My Audition For Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (Part 1)
Posted: July 18, 2011 Filed under: Whats left | Tags: Audition, Game show, games, humor, life, miscellaneous, New York, New York City, postaweek2011, television, twitter, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 38 Comments »
Obviously the answer is me. (Image via Wikipedia)
Last week I mentioned to those of you who follow me on Twitter that I was trying out for the game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Since this tale would be several hundred tweets long, I’ll fill you in here.
My head is full of useless things. I know scraps of information about a lot of stuff. I don’t know enough about any of that stuff to actually be productive, unless you define productivity as being able to administer some truly medieval beatings to people in trivia contests. My head is so full of these scraps that I have no room for things that are important – things like mathematics and people’s names. Read the rest of this entry »
Lawn Darts
Posted: August 16, 2009 Filed under: bad ideas | Tags: 60's, art, bad choices, bad ideas, children, family, games, humor, interactive, jail, jarts, lawn darts, life, miscellaneous, observations, painting, paintings, prison, random, the 60's 8 Comments »
Pointed weighty fun, or death with fins?
Yesterday, while cutting the grass, I thought about lawn darts.I can’t account for why. Maybe it was the heat getting to me.
I never had lawn darts, my parents were far too sensible to have bought them. I knew a couple kids who did have them, but even at a young age, I tended to think that perhaps they were not the best idea.
So, since I had them on my mind, I did some poking around on the net to learn a bit about them. Read the rest of this entry »
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