Lynsey’s alma mater: Two Rhodes Scholars!

Roger’s alma mater: Two more swastikas!

On the day of my office White Elephant gift exchange, it seemed appropriate to direct you to these office Secret Santa terms and conditions from Daily Candy.

“Yeah, I’ll have an order of chicken pad thai, extra mild please. Oh, and do you have potstickers?”

“Hotpeppers?”

“No, potstickers.”

“Ah, yes, yes, hotpeppers. You want hotpeppers with that.”

“No. Potstickers. POT. STICK. ERS.”

“Hotpeppers, aaah, yes, yes, hotpeppers.”

“You know? Nevermind. I’ll just take the spring rolls.”

And that’s why my pad thai was so spicy.

My rule of thumb when composing e-mail: Think of how embarrassed you’d be if your message appeared on the front page of your local newspaper tomorrow. As if it weren’t bad enough already, former FEMA director Michael Brown is now in trouble for writing “Can I quit now?” in an e-mail to a co-worker.

Roger and I have bucket-loads of tomatoes from our garden sitting on our kitchen counter waiting to be used … so when I Googled “tomato sauce” today, I was amused to see this as the first news result.

While traveling on Monday and Tuesday I saw three transport loads (about 25 total) of these funny little cars! There must be a bunch of Geeks that need cars…

Actually they have a pretty cool website that tells you all about the Geekmobile and other Geek Squad random facts. You can tell a bunch of computer geeks put the website together.

Wired will no longer be capitalizing internet, web or net. Now if I could just get others to adopt …

I almost forgot about her until I saw this photo. Last Friday night, while waiting outside of the Twin City Grill at the Mall of America, Ryan, Paula, regoR and I saw her — one girl with two heads, shopping away with her mom, brothers, sisters and cousins, enjoying her family’s summer vacation. (Or should I refer to this girl in the plural? Probably!) So many questions. Rather than judge, I attempted to find some answers. Unfortunately, there are few out there. The official name of this condition(?) is called parapagus.

Another article from the St. Cloud Times, written about the perspective that my fraternity brother Pete Masich had while serving in Afghanistan. Thanks, Pete, for all of your time served overseas!

Here’s a nice article about about Theta Chi Fraternity, which I was a member of while at St. Cloud State. The part about our Fraternity having a long military tradition has been especially true at our chapter. I know a large percentage of our Chapter Alumni brothers (myself included) have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces.