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• 08.13.08
  Where is Bob?
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  The best piece of writing I scanned today came from Where is Bob? which may or may not be a fake, but is definitely a fun read.  The gist is that Bob is an unpleasant manager who is always away from the office, and lies pathologically about it.  I highly recommend you start at the beginning and read from there, there are only a few posts to catch up on.  It had me laugh out loud a few times.
  
  
• 07.21.08
  5 Minute Temptation
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  I need someone to give this a try at home pronto and let me know if it actually works.  Make a chocolate cake in a coffee mug in your microwave. While it looks rather like a cup of poop while it's rising (below) it looks darned appetizing once you get it out of the mug. I'm thinking our children will fatten up nicely on a steady diet of mugcake twice a day.  Even better, I'm wondering what it would taste like with a little splash of Kahlua in the ingredients? Now go, and bake, and report. Metafilter provideth.
  
  
• 06.17.08
  Calvin’s Dad
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  Calvin and Hobbes is the best cartoon that ever was, hands down.  I miss it terribly to this day.  One of the best characters was his Dad, always responding to Calvin's questions with absolute gibberish answers.  Neatorama posted a link to a collection of these exchanges, awesome answers to fundamental questions like "Why does the sky turn red when the sun sets?" and "Why does ice float?". As I read them I realize I must have been influenced by him in my own parenting.  For instance, yesterday morning Cael was looking for Quinn upstairs.  He asked me where he was and ...
  
  
• 06.09.08
  Alzheimer’s Trap
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  I saw an article (it's literally all over the web now) about a fake bus stop outside a senior's home that acts like a honey pot and "traps" wayward seniors who wander outside and try to go home.  The bus stop looks real, but the bus doesn't stop there.  The seniors don't know that, and wait patiently.  This gives the staff the opportunity to go out and gently lead them back inside.  The beauty of Alzheimer's is that trick will probably work again tomorrow. I must say that on one side that sounds kind of mean, but then again it probably ...
  
  
• 05.13.08
  Cookie Remorse
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  Cookie Monster struggles with his self image. No. Me wrong. Me too hard on self. Me no have unhealthy obsession. Me love cookies, but it no hurt anyone. Me just enthusiast. Poor bugger, probably started using when he was just a finger puppet.
  
  
• 05.08.08
  Manbabies
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  Ever since I saw that cold medicine commercial (Triaminic? can't remember) where they have a baby's head on a man's body I have had a slightly squeamish reaction to this sort of thing.  I have no idea what it is about seeing these images that makes some part of my brain start screaming and gibbering with insanity.  It's just wrong on some sort of visceral level that I can't understand, indeed if I examine it too closely I teeter on the edge of losing it completely.  So with that bit of (too much) information I give you an entire web ...
  
  

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