In my life I’ve seen two parked cars catch fire and completely burn up. Both were Mustangs. Am I a pyro if I say it was really cool to watch? One was in college at the dorm. We popped open beers and cheered on the firemen.

At the picnic. Teenage son says: “Dad, the hotdog buns have mold on them.” Dad replies: “If it’s green, it’s a vegetable. Just eat it”.

Driving into work today behind a Honda SUV with a spare tire mounted on the back tailgate. The spare tire had a cover and the word “HONDA” on it. The cover had been removed and put back on with the “HONDA” very crooked, not near level. Why do people do that? 10 extra seconds to make it level ?!

Half listening the the TV news this morning and heard a political ad for republican Dan Burton. The voiceover said that Dan Burton was “…breaking some liberal legs”. Breaking liberal’s legs? What? I looked at the screen and saw the video was some hot button political issues printed on eggs that were being broken. Liberal eggs, not legs.

Just found a yellow jacket nest near my garage. Sprayed it. Yellow jackets…actually a wasp that tries to look like a bee. Sort of a wanna bee.

You know you’ve spent too much time in airports lately when you walk up to your sink at home and wave your hands under the faucet expecting the water to turn on.

At my son’s Volleyball game. Something I’ve never seen in all the years of attending sporting events. One of the other team’s coaches is wearing high heels. On a hardwood court.

If you text me: “Had a great day…just getting to bed at midnight!” at 12 AM Hawaii time which is 6 AM Indiana time and it wakes me up on a Good Friday sleep-in day you will still be my friend.

Interesting perspective on laundry from my teen son. The clean clothes come upstairs from the washer in the laundry basket. They stay in the basket. As the clothes are worn they go on the floor until basket is empty and the cycle is repeated. Clothes in a dresser drawer? Not a concept he gets

Beautiful sunny Indiana morning. Driving with the top down on the Mini Cooper was great… right up until I got stuck in traffic behind a Ray’s Trash truck. Ripe.

I’ve been reading articles about the Iceland volcano and the problems the ash has been causing in Europe. They have quotes from people with what has to be the coolest job title ever: “Volcanologist”. A CNN story had a quote from “Volcanologist Thorvaldur Thordarson”. Now that’s a name! The heck with baseball cards, I want his business card.

<GEEK JOKE> Wonder if Thor has ever been at a cocktail party and when he says he’s a “Volcanologist” someone holds up their hand in a “V” and says “Live long and prosper.” </END GEEK JOKE>

Here are the instructions to create a custom iPhone Ringtone from any MP3 using Quicktime Pro.  I’m a Mac user so the instructions are using a Macbook Pro.  This tutorial assumes that you have your Mac set to show file extensions. Don’t know if it’s the same using Quicktime Pro for Windows.

1.  Choose your MP3.  From what I’ve read on the Web the file needs to be :30 or less. Let’s call the file example.mp3

2. Open example.mp3 file in Quicktime Pro.

3. From the File menu choose Export.

4. When the Export menu appears you have a drop down menu with choices. Choose Export: Movie to iPhone.  I know, I know it’s a sound file, not a movie but choose Export: Movie to iPhone anyway.

5. Click Save.

6. Now you have a new file called example.m4v.  M4v is the file format for iPhone video, but you need the iPhone ringtone format.

7. Do a “Command Click” also known as a “Right Mouse Click” on your example.m4v file. Choose the Get Info choice.

8. When the Info box pops up you will see the Name & Extension box.  In that box you will see example.m4v.

9. Change the file extension from .m4v to .m4r.  Close the info box.   Mac will ask you if you are sure you want to change .m4v to .m4r.  You chose Use .m4r. So now your file is named example.m4r.

10.  Open up iTunes and drag-and-drop the example.m4r file into the ringtones directory in iTunes.  Sync up your iphone.  Be sure to check the iPhone’s iTunes Ringtones tab to sync ringtones.  After the sync is complete on your iPhone go to Settings > Sounds > Ringtone.  You will see example under Custom.

That’s it.  Suggestions? Questions?  E-mail me at kremerblog@kremer.com

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer signs a student’s Macbook during his visit to Trevecca Nazarene University.

When was the last time you checked the *age* of your home smoke detectors? Our detectors have been going off a lot lately for no reason. The fine print on the face of the detectors say “Replace this detector on or before 2005″. Ooops. Since our house was built in 1995 makes sense it has a 10 year life span. Next weekend project, replace ‘em.

Jack Bauer of 24 grills the jolly old elf.