Thanks

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Dave Bonta

I am thankful for pine needles.
I am thankful for uncivil engineering.
I am thankful for rapture-ready Christians.
I am thankful for my balls.
I am thankful for synergistic competencies across solution implementation, product/platform technologies and selling channels.
I am thankful for Potted Meat Product.
I am thankful for like, whatever.
I am thankful for standards-based curriculum mapping.
I am thankful for palpable resentments on a stick.
I am thankful for Thursday.
I am thankful for fresh pink pencil erasers.
I am thankful for leveraging on-demand business intelligence solutions.
I am thankful for the Incredible Hulk of dogs, Wendy the whippet.
I am thankful for the hypertext transfer protocol and to the republic for which it stands, except where otherwise noted.
I am thankful for “88″ sounding like “fortune fortune” in Cantonese.
I am thankful for habeas corpus, Corpus Christi, and corpus delicti with special sauce.
I am thankful for gratitude.
I am thankful for two-headed snakes blinking in sync.
I am thankful for latent-trajectory and latent-growth-curve models for a dependent variable having ordered categories.
I am thankful for every serviceable device.
I am thankful for sand.

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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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15 Responses to Thanks

  1. John Miedema says:
    November 26, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    My first public blog was written under a pseudonym. The blog was called ‘Radical Happiness’. It was a series of short posts of things I was thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving Americans.

    • Dave says:
      November 28, 2009 at 10:52 am

      Thanks, John. As you may know our national steteotype of Canadians is that you all are excessively polite, so a blog devoted to thanking the universe does seem somewhat in character. :)

  3. t says:
    November 26, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    “I am thankful for “88″ sounding like “fortune fortune” in Cantonese.” :)

  4. Beth Patterson says:
    November 27, 2009 at 2:28 am

    Dear Dave,
    You’re weird.
    In the best possible hypertext.
    Just thought you might want to know.
    Sincerely,
    Your friend
    PS I’m grateful for weirdness. It keeps us from sanity.

  5. bev says:
    November 27, 2009 at 9:20 am

    I am thankful for two-headed snakes blinking in sync

    I am thankful for writing that can make me smile.

  6. SarahJ says:
    November 28, 2009 at 4:11 am

    like.

    & where to procure potted meat product?

    • Dave says:
      November 28, 2009 at 10:49 am

      I don’t know. It’s usually in the Spam aisle around here. And the full name is actually “Potted Meat Food Product,” just in case anyone had doubts.

  7. Dick says:
    November 28, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    As a Brit and thus on paper congenitally inclined to sneer at public thanksgivings of any sort, I am thankful for anyone cracked enough to be grateful out loud for fresh pink pencil erasers, two-headed snakes blinking in sync and his balls.

    • Dave says:
      November 29, 2009 at 1:23 am

      Well, you know me, Dick — I’m a deeply religious man. I think it’s important to feel gratitude not just for the good things but for whatever life throws my way, be it two-headed snakes, standards-based curriculum mapping, or balls.

  8. Peter says:
    November 28, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    “Standards-based curriculum mapping.” I’m thankful for five days away from it.

  9. leslee says:
    November 30, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    I am ever thankful for your ability to make me snort, chortle or otherwise snicker, especially when I’m at work.