Clarity
First things first
Posted 29 Feb 2008
Daily Life, The Little Things | 2 Comments
When I get to the office in the morning, after I set down my briefcase and coat, the first thing I do is go clean off the salt and dirt from my shoes. It’s winter and it’s snowy, so after walking from the train station to the office they are salt covered and dirty.
I take 30 seconds wiping them clean and then I am ready for the day.
Clean shoes are not remarkable, and won’t get noticed, but dirty shoes will distract. I try to limit opportunities for the people I talk to at work to get distracted. The salty shoes also distract me.
A blip in the blog
Posted 29 Feb 2008
Apologies to our devoted and dedicated readers for the technical issues we were experiencing yesterday. We are sorry that you were not able to get your daily fix of quirkiness or whatever it is that you get when you come to visit chickenmonkeydog.
Please be advised that our technical director (possibly Conall?) was completely responsible for the downtime. Our technical director only has half a clue of how to manage IT stuff.
That said, all of us here at chickenmonkeydog are glad to be back online, bringing our own brand of quirkiness to the world, one click at a time.
Extreme Magnetic Deviation
Posted 26 Feb 2008
After landing in Chicago, the plane I was on stopped on one of the runways of O’Hare international airport. We sat for about thirty minutes just in front of the signs pictured below. For me, the signs led to more questions than answers. My first few questions are listed below. Please feel free to add more.
- What do they have under the runway that would cause extreme magnetic deviation?
- Why would they put something like that near a runway?
- If extreme magnetic deviation is possible, how is checking the compass again going to help?
- If Black Sabbath is right, shouldn’t I be worried about turning into Iron Man from being in a magnetic field for so long?
- So, to get to M7,turn left AND to get to M7, turn right, but right now we’re sitting smack dab on M. Knowing that, is M where we want to be?
Jerald Mathis must not read chickenmonkeydog
Posted 24 Feb 2008
I got an email the other day that made it very clear to me that Jerald Mathis - whoever he is - doesn’t read our blog. And I was hurt! Don’t spammers read my every word? They certainly send me enough of there rubbish. The least they can do is read some of mine.
Here’s Jerald’s email offering me replica Rolex Swiss watches:
Doesn’t Jerald know that I already have a very nice watch! Geez! I’ve had my watch since 03 January and I am still its proud owner.
unhinged in a restaurant
Posted 21 Feb 2008
You and your friends arrive shortly after 9am, go to the counter, drop a credit card down and say, “Just keep the tab open.”
In a restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, but not alcohol, and seats around fifty people, your group sits, eats, and hangs out all day; ordering snacks and entrées with abandon, eventually consuming at least ninety-percent of the items on the menu. While the staff scrambles to figure out how to keep an “open tab” on food orders, you throw them another curveball by shouting, “Waiter! A round of coleslaw for the whole place! And follow-that with a chocolate milkshake chaser for me.”
