On our way home today, my wife and I happened to see several handmade signs advertising a house, For Sale By Owner, with a unique twist: instead of pointing to some FSBO website, the signs advertised a domain name that…
Is a cruddy-looking lawn really all that common of an occurrence these days? I mean, honestly, I’ve gotten more of these than “manhood enhancement” solicitations in my Yahoo! spam filter over the last few months: The first few times I…
I am apparently genetically predisposed towards an inability to spell “caricature” without the aid and comfort of a nearby dictionary. My mind practically screams “There’s got to be an ‘H’ in there somewhere!” Bonus Orthogonal Observation: I am unsure as…
It’s been weird watching the news coverage of the Minneapolis bridge collapse from my comfortable desk on the East Coast. I spent my early years in Minneapolis (the green arrow above points roughly to my childhood home; the blue arrow…
It’s that time again — time to free myself of a bit of mental clutter expressly for your edification. That’s a win/win situation if I’ve ever heard of one. Chinese-manufactured sedans: deathtraps on wheels and headed to a dealer near…
It’s generally poor form to revel in others’ distress (see: Hilton, Paris vis returns to jail), but I must admit to a small amount of glee upon hearing the news that O.J. Simpson’s company is declaring bankruptcy and may have…
There are around 5,000 people at WWDC this year. Excluding Apple and Moscone employees, I think I have seen 25-30 women, total. The ratio of males:females is quite literally 100-150:1. It’s odd interacting with the Mac geekery, being the old…
I read with a good deal of sadness that Mr. Wizard died yesterday morning. For all of you youngsters, he was like Beakman or Bill Nye, oldschool-style. His experiments were decidedly a low-fi sort of affair, but they were entertaining…
5:30am, local time Id: WAKE UP. Ego: …*snrrrrk* Wha? Huh? Gah! I: WE WAKE UP. NOW. E: What the heck time is it… Idiot! It’s bleedin’ 5:30 in the bleedin’ morning! Let’s go back to sleep. I: IS NOT. IS…
[Recorded somewhere over Western Pennsylvania or possibly Ohio, I think, 6:07pm EDT] After an unspecified “paperwork”-based delay of almost 45 minutes (due, according to the pilot, to a delayed or mishandled flight from either Phoenix or Las Vegas, curse you…
