The five of you that read this blog are probably wondering what happened to it since I haven’t updated in quite some time. Well, long story still somewhat long:
Unlike most blogs, I hand-write my blog entries and mail them to Korea to get them transcribed. Unfortunately, while my last blog post was on its way [...]
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What happened to this BLOG????
Posted in Al Observes Things on November 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Are you out of touch with 4th grade science?
Posted in Al Observes Things, Arguing with 5 year olds on August 31, 2008 | No Comments »
“No mooom, it’s a gallimeeeeemus.”
Yeah, you remember saying that back in the day. Because back in 4th grade, we were all experts at 4th grade science. We knew all about how dinosaurs were believed to be more closely related to birds than they were to reptiles, and we knew the order of the planets [...]
The Forever Stamp
Posted in Al Observes Things on August 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It costs the same amount as other stamps, but unlike other stamps, it will always be valid first class postage for envelopes. It is the forever stamp. And it makes little sense.
Or does it? Why would anyone pay $0.42 for a stamp when the price has been raised 6 times since 2001? Personally, I’d [...]
Yet another excerpt from my autobiography
Posted in Al Observes Things on August 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a short excerpt from my autobiography from the chapter titled, “The Amateur Cryptographers Club”
And then it hit me: Henderson had used the Caesar Cipher to encrypt the message. After applying a couple rules of thumb (the letter ‘e’ is usually the letter used most frequently, the most common 3-letter word is “the,” etc), I [...]
Another excerpt from my autobiography
Posted in Al Observes Things on August 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another excerpt from my much anticipated autobiography — this time, written by me:
A few thousand years after I finished construction, GQ sent a writer to interview me about the experience. I told him about how I had initially begun construction of the Great Wall of China as a huge tourist attraction, but as it [...]
A page from my autobiography
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a page from my autobiography. It was actually written by Jon Epstein and is an account from his life:
I was walking down the aisle to my seat today, and when I got close to my row, I saw a pretty girl sitting in one of the seats that would be next to mine. [...]
20 people at dinner
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was recently invited to a 20-person dinner, the first thing I did was madly type out the following play. I call it, “20 people at dinner.”
As a side note - the actual dinner I went to ended up being nothing like this.
“20 people at dinner”
Guy 1: Aaah, that was good. Let’s figure out [...]
Al Observes Things - A Fortune Folly
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I got a fortune cookie from a local Panda Express yesterday, and here’s what it said:
YOU WILL BE COMING INTO A FORTUNE
PANDA EXPRESS * PANDA INN
Here are my complaints:
Caps lock? Is that really necessary on a fortune?
I don’t like self-referential fortunes (unless they’re really clever).
Branding your fortune? …Really? …Really?
I had always hoped that [...]
Words of Wisdom - Be Yourself
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »
These words of wisdom were (and the ensuing analysis) were from Andrew Chung. The advice:
Be yourself
The only problem with this is that lots of people tend to be door mats.
Caffeine Free Diet Coke tastes just like Regular Diet Coke!
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t you wish that you had a caffeine free diet beverage that tastes like its analogue diet beverage but without that washed down, caffeine free taste? Well I learned today that Coke’s dirty little caffeine free diet secret tastes amazingly like diet Coke, and it doesn’t have any caffeine! How do they do it?
Consider [...]
