…I’m not ignoring your pleas to talk to me. It’s just that Google Talk happens to run on TCP ports that our firewalls and proxies at work just don’t like. I’ll accept your invites when I get home. For those…
…To paraphrase Romans 6:23. You see, there is precisely one traffic light in the city of Philadelphia that is monitored by a traffic light camera. Two weeks ago, I ran a single red light in the city of Philadelphia on…
What is it about the Home Depot? Is there a pheremone that they’ve locked on to that causes Y chromosomes to hum like a plucked string? I’m not much of a handyman, as my wife can tell you, yet today,…
– or –A fanciful yet hopeful midday literary divertimento Our plane had been in the air for a little under an hour when my eldest son turned to me and implored “How much longer till we get there, Dad?” “It’s…
I’ve no idea what I ever did to them to deserve such treatment, but apparently my house is now officially under siege by a massive wave of tiny millipedes. The creepy crawly monsters attacks are twofold. They: Skitter across the…
The answer to the headline? Mimi Maternity and A Pea in the Pod, both owned by Mothers Work, Inc.. I would suggest you do the same, as they apparently have developed a record of firing female employees who get pregnant.…
To borrow a phrase from Bill Waterson, my days have been just packed as of late and today was the best one that I’ve seen in a long while. It started out early for a Saturday in our household. We…
With the birht of our first child right around the corner, I’ve been contemplating the “need” for a camcorder. We already have a nice 5.1 Megapixel digital camera which is capable of taking short movies with mono sound. So, to…
With the arrival of our first child a little over two months away, my wife and I have been making preparations for their entrance into the world, albeit at a slower pace than either of us is really comfortable with.…
My wife and I just concluded two weeks of dog-sitting for my parents yesterday and I have to say it really made us miss having a dog. We’re both “dog people” at heart, with little time for cats. I’m not…
