... My exit from our home's front door this week was blocked by a large Styrofoam container, addressed to my wife, and labeled "a Lobstergram." I called her and said: "Gee, I didn’t know you knew any crustaceans that could write.” But it turned out to just be a delivery of some seafood-based soups. ... Last weekend, we visited New York's Museum of Modern Art to see Monet's famous "Water Lilies' on display. My wife asked what I though one of one wall-sized painting and I told her it must have taken the artist a long time to fill in all those numbers. When she asked if there was anything else in the museum we should visit I responded, "I've always wanted to see the dogs playing poker." Actually, Monet, who spent decades drawing pictures of lilies in his pond, abandoned a similar series called "Grass", deciding there wasn't a market for pictures of watching grass grow. ... The opponents to the health-care law have given us an update to Patrick Henry's famous declaration with "Give me Liberty or I'll knock your @#&*& head off." New Hampsherites. in the protests shortened "Live Free or Die" to just yelling out "Die. Die. Die." ... Years ago, a tribe of Sioux decided that their trackers needed instruction, since the ability to find game was critical to survival. This was so successful that they soon offered the program to other tribes, so they could improve their abilities to search for game. This was, of course, the first Search Injun Optimization Program.