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For those of you who can’t get enough zombies

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As with anything, the more I write about something the more links, etc. come pouring in about it.  The topic du jour of course is zombies.

In a related note, Nathan and I seem to be trading videos and links back and forth like some sort of really really slow zombie conversation.  It is weird because normally if I see something on a blog or whatever that I think y’all would enjoy I put it here and reference the place where I got it and that seems to work okay.  But for some reason when it is my brother, even though I reference him, it seems weird somehow like I’m copying.  I guess it is a brother thing, like “Mooooom!  He’s copying!”

Anyway, here is a very easy to understand zombie survival guide which I stole from Baconpalooza quid pro quo since he stole my last one.

And that video led me to this really fantastic Zombie Survival and Defense page.  There really is a lot of information there and I haven’t had time to go through it all, but what I’ve seen seems pretty good!

It’s only fair

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I have already previously embarased my brother-in-law so it is only fair to to the same to my brother:

Wha happa

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Well first let me start on Thursday of last week.  I was leaving work kind of late and it was very cold and dark and there was nobody around.  I stopped at a stop sign and trotting down the middle of the crossing road was a coyote, cool as a cucumber!  I just waited at the stop sign as he calmly trotted by in front of me, probably 5 feet from my bumper.  He gave me a little grin like, “What’s up?” as he went by.  What is going on with Chicago and coyotes??  My dad suggested that perhaps some ancient Indian spirit guide is trying to get a hold of me or something.

So on Saturday we went up to my brother’s place at Madison and there are two things to note.  The first is that I ate a Bacon Brat Burger on Pretzel bread with some sort beer mustard.  That’s something you certainly can’t get just anywhere!  It was like a double patty burger but one of the patties was made out of a brat.  It was interesting enough sounding that I passed up the daily special, the Brat Favre.  It was pretty delicious, but I could have done without the pretzel bread.

The other interesting thing is that we went by a theater downtown and on the marquee it said that they were showing the Packer’s game there on Sunday.  How cool would that be?  I would definitely go for that if I lived there.

After that, we went to my Grandma’s 80th birthday party.  It was good to see a lot of my dad’s family that we don’t usually see.  We haven’t been to a family gathering for that side of the family in a long time.

YIKES!!!  The Packers are one win away from the Super Bowl and it doesn’t look good!  Game is currently tied with 4 seconds left, but the Giants are about to kick a FG!

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!  Missed FG, overtime it is!

Oh, sweet internet

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Our DSL modem inexplicably quit working Sunday night, so we have been incommunicado for a few days.  After dealing with AT&T’s phone system and tech support for a frustrating but acceptable amount of time we got a replacement modem and everything seems to work okay now.   Unfortunately, since I had Internet at work and Sara has been cooped up with no contact with the outside world, I think the Internet is still inaccessible to me at home. 🙂

So last weekend we went to WI because my uncle was visiting from CO and my grandma had a get together.  So Evie got to meet her great grandmas as well as many great aunts and uncles.  More importantly she finally got to meet her uncle Nathan!  I want to put this down here so that it is forever recorded in history; despite being like 2 1/2 hours away, uncle Nathan didn’t meet her until she was about 2 months old.  I guess that’s why he’s the bad uncle (he is, ask him).  Although, to be fair, he doesn’t have a car. 

Speaking of my brother, I don’t devote enough time to him here.  Certainly there are more good stories to tell about him than anything that happens in my life!   Maybe I will write some of the classics in here sometime if I haven’t already.

 So my brother went out to the bars with some of my uncles when they were visiting.  When it was time to go home he walked out to the bus stop and my uncles all left.  After waiting for awhile, he realized that the buses stopped running at midnight and he didn’t have a ride home.  So he called a cab and he told the guy, “Look.  This is all the money I have.  Can you just start driving in the direction of my house and stop when my money runs out?  This is all I have, so don’t forget to tip yourself.”  So the guy started driving and when they were about 4 blocks from my brother’s apartment he stopped and said, “This is as far as you get.”  So my brother at some point realized he had in his pocket a snickers bar and he says to the guy, “If I give you this snickers bar, will that get me 4 more blocks to my apartment?”  The guy thought about it for a while and then he took the snickers bar and dropped my brother off at home.  That’s good bartering!

Okay I found this a very interesting theory.  It is from Tuesday Morning Quarterback, a weekly article that is about football and a lot of other things.  It is a very long winded column, so you might just want to read the excerpt:

“The apparent absence of artificial radio transmission in the galaxy suggests that intelligent life, at least in its technological stage, might be rare. Regardless whether we owe our existence to divine offices or natural forces, if there are millions of Earth-like worlds, you’d think either God or evolution would have put thinking beings in many places. Have other intelligent beings come into existence, only to wipe themselves out with war or evolve beyond the physical? Perhaps intelligent life takes a very long time to arise, then rapidly either destroys itself or ascends to a higher plane. After all, it was 3 million years from Lucy in the Olduvai Gorge to controlled agriculture, then 7,000 years from controlled agriculture until Guglielmo Marconi sent the first high-powered, long-distance radio signal, then a mere 60 years ’til the United States and former Soviet Union possessed doomsday arsenals sufficient to end human life. Perhaps across the vastness of time there are only brief intervals in which civilizations exist in the technological phase — transmitting radio and television signals, launching spacecraft, and searching for others who are doing the same. Right now, we’re transmitting like crazy and firing rockets as fast as they can be built. Maybe a thousand centuries ago another civilization on a nearby world was doing as we do now, then either destroyed itself or evolved beyond such concerns. Maybe a thousand centuries hence, a civilization will arise in the Gliese 581 star system but find no evidence of us because by then humanity will either be extinct or have chosen to leave corporeal limits behind.”

It is interesting to think about, I don’t know why I’ve never seen that mentioned as a possibility before.

Anyway, I will leave you with a Leno-esque slide show of reasons not to hyphenate your last name, courtesy my first name is not Dabu.