i have got to get some of this. this is definitely the funniest packing tape i have ever seen. i know that’s not saying much but it’s still pretty funny. here’s the wikipedia article on “this is spınal tap” for those that might not get the reference – a.k.a. my mom :)
via netorama via boing boing.
or it could be because i don’t want to spend the money on salting the deck for safety reasons.
not really but i did see these two adverts today and they made me chuckle and think a little.
neither a can of beans nor a drive by pooping are your typical form of advertising and i am sure that there are some disadvantages in advertisements like this (credibility, etc.) but i personally respect people and companies that are willing to take chances and be abnormal in an attempt to grab my attention. at the very least you would have a great story concerning the can of beans you got for buying a house or the guy on the toilet that drove past you on i-39 and 70 mph.
i went to copp’s grocery store yesterday to buy food and drinks for the party after jackie’s baptism. while i was in the soft drink aisle a little, old lady starting randomly talking to me (i would guess she was around 80). she commented on how many soft drinks i was buying. i told her why i was buying them and she seemed happy with that.
she then said “i’m glad to see you are buying dr. pepper.”
truthfully i wasn’t really sure how to respond to that comment. it’s nice that that she was pleased with what i was purchasing but also a little unusual. i simple wasn’t sure how i was supposed to comment on her statement. was i supposed to tell her that it pleased me to know that i had pleased her? so in confusion i took the whimpy way out and opted for a bland “thanks.”
her next response was what really threw me off. she said, “i can’t drink pepsi because it makes me burp a lot.”
this is simple not what i expect to discuss with 80 year olds that i don’t know. maybe i’ve lived a sheltered life but i don’t usually discuss belching with strangers, let alone strangers that are little old ladies. nothing in my past has prep’d me for how to interact with such discussions. i began to have serious fears that this lady might move in other directions. if she was okay discussion her belches with people she didn’t know then she might also feel comfortable discussing suppositories or laxatives with anyone passing by. i wasn’t going to stay around for those discussions. therefore, i said, “yes, pepsi is a rather gassy drink” and then headed out of the aisle as fast as i could.
yes, i am a coward. i know i probably missed a better story by running away with my tail tuck between my legs but some stories simply carry too much risk with them.
pam and i went remodeling shopping tonight. we are looking into remodeling adam and noah’s bathroom. while we were walking down the aisles of menards an amish male challenged me to shopping cart chicken. actually he was walking down a side aisle about to join the main one that pam and i were walking down. i saw him and he saw me. i know this because he looked me straight in the eyes. as he got close to the main aisle i thought he would stop. that is what he was supposed to do. everyone knows that the side aisles don’t have the shopping cart right of way. well this amish guy apparently doesn’t have to live by the rules that everyone else does. instead he just walked straight into the main aisle forcing me to slam on my shopping cart brakes (i.e. my feet). it was a pretty aggressive move for a pacifist. this of course is what threw me off and is why i didn’t say anything to him. i’m just not used to being cut off by men in suspenders.
this was on natalie lewer & eric glaze’s wedding program. how great is this. i already thought they were great people but my respect for them jumped up several times over when i saw this.
i’ve mentioned before that all of you should listen to “the american life” but i want to give you yet another reason to listen to it. in this past week’s podcast, “numbers“, they played two songs that have been developed by polls of typical musical taste of americans. they have a song that should in theory be made of the musical elements that the most americans like and a song that is made of elements that the most americans hate. here’s the worst possible song. it is hillarious. you should download it right now and place it on your ipod.
here’s the link.
monday through thrusday i have to pick up adam and two of his friends from the fitness camp they are a part of. yesterday we had a decent intense hail storm (lots and lots of grape sized hail). it was bad enough that i finally had to stop the car and find a tree. that’s when the three teens tried to talk each other into running outside, touching a table, and running back. the video above is what happened.
it’s probably not funny for everyone else but it was a blast in the car.
stuff likes this makes me miss youth ministry
thanks to perry polnaszek i went to a church planting seminar at green lakes conference center that was quite good. not really anything particularly new but a good reminder of stuff that is important. on the way back to point i saw this. it’s a 30’ high rosary made of bowling balls. that’s not something you see every day.
my run for the day
distance – 5.47 miles (1600 meters intervals plus recovery)
time – 58:07
pace – 10:38/mile
weather – 81º
note – this is the first week of serious training for the indy marathon
this is over at the big picture. it’s a photo essay of the chinese anit-terrorism preparation for the olympics. this photo is great and probably in need of a wonderful caption that i am too lame to invite myself.
Sabbath: The Ancient Practices by Dan Allender
Pilgrimage of Love: Moltmann on the Trinity and Christian Life (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Stu by Joy Ann McDougall