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Humor: A Hard Day’s Night…September 18, 2006 12:44 pm by Jarom Adair
Before finding my calling as a web guy, I worked in the position of security guard. I can’t say it was very interesting, but it’s one of the more relaxed jobs I’ve ever had because most of what you do involves #1: standing there looking alert so that anyone who plans on doing something bad sees you and decides not to make what he is doing obvious and #2: making the employees feel safe because they have somebody alert looking there to save them in case of emergencies.
Unfortunately I’m not much help in emergencies because I tend to throw even sensible people in a panic during times of disaster, but I make a great visual deterrent when I wasn’t falling asleep. I say falling asleep because I worked the graveyard shift. I really enjoyed this schedule because I worked at night, would sleep in the morning, and do whatever in the evenings. If I didn’t work a particular night, I could hang out with my friends and watch them struggle to stay awake at four in the morning.
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Humor: Doctored Baby PhotosSeptember 12, 2006 9:39 pm by Jarom Adair
I now present the first edition of “Doctored Baby Photos”.
Each of these photos has undergone a makeover, a combination of photoshop and Jarom having too much free time on his hands. The results, though frightening, are displayed here in hopes that the decent people of America will call the proper authorities and put a stop to it.
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Humor: Beware the Cafeteria Ice CreamAugust 31, 2006 8:47 am by Jarom Adair
My freshman year in college I was in the local student cafeteria, eating dinner with a couple people when I get this strange call from deep inside my inner-being that gently throbs the word “ice cream…ice cream…” over and over again until it overrides my sub-conscience sense of survival that usually kicks in whenever I contemplate second helpings of campus food. So I get up and walk trance-like over to the ice cream machine and squirt a little into a bowl, and I top it with some chocolate sauce and creamy marshmallow goop. So far so good, right?
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Humor: Turning Down $1.2 MillionAugust 24, 2006 10:09 am by Jarom Adair
Lessons Learned in Economics
I’ve learned a lot more about practical economics since I left college. I’ve noticed that certain economies are entirely supported by the most unusual businesses. East Carbon, the southern Utah town where my in-laws live, is entirely supported by speeding tickets. That’s the only thing, as far as I can tell, that produces money down there. Wilmington Delaware is kept afloat by sending me credit card offers. Provo Utah, my current residence, is financed primarily through dollar movie theaters and 24-hour restaurants.
And Nigeria’s economy is apparently kept afloat by email scams.
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Humor: Taking the DiveAugust 7, 2006 9:28 am by Jarom Adair
I went sky diving with my sister Cami for her 18th birthday. That was a unique experience. What better way to say “You’re special to me” than to jump out of a plane together at 12,000 feet? Perhaps my dad’s way was better: simply finance the jumping of two people out of a plane together at 12,000 feet while staying safely on the ground taking pictures.
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Humor: Baseball Doesn’t Get More Exciting than This…August 2, 2006 11:46 am by Jarom Adair
To tell you the truth, I’ve never found baseball interesting. I won’t go into the details of why this is, but there is only one baseball game in my personal history that could be described as exciting (”exciting” defined as “a game during which Jarom didn’t have to gnaw off one of his fingers to stay awake through”).
Although, in this particular game, I did almost loose my leg. The story goes as follows:
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Humor: The Quest for a Mowed Lawn ContinuesJuly 24, 2006 10:08 pm by Jarom Adair
If you’ve read the “How to Not Make Money Mowing Lawns” article, you’d know that I’ve had some difficulty getting the neighbor boy to mow our lawn. Since I published that article, Johnny has gone AWOL. If you haven’t read the article, the short version is that the neighbor kid offered to mow our lawn for us and then proceeded to break every customer service and marketing principle known to man. I expected that of a 14 year old, but I was hoping he’d stick with it long enough to learn how to run a lawn mowing business the right way. I let him make a wreck of my lawn repeatedly so I could help him understand what his customers expected of him. As it is, he hasn’t been seen in over month and our grass is about 4 inches tall.
Or was about 4 inches tall…
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Humor: Waking up at 6amJuly 9, 2006 9:10 am by Jarom Adair
I’ve recently taken to waking up at 6 in the morning. To some people this might not seem like much, but to me it is a major manifestation of will power. This is because, since I (finally) graduated from college six months ago, I hadn’t seen a sunrise.
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Humor: AdoptionJuly 2, 2006 4:05 pm by Jarom Adair
Our quest for the pitter patter of little feet
Trying to adopt a child, for anyone who has not been though it, can be quite an experience. It’s a long and complicated process. When I say “long and complicated”, though, I’m not talking about legal matters or the paperwork or the emotional ups and downs. I’m talking about the questionnaire. read more…
Humor: Web Guy from the Womb…May 24, 2006 3:53 pm by Jarom Adair
I’ve been interested in design and the internet since my early days. Some of my first memories are of chewing on the latest eddition of Wired magazine. I learned to type before I was potty trained. The first word I ever spoke was “Photoshop”.
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