’d like to add a third line which…
If you were a voter in the mid-1970’s, I’ll bet you never thunk someone would be riding Gerald Ford’s coat-tails thirty years later. Then again, you may have never envisioned the thunking-man’s president sitting in office today (or having another Dick in office). Well Cheney was out and about this last week, providing the American people a timely history lesson. He reminded us that…
There are different kinds of comedy. Some are obvious and some are subtle. Some have a punch line and others are visual. Some comedy has wide appeal and some does not.
Cheryl and I just finished watching “Little Miss Sunshine,” and I simply must tell you that I’ve never laughed harder. There’s a scene in this movie where at least two human organ systems went critical (for those of you at…
The first Presidential election after my inclusion in the self-awareness club occurred in 1976. It was Gerald Ford’s shot at being elected, and the contest between the appointed incumbent and the unlikely brainiac, peanut-farmer and governor-come-lately challenger from Georgia (of all places) was all over the news. At the tender age of five I was a newcomer to politics, and the lexicon of the…
For the second time this NFL season I cheered out loud in response to a Bucs performance. In a play right out of the Gators’ national championship game, Ike Hilliard broke free for a long catch-and-run touchdown to complete the Bucs improbable comeback… and the walls erected around my cynicism fell down.
It lasted about thirty minutes.
About ten minutes into the overtime period, the Bears…
If you see me on Monday and I’m looking a little off my game, this is the reason why: Cascading Style Sheets… or CSS for short. For some reason I thought it would be swell to teach myself a few more of the basics of CSS this weekend… and try to set up a simple page as a test. The result is a new, minimalist home page for my web site. It’s plain, it’s a creativity free zone, and it’s a…