http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress An extension of halfbakedschemes.com Wed, 07 May 2008 17:31:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For whatever reason, I like to whistle when I walk around the building at work. It is not always a given song, sometimes it is just notes strung together. My melody started out that way this afternoon, when I noted that it suddenly took a familiar tone. I did not recognise it ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/05/07/snow-white-and-her-dwarves/ I have decided that in order to truly convey my feelings on the cafeteria that I needed to pen an incredibly unremarkable haiku. cafeteria strange hours leave me frustrated and I go hungry The cafeteria here is frustrating for someone who eats when I do. First off, I do not like to eat breakfast right away. ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/05/06/the-cafeteria-yet-another-foe/ It is nice that the TV industry, or FCC, or whomever is mandating the switch to digital signal for Feb. 17, 2009 is running TV commercials. I have probably seen 30 now. And each time they try to address the densest possible individual that would be seeing said commercial. They talk slowly, ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/04/27/analog-annoyance/ I love playing trivia games. I think it was embedded in my head at an early age from years upon years of watching Jeopardy! every day. Now that a lot of bars have trivia I can let the inner geek in me stretch his chicken legs periodically. And nothing is more amusing ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/04/26/an-epic-run/ Americans, well, we are a sturdy lot. We are getting progressively more obese, or less euphemistically, fatter. Personally, I think that our waistlines are going to emulate those of our cars. The arrogant bunch that we are, we for a long time went after bigger and bigger cars. Well, the second ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/04/07/parents-create-fat-kids-not-mcdonalds/ Some of the folks that sit near me at work are ardent movie buffs. They always futilely try to involve me in their conversations. And, inevitably, the discussion ends with "You haven't seen xxxxx? Your Man Card should be revoked." This is peculiar to me. I feel as though I ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/04/03/pop-culture-confession/ Blogging should be a "release", but sometimes I find it to be a bit stressful. I always said that I would try to stay away from detailing my daily travails (like today when I went with the granola instead of the Honey Nut Cheerios bar for breakfast) and stick to ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/04/02/take-your-gingko-biloba/ Today is the real start of the NCAA tournament. I don't believe the hype about it starting on Tuesday with the play-in game. Until they start playing four or more of them (one for each quarter of the draw) with teams that are not guaranteed, I will continue to ignore ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/03/20/its-tourney-time/ The mates from halfbakedschemes.com racing are at it again for 2008. The team plans to take on a similar schedule as 2007, while again traversing some of the most historic dirt tracks in upstate NY. The team will campaign the same Modified Lite as used last year and continue running ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/03/16/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-race-season/ It snowed last night. Again. I haven't really been that bothered by the snowfall this winter. Small snowstorms, even if there are multiple per week, don't really phase me. My general feeling is that it has not been that bad. If anything it has been peculiar, as nearly every snowstorm ... http://www.halfbakedschemes.com/wordpress/2008/03/05/the-salt-diaries/