Thoughts from Cloud Nine

thoughts on Harry Potter

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:33:51 GMT

So if Harry's classes at Hogwarts are supposed to replace a 'normal' school with a few wizarding additives... and he enters the school at age 11... shouldn't there be SOME point where he has sex-ed classes? And just WHAT do wizards learn differently from muggles?

lost biblical tidbits

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:34:38 GMT

Happy are those who cannot convert beta to quicktime for they will share in the eternal media format

Blessed are those who are unsupported by their human resources department for they will find everlasting job placement

Let the unheard employees come to me and I will give them rest

inspired poetry

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:28:03 GMT

there once was a man from Nantucket
who put his whole face in a bucket
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
so I shot him with a bazooka

which do you prefer?

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:23:09 GMT

peas porridge hot or peas porridge cold?

24 hours, except...

Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:15:17 GMT

Did you ever notice how the phrase "24 hours" comes with exceptions now. It used to mean a place was always open. Now its like, "we're open all the time unless we're cleaning, taking inventory, having a meeting, its a weekend, or..."

My home town

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:36:09 GMT

Historic New Castle to be Delaware's first state park!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/03/16/delaware.national.park.ap/index.html

Peter, peter?

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:56:45 GMT

Peter, peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her,
put her in a pumpkin shell,
and there he kept her very well.

First of all, why all the pumpkin eating? Was this during war time or something and you couldn't find anything else to eat except a large gourd dug out of the back yard? And to do this enough that people would taunt you with the nickname 'pumpkin eater?'

'Couldn't keep her' is aparently made void by the last statement of 'there he KEPT HER very well'

So here's the thought... was she happy in the pumpkin shell or is this a sign of some sort of abuse? If you were trapped in a pumpkin shell, what would you do?

Ideas for products - part 1

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:47:53 GMT

manpoo - shampoo for men

Google image search

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:57:03 GMT

Occasionally, I enjoy putting two completely unrelated words into the Google image search and seeing what comes up. For instance, these images are apparently the coalescence of "cute tortilla."

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=cute+tortilla&btnG=Google+Search

A special thanks goes out to marcneedham.com for the pic of the birds. To show my appreciation, I'll be sure to send ham.

Boohbah Zone

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:31 GMT

What ARE these things? Just when you thought Teletubbies were scary enough, they had to go and make something even stranger to mess kids up at an early age. http://pbskids.org/boohbah/boohbah.html

Satellite radio

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:03:42 GMT

Satellite radio is catching on. And to think everyone laughed at me when I got one in my new car.

For the reasonable price of $10 a month you can have commercial free music on over 100 stations categorized by music type like Jazz, Alternative, or Kids Songs. Think about being stuck in tunnel traffic or lost on a country road and actually have reception! XM is planning video and traffic download features, but my current radio can already detect and auto-switch to traffic reports on my local radio station.

I'm telling you, its the wave of the future.

The Fabulous Life of...

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:08:18 GMT

Can anyone watch those "how so-and-so became famous" shows on VH1 and not feel annoyingly depressed? I was six, obnoxiously spoiled, and the center of attention once. At SIX anyone can 'become' talented... and even that word I use loosely. Why didn't I become Briney Spears or Jessica Simpson?

"Lady Bird" Johnson

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:33:20 GMT

Don't you think if you had a nickname like "Lady Bird" that your real name should be, oh perhaps, Robin and not Claudia?