An amusing video and two jokes from my mother-in-law: “I THINK YOU’RE THE FATHER OF ONE OF MY KIDS” A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a beautiful blond woman wave at him and say hello. He’s rather taken aback, because he can’t place where he knows her from. So he says, “Do you…

I caught this video on youtube today, and got a great laugh out of it. I especially like the first “victim” who appears to be nearly oblivious.

Hola. Long time no see. I’ve been having difficulty making time to write. It’s not that I don’t have time, I just haven’t used it appropriately. I spend way too much time surfing the web and watching TV. I shouldn’t really complain much about the web surfing, but the TV watching kind of gets out…

Importance of Being Earnest, originally uploaded by tdouthat. I’m sitting in the small gym at Truman High School watching Jill’s basketball practice. This is her first practice with her new team, the Blazers. It’s a big program in Independence with about 22 teams in different age divisions. Most of the teams play in AAU tournaments…

Office Space Originally uploaded by tdouthat. See the ugly shoes I have to wear to work. After working from home for most of the last four and a half years, I’m being forced to start working from the office again. I’m extremely annoyed by the situation. I took this particular position in June 2001 mostly…

The Religious Right is winning the culture war. Mostly because they are the only ones fighting in it. I just watched the latest episode of Frontline on pbs.org. The title is “The Last Abortion Clinic”. It’s about the pro-life movement’s attempts to close down the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. Now, despite…

Short post tonight: I just found three interesting things on the net tonight that I felt like sharing. First, an interview with my favorite author, Neal Stephenson at Salon.com provided an interesting quote on the nature of programming: “I think there are common threads between writing and programming. That’s a really easy statement for people…

Home Repair Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Good morning. It’s Saturday. I got up about half an hour ago, and I’ve done several of my usual morning chores. I didn’t bother with the showering since I’m going to be painting the living room in a little bit. We started having… Actually we had our first family…

The hotel bar Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Hey y’all. There was nothing good on TV upstairs in the hotel room, I didn’t feel like reading, and I’m not ready for bed, so here I am at a bar called Chaddick’s in the Plano, Texas Marriott. The place kind of reminds me of the hotel bar…

  Greetings from Plano Originally uploaded by tdouthat. Howdy. I’m in Plano for two weeks of training for work. Click on the picture to go to flickr to look at the rest of the pictures that I’ve taken.