Tag Archive for 'dad'

02 July 2008    08:14 am

This is Where I Get It From

  • Me: At this age, I’m already over the hill.
  • Mom: Really? But you’re so young.
  • Me: Yes.  I’m in my most fertile years. I should already be having kids by now.
  • Alex: Twenty is about the right age.
  • Mom: So human fertility doesn’t look like t-distribution.
  • Dad: No.  It’s more like chi-squared.
categories: conversations, family, funnies, personal
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01 July 2008    10:25 pm

It’s Not Paranoia If They’re Really Out to Get You

  • Byrnes: You just randomly flipped to only being on Yahoo.
  • Me: Wireless. But I think it’s the encryption really. The network was free for a while, and everything was fine. Then Dad put encryption back on.
  • Byrnes: Well turn the damn encryption off! Seriously. Who’s gonna steal your wifi?!
  • Me: The deer. In the backyard.
  • Byrnes: They have 802.11n?
  • Me: Dad: Gotta encrypt. Or someone’s gonna steal our bandwidth. Alex: Sure. If they’re sitting in a car in our driveway.
  • Byrnes: Seriously. They’d have to be within 100 feet of the BASE STATION.
  • Me: What’s within 100 ft? TREES. Those damn trees. They’re out to get us.
  • Byrnes: The bloody deciduous. Those bastards.
  • Me: And the conifers! They’re green YEAR ROUND.
  • Byrnes: With their piney pine pines! They PINE FOR YOUR WIFI.
categories: funnies, nature, personal
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30 June 2008    11:53 am

Runs in the Family

  • Mom: Alex wants to go to graduate school for neuropsychology but he doesn’t know where to apply yet.
  • Me: Once he figures out what about neuro that he likes, it’ll be easier to narrow down the choices.  Cognitive, ev-bio, comparative ..
  • Mom: I’ve noticed that you two have very similar interests.
  • Me: We are your kids.
  • Dad: That’s right!  You and Alex are related!
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10 June 2008    08:08 pm

All Those Jokes Are Actually True

  • Dad: So is it “get out of my face” or “get off my face”?
  • Me: It’s “get out of my face”. “Get off my face” means something very different.
  • Dad: Wow. That’s so confusing. It’s an American thing, right?
  • Me: Yes, Dad. Totally is.
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21 May 2008    06:20 pm

For Me?

Byrnes sent flowers last Friday, after a very teary talk, but I haven’t been able to enjoy them until today because I was either at work or in Boston. While I was gone, my father had been tending the flowers for me. I have great men in my life.

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