fighting the lack of good ideas
Coming home from Hartford this week, my wife and I got stranded in Detroit (ok, so DTW is in Romulus… but whatever). Our flight into DTW from BDL was delayed a bit, but we still had ~40 minutes to get to our flight to Lexington. However, when we landed we found out that the flight…
I find that the more time I tend to have, the less I want to read… but when I’m really busy, I’ll find all kinds of books that look interesting. With my current work arrangement, I travel frequently, and have been taking the time on the flights (if not sleeping) to read through histories, novels,…
In case you ever want to know, here are a couple pages that spell-out how to say “thank you” in hundreds of languages: http://www.deepestfeelings.com/holidays/thanksgiving/thank_you_in_many_languages.shtml http://www.etailersdigest.com/greetings/saythanks.htm
A recent Final Jeopardy! question said there are two pairs of countries which differ in spelling by only two letters: Australia/Austria and one other. The answer they were looking for was Niger/Nigeria. Well, I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a third pair: Mali/Malawi. It’s not often you see errors on Jeopardy!…
My wife started blogging recently – and while there’s only one post up so far, I’m sure it will grow 🙂 Welcome to the blogosphere, honey =D
Have you ever noticed while walking a dog that they stop and sniff every tree, bush, and poo pile? And when two dogs come together, they sniff each other’s butts (a distinctly rude activity, if you ask me!) I have a theory – dogs sniff each other’s butts because they’ve sniffed the pee patches and…
Normally I don’t like reviewing chains, but The Melting Pot is different. It’s a fondue place, and is a blast to eat at. The first time I went was with my wife and parents-in-law the weekend before Thanksgiving. We were looking for a “fun” place to eat, and had been thinking about trying a fondue…