Monthly Archives: August 2008

Accomplishing Things

My grand­mother, for as long as I can remem­ber, has entered many things in the Beaver, Okla­homa fair every year. She enter quilts and jelly and toma­toes and just about any­thing that she can make or grow on the farm. Quite often she wins sev­eral rib­bons espe­cially for her jel­lies and quilts. Now, you’d think …

August 30, 2008 – 12:00 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Photography | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Obama Loves The Little People

Well, unless they are from small towns. Those peo­ple just shouldn’t do any­thing like get picked to be Vice Pres­i­dent of the United States. They should just stay in their small towns and be small town peo­ple. Hello? Is there any­one in Obama’s cam­paign that didn’t stop and think about how much for­eign pol­icy expe­ri­ence …

August 29, 2008 – 2:07 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Politics | Comments (1)

Are You An Omnivore?

I have other things to write but they aren’t com­ing out of my head too well so let’s roll with this. Katy posted this on her blog and since it’s this or clean the house, it was a pretty easy deci­sion. 1) Copy this list into your blog or jour­nal, includ­ing these instruc­tions. 2) Bold …

August 28, 2008 – 7:49 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Food | Comments (0)

Everyone Needs A Hug Sometimes

Even soft­ware developers…

August 28, 2008 – 7:38 am | By Scooter | Posted in Humor, Programming | Comments (0)

Crossfit Training (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Enjoy Pain)

I ran across Cross­fit Train­ing last week after see­ing a link on Instapun­dit and I started to look into what it was about. The vari­ety of exer­cises, the empha­sis on free weights and inten­sity of the train­ing all appealed to me so I thought I’d give it a try. This morn­ing marked my first work­out …

August 25, 2008 – 2:09 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Exercise | Tagged | Comments (1)

That’s A Bunch Of Errors

Appar­ently, Microsoft is get­ting bet­ter in pre­dict­ing what’s going to hap­pen when they upgrade their soft­ware (click on the pic­ture to the left and read the yel­low box). They’ve got­ten so good that they can say users may expe­ri­ence 500 errors. Not some errors or a plethora of errors but 500 errors. Remind me not …

August 22, 2008 – 9:07 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Olympic Zealots

Just because it’s the Olympics, doesn’t mean you aren’t still insane

August 21, 2008 – 9:46 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Are You On Facebook Mormonbook?

This may be one gigan­tic false rumor but some­one out there is say­ing that the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat­ter Day Saints has made a bid to buy Face­book. Heh. So many jokes, so lit­tle time.

August 21, 2008 – 8:02 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Irony Unlike Anything Alanis Morrissette Ever Sang About

Sign seen at the gym: Got Vit­a­min D? Get your vit­a­min D the nat­ural way! Get Tan Sign was for a tan­ning salon. You can’t make this stuff up.

August 19, 2008 – 2:29 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Imminent Fail

There are a ton of good posters on MotivationalPhotos.com but this one is my favorite so far.

August 16, 2008 – 10:40 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)