Month July 2006

A Literal Philadelphia Barrage

Now this is just wickedly cool. I was cruising around the National [Indoor] Lacrosse League’s website in search of some Minnesota Swarm merchandise when I thought to myself “Self, didn’t you see a professional outdoor lacrosse game being played on…

Buncha Pansies

Back in my day, we did this using regular drag-behind “banana”-style tubes, then walked 10 miles uphill to school. With no shoes. In the snow. Still, that looks like an awful lot of fun. Also, lawsuiteriffic.

That’s My Little Water Baby

We spent Tuesday at my aunt and uncle’s place and celebrated the Fourth in true American style: grilling and chilling. My aunt and uncle are the proud owners of an in-ground pool, so we prepped Will for a day in…

S’good To Be Da Prez

Say you’re an international videogame company looking to help the world’s most powerful man celebrate his 60th birthday. What do you send him? Why, a Nintendo DS Lite, complete with a congratulatory letter and a copy of a popular brain-teaser…

Operation Entebbe, 30 Years On

The Jerusalem Post has two riveting accounts of Operation Entebbe posted commemorating the 30th anniversary of the IDF’s raid on Uganda’s Entebbe Airport: one from the soldiers’ point of view, the other from the hostages’. If you’ve never read the…

Yarrrrrr!

There’s geeky, and then there’s putting on a production of Monkey Island* for your school play. Here’s hoping they do Grim Fandango next. *More about the Monkey Island games is available here.

On To Plan B

My wife recently read a book outlining a decent spiritual/mental model to help one to deal with the ins and outs of daily life. The model goes as follows: Either the night prior to or the morning of a day…