For dinner tonight, I had a can of Chunky Campbell's Beef Stew. (Delicious stuff, by the way.)

I started the meal by trying to use the built-in ring to take off the lid, but the ring came off my pudding stew can. I then tried using a can opener, but the lid was too recessed to be reached. I then tried using a knife around the edges of the lid, ( Read more... )

Here's a list of the quotes that I'm submitting to the upcoming issue of mathNEWS. Enjoy. :)

( profQuotes )

On Monday I search.
Not in my room, not on desk,
Where could it have gone?

Tuesday morning, sigh.
Still no sign, must look harder.
Nope, not by TV.

Not in the kitchen,
Not under my bed's covers,
Not in my backpack.

Notetaking is hard -
No white-out, no ruler. Grrr.
Where did Greeny go?

Missing pencil case,
I didn't mean what I said.Please come ( Read more... )

When I was at the local grocery store, I saw a food that I knew would be wrong to not buy. It was a box of Grape Nuts, featured in sbemail #69, "Personal Favorites", the official sbemail of Spring 2003 ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here, watching The Discovery Channel with theenforcer and spuctasstic and doing a bit of prep for a meeting tomorrow, and an ad comes on that includes the word "jazzercise." I don't think that I've told anyone this before, but I think that "jazzercise" is one of the funniest words in the English language. It's jazz, it's exercise, and you put them ( Read more... )

And now, a rare moment from backguy's past, courtesy of the Monkey-Be-Gone.

One of the most fun projects from high school was the monkey cannon that _shewalks (Krissy) and I created for OAC Physics. Essentially, we had a monkey suspended from the top of a post. The instant that the cannon shot a projectile at the monkey, the monkey was supposed to drop from the ( Read more... )

In our latest game of online Risk, it seems that everyone is dwelling on who won the last game. Check out everyone's screennames:

Victoria - RB is going down
Graeme - RB is going down is going down
Rodney - !RB is going down
Gaelan - RB is going sideways
Kish - Everything's coming up Kishmo!

Only at Waterloo...

If there's one thing that I like about the United States, it's the endless onslaught of reruns. Graeme and I have enjoyed watching "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" twice in the past week on Nick At Night. I haven't watched an episode in years, but watching it again this week has reminded me of how much I used to love the show back in elementary ( Read more... )

In my many years of travelling from Point A to Point B, there has been something that I have noticed, something that I like to call The Bus Driver's Creed, which goes something like this:

I, whenever driving my bus, will wave at every on-duty bus operator that I pass while driving, regardless of what organisation they are driving for.Just watch: ( Read more... )

Back in mid-June, Magic Dave received a letter from Batman. On the envelope was a hand-drawn Batsignal, and inside was a napkin personally signed by Batman. This napkin later sold on eBay for $0.75 to quikchangeSince then, several residents in the College have received an envelope. The envelope is plain white with the resident's name printed on the front ( Read more... )