http://ronveenstra.com/ Chronicling the ever-shrinking gap between cynicism and realism. http://ronveenstra.com/blog/549/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/549/ Wed, 14 May 2008 19:14:16 -0600 As requested, in response to my list of things that I hated, I now have a list of things that I really, really like... perhaps slightly modified to hit that PG-13 rating. Having had some time to think through all this, it seems to me that there are far more things in this world to like then there are to hate... it's just a bit easier to focus on t... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/548/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/548/ Fri, 02 May 2008 14:01:48 -0600 Milk that's at the expiration date, and you're not quite sure if it smells like how milk is supposed to smell, and you're not quite hungry/thirsty enough to just risk it, but you don't want to throw it away if it's still good... so you just stand there, repeatedly sniffing the milk. Movie Trailers that show scenes from the end of the movie, so h... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/547/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/547/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:58:22 -0600 Get Flash This one is mainly for Morgan, who came over and saw these guys when they were just tiny specs. It would appear they've grown up now, and enjoy swimming around to live versions of Counting Crows songs.... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/546/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/546/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:08:33 -0600 Dear Joe Borowski, You Still Suck! That is all.... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/545/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/545/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:25:28 -0600 I believe I've done one like this back in the day. [Yup, it's... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/544/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/544/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:08:58 -0600 To those that assert that there exists just one person out there designed especially for you, I present the following rejoinder: Game, set, match.... game over.... no more game.... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/543/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/543/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:33:21 -0600 This one made me feel like an idiot. A bus leaves Chicago to go to New York at noon. A car leaves New York to go to Chicago an hour later, and the car is going 15 mph slower than the bus. When they meet, which is farther from New York? Difficulty Rating: 5... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/542/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/542/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:17:58 -0600 Overheard at the coffee shop: Trivia board question: "How many US States border the Pacific Ocean?" Girl (17 or 18 years old) at the counter: I think the answer is 19. Grandville Dept. of Education FTL.... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/541/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/541/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:22:02 -0600 So I've already pointed out that MLB '08: THE SHOW for the playstation 3 is awesome... here's some more. I created a new player, named Ron Veenstra, who's dream is to be the starting Shortstop for the Chicago Cubs. As fate would have it, he was in the Cubs' Spring Training. All was looking up... until the games started: Ron's Stats the end... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/540/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/540/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:17:52 -0600 Okay, next one. This took me a little while, but I was also tired, and without coffee, so it's possible that it's easy and I'm dumb... more than possible, actually. Here's the situation. I have 3 coins: a penny, a nickel, and a silver dollar. You are to speak one sentence, and if what you said was true, I will give you one of the coins [more... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/539/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/539/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:25:39 -0700 If you've seen me or spoken to me in the past 3 months or so, you likely know I have been waiting with fevered anticipation for the release of a game: MLB '08: The Show... in my opinion the greatest baseball game yet created. I've played the demo with friends and by myself more then many games that I've purchased and have owned for years. It is,... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/538/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/538/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:45:02 -0700 Here's another trivia question I liked... in that it made me feel stupid I'm making grilled cheese. I have a pan that can only fit 2 grilled cheese at a time, and each grilled cheese needs to be cooked for 30 seconds on each side. How can I make 3 grilled cheese in 1 and a half minutes? Difficulty Rating: 5... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/537/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/537/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:17:38 -0700 Jamilah and I went and saw the butterflies at Fredrick Meijer Gardens the other day. I'd never been, and it was rather fun. Now I've posted the pictures so you can see what we saw.... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/536/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/536/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:49:34 -0700 I've got a bunch of pictures that I need to get onto here, and as some have been specifically requested, I spent part of today rewriting all of that admin type stuff to make it easy to add new photo groups and pictures to the site. It took a while, but I believe it is now all "fully functional." To test it all out, I have added the pictures from... http://ronveenstra.com/blog/535/ http://ronveenstra.com/blog/535/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:40:09 -0700 Thanks to a timely phone call from Carolyn, I was able to go out and see the lunar eclipse last night. It was lovely. I scrambled to grab my camera and my little tripod, and managed to get a nice enough photo of it just as it was going away, and seconds before the clouds moved in and put the moon out of view. It was nice of the clouds to par...