Land of Boz

It Was Just A Movie, Guys…

The U.S. Congress is looking in to banning medical research on chimpanzees. Sounds to me like someone on Capitol Hill thought Rise of the Planet of the Apes was another of Al Gore’s documentaries…

(Yet Another) Christmas Tree We bought a new Christmas tree this year. This brings us now to a total of 4, 5 if you count the 2 foot silver thing my wife put in our daughter’s bedroom. To be fair, our fiber-optic 7 footer has seen better days. It was way cool when we first got it, a decade ago, but now… not so much. When you first turn it on and for the next 5 minutes or so, it sounds very much like a couple of old men passing kidney stones, moaning and nearly screaming as the motor for the light wheel warms up. NOT really Christmas-y, that one. The replacements we purchased for it (both of them) are less than 5 feet tall. I don’t recall how it was that we came in to possession of TWO 4.5’ trees, but we did. Both are nice trees, pre-lit and “life-like” but not filling the gaping Christmas tree size hole (which is evidently around 7 feet). And, apparently, Ashlee is tired of propping one of them on a booster to give it the appearance of being a normal tree. So then, here we are, now in possession of this lovely seven-foot-pre-lit-fake-pine-something-or-other tree. Long may it reign! (Anyone want a 4 foot tree or two, or maybe a larger one that you could use for your haunted forest?)

(Yet Another) Christmas Tree

We bought a new Christmas tree this year. This brings us now to a total of 4, 5 if you count the 2 foot silver thing my wife put in our daughter’s bedroom.

To be fair, our fiber-optic 7 footer has seen better days. It was way cool when we first got it, a decade ago, but now… not so much. When you first turn it on and for the next 5 minutes or so, it sounds very much like a couple of old men passing kidney stones, moaning and nearly screaming as the motor for the light wheel warms up. NOT really Christmas-y, that one.

The replacements we purchased for it (both of them) are less than 5 feet tall. I don’t recall how it was that we came in to possession of TWO 4.5’ trees, but we did. Both are nice trees, pre-lit and “life-like” but not filling the gaping Christmas tree size hole (which is evidently around 7 feet). And, apparently, Ashlee is tired of propping one of them on a booster to give it the appearance of being a normal tree.

So then, here we are, now in possession of this lovely seven-foot-pre-lit-fake-pine-something-or-other tree. Long may it reign!

(Anyone want a 4 foot tree or two, or maybe a larger one that you could use for your haunted forest?)

Butter-Split Hating Halloween

Halloween 2011

Our daughter, like most children, loves Halloween.

Our dog Butter, not so much…

Death of a Kindle My first generation Kindle gave up the ghost last week. Interestingly enough, the e-ink kept its death mask during the entire autopsy.

Death of a Kindle
My first generation Kindle gave up the ghost last week. Interestingly enough, the e-ink kept its death mask during the entire autopsy.

Not Really

Received an email from Amazon.com this morning, letting me know I might want to preorder another game based on the fact that I preordered the Anniversary edition of Halo: Combat Evolved.

“Customers who have purchased or rated Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary might like to know that Disney Universe will be released on October 25, 2011.”

Cool… wait, WHAT?!? Who programmed THAT algorithm??? In what world is Master Chief similar to Mickey Mouse?!

Hey Amazon, No. No I don’t.

Jalapeño Jelly? Saw this on the shelf at the grocery yesterday and HAD to buy it. I mean, I like jalapeños… I like jelly… Why NOT combine the two?! (which I’m sure was the exact thought process the original creator went through) At first I just smelled it and thought, “well, that’s different…” I let Ashlee smell it and she acted like I’d just shoved a poopie diaper in her face, nearly lapsing into dry heaves. Gretchen wouldn’t even smell it. But even with those initial reactions, I tried it. It’s good! No, seriously - it’s good! I tried it on toast and I really like the juxtaposition of the heat from the peppers against the sweet of the cane sugar. This would work really well as a glaze for meat. Jalapeño jelly. Who knew?!

Jalapeño Jelly?

Saw this on the shelf at the grocery yesterday and HAD to buy it. I mean, I like jalapeños… I like jelly… Why NOT combine the two?! (which I’m sure was the exact thought process the original creator went through)

At first I just smelled it and thought, “well, that’s different…” I let Ashlee smell it and she acted like I’d just shoved a poopie diaper in her face, nearly lapsing into dry heaves. Gretchen wouldn’t even smell it.

But even with those initial reactions, I tried it. It’s good! No, seriously - it’s good!

I tried it on toast and I really like the juxtaposition of the heat from the peppers against the sweet of the cane sugar. This would work really well as a glaze for meat.

Jalapeño jelly. Who knew?!

The Seething Devil Duck lurks in the background, secretly seething with envy towards Tryclops Duck

The Seething

Devil Duck lurks in the background, secretly seething with envy towards Tryclops Duck

Is it morally wrong to snap pics of an Android figurine with my iPhone?

Is it morally wrong to snap pics of an Android figurine with my iPhone?