> time of year it is common for people to bring in treats to share with their co-workers. It seems like everyday there are doughnuts, bagels, cookies and other kinds of food in the office.
Here is my tip; if you don’t want to eat an entire doughnut, don’t cut it in half and leave the other half in the box. No one wants to eat something that someone else has handled. It would be better for you to take the whole thing and throw away whatever you don’t eat. Once you have cut it in half, that is the other half’s destiny anyway.
Imagine walking up to the doughnut box and finding there was only one of your favorite treat, and someone has hacked it apart. I would rather think that my favorite treat never existed than seeing the butchered half left in the box.
> released, an application for my iPhone that allows me to blog from anywhere. I thought it was cool when I could blog from Flicker, but this is way cooler.
I’m sure that you’ve probably seen those images that different people see different ways. Some people see the image of a vase, and others see the faces of two people looking at each other. There are some cases where people can’t see the other image at all.
For the last few months one of the other companies that share the building I work in has had a poster hanging from the cafeteria door. This poster is for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It is a large poster that covers the upper half of the door. Most of the poster is devoted to some images of the kids you could help out by donating, along with a description of their wish. Along the bottom is a strip of space devoted to tracking the total donations to date. You simply color in the bar graph as the donations climb. This area isn’t just white space, or graduated with percentages of the goal. There is an image there, and it’s not just one image, it’s a pattern of the same image repeated along the length of the area.
As I said, this has been hanging for months. The whole time I have been wondering, “Why would they have a poorly drawn outline of Idaho on that poster?” I just couldn’t figure it out – until today.
Today was the day that I walked past the poster, and like the vase and faces image, the true nature of the appearance of the bad outline of Idaho revealed itself to me. It’s not the state of Idaho, because you are not supposed to be looking at the black area of the image.
The white area of the image is the profile of a face.
Lesson of the day – try to look at something you see everyday in a different way, you might be surprised.
A little bit of news today. I’ve decided to setup a couple of new sites to handle posts for more specific topics. These topics have proved especially popular here and I thought that warranted special attention.
The first site is called Right Pedal Logic. This site will focus on topics related to driving on city streets and highways. It will include anything relating to driving, including references to local driving laws were applicable.
The second site is called Minnesota Biker Blog. Here I will focus on topics related to motorcycling. It will include ride stories and other posts of interest to those of us who ride motorcycles.
“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” – Dave Barry
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” -Frank Zappa
“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed – Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, ‘It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.’” – Deep Thought, Jack Handy
If you’re trying to remove a stubborn lug nut, maybe your shotgun will get it loose.
Most reasonable people would not even think to use a shotgun to remove a seized bolt of any kind. Maybe he saw the episode of The Simpsons where Homer was using a gun for all sorts of houshold tasks.
I thought it would be fun to make a list of things you can do with a gun, so you can replace many items with just one useful tool. Some of these you probably already know about, some no so much.
So, here it is, my top 11 list of useful things you didn’t know you could do with a gun:
Open another beer – I say “another” because it’s likely that you have already had a few.
Paper punch, just make sure that if you are punching holes for use in a 3-ring binder you space them properly.
Tire removal, as described in the article.
Releasing air from a tire.
Celebrating, just like they did in the old west, or at least in movies about the old west.
Signaling the start of a race.
Adding ventilation to the soffit of a house.
Fixing a leaky faucet.
Aerating your lawn. There is a potential safety issue here – make sure you have your utility lines marked before you do this. A shotgun with large pellet size would probably work best.
Harvesting apples.
Getting a cat out of a tree.
I feel it is my responsibility in this world where people don’t know that coffee is hot before they pour it into their laps that I am not responsible for anything you do with this list. Actually, it’s probably best if you don’t read it at all.
If you have any uses for guns, other than their intended purpose, share and enjoy!
