Learning is extremely fun. The moment that revelation hits you is a worthy indulgence. Discovery is a welcome rest following a long pursuit of investigation. Marveling at our own creations of our best work are satisfying delights. All of these moments, if they ever happened in school, were accompanied by abrasive [...]
Archive for the ‘Hot Air’ Category
Craigslist
June 16th, 2009
In preparation for my upcoming out-of-town wedding, I’ve been selling some stuff on Craigslist. Now is not the time to be selling furniture and household items on Craigslist if you’re trying to get a good price given the new economy. For me, it’s about reducing inventory. I recently sold my table and [...]
Uber Dry Mail, But Boundary Fail
May 11th, 2009
This is so suburbia. I live up a “street” where eight houses reside. This “street” is really an elaborate driveway because all of the houses are addressed to the “main” street, 55th Ave. You can see what I’m talking about on the map below. So all eight houses’ mailboxes used to sit [...]
Birthday Roll
March 18th, 2009
If it’s your birfday, Happy Birfday! Play the song. Sign this post.
Go Shawty, it’s your birfday. We gonna party, like it’s your birfday…
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
I hate all kinds of clowns except two types
February 24th, 2009
Happy Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras, laissez les bons temps rouler, you know that big excuse to party? I don’t like all Mardi Gras clowns, but at least Mardi Gras will likely procure clowns with style, metro-clowns, crazy-ass wild looking clowns. Unfortunately, many Mardi Gras clowns still have that “get in the van, [...]
The Wedding Racket
February 13th, 2009
Bear with me as I build up to the discussion around racketeering.
Much of the world hates marriage. It is under constant attack. This matters because a healthy and vibrant marriage is the closest life experience that we humans have to understanding how God loves us through Christ. There are several descriptions and [...]
Dear Wedding Venue Website Owners
January 29th, 2009
Wedding plans are well underway. Danielle and I have enjoyed coming up with grand ideas and have met the challenge of seeing these ideas in the framework of reality instead of a dream world. The process requires some tenacity, creativity, and patience, but overall we are having fun as we plan a special themed wedding [...]
At the Shooting Range
December 23rd, 2008
On Saturday I went down to the Gun Range up here in Whatcom County with my brother O.Shane and our friend Alex who is a park ranger at Camano Island State Park. We fired Alex’s Beretta, O.Shane’s Sig Sauer P229, and a rented Glock 22 (all .40 caliber pistols). In general I fired [...]
Living With a Clover
December 3rd, 2008
I shelved my $40 Mr. Coffee maker home brewer and I now live with this machine. I have an iPod, I have a computer, I have a water bottle, but the Clover is substantial enough to say “I live with it”. Am I that obsessed with the Clover that I’m nigh on personifying [...]
Vote for Scrooge McDuck?
October 2nd, 2008
I saw this today. It’s pure genius. Why don’t we have kid shows like this anymore? I remember watching this episode when I was 11 or 12 and it had a profound impact on me. Duck Tales has a better grasp on the economy than our leaders.
Cloverfield: Wrecking the Expectations of Drip Coffee
August 25th, 2008
See that huge vat of drip coffee on the back counter of your local coffee shop? It gets little attention and the same goes for the coffee that’s been sitting in it for the past 20, 30 or 60 minutes, (or all day…OMG). This doesn’t seem abnormal. This is the expectation set [...]
Slang
June 25th, 2008
I don’t tan and I never have even after diligent attempts. I go from white to pink and even though I’ve tried to ease into a tan over an entire summer, I never darkened. I was having a conversation about this topic yesterday with my friend Keli:
“If you lived in a place like [...]
Balloun Owns Heinz Squeezable Ketchup??
May 4th, 2008
Irrefutable FACT #1: Patty Balloun (my grandmother) ran a cafe in Kismet Kansas, called the “Kismet Cafe” in the 1960s. My dad, Roland, worked for his mother in the cafe for all the years she owned the cafe.
Irrefutable FACT #2: Ever since my dad has been eating hamburgers he makes sure to apply ketchup to [...]
The Square Root of 3
April 28th, 2008
This poem was a hidden gem of comedy buried in the garbage-heap of humor that is Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay; the crudest, most low brow and dirty-through-and-through movie I’ve ever seen…and extremely funny. Yet, I was most excited by the climax of the movie when Kumar recites this poem to his love; [...]
