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…
Strangeness. Meter. Off The. Scale.
William Shatner, channeling Frank Sinatra in a tribute to George Lucas. It just don’t get no stranger, folks.
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…
Maestro, Accompaniment Please!
For those of you out there heading to a fireworks display, a few patriotic tunes to liven up your Fourth’s evening.
Paging Senator McCarthy, Senator Joe McCarthy To The White Courtesy Phone.
It’s fortunate that Congress disbanded HUAC, else I might have had to place a call this evening. You see, I witnessed my family watching two former European Axis powers competing against each other. Playing metric footballsoccer. On the Fourth of…
Gettin’ In That Patriotic Spirit
To my mind, it just doesn’t get any better than Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful”. So get your official 4th of July celebrations off on the right foot and give Sir Charles a listen.
