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Man Walks for Help with Shark Attached to Leg. No lie.

From the BeingDaddy web page FAQ:

“What’s the worst sentence you ever saw in a student paper?

From an essay on Art Speigleman’s Maus: “During the stressful period of the Holocaust, the Jews underwent much sufferage during their concentration.” “

Wow. That’s terrible. Frankly, it made me think for a moment that the student stated that the Jews got the right to vote during the Holocaust (suffrage). I hope the rest of the paper was better.

It’s a shame that BeingDaddy has kind of dropped into limbo since November.

By the way, if you ever get the chance to read Maus, I’d highly recommend it. There’s a reason why a graphic novel (some would say comic book) won the Pulitzer Prize.

Have you ever seen Inside the Actor’s Studio? James Lipton always asks ten questions of each guest at the end of each show. I’d be curious to hear your answers. Below are the questions and my own answers.

1. What is your favorite word? Yes

2. What is your least favorite word? No, or Shut up (two words, I know, but one concept)

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Brainstorming/creating with a small group of people

4. What turns you off? People who refuse to see past the nose on their face, or worse, people who stonewall things because of their own selfish wants

5. What is your favorite curse word? Bastard (don’t know why–nothing to do with the literal meaning. I guess it just allows me to curse without using a really foul word)

6. What sound or noise do you love? The wind blowing through the trees in the fall.

7. What sound or noise do you hate? The sound of my kids crying when they’re hurt (not just upset but really hurt), poor guys.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? The film industry

9. What profession would you not like to do? A sewer worker

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? “It’s great to see you here–wasn’t that a great ride?”

Here’s the story, and Mrs. Atkins’ response. Man, she’s ticked at the slanted suppositions about her husband’s death.

(Thanks to Metafilter)

Run through the twenty faces at this website to see if you can distinguish the fake smiles from the real smiles. It’s part of an experiment in the UK. They say that most people are “surprisingly bad” at spotting fake smiles vs. real ones, but I got 17 out of 20 right.

http://therionarms.com/pictures/stainless_steel_warning.mpg

I don’t think that the guy was kidding when he said “We, uh, may need some emergency surgery in the studio.”

I’ve still not seen an iTunes Pepsi bottle in Lancaster County, but since I go to Philly so often I’ve found my third winning bottle cap. I’m putting it in for a 99 cent credit on iTunes, but when I use the credit, what song shall I pick? My last choice was the subject of ribbing around the office (from people who apparently have no sense of true music history, or who think that the only worthwhile band in the 60’s were The Kinks–what’s up with that?). This time I throw the question to the vast readership of this weblog–all three of you. If left to myself I’d probably look up something from Los Straitjackets, so suggest away! No Linkin Park–yes, I know now that they’re a band and not a place, thank you.

For those deductive eagle eyes among you, you may be wondering about my second winning iTunes bottlecap. I am sad to announce that in a tragic turn of events, my second winning bottlecap was accidentally thrown in my dad’s kitchen trash and taken out to a dumpster just hours ago. Unfortunately, the bag was not visible in the dumpster by the time I went to investigate, and I had to be restrained from dumpster-diving in an attempt to retrieve the cap. This gave way to muttering from my wife about me and the bottle cap with unkind words like “obsessed” with “a stupid cap” and “it’s only 99 cents!” and other choice phrases. I think I heard more words under her breath, but they were hard to make out, something like “why can’t you be obsessed with unloading the dishwasher,” but I can’t be sure. The knowing chuckles from my father failed to help the situation, either. Tragic, tragic.

As we were passing by Burger King, a sign caught my eye. The signpost out front claimed “Low Carb Options Here!”

I looked at the restaurant itself. Sure enough, in a window there was another sign saying “New Low Carb Menu!”

OK–Let’s try it. We go through the drive-though.

“Can I take your order please?”

“Sure. I’m looking for the low carb menu, but I can’t find it.”

“Oh. That’s just any of our sandwiches–without a bun.”

He was serious. I was hungry–I ordered. My “low carb” Whopper with cheese came in a little salad container with a fork and knife, but no bun.

I feel used.

Tim Lauer has an interesting tidbit on his site about Apple’s new app Garageband, and how this new application exemplifies Apple’s approach to computing. Apple hardware/software lets technologists “jam” with their IT solutions at work–it lets us come up with more creative solutions that just work better for our users.

Garageband is just a cool app, too–just look at Brad’s first dabblings.

I wasn’t intentionally misleading on my last post, but as a wise person once said, “intent and outcome are so rarely coincident.” I didn’t have to get the song I chose when I got the winning bottle cap. In actuality, the code on the cap just lets you put a credit of 99 cents in iTunes, and you can use it for any song you’d like (or save the credit to use up until April 30). I just happened to choose a song right away and use the credit that night.

I may be really Pepsied out by the end of March…