and now...alphabet jokes

Starring the English alphabet!

Q: What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
A: B. (bee)

Q: What letter is a part of the head?
A: I. (eye)

Q: What letter is a drink?
A: T. (tea)

Q: What letter is a body of water?
A: C. (sea)

Q: What letter is a pronoun like "you"?
A: I

Q: What letter is a vegetable?
A: P. (pea)

Q: What letter is an exclamation?
A: O. (oh!)

Q: What letter is a European bird?
A: J. (Jay)

Q: What letter is looking for causes ?
A: Y. (why)

Q: What four letters frighten a thief?
A: O.I.C.U. (Oh I see you!)

Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not once in a thousand years?
A: M.

Q: Why is the letter "T" like an island ?
A: Because it is in the middle of waTer.

Q: In what way can the letter "A" help a deaf lady?
A: It can make "her" "hear".

Q: Which is the loudest vowel?
A: The letter "I". It is always in the midst of noise

Q: In what way are the letter "A" and "noon" alike?
A: Both of them are in the middle of the "day".

Q: Why is "U" the happiest letter?
A: Because it is in the middle of "fun".

Q: What word of only three syllables contains 26 letters?
A: Alphabet = (26 letters)

Q: What relatives are dependent on "you"?
A: Aunt, uncle, cousin. They all need "U".

Q: What is the end of everything?
A: The letter "g".

lightly snoring

So here I am again, on my bed. I was just reading a bit and answering an email from my boss. Markús Ingi is snoring lightly beside me. He's got his first cold - a terrible thing for a thumb-sucker to suffer at night. He didn't sleep well. He woke up at about 10:30 last night and didn't want to stop crying. So, we had to wake him completely and calm him down and then he was up until after 12:00. We had a little party in the master bedroom. I was trying to convince the Dear Wife that the visualizations in my media player (winamp) are better than those in hers (windows media player) so we let Markús decide which was more interesting. There was music and laughing and much crawling about.
I do like having the little stinker. He's awfully cute and fat. I'm starting to think that maybe I give him too much to eat. When he looks down his primary chin almost disappears into the fat underneath. He's got baby fat dimples on his knees. But it's so nice to hug him this way.
Here's a recent photo:

Shall we try again?

A couple of days ago, someone asked me why I had stopped blogging. the truth is that posting difficulties got too much on my nerves. I'm going to try again because there are things that I would like to comment on from time to time. In fact, just now I found something else that grinds my gears: Windows Vista.

Microsoft has always said that they don't care who has the code for their OS because they know that software works better with their products if it is built by Microsoft. But the truth was that many things produced by others worked better. So, rather than take the bullet and admit that healthy competition forces companies to produce things that work better, they release Windows Vista. In this new OS most non-Microsoft software doesn't work at all and that which does work has flaws. My research means that I have to read a lot of PDF files. I've always used Adobe Acrobat Reader (like most people who have had to read PDF's) and have always been completely happy with it. I recently got a wonderful, shiny new laptop from my darling wife as a birthday gift because my old Toshiba died. While I like this computer quite a lot - beautiful graphics, quick processor, light weight and all, it's got Vista. Acrobat works, but the text is in a font that is hard to read except at high (125%) magnification. Vista comes with the new Microsoft PDF reading program PDF Complete. This program demonstrates that developers do not always use the programs they are designing. It is obvious as soon as one starts trying to scroll around or use any of the functions that one has grown used to in Acrobat (a free software) that none of Microsoft's developers have ever used Acrobat. So, do I take advantage of the fun things one can do with Acrobat and sacrifice my vision and get headaches trying to read the distorted text? Or, do I sacrifice all of the convenience of Acrobat to have better vision and not as much of a headache?
Although there are some good features in Vista, I think that it was a major step backward for Microsoft.