A scene from Jeopardy I could only imagine:
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Alex Trebeck: “A thing you always associate with www.RandyPeterman.com.”
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Ken Jennings: “What is ‘fort worth security guard needs?'”
Alex Trebeck: “That is correct, please select the next category.”
Ken Jennings: “I’ll take extremely bizarre Mormon rituals for $1,000.”
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For some reason someone searched for “fort worth security guard needs” and it linked to my site. Yeah, I really have passionate posts about that!
Climbing Jacob’s Bladder
I hope not to prove myself foolish but I’ve been told this climb is an ‘easy one’. Here are some photos that other people have taken from Mt. Bierstadt.
Project Gutenberg – Free Sheet Music
Project Gutenberg – Bibliographic Record – Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Opus 131 for download in several formats, including the easy to print PDF. They’ve got other songs on here, too. I’m hardly skilled enough to play these, though my sister-in-law Becca could probably ‘pound these out.’ [not really what you want to do with a piece like this – but I was going for the idiom].
Proper Customer Service
When Mr. Greenfield wrote a blog entry about how Technorati had not taken care of him it circulated like wildfire in the blog community. Their prompt dealing with the situation was vital. Hopefully people will read more carefully as this post: Praise as public as the complaint explains that people twisted things out of hand.
A Poem
I determined this morning
When I awoke
I’d write a poem for this blog
No joke
I don’t know why
I think it’s funny
but I like to write
and be quite punny
The Abigator
is playing aloud
in the front room
with an animal crowd
She’s making them laugh
and jump through hoops
And flinging them through
the air with scoops**
I’ve read her books
and books today
I enjoy the one about a moose,
to say
She likes to hear me
read and speak
And climb her to
a mountain peak
**a plastic toy shovel
Hiking
Yesterday afternoon while Jessica was at the baby shower for Annemarie Matthews (who had already had her baby a few days earlier, and yet still managed to show up to the shower) Abby and I went for a hike with my dad and Brian White. We hiked for only four miles, but that was about all my little legs could handle. I carried Abby on my back in a back pack for 1.3 miles and my dad (who’s in better shape than me) carried her the rest of the way. I am super sore today 🙂
However, below are some pictures from the hike.
A flower at the parking lot
A view of a cool fallen tree – part I
The same tree part II
Can you tell I like the tree?
A view from (near) the top
HellBoy
We (I) rented HellBoy yesterday because I’m always intrigued by adaptations of comic books into movies. This one generally was good, plus it had incredibly good special effects that were rather lifelike and not feeling too ‘digitized.’ The storyline was not too ‘blow the crap out of anything you can as often as you can’ and it had some unique and fun characters. The villains were incredibly cool in that the characters were all from the past and were involved with (surprise) some sort of magic – Rasputin being one of them.
What was really odd was the intertwining of spiritual things with physical things. The concept of resurrection is just blown out of the water as this one creature keeps resurrecting, but the resurrected creature keeps splitting up. Once splitting and spreading the now multiple creatures are wiped out at once to stop them from spreading. So the resurrection is quite different from a biblical definition.
Hellboy being a demon is also, um, theologically different. However, in the end I discovered one important thing: it was a fictional movie. Satanism was not pushed or the occult glorified. However, a demon was presented as having good character.
Oh, well. It was a fun movie, but Jessica didnt’ like the ending – she said it was too open ended. Sequels abound 🙂
Snow in July
Jessica and Abby went up into the mountains with our friends the Kaes (sans Craig, who was working) to go hiking yesterday. Upon arriving at the mountain where they were to go hiking they got out of the car and encountered cold wins and snow. SNOW! Freaky weird, but cool. I imagine that they wish they were having snow in Texas lately instead of the flooding. OK, that is all. I just had to share that bizaare story.
StatTraq Blog Created
If you’re looking for the latest on StatTraq, check out it’s Official StatTraq for WordPress Blog as another sub-section of this site. This means that those here for my blog and not for StatTraq can worry far less about me posting ‘programmer-ish’ things.
Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween is just around the corner and it’s best to be prepared with a great costume idea. I’ve collected some interesting costume ideas from… this blog. Using StatTraq‘s built in Search Term functionality I can see what people are searching for on Google, Yahoo! and MSN (among others). Here are a list of goofy, un-doctored search terms in order of frequency, that you might want to dress up like (and most you won’t).
- AOL samurai halloween costume
- Banana Phone
- Women of (Home Depot or Walmart)
- Man Breasts
- Randy Peterman
- samurai outfit [completelydifferent from the first suggestion]
- 2004 volkswagen bug
- michael jackson aging
- An okapi
- Spider-Man
- seat heater
- Freakazoid!
- dave ohara
- little miss randy
- aol broad
- belluga
- jehovah’s witnesses
- oscar meyer kid commercial ballerina
- black teens
- stuck pig
- fridgid wives
- “victorias secret model”
And while you’re working on those costumes don’t forget to use your “amnesiatic dictionary” (yet another odd term that somehow linked to my site).