I've been Simpsonized

Pretty good huh? You can Simsponize yourself or your loved ones here.

The Glorious OP

Everybody knows Boston has the best baseball team!

So how come Detroit has the best record?

That was close!

A tree blew down during the storm today and I'm telling you if it was the taller tree, most of Mark's home improvements would have been destroyed. It would have shaved off the side of his house and maybe messed up his nice new porch.



Later I noticed there was a note:

Damn I'm Cute!

People don't usually take pictures of me, but I guess I was irresistible this time.

I don't know where that baby came from, but he sure is lucky to be in a picture with me! It's easy to see that he thinks I'm awesome.

Fart Machine

This is what happens when you allow Uncle Mark to take charge of your children. I'm trying hard not to judge...

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Mikayla meets her brother

for the first time...

Here are the origins of several symbols we use in everday life

Question Mark

Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning "question" - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem - readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark.

Exclamation Point

Origin: Like the question mark, the exclamation point was invented by stacking letters. The mark comes from the Latin word io, meaning "exclamation of joy." Written vertically, with the i above the o, it forms the exclamation point we use today.

Equal Sign

Origin: Invented by English mathematician Robert Recorde in 1557, with this rationale: "I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or Gmowe [i.e., twin] lines of one length, thus : , bicause noe 2 thynges, can be more equalle." His equal signs were about five times as long as the current ones, and it took more than a century for his sign to be accepted over its rival: a strange curly symbol invented by Descartes.

Ampersand

Origin: This symbol is stylized et, Latin for "and." Although it was invented by the Roman scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro in the first century B.C., it didn’t get its strange name until centuries later. In the early 1800s, schoolchildren learned this symbol as the 27th letter of the alphabet: X, Y, Z, &. But the symbol had no name. So, they ended their ABCs with "and, per se, and" meaning "&, which means ‘and.’" This phrase was slurred into one garbled word that eventually caught on with everyone: ampersand.

Octothorp

Origin: The odd name for this ancient sign for numbering derives from thorpe, the Old Norse word for a village or farm that is often seen in British placenames. The symbol was originally used in mapmaking, representing a village surrounded by eight fields, so it was named the octothorp.

Dollar Sign

Origin: When the U.S. government begin issuing its own money in 1794, it used the common world currency - the peso - also called the Spanish dollar. The first American silver dollars were identical to Spanish pesos in weight and value, so they took the same written abbreviations: Ps. That evolved into a P with an s written right on top of it, and when people began to omit the circular part of the p, the sign simply became an S with a vertical line through it.

And now, you're just a little bit smarter...

This weeks weather forecast

This is the weather Mike is enjoying this week. The highs are pretty nasty, but I think the low temperatures are even worse!

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Partly Cloudy Hi 115° Lo 101°	Partly Cloudy Hi 118° Lo 95°	Partly Cloudy Hi 117° Lo 99°	Clear Hi 116° Lo 91°	Clear Hi 114° Lo 91°

7/7/07

At 10:37 pm, James Michael was born. Congratulations to Kelly, Kevin, and Mikayla!