Category Archives: humor

I object to that query!

By Dave | Published: August 18, 2010

I noticed that someone reached my site via the following Google query: “Dave Schumaker ugly” I object to that description! I believe the correct phrase is “horrible faces.” It’s a face that not even a mother could love.

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But I don’t even have a wife

By Dave | Published: August 18, 2010

Oh, you crazy spammers.

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Word of the Day game

By Dave | Published: August 13, 2010

My sister and I have been playing a little game that involves texting each other a sentence based on Dictionary.com’s word of the day. It’s especially fun when we start trash talking each other using past words of the day.

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How to quit…

By Dave | Published: July 30, 2010

How to quit Civilization, that is. Probably my favorite game of all time, and the fifth iteration is coming this September. Here is a helpful guide on how one can quit their addition to Civ. [Via Ryan]

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If only my tardiness were equally productive

By Dave | Published: July 29, 2010

(Yes, at this point I’m just plundering my Google Reader shared items feed… but I’ve been sick!) If only my habitual tardiness could produce something equally as great. One day in 1939, Berkeley doctoral candidate George Dantzig arrived late for a statistics class taught by Jerzy Neyman. He copied down the two problems on the [...]

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Dislike for Corona saves geologist from death.

By Dave | Published: July 29, 2010

I’m sure Corona’s marketing department is thrilled about this. [H]e returned to his residence in Kabul to find it had been burgled. The intruder took money from a drawer and left behind a bottle of Corona beer. The Corona bottle sat on his counter for the next two weeks Yeager says, because Corona is one [...]

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Lord of the Rings and the Vuvuzela

By Dave | Published: June 21, 2010

Hahaha. I am in love with all the vuvuzela humor.

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Spotting a Republican

By Dave | Published: June 19, 2010

Hah (emphasis mine). A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The [...]

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