Derek Bannasch and I used to do student announcements over the PA in the morning.  We were very eccentric and dramatic with our announcements.  We aspired to achieve the fame of last year's announcing team of Jim Territo and Brandon Williams.

Once, at the closing of the announcements, they signed off by saying "These announcements have been brought to you by Rudy's Meat Market: nobody beats our meat".  Unfortunately for them, they were no longer allowed to give the announcements.

So one morning we closed our announcements by saying "These announcements have been brought to you by Rudy's Meat Market" and that was it.  When I turned around I saw that one of the staff was frowning and they scolded us.

Just to prove that I am the dorkiest user on the site, I have scanned official documents to back up my story ;)

Me and my friends enjoyed going to coffee houses back in high school.  It was kind of when they first started appearing, before the massive onslaught of Starbucks.  There was one called Gotham City Cafe in downtown Ferndale that we heard about.

So we went.  I think it was Jeremy Davidson, Dave Belch, Justin Harris and me.  Dave and I were in our band varsity jackets and Justin and Jeremy were wearing leather jackets, Jeremy was looking particularly preppy.  It turned out that Gotham City Cafe was a total Goth hang out.  It was very dark and strange in there and people were just kind of sitting on the floor.  I can't recall if we got coffee or just decided to leave.  At any rate, I think that people might have chuckled at our preppy appearance.

We left and drove around the block in front of the Cafe.  I think I yelled "fags" out the window and before we could think, some big guy jumped in a truck and started driving after . . . Read More..

One time at our house in birdland, Kevin and I were shovelling in front of the house. We had these small, cheap red metal shovels with wooden sticks and a red plastic handles. Kevin must have been shovelling near me because he brought his shovel back and poked me in the eye. I remember crying and making my way up to the front door and that I was crying blood. I guess that Kevin just missed my eye.
I remember going to Dr. O'Neil's office before it was at Clarkston Medical Group and getting some stitches. I was laying down and I remember feeling something really cold touching my eye.

In 5th grade our teacherMr. Kowalski asked everyone to create a new product and to market it on a commercial that we would star in. How ingenous was that??

My product was called "Crusty Crunchies Dog Snacks". I loved being creative and I had so much fun making this all by myself. I vividly remember the day we put all of this stuff together.

During the big day of the commercial shoot, I had Liz Grant go into a room and we came up with the commerical. It was baiscally a knock off of another commercial.

The rules for the shoot of the commercial is that you only get three takes. On my first take, the class laughed sooo hard and there was so much noise that I decided to try again. And yet again the class ruined it. The third time was a charm, but when I finished the commercial I turned my head and smiled, but totally missed the camera (SEE VIDEO)!! It was hilarious.

This video is pretty much the only copy because every kid got a weekend to borrow it to watch and I was the only . . . Read More..

One night matt and I were going a little insane at work one night at chimes. On this particular day our boss John bought us some new white boards for our cubes so we can write sweet code on them. The boxes has some staticy styrofoam that stuck to the walls

We got into a completely goofy mood when we took that styrofoam and drew our names and objects into the wall. We acheived ultimate stickyness by rubbing it in our hair.

Somehow I had my video camera and we taped "the day in the lives" of Matt and Dave writing PHP. The funny thing about our names on the walls was that they pretty much stayed up the entire weekend.