Posts under ‘Funny Stuff’

The Brock & Tara Show!

For the past four years, I have done some editing of some short comedy videos for the Women Walking with God Conference, held at our church here in Wichita. Below are the two videos I made for this year’s conference.
A little back story if you have not seen the previous years’ videos, the basic premise [...]

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Squirrel!

Have you seen the new Pixar movie Up? We love it; the story lines, characters, and–squirrel!–hilarious talking dog collars. I could really identify–point!–with the dogs and their “chasing shiny objects” mentality. Lately I feel very stream of consciousness, where I start on one thought and end up somewhere totally different before coming back to my [...]

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Pie gets ‘em every time

Success!!
We had a fantastic turnout and everyone loved Pi Day (despite the inherent nerdiness of it). Our secretary pointed out that hardly anyone brings food for our monthly birthday day, and yet nearly everyone participated in Pi Day. We even got to meet people from different departments in the building (news of pie spreads fast!). [...]

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It’s Pi (pie) Time!

My industrial engineer colleagues and I organized a Pi Day celebration at work today. (Nerd alert! There is a brief discussion of math, and the pie is after that.) Pi is the ratio of a circle’s diameter to the circumference, or 3.14159. The calculations of Pi go as far back as ancient Egyptian papyrus, and [...]

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"Que"s "literally" "peak" my interest

I’m no Grammar Girl, but I’ve noticed an interesting string of common mistakes recently that I thought I would share–
My first issue is with the word that describes people or things waiting in line: queue. In just the last month I have seen it spelled “cue,” as in the cue ball in pool, “que,” as [...]

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Can I study with it, too?

Note the first bullet point… “enjoy your book while sleeping.”

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Vote Ryan Corcoran 2008

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