Category: Random

We went on a picnic yesterday at the park, and attempted to put Julia in a swing. Naturally, she didn’t take too well to it.

While on a walk, I notice a bunch of blue lockers near a trailhead. I looked a little closer, and there were bikes inside, apparently provided by Dasani. It sounds like a great idea. You give them a deposit, and you can take a Trek Criuser bike out all day.

After a little bit more research, this program isn’t very widespread. You can check out Dasani’s website, but it’s all flash, so there’s no links from here. All in all, it looks pretty neat.

[tags]Dasani Blue Bikes[/tags]

I stumbled upon this site earlier and found the graphics to be hilarious. I don’t know any Japanese, but it looks like they are trying to tell you to be considerate to others when you do smoke.

I have been facing a dilemma for the last few weeks. I have had a nagging feeling that I want to do something more than what I am doing now. An obvious path is to go back to school. But what would I go back to school for? To get an M.S. in Chemical Engineering?

Currently, I don’t use much of my ChemE degree. So getting an M.S. in that wouldn’t really do much. So I thought about maybe pursuing a different engineering degree. What degree, I don’t know. Maybe an EE degree.

I could also get an MBA. UNCG has an MBA program. I’m only about 15 minutes away, and I can get a tuition reimbursement from work. The only downside is that it would take about four years, taking a couple classes at a time.

The only problem with that? I’m not really planning on being here another four years, especially four years, starting August 2007. Then again, I wasn’t really planning on being here five and a half years, either.

What do you think? Is getting an MBA really worth it?

I noticed a post on Lifehacker about a book called Moving Heavy Things. The book wasn’t what caught my attention, it was a quote in the post: “…the cleverest people are often the laziest: they are always looking for an easier way.”

So am I lazy because I’m clever? Or just clever because I’m lazy?

Also, while looking at this book on Amazon, I noticed a couple new features. There’s stats on the most common words or how difficult the text is. It reminds me of stats you can find in Word when trying to count the number of words in the document. You even get how many words you get per ounce and dollar. This book comes 686 words per ounce and 590 words per dollar. I looked at a couple other books, and didn’t notice the same stats.

Sharon was looking at auctions on eBay, and ran across one selling expired Enfamil checks.

It’s four dollars in useless checks. Obviously, no one has bid on it. Who in their right mind would pay at least a dollar (plus shipping!) for expired checks?

Apparently, someone will. Here’s another auction, where someone bought $20 in expired checks for $16.50. There’s no guarantee that a store will even accept them. But someone is willing to take that chance to save a whopping $3.50.

I was taking Susan back to the airport last night and listening to the radio. There was a commercial for the Vulcan 2000. My first thought was, “A 2-liter motorcycle? Why?”

So I hopped online, and found the Vulcan 2000. Now this motorcycle is all of 750 lb, and has a larger displacement than my car. It’s only a 1.8 liter, but it a turbo. Why in the world does someone need that large of an engine on a motorcycle?

Maybe someone can help me out here…

While reading one of my favorite sites, I read an article about guy who had what sounds like the worst trip ever. Listen to the audio, it’s worth it.

I post this here because the flight originated here in Greensboro. What followed was one screw-up after another, with USAir not caring at all along the way.

If you needed a reason not to fly USAir, here you go. I’ll be sure to avoid them.