Great Quotes

"It's like I shook a baby and a winning lottery ticket fell out of its diaper."

Strange Loop Thoughts

If I got up when my alarm went off, I wouldn't have to get up when my alarm went off.

The top 50 things every foodie should do

I've done fourteen. Naturally, I'd rate #40 as the best.

Disclaimer: the following does not, in any way, diminish my pride in the wife's accomplishments.

Also note: she came up with the band joke.

The wife walked in her graduation ceremony Saturday. (She officially graduated back in December, with distinction, but the school only does the ceremony once per year.) I attended along with both our mothers, as well as the upstairs neighbors. Then we went to Zarzuela for yummy Spanish tapas.

Anyway, the graduation. It was... definitely an art school graduation. The commencement speaker was an old Beat poet; his address consisted of three poems (Chaucer, Blake, and Dickenson) and then a composition of his own. Which started with a five-minute video of him yelling "Rawr!" at a caged lion.

( Mentally comparing it to my undergrad ceremony )