Regular Life

(Note: Please force your browser to refresh this page to get the new banner, if you don’t see it. I caught that guy on film back in the mid-1980’s from a canoe on the Little Red River. My dad was paddling upstream like a madman to give me a chance for a shot.)
I sit in [...]

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Well, I videotaped it.

My page-a-day calendar mentioned this invention, and I had to share.
It’s a washing machine for pets.
Here’s a page (with images) on the company’s website.
One groomer’s website suggests (with pic) that kids can join in, too. He seems like he couldn’t be happier.
One of the inventors of the Lavakan (Spanish for, roughly, “dog washer”), mentioned that [...]

Ben watches me as he thinks about the next rock he’ll throw.
Just last week I told my wife I know exactly why I don’t ask for a morning here or there to just get up and go do my own thing (her morning thing is sleeping in). It’s because my place to go has mountains [...]

On my way Tuesday to pick up a prescription for Ben, I have the top down. It’s about 75 degrees outside on a lovely February afternoon. My music selection? De La Soul’s Three Feet High and Rising. I have the Sebring bumpin’ (which is, in itself, almost an anachronism). Just “Me, Myself and I.”
Then, I’m [...]

While working on an upcoming post — my first man-on-the-street interview — I discovered a hidden gem that should serve well in the meantime.
And now, Ben, if you’ll please take the floor. Thank you. (don’t crank it up too loud until it gets to about the 0:07 mark)

(2:32)

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Some engineers have all the fun. (figure out how it’s supposed to look before watching the video)
Okay, so I don’t know that it took an engineer to [...]

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A couple weeks ago, a co-worker walked down our aisle of cubicles and said what sounded like “My butt is a dragon.”
I ran [...]

Hello, my name is Mark, and I am obsessed with a cup in a street gutter.
To catch up anyone who didn’t see last Friday’s post, the cup with the blue straw has been lodged there since at least as long ago as June 2006. It has survived many hard rains, which led some readers to [...]