Author: paul@digitaldendrite.com

So I’m continuing to chat with Ellen about various things, and we get to something about Thursday. So she says, “That’s St. Patrick’s Day!”. Now, remember, we’re A, not religious, and B, at least 50% Jewish, so I ask “Does St. Patrick’s Day mean a lot to you, then?”.

Ellen: Well, he scared away all the snakes! Thats good!
Me: Well, yeah, but most of them are too small to bother you around here.
E: Are there any that eat people?
M: Sure, but they’re all in the Amazon.
E: But I thought that was a network.

I sit for about 15 seconds, puzzled, then “amazon.com” comes to mind and I roll my eyes. A whole generation of kids who think the “Amazon” is a place to buy books and a “Google” is a place to find book reports quickly.

Yay for technology!

I’m having a conversation with Ellen just a minute ago about DNA, and about cloning, and of course that leads into talking about Jurrasic Park. I say to Kim:

Paul: What a perfect segue.
Ellen: What’s a segue?
P: It’s switching from one topic to another.
KIm: A transition. Do you know what a transition is?
E: Is it like transportation?
P: not exactly, but the trans part does mean changing from one thing to another. (Over my shoulder to Kim: Like transubstatiation…)
E: What’s transpistaciation?
P: That’s when you change a God into a Peanut.

Ellen breaks up in peals of laughter.

Walking to the bus station tonight, I look up from the corner of 42nd and 8th to see this:

Now, you can’t read the words, but it says, in letters as tall as I am, on a lit up billboard that must be 40 feet high:

“Windows XP Is shutting down.”

If only that were really true…

Two funny snippets in the past 12 hours that I wanted to post. The first was chatting online with my friend Karin, about silly stuff, when this conversation, worthy of bash.org, occurred:

Paul hands karin a woodburner.
You say, “what are those things called?”
You say, “that you write in wood with?”
Karin says, “Penguins?”

The second little snippet occurred this morning, overheard between Ellen and Kim:

Kim: “Are you still getting dressed? You’re the slowest thing in the world!”
Ellen: “That’s not true! A snail is slower. it would take all day for a snail…(pause)…to get from our house…(pause)… to our neighbor’s house!”
Kim, waiting patiently. “uh huh…can you finish getting dressed, then?”

I’m bustling around the kitchen tonight getting some chinese takeout ready for dinner and Ellen knows one of the things we’re having is pork fried rice, a favorite of hers. So I hear her mumbling and then I start to pick out words. She’s singing, to the tune of “Kumbaya”:

Pork fried rice, my lord, pork fried rice.
Pork fried rice, my lord, pork fried rice.
pork fried rice, my lord, pork fried rice.
Oh, my lord, pork fried rice.

Now, THAT’S one tasty spiritual.

Kim told me this story:

“The other day, I’m sitting in my office, and Katie comes tearing in with “Mommy! Mommy! Come quick!”. “What’s wrong?”, I asked. “There’s a noise in my room and I didn’t make it!””

Turns out the radiator was making the noise, but I love that line…”There’s a noise in my room and I didn’t make it!!”

Yay, bug.

This was a writing workshop thing that Ellen, age 7, did in her 1st grade class. We questioned her up and down as to whether she make this up, or got it from somewhere, but she swears she made it up.

Love is…

A delicious food that makes you feel like you can fly. When you are alone love can lift you up and make you feel at home. Love is as sweet as ice cream because it lets you know you are warm inside.

This courtesy of McSweeney’s

Spitty the Camel

Mr. Shingles

Julius ‘n’ Ethel

Joseph Gerbils

Foamy the Rabid Puma

Ann Eurysm

“Kurtz”

Theodora the Old-Time Saloon Whore

Wylie Von Footfetish

Big Disease-Carrying Bird

Today was the day that we want to visit our bean counter. Perfect accoutant material, but he’s seriously lackadaisical. So, he tells us that we probably won’t owe more than a few thousand dollars. After all is said and done, that “few” is SIX THOUSAND, at least. Whee.

But, on the plus side, after we go to him, we go to this place called “Fontana Gyros” on the corner of Francis Lewis Blvd and Northern Blvd. It’s the BEST gyros ever. Here are a few pictures of Katie there, as well as one of the gyros.

So…Yes, an iPod Shuffle is a USB 2.0 device. And yes, an iPod shuffle can be mounted as a hard drive. And, still yes, you can take multiple USB devices and connect them together to make a RAID.

The question is…SHOULD YOU?

Geek.