Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

Best Movie Review Title Ever

I’m generally not the biggest fan of Slate, but I do have to admit that they, unlike say, Salon, actually make attempts at balanced left/right coverage every once in a while. However, there’s one thing that they tend to excel…

Intellectual Packratism

There’s something I need to admit to: I’m an intellectual packrat. Let me explain. I have a very hard time “throwing away” information, be it useless Simpsons quotes embedded in my brain, random files and images saved in my home…

Happy Thanksgiving!

Psalm 69:30: I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. Psalm 95:2: Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. Psalm 100:4: Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts…

Thank Goodness For Fark

Had I not checked Fark yesterday, I would never (I repeat: never) have remembered Robo Force (Warning: I-Mockery is full of even more juvenile content and horrific language than X-Entertainment. Make sure you don’t click on the image at the…

Free Travel Day On The PA Turnpike

If you’ve been putting off that cross-commonwealth trip from Philly to Pittsburgh, now’s the time to do it! The toll-takers’ union has refused to send their members to work today. And here I am, using my EZ Pass like a…

Ugh.

Bum Wine. Boone’s is strangely left off this list. Never had any of those “wines”, but my wife did buy a bottle of Night Train as a gag gift once.

The Revolution Continues

LaShawn Barber (whose site you should be reading regularly) has finally made the jump from IE to Firefox and is loving every minute of it. And it’s true, Adblock rocks. UPDATE: Via this Slashdot story, worldwide IE usage has slipped…

“Guilty” Movie Pleasures

Jay Tea over at Wizbang seems to think it’s a problem to own, let alone like Hot Shots (Un and Deux), UHF, Galaxy Quest and Mystery Men and refers to them by the derrogatory “campy” label. Pfeh! says I! A…