Dan and Angi have something to say

Welcome to our site! This is the Lovejoy family blog where we talk about all kinds of stuff. Mostly we talk about minutia and our beautiful son Elijah.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Dan says:

A Gift-Giving Conversation

Angi: I added a Roomba to my wishlist, but I don’t want one from you.
Dan: Is there anything else on your wishlist that you don’t want?
Angi: No.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Dan says:

Seen on the back of an old pick-up truck today

On the way back to Edmond today from Stillwater, an old guy in a really old blue pick ‘em up truck passed me. Printed across the entire back of the cab:

SI VIS PACEM PARABELLUM.  (sic)

I kid you not.

Maybe I’ll put my favorite Latin quote on a bumper sticker: “Quantum materium materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materium possit materiari?”

Monday, December 25, 2006

Dan says:

Angi says “I don’t get it.”

Yeah, why would anyone get it? But it made me laugh out loud, and my policy is to share such things with the world.

A Sign meant to warn you away from Erwin Schrödinger’s a very dangerous man.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Dan says:

The perils of Web 2.0

At work we have an absolutely massive photo site hosted by Smugmug. Until a few minutes ago, Smugmug displayed the most popular photos as ranked by web visitors, at the top of the page.

Right now we have student groups touring in Europe and Asia, uploading massive numbers of photos as they go.

That’s how this innocent and hilarious, yet completely inappropriate photo made it to the top of the front page of our photo site.

Thanksgiving: Thank you, father, for things that happen which lighten our mood and make us smile, if only for a little bit.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Dan says:

Chatty appliances

Glenn Harlan Reynolds writes about appliances that make too much noise.

My Bosch dishwasher beeps to tell you that the dishes are done. It then tells you, again and again, with five piercing beeps every five minutes, until you open the dishwasher and cycle the “power” button to the off position. Don’t want this feature? Tough. There’s no way to disable it, short of ripping it open and cutting the wires, something that has crossed my mind more than once. It must be one of those Teutonic discipline things: Ve haff vays of making you unload the dishes.

In 10 years, the Bosch dishwasher may actually speak in complete sentences. I’m guessing it will sound more like Emma Thompson than Colonel Klink.

Sorry for the light blogging today. I’ve been terribly busy. No more tonight either, because I have to be at work at 6:30 in the morning. Is that positively barbaric?

Thanksgiving: Thank you, God, for appliances which return to us so much time. Remind us to use that time to glorify you.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Dan says:

How do you see yourself?

Does anyone else get a little kick out of Blogger’s CAPTCHA verification tool? It outputs increasingly difficult nonsensical strings of letters which commenters have to enter to verify that they’re not computer programs attempting to leave comment spam.

In an admirable step, the Blogger (Google) people have implemented an alternate sound verification system for people who can’t see the CAPTCHA. The only problem, likely not a problem for blind or visually impaired commenters, is that the icon for this alternate CAPTCHA system is the old-fashioned “stick-figure seated above a half-circle”

I’m certainly no expert on disability, but as far as I know, using a wheelchair has no effect on visual acuity.

Thanksgiving: Thank you God for the ability to walk and to see, and for the ability to figure out those blasted CAPTCHAS. Thank you God for people who refuse to be defined by disability, for people in wheelchairs who walk in your grace and for blind people that seek the vision of Your face.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Dan says:

Trying for the top of the heap

A hierarchy of people who consider themselves less geeky than other people. Don’t understand? Check it out.

I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that I’m a big sci-fi literature fan.

Dan says:

Cognitive Dissonance at the gas station

Awww.. That’s so sweet. MurphyUSA by Wal-Mart trusts me.

But only as far as they can film me.

Dan says:

Because Math isn’t frightening enough

Velociraptor word problems:

You are at the center of a 20m equilateral triangle with a raptor at each corner. The top raptor has a wounded leg and is limited to a top speed of 10 m/s. The raptors will run toward you. At what angle should you run to maximize the time you stay alive?

Editor’s note: To solve this problem, you’ll need the following facts from the first problem on the test. You’ll also need to make a couple of assumptions.

1. Velociraptors accelerate at 4 m/s²
2. Uninjured velociraptors’ maximum speed is 25 m/s. For this problem, assume that the wounded raptor can accerate at the same rate as an uninjured raptor until it reaches 10 m/s.
3. Your maximum speed is 6 m/s. Go ahead and assume instant accelleration to that speed. You’re going to need it.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Dan says:

I’d say his first mistake

was bringing a loaded gun into a classroom.

This guy has evidently not heard of Chekhov’s Gun.

Via LMNOP

Also via The 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments.

Dan says:

M. Night’s Menu

Witness all the cinematic twist endings, encapsulated neatly for your reading pleasure.

Via (in a roundabout way)  Julie Neidlinger.

Dan says:

Dark Holiday Humor

No pixels were harmed in the making of this snowglobe.