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Won’t someone think of the pizza?

What kind of man assaults his fellow man with a perfectly good slice of pepperoni pizza? A New England Patriots fan, that’s what kind. Is this what happens when you let a football fan go to a baseball game?

Review video evidence of man’s inhumanity to man and pizza.

(Via The Cheater’s Guide to Baseball Blog.)

Wilson Says “Please”

Today the kids and I were having what has recently become a typical evening for the Manisfam. We had waited until Wilson woke from his nap, then we tried to fit a day’s worth of errands into the few hours we had before Abby’s daily activity. Today’s activity was a swimming lesson, but could have just as easily been guitar lessons, t-ball, or a play-date. (Yes, she’s totally overbooked, but the overlap between swimming and t-ball took us by surprise–something to do with the early daylight savings time–and swimming was finally done today.)

I’d gotten the kids loaded in the car after the lesson and was headed home to fix them a late dinner when Abby started moaning about how hungry she was. Then Wilson started shouting and grunting, “Want eat! Want eat!” I knew they weren’t going to have the patience to wait for me to prepare something, so I did what any good mom would do…I went to the food court at the mall.

I ordered their food first, then went to Taco Time for mine. My food was ready long before theirs and Abby couldn’t resist the temptation of the mexi fries accross the table from her. She repeatedly said, “Could I have another, please?” Wilson had polished off the 2 mexi fries that I had given him, then taking a cue from his sister, he said, “Eat anover, peas?” That’s “Eat another, please” for those of you that don’t talk Baby. As I sat in stunned silence, he started shouting “Anover, peas! Anover, peas!” I was so proud. Abby and I praised him profusely and he seemed very pleased with himself and kept up his good manners.

Manisfam comments: better late than never

We’ve had some typically disturbing comment spam on our site, so we’ve started filtering the comments. The filter catches what it thinks is spam and won’t post the comment until I approve it. Sometimes the filter catches a good comment and it languishes in spam filter purgatory until I place it into a state of grace. The system works great as long as I check the comment filter.

Well, sometimes I forget to check. So to the four people whose good comments I only just found this Palm Sunday afternoon, I apologize for taking so long to get your posts online.

Please keep commenting! We love hearing from you. The point of this site is to share and converse with our friends and family who live far from us.

thanks

-doug

An All-Star lineup of mug shots

The Smoking Gun salutes our national pastime by assembling a baseball starting lineup of “inmates and parolees who share names with the superstars of our national pastime”:

  1. Rickey Henderson, LF
  2. Joe Morgan, 2B
  3. Willie Mays, CF
  4. Henry Aaron, 1B
  5. Ted Williams, RF
  6. Alex Rodriguez, SS
  7. Darryl Strawberry, DH
  8. Jackie Robinson, 3B
  9. Bill Dickey, C

(Via The Smoking Gun.)

Google announces free in-home wireless service

“Dark porcelain” project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access.

Sounds plausible!