I spent a few evenings and one all-nighter hot-gluey-gluing a cardboard Percy the Tank Engine costume together for Bpu.
Continue reading Percy is a Girl Train.
October 2006 Archives
When I'm not working, I'm vacationing. And vacation means fracturing a friend's spine, and letting Bpu get mauled by our old neighbor dog.
Continue reading Recent Trip to Frisco.
Dude, I love Legos.
One year, I made a pair of cardboard Lego people torsos and legs for Cpu and I. They were in proportion, so the legs stopped at the knees (if you kneeled, it looked like you were standing). Arms and heads also stuck out. We wore duck-yellow caps and mittens, and did big black eyes and smiles. I built and painted them the last minute. Imagine the smell.
The Castro neighborhood in Frisco used to have a giant gay halloween street festival. We drove (and drove and drove) until we found parking by Dolores park, donned our costumes, and proceeded through the rain to Castro. The drawbacks to being a giant Lego person became immediately apparent.
One year, I made a pair of cardboard Lego people torsos and legs for Cpu and I. They were in proportion, so the legs stopped at the knees (if you kneeled, it looked like you were standing). Arms and heads also stuck out. We wore duck-yellow caps and mittens, and did big black eyes and smiles. I built and painted them the last minute. Imagine the smell.
The Castro neighborhood in Frisco used to have a giant gay halloween street festival. We drove (and drove and drove) until we found parking by Dolores park, donned our costumes, and proceeded through the rain to Castro. The drawbacks to being a giant Lego person became immediately apparent.
- Nobody knew what the fuck we were. Ok, one girl figured it out. That's one in the whole evening.
- Cardboard and rain = limp costume.
- Giant cardboard body in a packed bar = inconvenient access to booze.
Mr. 3d is the best!
- Loves Linux and the Ubuntu.
- Has tried more flavors of Linux than you can shake a stick at. Possibly settled down with the big 'U'.
- Throws killer parties with his babe!
- For example, the letter 'S'-themed party consisting of Sushi, Saki, Samurai balloon battles, etc.
- Made best Master Chief costume ever for Halloween, and wore it to the mall for Halo 2 pickup.
- Reads the Make magazine, and always has a cool project going on.
- Models like all-get-out.
- King of Blender
If you follow these rules of thumb, you'll be able to avoid bad walk-in restaurants.
- Check the sign for multi-cultural failings. You want a restaurant that doesn't offer two or more kinds of cuisine.
- Bad: Chinese food, sushi, and donuts.
- Good: Chinese food
- Ensure that the restaurant is full of patrons
- Good: line into the waiting room or even onto the street.
- Ok: sort of full.
- Bad: only staff is there.
Bpu, Cpu, and our friends and their toddler went to a touristy lil apple orchard today. Bpu ate about 3 fresh donuts, clambered over some hay bales, fed some goats, checked out some pigs and ponies, and picked her first apple (a very crisp, sweet little Cortland). She also went mental about 1pm, so we split.
We picked up a nice pair 'o punkins for one smacker on the way back, refueled for about 0.80 smackers a gallon less than usual, and picked up an 8-piece Popeye's chicken dinner for a very late lunch. Bpu demolished the red beans and rice, which she bogarted from her mommie. When informed that the beans would make her stinky, she replied: "Just like daddy!".
She's not wrong.
We picked up a nice pair 'o punkins for one smacker on the way back, refueled for about 0.80 smackers a gallon less than usual, and picked up an 8-piece Popeye's chicken dinner for a very late lunch. Bpu demolished the red beans and rice, which she bogarted from her mommie. When informed that the beans would make her stinky, she replied: "Just like daddy!".
She's not wrong.
