Category: Rant

School colors

I did my undergrad at Tufts University who had the misfortune of having school colors of brown and blue. Since Tufts quickly realized that this hideous color combination would not sell any clothes, Tufts branded clothing was sold in all sorts of colors. As a result, I certainly bought more than my fair share.

At Stanford, all they sell is red clothing! I walk in to the bookstore and feel like a Tabasco factory has exploded in hell! Seriously, how much red clothing can they expect someone to buy??

I am not a smart person

Considering my recent potential haunting… I think it was probably not the wisest move to stick my hand down into the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink to get some pieces of a plastic fork that got stuck down there. Luckily the disposal didn’t spontaneously turn itself on and I still have a right hand and not a bloody stump.

Ghost in the machine

Ok, I think our house may be haunted.

Twice now our TV has turned on for no apparent reason – once last week sometime and again this morning. Both Mumtaz and I could see the remote on the coffee table so we know that we didn’t accidentally sit on it. Additionally, I spoke with my neighbor to see if maybe his TV remote’s signal was leaking through the wall. Not only is his TV a different make from ours, he wasn’t watching TV at all this morning.

Secondly, my phone’s built in alarm clock decided to go off at 7am this morning. I most certainly didn’t set this (it’s a Sunday for crying out loud!) and don’t see where in the phone it is set.

More details as we get them…

Death threats

I have received at least 5 threats on my life in the last couple of days, all of them made by my wife. I am beginning to rethink this whole marriage thing…

I feel I should be scared…

flaming man

This warning label always cracks me up – it looks like it belongs on some sort of highly sensitive device housing unstable gases at some top-secret government lab. The reality is far more mundane as this is the label on the water heater in my building. It seems to me that regular folk shouldn’t be allowed near something that can cause an area to burst into flames…

Moreover, I feel a little scared that this label is attached to the back of a water heater that looks like:

decrepit hot water heater