Stories To Write

Stories To Write Up

• 8080 "0 jmp 0" works, but larger programs don't; 0xC3 is a binary palindrome, and my data bus was wired backwards
• In 5th grade, I wouldn't believe that a ton of coal cost only $20, and my teacher made me call the power company and ask.
• I crushed my newly-repaired window screen by closing the garage door (7/2004)
• 31-Jan-2004: On Saturday, I put engine coolant into the windshield wiper reservoir of Sarah's truck.
• Beware the DVDs of March (rented 3/15 -> returned to wrong store 3/20 -> right store called 3/31/2003, returned to Hollywood Video finally); $0
• 5th grade, Mrs Phillips, stapler & smiley-face stamp.
• Epiphany: Six Million Dollar Man, where the kid accidentally makes rocket fuel, and the chemist is able to eliminate many of the possible sources of impurity via his extensive knowledge (TVTome.com shows the episode was called Danny's Inferno -- http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-591/epid-33083/ )
• Sawed through radiator hose of my Ford Tempo, then got a compressorectomy
• Ride the kite
• Pick up without stopping
• Easter Bunny
• Cut thumb on pringles can
• 1998: failed to get gas (gave someone directions instead)
• "smallest fish" trophy (almost got most-fish, too)
• Dad - McLuhan
• Dandelion Alchemy
• "Poppo" - looked at a picture and said "That's Poppo!"
• Tonsils - thought the surgeon would go in through my neck
• my sugar burn
• 13-Feb-2001: you'd think the plumbers would re-light the water heater pilot light after doing $3K work on our pipes
• As a kid, thought DaylightSavingsTime was changing the earth, not the clocks