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I work at a place where your level of cool is directly proportional to the level of Apple products owned.  There is some debate about the residual cool of say, owning 4 different models of ipod.  I tend to de-crap immediatly while my cast offs are still useful to others.  In fact my ipod touch was engraved “Stolen From: Kevin”.  I believe the guy that bought it found this too be at least a $20 value add.

I’ve had an explosion of apple at my house in 2008.  As you can see from my not-to-scale graph above, I’m getting pretty damn cool.  The quality and sophistication of my charts, graphs and other technical illustrations was been called ‘questionable’… So I chose tools fitting my level of expertise for this task.

Nothing is ever equal. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s also true that everything changes. I had a realization a few months ago, that most of my friends have blindingly cool spouses, who over time seem to get cooler. There are exceptions to every rule but I give you this chart as gospel truth.

I’m pretty sure nobody will dispute it’s veracity at my house.
Does anyone know what causes this phenomenon? I can think of a small handful of counter-examples, but they may be errors in judgement.

In celebration of the 21st anniversay of Gerg’s 12th birthday, there was a pine wood derby.

Gerg is good like that. My #10 car turned out pretty well. I didn’t even come close. A young upstart who shall remain nameless won…. With her shark week car.

I’m not catholic. I actually have no religious beliefs of any kind (aside from a deep believe that 8 spaces don’t make a tab). However, the catholics are no sillier than any other faith – particularly the Irish Catholics.

They celebrate the feast of St. Kevin on the Third of June. At my house we also celebrate St. Kevin day, the girl is chairing the planning committee this year. Check back for updates.

In celebration of 1 year of wedded bliss, I’ve hatched a four point plan for a long weekend:

We’ll have three nights of fireplace + king size bed + wet bar + jacuzzi.

I’m pretty sure that adds up to awesome, but I’ve been accused at being bad at math in the past.

I work for a small company – it’s no where near as uptight as some of the large publicly traded places I’ve worked. The girl works for an itty bitty company, with a very different culture than I’m used to.

The contrast is best shown with this snapshot from their employee potluck.

This morning I find my car is a mess.   Someone left it unlocked last night.  Thi savage rifled through my stuff, a savage that smoked in my car.  It smells like an ashtray.  If I was going to be doing illegal things at night in the dark, I’d put out the glowing fire in my mouth.  Not only was this person a not all that bright, they also have very poor taste.

Apparently only one thing in my car was worth stealing.  He went through the glove box, and every other compartment.  They opened my sun glasses case, deemed them uncool and tossed them in the backseat.  There was a super huge maglight in the glove box, also not cool enough to steal.  They passed on the 4 nickels, 2 dimes and 6 quarters as well.  I was violated and my stuff was deemed unworthy to steal.

They stole my krispy kreme coupons.  I guess the joke is on them… the last krispy kreme in MN closed a few weeks ago.

Marx, originally uploaded by kbb.

Mr. Little guy has never steered me wrong. Ever. For those of you from out of town if you have a burning question, I’ll drop it off for you.

I’ve asked this guy many things… But I lost most of them.

There is something seriously wrong with the Minneapolis city water lately. Our fridge has a filter that takes care of it, but every restaurant in town has fishy nastiness in the water. For those members of my vast readership from out of town, imagine the smell of Amy Winehouse’s crotch on a hot day. It’s that bad.

At least there is no need to drink water – the current Summit seasonal is the best of the year.

I’m giving away my crappy old TV on craigslist. I’m kind of amazed at the responses – even if this thing worked perfectly it’s near worthless.

So far, only one starwars fan