Here’s a good embarrassing moment from my life: The year is 1991. I’m a freshman in high school, hanging out with some friends during lunch. We’re running around campus, and decide to take a detour through the lawn. Unfortunately, it had been raining recently, and the lawn was extremely slippery.
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Entries from July 2008
Embarrassment
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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Tongue-Tied Moment
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
We were in Lugano last week for three nights and four days. In this trip, I realized that the only Italian words I know were “Ciao” (Hello and good-bye) and “Signora” (Madam). I totally came ill prepared on the linguistic front to deal with the locals, thinking that my German, one of the Swiss national [...]
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Adam Parker Sits Down With Bob Powers and Caleb Culver
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
I was trying to think of the name that would be given to Bob and Caleb once they are big celebrities (in the tradition of “brangelina” etc.) and have pretty much settled on “Pulver” as my fave! Any other suggestions?
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The Typical Daytime TV Lineup
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
We recently switched our television service from digital cable to satellite, since the cable never really worked all that well and the new service costs less. If it were totally up to me, I’d probably dump paying for television altogether and just use rabbit ears, since I don’t really watch it all that [...]
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Embarrassment
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Here’s a good embarrassing moment from my life: The year is 1991. I’m a freshman in high school, hanging out with some friends during lunch. We’re running around campus, and decide to take a detour through the lawn. Unfortunately, it had been raining recently, and the lawn was extremely slippery.
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Thoughts From Across The Pond
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
An email from Ireland to their brethren in the States.. A point to ponder despite your political affiliation: ‘We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
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Some humor to start your day
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
First, there was the Physical Theories as Women. Well, you know we can’t let that one go! So along comes Physical Theories as Men. —– This is one I got from my uncle…but it was too funny not to post. I was shopping at the local supermarket where [...]
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Job seeker gets called out by prospective employer
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Lessee here – you’re looking for a job with a tech company. You are given a take-home technical questionnaire (rare in and of itself). Do you a) answer all the questions without doing any research ’cause you’re the sh*t? Do you b) google anything you don’t know, or c) post the questions on an [...]
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Three Days of the Bar Exam and the Next Great Wellness Benefit
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Workplace wellness benefits are almost as common as retirement-plan benefits or life-insurance benefits. I have a suggestion that I’d like to make regarding a potential addition to the wellness package offered by employers. But before I make the suggestion, let me explain the circumstances that led to the idea.
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New Blog
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
New Blog Posted on July 30, 2008 by joelsopinion So this guy Sal, he reads our blog one day and says he likes it. He says he wants us to do one for him. He says if we don’t that “things could get real messy like.” So in the interest of [...]
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