Lon Sunshine (a frat brother) sent a group of us a way to waste our entire day.  I’ve decided to share it with you.  I gave it two minutes and managed to go 12.547 seconds.  I’ve got to go pack now – I leave for the airport in 10 minutes

Christmas is long gone.  New Years Eve is over.  The only stuff left is New Years Day, football (especially college), and – well – the last day of Hanukkah.  Last night, on the seventh day of Hanukkah, I learned something new.  My brother Daniel and his wife Laura introduced me to sufganiyot.  I’ve had 40 years of Hanukkah and not once has my mother mentioned to me that jelly doughnuts are an ancient Hanukkah tradition.  So – apparently – jelly doughnuts are to Hanukkah as candy canes are to Christmas.  We celebrated last night with a box of Krispy Kreme’s.

For those of you that requested visual confirmation of me posing as Jack Bauer, following are the photos for the t-shirts that Galanos made for my 40th birthday.

This product is going to really clean up.  It’s way more interesting than an Ajax Reader.  I can’t wait to get one.  It’ll go perfectly with my craptop.

Now that’s a men’s room (thanks Doug).

Are you nervous yet?

Getting tired of that old Windows Start-Up Sound?  How about trying on a serious Mac Start-Up Symphony?

Bob Gentry – the CFO at Finali (now Convergys) – suggested that this reminded him of me.

Thanks Bob – after Amy saw this she suggested that I start using this as my email footer.

I’ve had a life long fascination with toilets which I’ve blogged about several times in the past, including Toto’s awesome throne, a tricked out toilet, and my personal favorite toilet / bathroom in the world.

Today I learned something useful about toilet paper.  I’ve clogged more than my fair share of toilets (c’mon – admit it – so have you).  I now know that I need to check the brand of paper before I do my thing.  No more Charmin for me.  Thanks Joanne.

In today’s “direct mail databases are broken” category, the Huffington Post has a short piece titled “California Man Receives Credit Card Offer Addressed to ‘Palestinian Bomber’”  Of course, the person who received this (Sami Habbas) has been a US citizen since the age of 3 and served in the US Army.  When he called JP Morgan Chase about it, he was greeted with “Yes, Mr. Bomber, what can we do for you?”  I guess the call center “judgment filter” is broken also.

I just IMed a colleague who recently completed a Herculean task.  I asked him how it felt to be done.  He responded “About like a fish feels as he passes through the shark’s teeth on its way to the digestive tract.”  Meditate on that for a while.  Wait – is that a metaphor or a simile?  Where is Amy when I need her?