Presented for your enjoyment: Counter Struck: Counter-Strike meets the real world. Heh. Those lucky British Microsoft sods – they got Ricky Gervais (of The Office fame) to do employee training videos for ’em. Brilliant. (Profanity warning: you know those Brits…
I know that some people have had their issues with Dreamhost (my hosting provider), but I have to say that my experience with them has been largely positive. However, they’ve had a spate of issues that have plagued them recently,…
Inside Higher Ed pointed to a list the other day detailing 75 things this year’s college freshmen class hasn’t ever encountered, including: The concept of two Germanys Smoking on airplanes The Soviet Union Being forced to distinguish between the baseball…
MSN Money ran a very helpful article the other day covering “10 things you shouldn’t buy new”. There are some good ideas on the list, the most pertinent of which I found to be: cars, children’s toys, and video games.…
Jerry C. is a bit of a rock guitar virtuoso. Don’t believe me? Take a listen to him demolishing Pachbel’s “Canon in D”. [audio:CanonRockUpbeat.mp3] Sweet. Merciful. Crap. The guitarist from Extreme has got to be hanging his head in shame…
James Lileks had an absolute humdinger of a screed the other day concerning the manifest childishness of what passes for “culture” and “intellectual thought” these days. The whole thing is worth a read, but I think these brief excerpts really…
I packed up my wife and child and headed out to the area near Warren, PA and the Kinzua Dam last week for some rest and relaxation with my grandparents. Two days of relaxation were matched by two days of…
Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald really took it to the French in re: their hypocricy in Lebanon in recent days. To wit: In recent weeks, France stepped forward to act as a broker of peace in Lebanon. “Act†is…
My wife, child and I were away this past week, visiting with my grandparents at a rented house out on the outskirts of the Allegheney National Forest. Through the magic of WordPress, I was able to queue up a few…
A few weeks ago, an anonymous generous soul decided to liberate our Passat wagon of its driver’s-side rearview mirror. Apparently, its existence was superfluous, so much so that said generous soul neglected to even stop and offer an explanation, so…
