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William James Stewart 9 pounds 11 ounces, 22.5 inches, born at 08:03 pm EDT, October 17th in the Year of Our Lord 2005. Momma and baby (and poppa) are doing just fine, although papa may be suffering from an acute…
Doug
Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...
Single Best Harriet Miers Nomination Critique Headline
Protein Wisdom: Harriet. Har-ri-et. Hard-hearted harbinger of hagis… Heh. Oh, and Jeff’s commentary is insightful too.
Helpful Advice For Prospective Clone Owners
While I may have some slight misgivings about becoming a parent, I am very glad that my wife and I have opted not to pursue the cloning option. John Scalzi offers several little known facts about clones and in doing…
Penny Arcade: Things That Make You Go “Wha…?”
As my wife and I prepare for the imminent (Imminent, do you hear me, child?) arrival of our baby, Penny Arcade helpfully (and graphically) alerted me to a “benefit” of the whole birthing process that I was unaware of. You…
McSweeney’s – Asking The Important, Unasked Questions
John Moe askes Charlie Daniels Thirty-Nine Questions Upon Hearing “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” for the First Time in 25 Years, starting with: “1. The Devil won that fiddling contest, right? 2. Because isn’t that totally amazing fiddle feedback…
Site Comings And Goings
Good news, everyone! With the host switch complete, I decided that it might be a good time to start sharing the wealth, as it were. I went from a hard limit of 1GB of files and 70GB of transfer/month on…
First Quake 4 Reviews Hit The ‘Net
PC.IGN has posted their review of Quake 4, giving it an 8.2, which is actually a pretty decent score. It appears that, after the multiplayer-only diversion that was Quake 3, the team at Raven (id subcontracted Q4 out to them)…
“Camera Tossing” – A Flippin’ SWEET Flickr Meme
From the Kids, don’t try this at home with your father’s $1200 digital SLR dept. Some enterprising young shutterbugs over at Flickr have created a new meme for those of usyou out there with disposable income and/or digital cameras: camera…
There’s Regular Crazy And Then There’s Moralizing Crusader Bat Guano Crazy, Apparently
For those of you not in the know, Jack Thompson is a man-on-a-mission, a ragin’ crusader set to save us all from the Evils Of Video Game Violence and Ourselves, of course. Personally, I think he’s a flaming idiot, but…
Terror, Incorporated
Much has been made in the Right-leaning blogosphere about the recently-translated letter from Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s #2 man to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, head of al Qaeda in Iraq. The letter, while interesting, tells only half of…
