Adopting a Spider Monkey
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Company News | No Comments »To celebrate the holiday season Monkey Outta Nowhere adopted a Spider Monkey from the nearby Como Zoo. And no, that doesn't mean a primate is doing light office work at the Monkey Outta Nowhere headquarters. It just means we're supporting ...
Hungry All Afternoon
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Children | 1 Comment »A lunchtime conversation with Lexi when she wouldn't eat the rest of her pasta: Me: Are you going to eat anymore pasta? Lexi: No. Me: Do you want to be hungry all afternoon? Lexi: Yeah! Hungry!
Back to the Future’s Future is Too Futuristic
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »Time for a little more geekery about Back to the Future. While watching part two I couldn't help but notice that the filmmaker's vision of 2015--a mere seven years away--was incredibly advanced. Granted the movie was made in the late ...
Better in Virtual Life
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »I played Wii Bowling on Christmas Eve and bowled better than I do in real life (151 vs. 126/96). Now I'm wondering about the implications of being virtually better at something. I also gave Guitar Hero and try and learned that ...
On Watching Back to the Future
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Movies | No Comments »I spent the two days before Christmas watching the complete Back to the Future trilogy (and I'm a little shocked that you can buy the whole thing from Amazon for $20 right now). I haven't seen the movies in a ...
Shopping at Walgreen’s on Christmas
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »So 8:00 p.m. on Christmas night is not the best time to find something to eat. Since we'd been gone for four days there wasn't much to eat in the house that didn't require lots of preparation (thawing chicken at ...
Sick for Christmas
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Children | No Comments »Lexi got sick for the second major holiday in a row and spent Christmas Eve throwing up. Not exactly the best treat to leave for Santa. She seemed better on the ride home, but proved us wrong outside of Chippewa ...
Christmas 2007
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Vacation | No Comments »Yesterday we returned to a snowy St. Paul and finished up Christmas 2007. We had three Christmases and one birthday party in three days. Whew. I also managed to take 381 photos, which I'm slowly trying to get online. Maybe it's ...
Africa Bans Plastic Bags
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Society | 2 Comments »Apparently the entire continent of Africa is banning plastic bags. (Sidetrack: I think it's kind of weird that we refer to all of Africa as one entity--AIDS in Africa, orphans in Africa, poverty in Africa, government corruption in Africa, etc. ...
Go See Juno
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Adoption, Movies | 2 Comments »A little more than a month ago I asked if you could do a funny movie about adoption. The answer? You bet your sweet bippy. We went to see Juno last night, the adoption-related movie penned by the former stripper and ...
