I’m completely in love with my MacBook and while many features it contains blow away any application on a Windows machine, the fun apps are where Apple is the clear winner.  What’s turned out to be a great Father/Daughter fun application to use?  Phone Booth!  Below are 8 pics that Ally and I took together the other week.  As you can see, it progresses from “Hey, cool, this is fun” to “Now we’re just getting loco” within a space of a couple of minutes.

This might seem like Plate Overkill Week, but I simply couldn’t let this one go unmentioned.  Now, I know every state has specialty plates that range from environmental themes to education to specific professions and also schools.  Sometimes you’ll have a headscratcher such as how the heck Auburn alumni got a Georgia commemorative plate created here.  That’s akin to having Michigan approve an

I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a blanket statement.  Those who fail to place their chewed gum into a trash receptacle are also probably habitual litterers.  This thought hit me on the weekend when I went to a nearby drive-thru ATM and noticed someone had placed a rather large wad of gum to the bottom right of the display area.  Was that person not able to chew gum and make an ATM transaction at the same time?

I think we’ve all had close encounters in the grocery store when it comes to clearance on either side of the cart you have.  Sometimes people simply misjudge how much space they have and they collide with your cart on the side.  Other times call for the Evil Stare if two people are blocking the lane but aren’t currently looking at anything in the aisle directly to either side.  Even worse are the Aisle Shooter-Outers who zoom out of an aisle into the end aisle that are perpendicular with nary a care as to whether people are walking near that area.

As you can sort of make out from the picture below, there was a truck full of gas tanks that you see on the highways often.  What struck me were the warning signs on this particular truck.  There were two “competing” signs – one saying Flammable and the other saying Non-Flammable.

Call me crazy but Flammable trum ...

I’m normally not a mail-in rebate kind of guy, as most rebates are of the jump-through-all-these-hoops-and-we-will-still-reject-your-application variety.  If I don’t get an immediate discount, I want nothing to do with a mail-in rebate.  Having been burnt a few times, I simply refuse to factor in the cost of a rebate while purchasing an item.

With that disclaimer being what it is, when I bought the Macbook the other week I also ...

My new company’s CEO is an avid collector of Star Wars paraphernalia and when I visited the Raleigh office last week, I took a few snaphshots with my cameraphone of the life-sized characters he has bought.  I apologize for the blurriness but will have clearer photos today (upon request) from a coworker who took photos with an actual camera in addition to more characters placed throughout the building.

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On Saturday my wife, as part of a birthday gift from her sister, got a Regal Cinemas gift card and a promise to watch our two daughters.  We cashed in on this gift and were grateful for the window of freedom that doesn’t come around as often for obvious reasons.  An even better feeling was only paying a total of 50 cents since the gift card covered the cost of two matinee tickets and food and drink.

I noticed there was a new Ap ...