One more cup of coffee

weekend update

First, some random links from the week...

There have been several news reports of a new campaign that asks the question:
'What would Jesus drive?' The campaign, which even has a web site, is trying to push for higher gas mileage.

Presumably Jesus would NOT drive this bus, which managed to run over a passenger who was getting off just a mile or so from our house. Making it worse, the bus kept going, even after other passengers yelled at the driver that he had just run over someone. Reports are that the driver wasn't drunk, which seems to suggest that he must just be an idiot. It's people like this that caused my Uncle Mark to argue that we shouldn't have laws against Driving While Intoxicated, but, rather Driving While being an Idiot. His argument was that being drunk was certainly something that would cause you to drive like an idiot, but it wasn't the only reason, and the effects, at the end of the day, weren't that different.

CNN has a story on someone who burned his penis by using a laptop. The part I would have liked to see in the article is the manufacturer and model of the laptop he was using. Ouch.

Does anyone else's cat play fetch? Our does. We'll throw one of his toys down the length of the house, and he'll go tearing after it, pick it up with his mouth, and bring it back. Over and over again. Maybe Meredith got a puppy after all. The site of him charging after something on the hard wood floors is pretty hysterical. He can't really stop on a time like he (still) thinks he should be able to, so he'll run at the thing full tilt, then slide for another foot while rotating around to keep the toy in view. Still ... cat's aren't supposed to play fetch, are they? Although some people seem to get really excited about the idea.

Meredith started getting sick Thursday night, marking one of the only times in our marriage that I have gotten her sick and not the other way around. The perils of being married to a school teacher. However, she's already feeling about as well as I am now, so clearly she recovered a lot faster. I wasn't feeling well enough to make it into work since I left Tuesday afternoon.

I started playing MechAssault on X-Box. Meredith's first comment: "Wow, this looks really silly." Mine: "Wow, I can step on infantry! This rules!" They say that opposites attract...

Oh, and my answer to the original question?

A donkey.

Posted by Mike at November 22, 2002 04:01 PM