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What is this Game?

Scott Ostler from The Chronicle has the best description ever of the Giants version of baseball this year: (10-26) 22:45 PDT -- Giants baseball: It ain't baseball. What is it? We're not sure, but we have watched baseball for decades, and what the Giants have been playing for the last month is not it. It resembles baseball. The ball is a baseball. The players play on a baseball field, wear baseball uniforms and spit like baseball players. But this is a strange new game, with subtle differences. Baseball is boring. You go to a baseball game with your buddies or your family, you watch a couple of innings, you keep a box score for a while, then you get bored, lose track of the "action" and start buying $10 beers to pass the time. Giantsball is much more demanding. You have to watch every pitch, every inning, because stuff keeps happening. You even have to participate. At the Giants' last home game against the Phillies, the crowd of 85,000 (give or t

GO Knuckleheads! (aka GIANTS!)

GO GIANTS!  :-)  The Knuckleheads RULE!  Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

Karaoke part 2

Download now or watch on posterous VID 00067-20101023-1911.3GP (2098 KB) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Posted via email from Our Family Blog

Karaoke at Mike and Maryann's wedding part 1

Download now or watch on posterous VID 00066-20101023-1829.3GP (1863 KB) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Posted via email from Our Family Blog

Boost your immune system (or not)

Wouldn't it be nice if we could eat certain foods or take certain "magical" vitamins and "Boost your immune system?"  Sadly reality doesn't work that way :-(   Listen to Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com on the immune boosting frauds: Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

Minimalism and Gifts

I got an early birthday gift from my Aunt Bella and Uncle Frank, a very cool coffee table type book about Gnomes :-)  I love it! But as I sat reading through it at my desk and began to ponder where to keep it (on the desk with my set of essential books is what I decided) it occurred to me that gifts could be a problem if one is seeking to get into a more minimalist sort of lifestyle.  That's what I'm trying to do, with only a very little progress so far, but I'm trying to have fewer material possessions tying me down because they are hard to move, hard to keep tidy and get in the way a lot and force you to have bigger and more rooms than you would have if you were a true minimalist .  But if people keep giving me "stuff" I'm just treading water when I get rid of my older stuff.  Of course none of this applies to my Gnome book, that is so perfect and so me that I'm not going to get rid of it no matter how minimalist I get :-) Of course givi

Mom got us busted!

So, Mom, Lora and me were sitting around tonight playing cards, laughing and having a good time, the windows were open because it’s warm out, and some numb skull neighbor , I have no way of knowing wich low life idiot it was, called security on us!  It was 9:30 at night, not midnight or anything, besides it was a Saturday night , not Tuesday at 2:00 am or something!  Now, I can understand someone thinking we were a bit too noisy and wanting us to quiet down, even early on a Saturday night, but the adult, mature and American thing to have done would have been to simply knock on our door and ask if we could quiet down.  We would have said sure and that would have been the end of that, but to call the authorities, even just an overweight useless git of a security drone, is just plain rude and offensive.  I told the fat slob that we were not in violation of any law or clause of our lease as quiet time is 10 PM, I also said I understood it was not his call.  We had just finished our game an

Livermore

Hey, Livermore is not just parks and vineyards and sunshine, From The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" it's also the home of the... The National Ignition Facility http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_national_ignition_facility.html Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

Super Dorkasorus! With a Trebuchet! :-)

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