Can y’all help me out with some context for the camo freezers? I’m seeing these freezers for sale, like you’d have in your basement or garage or mudroom or whatever, deep enough…
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Every holiday the Director of my “Office” (three departments working on loosely related stuff) goes around and gives away little baggies of candy and treats. (Not every holiday, you’re…
I’m taking pages today out of two of my favorite books (figuratively speaking). On one hand, a good on-line friend sent a semi-private email which reached me as well as about 90 other people…
Having spent the better part of my weekend in a church, albeit one transformed for the nonce into a synagogue, Posted on Oct. 07, 2003 • [8] • print
Sometimes I get REALLY GREAT mail. This morning was one of those times. The evite reads (edited for privacy purposes):
From: RW & F van Vl
Location: R…
It’s taking forever for Moribund & Somnolent, general contractors, to get around to finishing the undergrounding of the utilities on this street. They’ve laid the trench on our…
You’d think judicial probity went a little further than this. I’ve read some stupid opinions (judicial opinions, I mean), and even a few that were written in clunky doggerel verse. …
So, you’re on public transportation, facing in (not forward, as regular hutters might have already guessed). Across from you sits an attractive young woman, stylishly dressed with a short…
So I was on my way home today from a bit of an event my volunteer gig was sponsoring, and I noticed that I was on a “theme bus.” I’m realizing, slower than maybe I ought to have, that…
This morning I put up a post about my childhood neighborhood and how close it is to the fires. Today I got this email from a dear friend from college, with permission to “pass it around.”…
Continuing with a theme of “crap I found lying on the side of the road,” and lacking the focus or time to work up a presentable post for tomorrow morning, here’s a transcription of…
Voyager has just travelled farther into space than any object we’ve ever hurled from this adorable little planet of ours. 8.4 billion miles, taking…
Readers of the Chucklehut might remember last year’s contract negotiations fiasco, or debacle (or “fiabacle"). With the bitter taste of those hard slogs at the table still curling…
To keep the dog off the furniture, we scared him - about 12 years ago. We put some pennies in a soda can and when he hopped on the couch we shook it at him. He freaked and now avoids soda…
I’ve noticed two dumb looking things that demand public excoriation. Mainly, I just like the word “excoriation” and haven’t had a chance to use it since I took out my kitchen…
Now that I know another strange and surprising thing, I’m motivated to unburden myself of a short list of strange and surprising things that have presented themselves to me over time. You…
My powerful physique and astounding intellect notwithstanding, I’d like to think I’m a sensitive guy. I don’t avoid commercial TV because I think it’s a cancer on the national…
She’s one of the neighbors who say “hi.” In this neighborhood we get a lot of shortimers and a lot of old-timers. She’s an old-timer. Small but not tiny; dark hair…
Time flies when you slice it thin enough. I heard on the radio yesterday that physicists at the good ol’ UK National Physics Lab (Go, BritNerds!) have started tracking the movement of sub-atomic…
I guess I never got over my Tonka truck phase, but it brings me pleasure and satisfaction to see construction projects with giant cranes and the earthmovers and the rigging going up… For example, I…
The news story was on early, I only listened with half an ear. It seems that people were getting sick at casinos. They interviewed a British-sounding woman who spoke as if she were holding…
This story just makes me laugh (courtesy of the Obscure Store, originally, for me) - the princess of pop is so enamored…
(written last week)
Tonight I come home to triumph, in the form of The Daily Show and South Park. I really enjoy both shows but I never bothered to figure out when they were on so…
The dog appreciates your good wishes. I took the day off yesterday to tend to him, and now he’s up in a special clinic with 24 hour care and an orthopod. They think they know what’s…
I live in a unique part of a unique city. One of the special things about my ‘hood is that there are houses on only one side of the street, which usually means plenty of parking. The…
Who says nothing fun happens in Ohio? Dayton, home of aviation and pneumatic tires, is also home of the Dayton News, which is running a story I’m not bothering linking to but: it’s…
Tonight is Erev Rosh Hashona, the night that begins the annual period of introspection and resolution, of self-evaluation and goal-setting in the jewish calendar. I am pretty psyched. It…
It’s a good thing I like to keep busy at work because I’m getting a goddamn crawful these days. I was mortified to find today that a series of questions I’d sent out to the ED…
This past week was full of pleasant surprises. Here are a few of them:
* When the busdriver stopped the bus at fillmore street inbound on my crowded morning commute and waited at that…
okay, for those of you with high-speed connections, what do you make of this?