[Interior: Postmodern tech-company building with central spiral staircase]

Harold, our intrepid protagonist walks down one flight of stairs, three individual 90-degree spiralled segments, to the floor below. He carries a sheet of paper containing the candidate’s resumé in one hand, a water-filled tupperware cup in the other. He looks off the the right, then suddenly finds himself falling down the stairs, landing on his left side, most of the impact on his left shin & ankle. His left hand is numb.

Owwwwwwww! Is there somewhere I can vote for “Fun…

Jeff Roberts - Aug 2, 2006

Owwwwwwww! Is there somewhere I can vote for “Funniest 2 blog items I’ve seen in a while?”

(The string I have to type in to verify that I’m not an ad-spam-bot is “shjss”, which might be close to what you said as you fell.)

Well, I seriously began to wonder if blogspot.com was sending me coded messages in the verification words, because mine earlier today was something like “websxy”. (And the letters were slanted in a very suggestive way.)

As a growing Ubuntu acolyte, this is just hilarious:

After a morning of sleeping-in, procuring some coffee at Kroger, and gassing-up the Intrigue, we headed to Beattyville, leaving at 2 and arriving around 5 (!)

The news:

- Dad bought a truck. It’s the same truck as his last truck, but it has the advantage of 97k fewer miles and a higher differential ratio (3.43 v 3.73)

- Used the air tools to rotate the tires on the intrigue.

Nothing like having the Hershey Squirts all morning combined with too little sleep to make one perky on a Friday.

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Thought: I must stop caring what people at work think of me. I’ve got folks like David, Jeff, and Patrick, who are just awesome, supportive, and real. And, they’re all alot older than me. Then, I have people my own age who are just not nice. Ugh.

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(On exiting the tennis court this morning)

Me: Man, you were hittin’ that ball pretty well? Your dad been workin’ with you?

Joey: No. I’m just good!

hehe

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OH YEAH!!!!

Wow, and I thought Scott Adams worked in the next …

Jeff Roberts - Jul 5, 2006

Wow, and I thought Scott Adams worked in the next cubicle. Little did I know Warf was on the other side!

Pardon my interrupting your prayer and feel free n…

Jeff Roberts - Jul 3, 2006

Pardon my interrupting your prayer and feel free not to accept this comment but “despair” ? I’m sure my “don’t sweat the small stuff…or even the medium-sized stuff” attitude of late isn’t optimal (although it aligns pretty well with my raise amount!) but don’t let stuff get to ya dude. Wife, kid, another kid on the way…life is *good*.

Spent Friday night and Saturday up in Columbus, Ohio at a Promise Keepers event, held at the 20,000-seat Nationwide arena.

It was a great experience, as 7 of us from Northside Christian Church (Pastor Scott, Ryan, Me, Rick, Chuck, Tim, and Jason) headed out at 2:30pm in the rental 15-passenger van. On the whole, it was great to just be myself, not worried about talking sports, or computers, or whatever else. I could be comfortable and enjoy just laughing and being myself.

We’re looking forward to Atlanta this weekend

Kerry Woo - Jul 2, 2006

We’re looking forward to Atlanta this weekend

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Ah, if only….

I sit basking in the glow of my citronella candle as the last pink of day turns to gray. Relaxed. Sated.

Today was a study in contrasts–my relaxation now versus me taking a DeWalt cordless drill to the remains of my powerbook as I salvaged the Hard Drive. Bella wanted the pictures off it. I got through 16 little screws, but the final two holding the hard drive to the case itself stripped out. I was a little frustrated and thought “Well, if this were a car, I’d just grab a metal bit and drill-out the screws.”

I hear you on the touch-up paint. I washed the El…

Jeff Roberts - Jul 1, 2006

I hear you on the touch-up paint. I washed the Elantra and there’s a pea-sized chip along the outside of one of the wheel wells. I also need a big can of TRUCK-nuba for the green machine. And a chamois. And a hydraulic lift.

Um…mommy…

I wanna wear spidey and my football pijamas, but I can’t ‘cuz they don’t match

Yike.

Ruby is an awesome, powerful little language.

I needed a ’time’ command for windows to measure the execution time (in seconds) of a command. Should be trivial, but I’m not Windows API savvy. Here’s the full script in Ruby:

t1 = Time.new  
IO.popen(ARGV.join(' ')) { |pipe| puts pipe.gets }  
t2 = Time.new  

puts "Execution time: #{t2 - t1} seconds"  

Simple, direct, and obvious. LOVE IT!

The Lord granted us a respite last night just long enough for a clear sky for the awesome Scott County fireworks show, but this morning has been a steady, slow rain, up to 1" on my rain gauge.

We need it desperately.

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In other news, the new baby Combs is actually at 10 weeks instead of 9, putting his or her delivery date at February 5th. New ultrasound scans coming soon.

In church yesterday, out of the blue, my inclination was “You need to go visit your parents.” Sans Joey this weekend, I told Whitney we needed to go and she thought it was a great idea.

Had a wonderful time with Mom, Dad, Norie, and Mike getting in about 248 bales of hay off some land just around-the-corner from their farm. Hot, dry day in the 90’s, but it turned out for the best: I helped with the hay, got some exercise, and got some “quality time” with Dad. Whitney was bored to tears, but at least she got to stay cool.

The powers that be bought the whole regular employee cadre tix to the matinee of Superman Returns. I hated it, but then I didn’t care for the first 4.

The movie comes (in the dc comics reality) after the events in Superman II, but prior to those of Superman III. Superman left 5 years ago to investigate the last-known position of Krypton, his homeworld, only to find the world has all but forgotten him and that his former love has a new live-in man and a 5-year old kid.

Okay, my brain is off-the-wall sometimes. I was watching some sort a show about Bradd Pitt and Angelina Jolie and thought. “Dang, guys are just pigs. All we think about is sex. Our nature is to be promiscuous.” Brad had left Jennifer Aniston to be with a “better” (?) woman, Angelina.

Something, though, made me think that wasn’t quite right: WOMEN should tend to be more promiscuous than men. Here’s my thoughts, ignorning the obvious moral concerns and thinking anthropologically: