Sunday, December 21, 2008

REAL Snow post

READ THIS IN ORDER DO NOT LOOK AT THE PICTURE FIRST!!!
This post actually has some text!
When I got up this morning, Danny and Noah were already outside. (this was around 9:30) I eventually got out, and there was a half-inch of ice covering EVERYTHING. That made it fun to just walk around, because the ice would break up into big chunks that we could break over each other's heads without getting (very) hurt.
The ice wasn't very good for sledding, though. It made it really bumpy, and it popped our sledding tube.

This is completely off-topic from the post title, but it's funny.
One of my dad's coworkers named Doug saw this website of a company they have to work with next year, and challenged me to write something even less clear:
link to website: http://www.pollinatemedia.com/Services.aspx

My attempt to beat his challenge:


And this is what he wrote after seeing it:


Wow!

I give this work high marks with the following comments:

1. I had to read it 5-6 times and I still have no clue what Synergy is selling. Perfect.
2. I had to reach for my Webster’s (that’s a printed dictionary, young Peter) for “Efficacious” and still came away effectively confused.
3. After my 5-6 readings I still wondered “Was that one insanely long sentence?” It wasn’t, but it felt like it.
4. The graphic looks like a Doom III player in the fetal position.

You have to work hard to be that confusing. I like it. And it totally blows away the work by the web guys- Maybe they’ll hire you!

Doug, eschewing obfuscation as always

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Christmas Theme!!

Read the 'Oops...' post. And maybe comment.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Oops...

Earlier today I was in Beaverton filming one of the village lego robotics teams with Ryan, Jevon, and Ben. This post is about the ride home. I took the MAX from Beaverton as usual, but I didn't realize it was a yellow line train. Blue line and red line both go to my stop, but yellow line turns off too early. At around 5:00 I got to the Rose Garden Transit Center, which is where yellow line turns off. A few minutes later I realized what happened and got off at the next stop to wait for another train going the other way, but the sign thingy that tells you how long it is till the next train is said it was about half an hour. The rose garden stop is right by that big 'Rise with Us' blazers poster, and I thought I could see the tower things it's on only about 5 city blocks away. I decided to run to it. Once I was about 500 feet away I realized that the tower things with the poster were different ones about 5 MORE city blocks away. I eventually got to the stop where I had to wait 5 more minutes for a train, then got home.