- Blogging and Comments
- There is always a lot of debate about the value of allowing comments on a blog. On the Pro side you have things like: Comments foster community. Comments allow readers to add valuable insights to a top Comments are what...
- Here's where I have been lately
- http://twitter.com/amishrobot http://amishrobot.tumblr.com/...
- Robot
- Entirely his own doing....
- Moustache
- Entirely his own doing....
- Conducting an Effective Design Review
- When conducting a design review I think it is important to establish the proper relationship with the designer. Thanks to Mark, who was so impressed with my management skills that he documented my techniques....
- I love You Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!
- It’s Adrienne Day!* Do you want to know what Adrienne got for Adrienne Day? See that heart right there? That is from the Holiday font set from House Industries. How great is it that my wife asks for fonts...
- Best Spam Subject Lines EVER
- I opened every single one of these emails hoping I might actually be able to purchase the product promised by the subject line. Wheelchair Sandpaper?! Fire Web!?...
- Tap tap tap... Anyone out there?
- I have had a blog since sometime in early 2000 and I think since about April of 2002 I have posted at least something every month, until late last year where I stopped writing. No big dramatic reason either. I...
- Pancakes
- Anna put an entire giant chocolate chip pancake in her mouth. I like how she has a chocolate streak under her eye like breakfast warpaint....
- What's Up Now Timpanogos!?
- never go hiking with two former cross country stars never go hiking when you are horribly out of shape, have recently fasted, had only 1 hour of sleep, and have an upset stomach What they don’t want you to know is…!
- The Eyes Have It
- Who votes that I never… Shinto priest blessing the darkness he answered me! eyes met mine!
- Better Pilot Training Could Have Really Prevented Those Crashes
- Last night I was watching a show about Kamikaze pilots. They showed some clips of kamikazes attacking ships and had CGI recreations as well.
- Death or Glory
- I am visiting my brother Joe in Olympia.
- Legal Advice
- Today I drove past a minivan tailgating a car in the carpool lane to my left.
- Summer Feet
- Here is what happens if your 5 year old says he is hungry and you tell him to wait a minute and you will make something and he doesn't feel like waiting.
- Here is what happens if your 5 year old says he is hungry and you tell him to wait a minute and you will make something and he doesn’t feel like waiting.
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- #These ads are all for regular, unbranded items to keep spirits up in Soviet Estonia.... You might find yourself yelling KANA KANA HAK-LIHA!
- Blingo!
- Question: Did NancyPants and I just win $50 cash on blingo?... Question: Have my friends and I won $100 worth of iTunes gift certificates, 2 movie tickets, a $25 Amazon certificate, and $50 cash on Blingo?
- The Kids
- Lucy
- Condiment Conundrum
- Burger King gets my award for the consistently worst customer experience on the planet.
- In Case of Fire Accept Fate Stoically
- I am not sure this imagery really gives the message the designers were looking for.
- Advertising Is Easy
- i had a meeting today with our creative services team and as a part of it they had a creativity exercise where we had to rip a page out of a magazine, an ad, and then try to come up with a better ad.... so my ad was , “That crazy astronaut lady wore a diaper when she drove across the country to kill that other astronaut lady.
- Deer Slayer
- I drove by this a while back and made my wife take a picture of it with my phone. She gets bored easily and I try to have little activities for her to do like, “take a picture of that truck piled high with rotting deer carcasses!
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- Japanese Justice | Confess and be Done with it A TAXI driver in Toyama prefecture is arrested for rape and attempted rape, confesses to both crimes, is convicted after a brief trial and serves his three years in prison.... http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos54/ A picture is worth a thousand words, and Photoshop and similar tools have made it easier than ever to make those words fib.
- Timpanogos
- I have been taking my camera to work every day waiting for some good lighting and weather on the mountain. It had been really bland weather and weak light but when it snowed heavily this morning I was sure...
- Tough Crowd
- My 5 year old boy and I watched the NBA dunk contest highlights together and here is his take on the event: “Why did that guy win? His dunk wasn’t that heroic!” “What would be a ‘heroic’ dunk?” “Like if...
- I love You Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!
- Everyone wish Adrienne a happy Adrienne Day! I am afraid it hasn’t been a great Adrienne Day for Adrienne. I ended up being really sick today and instead of taking her out I have been wrapped up in a...
- Tape Shadows
- I went to Olympia Washington over the weekend to visit my twin brother Joe and his family. Olympia was very wet and very beautiful and very wet and also very wet. I took a lot of photos, most of them...
- Moss - Olympia Washington
- The Spar - Olympia Washington
- Pregnancy is Really Hard
- My wife is 7 months pregnant and it has been very difficult. Here are just a few issues: She has to sleep with so many pillows to prop her in a comfortable position that I am left with only two...
- Heroes of Ecommerce
- I found this on a Honda dealer’s website as I was looking to get a quote from their internet department. I have not often seen a more brilliant use of the web....
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- Robots think we taste like bacon turn signals “For a few years now, I have been fascinated by a very odd automotive accessory,….. the add on turn signal / Stop light…… Mainly because of the seemingly endless variety of...
- Reese Photo Booth
- When you leave your laptop out and your 5 year old figures out how to open and use Apple Photo Booth, you will come downstairs to find this on your computer....
- Indignities Suffered Today
- I got a flu shot today. My wife went first and raved to the nurse, “That was the best shot I have ever gotten. I didn't feel anything!” This both pleased the nurse and made her nervous. She seemed...
- ...and the world ended on the request of a two year old girl.
- “Mommy, the sun is in eyes. Turn it off! Turn it off!” - My daughter from the back seat of the car this morning...
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- Thermite and Liquid Nitrogen (Braniac) This reminds me of the time a few weeks ago that Reese (age 4) asked me, “If water melts fires, how come the sun can melt ice?” I just wish they had tried a...
- 4 Pieces of Advice I Have Recently Given Colleagues (All likely of similar value)
- Why not take a couple of classes before you fully commit to going back to school? Why not take some career aptitude tests? I am sure there a million other jobs you would enjoy and do well at. You...
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- Bouncing here and there and everywhere! “When I was little my dad would catch gummy bears for us. He would spot them buzzing around us like flies and grab them right out of the air. As I got older...
- Too Busy to Write
- Digital Camera Scam
- I went to Seattle for work and visited my brother Joe while I was there. You will be shocked to know that it rained while I was there. It had been a while since we had seen each other,...
- Back From Boston 2
- I had to go to Boston for work again last week and once again I loved it. Having lost my driver’s license before the trip I discovered that you can travel, at least domestically, without picture ID as long...
- Knock Knock
- I was just reading about the bombing of al-Zarqawi and noticed that there was a team of Special Ops guys observing the house, and likely painting it with an laser target indicator. It would have been much cooler if one...
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- A Pirate's Life
- I am not a child America. I don’t need a biweekly allowance. From now on, I want my full year’s pay on January 1st. I am a grown up and you should treat me like one. Also, I would prefer...
- Zion National Park
- I am embarrassed to admit that we have lived in utah for several years and only went to Zion National Park last weekend....
- We Threw Away the Dirty Dishes
- We Threw Away the Dirty Dishes My twin brother writes a bit about what it was like when we lived together in college....
- Taser Animal Enrager Update
- Earlier I speculated that the new Animal Taser would not incapacitate ananimal long enough to make it useful. I thought of 3 possible outcomes if you found yourself tasing an angry bull: Channel your inner-olympian and run like the wind....
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- preah kan elder (photo) “Ran into this woman at preah kan. Had to wait patiently while a large group of korean tourist lingered for what seemed like an eternity. All the time fearing of loosing the shot, but luckily...
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- The Speech Accent Archive “Welcome to the speech accent archive. You may need to get the Quicktime plug-in to play the sound clips. Each individual sample page contains a sound control bar, a set of the answers to 7...
- 31 Years of Non-Smoking Down the Drain
- I smell like a campfire. My wife is complaining and telling me to go take a shower. Such is the life of the volunteer firefighter. Ok, I am not technically a volunteer firefighter but I did voluntarily fight a fire...
- Three Things it is Really Not Satisfying to Spend an Enormous Amount of Money on in One Month
- Crown for tooth (crown for head would be totally satisfying) Tree removal (My son thinks I am evil now. He is the Lorax, he speaks for the trees) Vinyl Fencing (I don’t think it would be satisfying even if...
- Taser Animal Enrager
- How To Make An Angry Bull Angrier If I were Taser trying to market my “ADVANCED TASER® M26 MODEL # 88000 — High amperage MX Animal TASER for animals only” I think I would choose a different video than...
- Amish Robot and the Web Site of Fire
- The scar from my back surgery is itching. I’m still glad I have it though because chicks totally dig scars. Granted, mine is on my lower back and I have had to start wearing half-shirts to show it off, but...
- My Little Scientist
- Adrienne and her sister Elaine were busily shopping at Target while I was on kid duty. I had Reese (4) and Anna (1) in one of those carts with the dual kids seat attachment on the back. We played lots...
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- I Love You Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!
- Once again, I ask you to take time out of your busy schedules to wish Adrienne a happy Adrienne Day (Here is a brief history of Adrienne Day). I could easily start another site called “Things That Are Wonderful...
- Awesome Spam Names
- The following are fake names used in spam I have received. Well, Flavius Watsenbarger, my favorite one, actually was received by my friend Chris Willis. Ridiculous fake spam name generating software, I salute you! Flavius Watsenbarger Gunshots Q. Aspirant Serpents...
- Children Will Find Our Faces in the Stars at Night
- My twin brother Joe has been trying to convince me to go into business with him. We were chatting about it and I had to walk away from my computer for a while. He continued messaging me while I was...
- New Year's resolution #1: Try to be more like Reese.
- Reese on Tea Cups at Disneyland...
- Million Dollar Idea #108 - Penrod's Subliminal Powerpoint
- PowerPoint, for good or bad, is pretty much the default communication method in the business world. Make your presentations stand out. Or rather, make your real message stand out while your presentation looks like everyone else’s. Penrod’s Subliminal PowerPoint Slides...
- Blingo!
- I just won a $10 itunes gift certificate on Blingo thanks to John. Blingo is just basically a different front-end for Google. Sign up as my friend and then use Blingo to search instead of going to google or yahoo...
- Swivel Straight Christmas Tree Stand with Reservoir
- Swivel Straight Christmas Tree Stand with Reservoir $79.95 The single greatest Christmas tree stand ever made. First off, I didn't pay $79.95 for mine, you can find the model w/o the reservoir for about $40 if you look around....
- 15 Things I Thought Were Cool When I Was 12 And I Really Should Be Over By Now But I Totally Am Not
- The movie Red Dawn Songs about fighting authority Ninja Stars Gummi Candy Super Sour Candy Play Fighting Hovercraft kits from the back of Popular Science Fire Sarcasm Monkeys Robots Machine Guns Sharks Kung Fu Forts Update: Joe emailed me...
- Dear State Farm
- It took me 20 minutes of signing up just to get a notification that it will take up to 7 days to view my account. I am concerned about my security online, but I had to enter info down to...
- My Favorite Commercial. Ever.
- Commercial for Sony Bravia Hi-Def LCD televisions involving the dropping of an enormous amount of super balls from a rooftop and the bouncing of those super balls down the streets of San Francisco (Big download, but worth the wait). It...
- Back from Boston
- I just came back from a one week business trip to Boston. It started off a bit inauspiciously with me dry-heaving the whole way to the airport, followed by my arriving at the self check-in kiosk and getting a message...
- Windows Sharepoint - not fit for human use
- After three hours of messing with Windows Sharepoint, I am absolutely convinced that it was created by a small group of mentally defective monkeys, or possibly hippies. 3 men with many years of computer usage between them, including a Usability...
- Million Dollar Idea #107
- Having troubles with Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Sounds like what you need is Penrod Brand IranWrap! Sold in 500 mile-wide rolls, Penrod Brand IranWrap is the finest quality rogue-state plastic wrap available. Protect your country the fresh way! Serving suggestion (OK,...
- Instant Messenger Manners
- It can take a while for people to adjust to what are considered good manners with new technologies. When people first start using email they tend to forward every urban legend known to man to their entire address book. Some...
- Due To Popular Demand
- I took advantage of Adrienne’s family reunion to record a game of Lightning Reaction complete with Adrienne losing and getting shocked (that never happens).... Lightning Reaction Video Clip Many thanks to Jed for flash conversion of my huge video clip!
- Damn You, Thomas Edison
- I am sure most of you saw this news story a while back. Residents of the Sicilian town of Canneto di Caronia had been complaining about strange electrical disturbances. They were troubled by televisions, vacuum cleaners and other electrical appliances...
- La Tierra Del Sol Amada
- She called after us, only somewhat ironically, “Try to walk in the shade!” Red dirt on my super heated black shoes. Beer caps smashed into the road caught the sun and reflected it upwards into our squinted eys. Sometimes we...
- I'm Back. Get it?
- It was a little risky to let Adrienne write a guest entry since it immediately becomes obvious that she is a much better writer than I am (She would never stoop to a pun for a title for example, and...
- The Hammer of Spinal Repair
- Caution—lest you think that Josh has suddenly, annoyingly taken to speaking in the third person—this post is written by Josh’s wife, Adrienne, since Josh is not fit to write. Yesterday Josh had back surgery. Don’t bother with writing us any...
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- Don't Judge Me (Wherein I Declare Decisive Victory Over a Spinal Injection)
- So, you may have noticed I haven’t been updating the site much. I have been busy at work, but that isn’t what has been stopping me. We all know the cliche of the tortured artist, where great art comes from...
- An Entry Inspired by Throwing Up Just a Little Bit
- Dear Lortab, You are worthless. For the life of me I can not figure out how people get addicted to this stuff. All it does for me is make me tired and a little nauseated. That is it. Hey Pain...
- Highlights from a quick vacation
- Holding my entire family, Adrienne, Reese, and Anna, in my arms (With some help from the swimming pool, but mostly with my mind-boggling strength). Playing in the outdoor section of the indoor/outdoor swimming pool with Reese. Feeling the crisp...
- I Decree
- Anyone who works insanely long hours may no longer wear the fact like a badge of honor. They must instead preface any discussion of their extremely long hours with, “I am a chump.” For example, “I am such a...
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- Great Usability Books
- A lot of basic guidelines that will help you make better websites, and also some tips for running your own usability tests.I haven’t read the second edition yet, but Amazon says, ”With a fresh perspective, Steve returns to the principles covered in the first edition to reflect on them anew—commenting, amending, amplifying, reconsidering and offering new examples to emphasize their relevance.... * Describes natural instances of perceptual phenomena to bring the subject matter to life.“ ”Defensive Design for the Web : How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (Voices That Matter)“Your users, now matter how carefully you create your site, are going to run into form errors, 0 search results, missing pages, etc. The boys from 37signals.com will tell you how to avoid many of those problems, and how to recover gracefully when they occur.
- Shadow of the Giant
- About a year and a half ago I wrote a post called The Bachelor about my wife being out of town, me being bored (and boring), and eventually an encounter with Orson Scott Card at Borders, in which, without recognizing...
- The Patron Saint Of Back Pain
- I love you Adrienne, happy Adrienne day!
- Today is Adrienne day. I hate Valentine’s day. It is a cheesy, commercial mess of a holiday. I can’t stand it. Adrienne, on the other hand, I love. So, when were were dating and Valentine’s day was approaching I...
- Magnetic Fields Forever
- I had an MRI on thursday. It seems I have a herniated disk in my lower back. That would explain why I have taken to laying on my side on the floor and praying for death. When the doctor scheduled...
- Nice Timing
- At 6pm last wednesday we were all terribly startled by alarms and flashing lights. We were debating running screaming when a coworker stopped us, “Hey, check your email!” Look at the “Sent:” time. Brilliant....
- Big In Japan
- My twin brother, Joe, and I used to joke that we were going to move to mexico and start a variety show, “¡Los Gemelos Locos!” I was reminded of our plan when my friend showed me a video clip of...
- Burn!
- Playfully singing along to Wilco, and singing at Adrienne, “I am trying to break your heart…” Reese (3 years old) overheard: “Why are you trying to break mommy’s heart?” “I don’t even try Reese. I just have that effect on...
- Office View
- I can’t complain about the view from my office....
- I never get tired of blurry trains
- Train passes in front of Temple Square in Salt Lake City Utah. The best part is that for some reason the walk signal was on, beckoning us to our deaths....
- Automotive Avalanche
- Today I learned a valuable lesson and I would like to share it with all of you. If you decide to press the little “open sunroof” button as you are driving, first make sure there is no snow on the...
- Busiest Man Alive Part II
- I thought I had met the busiest man alive, but I was completely wrong. Today I met the real busiest man alive. He was using the urinal next to me and EATING A HAM SANDWICH! I so wish I was...
- Interface Nightmare #9
- This job is the only one I have ever had where the company didn’t subsidize the vending machines. In fact, based on the ninety cent candy, I have begun to suspect that my company brings in most of its revenue...
- Best Christmas Present—Ever
- Today I was thinking back over Christmases past and I realized that as great as the bike and Ewok village were, the single greatest Christmas gift of all time was the GI Joe Hovercraft. The GI Joe Hovercraft is so...
- Suspended in Ether
- Six things that seemed strangely hyper-real during the course of one day: The incredibly high-pitched voice of the male attendant at the assisted living center who called at 3am The sound of the engine as I drove 85 mph The...
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- I Hope I Die Before I Get Old
- After a couple strokes my grandma moved into a nice (as nice as these things can be) assisted living facility. As we walked past the front desk the secretary was yelling at a resident, “Dang it Earl, PUT YOUR HEARING...
- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
- I have been getting light-headed lately, and I don’t know why. I have tried to find some sort of pattern—stress, diet, sleep—but I can’t find one. Mostly the light-headedness has only been annoying. I felt a bit too dizzy to...
- The Plain Simple Design Holiday Gift Guide
- Gilbert of PlainSimple.org (a really nice site about web design and user experience) asked me to make some Christmas gift recommendations for an entry on his site. If I had known that I would be surrounded by the Digerati I...
- What's In My Bag?
- I really like lists. I hope you do too because here is a big one and there is nothing you can do about it. OK, I suppose you could just stop reading the site. Never mind about the whole “nothing...
- Coastal
- I made another foray into rock ‘n’ roll photography the other day. I shot my friends’ slocore band Coastal. Enjoy the photos and then go buy the albums, their music is beautiful. Coastal ~ Coastal at amazon.com Coastal ~ Halfway...
- Penrod Photographic Light Almanac
- Provo, UT, USA 5:45 PM Clear Sky Warm Light A man’s shadow is about three-and-a-half times his height. A small puddle is blinding, like the sun is sitting in it. Driving west, the telephone wires are like strands of light...
- Anna Jane Penrod
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- Wales and the Journey Home
- I found the lost notebook from my Wales trip. It is fun to look back at the little notes I scrawled and remember the vacation again. I don't know that I can be bothered to turn these notes into an...
- WASP
- How come no one ever taught me the proper level of fear a man should have for wasps? I was doing pull-ups on the swing set in the backyard when I saw, not three inches from my nose, a wasp...
- Gmail
- Anyone need a gmail account? (Google’s free email service with an incredibly generous amount of storage space) Preference will be given to amishrobot.com readers over those that were just searching for a gmail invite. UPDATE: I have given out a...
- Svengali
- My almost three-year-old son Reese and I have been watching Olympic volleyball. He loves it. An Olympic side-note: If your wife, like mine, makes you watch gymnastics, there is a simple way to get the channel changed. All you...
- Do Not Attend This Concert
- A new hero has arrived, and he is here to tell you, You Have Bad Taste In Music. Watch as he tries to save fans of Justin Timberlake & Christina Aguilera & Linkin Park....
- Oldest Trick in the Book
- I thought the whole helmet-on-a-stick-to-draw-enemy-fire-trick only worked in the movies!...
- Wales 2
- OK, I have been meaning to write more about my trip to Wales, but I lost my notebook. That is too bad since I am sure the other stories were hilarious, and you were all waiting breathlessly to hear...
- You Grow Up and You Calm Down
- Adrienne and I are expecting another child. This is a late notice; the due date is Oct 3rd, I just haven’t gotten around to writing about it until now. The baby is a girl, and that worries me a bit....
- Mothra
- Martha Stewart Gets 5 Months in Prison NEW YORK - Domestic icon Martha Stewart was handed a prison term of just five months Friday for lying about a stock sale. After asking the judge for leniency, she emerged defiant from...
- An Acquired Taste
- Reese is clearly not a Sonic Youth fan. I was listening to Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star when Reese said, “What is that noise?!” “It’s music.” “No it isn’t!” I guess he isn’t the first to say that…...
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- Journey to Wales
- I spent a week hiking in Wales. A week without a computer is pretty much unheard of for me. I bought a little notepad in the airport so I could write while I was on my trip. Confined so long...
- Evolutionary Failure Part II
- I already knew, that to some degree, I am an Evolutionary Failure, but this trip reinforced that. I got sunburned in Wales. No, I didn't think it was possible either, but I pulled it off. I looked in the mirror...
- Last Minute Vacation Hijinks
- In a fit of last minute vacation insanity I am joining my father for a 50 mile walk across Offa’s Dyke in Wales. Wales, now that is a country where my skin belongs. Maybe in a cave in Wales. I...
- Free Your Mind
- You people that don’t operate in a state of constant sleep deprivation need to wake up. Literally. I mean it. Quit sleeping so much. I tend to go to bed around 1:30 am and get up around 7 am. I...
- Million Dollar Idea #106
- I am not going to bother contributing to my 401k anymore. I have a new plan. It is very simple, when I hit retirement age I am just going to go back to school. I will take out several hundred...
- Coffee and Stars
- I wrote this in March while sitting in a Starbucks in Fullerton California with California Stars in my head. A coworker just IMed me and we tried to joke about me— the Mormon in the Coffee Shop. Neither of us...
- When Animals Heart Attack
- I once watched a lizard have a heart attack as it ran up a wall. I suppose it’s possible that the lizard didn’t have a heart attack…maybe it slipped and fell to its death. One minute scurrying sure-footedly, the next,...
- Is My Brain OK?
- This morning I put on my pants and noticed that they seemed a bit shorter. The first thought to come into my head was, “You shrank my battle pants!” For those of you who may not remember the excellent game:...
- People Unclear on the Concept
- In a bid to lure young college graduates, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has become a [Richard] Florida disciple. Last year, she launched a statewide “cool cities” program. In doing so, she donned a pair of sunglasses and promised a future...
- Fair & Balanced
- Now, Al Jazeera, I am not an expert on constructing unbiased surveys, but aren't "cold-blooded murder" and "justified" mutually exclusive? View Larger Image Also, unless you want to be lumped in with the Weekly World News, maybe you shouldn't have...
- Omarosa Prime
- I sat down to write an entry ridiculing Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the standout psycho-freak of The Apprentice. I was going to write a fake biography for her, something like, "Omarosa overcame a difficult childhood. Raised by a rabid pigeon until age...
- Never Center the Subject of Your Photo
- Love Letter?
- Adrienne was cleaning out the garage today and she stumbled on the first letter I ever wrote to her. Mrs. Blumer, If your damn dog doesn't shut up I am going to shoot it! Can't a man get a decent...
- Stuccopecker
- I was sitting by a window talking to a coworker today when some motion in my peripheral vision distracted me. I turned and looked out the window and saw what looked like snow at first. It wasn’t snow, it looked...
- Dear T-Mobile
- Great customer service exchange forwarded to me by my friend Josh. From: T-Mobile Customer Care Reply-To: T-Mobile Customer Care To: joshmcallaway@---.com Subject: I just signed up for a T-Mobile plan, and I am absolutely amazed that I can't... [Incident: 040203-001679]...
- California Stars: The Movie
- I took a couple photos every half hour or so on my drive to california. California Stars: The movie (3.6MB Quicktime) You probably don't want to attempt watching this on a dial-up connection....
- California Stars
- I am sitting in Starbucks in Fullerton CA writing a report for work. How I came to be in Fullerton is a story in and of itself. It involved my family being down here and me being in Utah, a...
- International Man Of Leisure
- Strasky and Hutch
- How many of these posters do you think they printed with the wrong URL? They obviously never caught it or they wouldn't have let someone else register the domain StraskyandHutchMovie.com. This part cracks me up: If you are from Warner...
- Chicks Dig Mustaches
- The longest I have ever gone without shaving is one month. Last month to be exact. All that hair growing took some serious effort, so I wasn't about to just shave it all off without a second thought. I used...
- La Tormenta Intestinal
- I am just waiting. I know it is coming, and I know there is nothing I can do about it. I guess I could attempt to check myself into the hospital as a preemptive measure, but I’m not sure they...
- Enjoy My Pain
- This year, instead of a new year’s resolution to exercise more, I settled on just harboring a negative body image equivalent to a 15 year-old girl with an eating disorder. This self-loathing has worked in a way that resolutions never...
- Million Dollar Ideas #105 A and B
- A. Bug Colosseum I want to sell a little plastic colosseum and supply bugs to fight in it. Imagine the fights you could have! OK, I can actually only imagine making a Praying Mantis fight other bugs, but I am...
- Housekeeping
- Comments are now fixed. I didn’t realize they were broken until Eric kindly emailed me today and told me....
- The Pipes, The Pipes
- I was getting a drink from the drinking fountain by the bathrooms at work when I heard a toilet flush, and suddenly the water pressure in the fountain dropped. Logic didn’t matter, the drinking fountain was now firmly associated with...
- Not a Swearing Man
- I am not generally a swearing man. I don’t have a problem with words like “damn” and “hell”, but that is about the limit for me. Even in sports, where you can get thrown out of a game for not...
- Razing Eyebrows
- Adrienne had some coupons for an Aveda salon, so I got to get my haircut at a much nicer place than I would normally go to. At the end of my haircut the hairdresser suggested, “I could trim your eyebrows...
- 3:24am
- At 3:24 in the morning when you are reading A Moveable Feast and every sentence makes you smile and the snow is piled up in the street when you look out the window, and that makes you smile too, waking...
- Happy Holidays
- Bio-Hazard
- I will admit that I was puzzled for a while, but now I am on to you. That’s right U.S. Bio-Warfare researchers, the jig is up. The doctor said I just got the flu on top of bronchitis, but I...
- Wires and Waves
- As I talked with Jed I suddenly lost my internet connection. I looked up and saw that my wife was microwaving something. I have a wireless network in my house, and through the wonder of the horrible wireless antenna that...
- The Spirit Of Self-Blasting Explosion
- Second only to the Iraqi Information Minister is the North Korean Central News Agency. Just look at these "We-write-like-Russians-in-the-80's" Cold-War-cool press releases: U.S. Imperialists' Aerial Espionage on DPRK Union members, youth and students vow to vent their spite Anti-U.S. posters...
- Greatest Pick-Up Line
- I will now tell you the story of the greatest pick-up line of all time. In college I was in an enormous biology class, we’re talking like 600 people, that met in a huge auditorium. We were discussing genetics and...
- Note On Girl I Saw at Modest Mouse
- The best way to describe her dancing would be to liken her to an epileptic water-buffalo, but that would be cruel, so i won’t. Instead, I will just say, she was Doin' The Cockroach yeah! (I really wouldn’t have given...
- Amishrobot Hijacked for Benevolent Purposes
- That’s right, I hacked into my darling husband’s site to tell one and all it is his birthday today. He is my favorite person in all the world so I feel compelled to let you all know. —Adrienne...
- Science Is Hard
- I have two hypotheses and I am having a very difficult time proving or disproving them because they are so similar in likelihood. Nothing in college prepared me to solve this one. Either: I have a cold. Last night a...
- Bolt
- Evolutionary Failure
- I have bitten the inside of my lip 5 times in the past two days. Really bitten it. Four days ago i bit the side of my tongue so hard that I begged Adrienne to knock me out. BIting your...
- Popcorn Alarm
- The alarm is on the dresser, which is as far from the bed as is possible, so that I will have to get up and out of bed to turn it off. This is to keep me from snoozing the...
- Ghost ship
- Today I passed an old man in a 45 foot Cadillac, who I believe was dead at the wheel. No, not asleep, dead. His jaw hung down and his head was tilted back. I am guessing he died with cruise...
- Dear Pfizer
- Dear Pfizer, I write to you today with a product idea that will surely make us both rich. I have come up with a new product sure to catch on with generation X and Y, and nerdy programmers of all...
- The Crock Hunter
- I am watching Animal Planet’s In Search of the Giant Anaconda with Austin Stevens. bq. “Having tackled the most venomous snakes in Africa, Austin Stevens seeks out the largest and most powerful snake in the world. A snake which can...
- If I Had My Own Colosseum...
- I would make the squid fight the London bus (Or maybe 3 polar bears, I haven't decided yet). I stole this from this bbc article. Kudos to the graphic designer....
- Dear Used Car Salesmen of the World
- Dear Used Car Salesmen of the World, Having recently shopped for a used car I thought I would point out an area that the vast majority of you could stand to improve in: TRY NOT TO BE THE MOST DISGUSTING...
- King Medicine
- There really aren't many things that make me want to cry, and in spite of the angsty nature of the last few posts, I am really doing well, and am quite happy. But then joe has to go and post...
- The Leaves are Changing Early
- Stuck In Neutral
- Adrienne isn’t back yet. After work I tried to rent a movie. I went to the store and spent all of two-and-a-half minutes walking past the rows of DVDs before flipping them off and leaving. I went to the bookstore,...
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- The Bachelor
- Adrienne and Reese are out of town for a week, leaving me to my own devices. My devices are apparently very very very boring. I have spent a lot of time sitting in my underwear eating cold cereal and watching...
- I Know Where the Summer Goes
- The air is getting cooler. I like to stick my arm out the window as I drive to work and feel the cool air blow across my forearm and occasionally scoop into my sleeve and billow-out my shirt. It feels...
- Nice Day for a Sulk
- In a bit of a funk. No, not feeling funky. That would be a good thing. The worst part, I have no real good reason. Hoping that the proper application of therapeutic music will snap me out of it. Any...
- Sobig
- In the past 5 days I have probably received 50 or 60 emails with the Sobig Virus. My primary computer is a Mac, and I also have a Windows 2000 box that is fully patched, sitting behind a firewall, and...
- Dear Penrod Company
- From: josh Date: Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:17:55 AM US/Mountain To: buzz.heidt@thepenrodcompany.com Subject: Corporate Figurehead Position Dear Buzz Heidt, President of The Penrod Company After looking at your board of directors on your website I notice there are no Penrods....
- Shareholders' Report
- As of August 2nd, Amishrobot.com has been around for two years. Actually the real anniversary was probably last month some time, but August 02, 2001 is the date of the first post on the site. As a courtesy to Amishcorp™...
- Sonofa
- OK, so here is why I need to quit my job. I analyze interfaces (mostly websites) and try to make them easier to use. One side effect of this is that I can't walk down the street without seeing a...
- Angst In My Pants
- If you have ever wanted to make an estimate of how many people will be in Hell, let me help—start by counting the landlords, insurance agencies, and movie theater concession stand price-setters. I went to the movies the other day...
- Guess What's For Dessert!
- I stopped by the grocery store on my way home from work today. The lady in line in front of me had an unusual assortment of groceries. These are the exact items that were in her cart, no more no...
- Psy Ops
- I think today I invented the ultimate line in all of trash-talkdom. While playing foosball (yes, I used to play Division 1 volleyball, now I play foosball) today I repeatedly hit a devastating angle shot against a coworker. This line...
- God of Thunder
- Last night as we were getting Reese (not quite two-years-old) ready for bed a thunderstorm rolled in. Lightning flashed and thunder shook the windows. Reese got excited and wanted to go outside. I decided we should drive up a hill...
- Future Man
- The original Bottle Rocket Script [via bitterpill.org] DIGNAN So who's going to know? BOB My brother. ANTHONY Future Man. BOB Who? ANTHONY Future Man. You know. Cause he looks like he's from the future. DIGNAN He looks like he was...
- Rilo Kiley at Kilby Court
- Please do not steal my photos. These are protected by a Creative Commons License M. Ward opened for Rilo Kiley. We actually had a baby sitter, so it was the first show Adrienne and I both went to in...
- Hot Tweet Tweet
- If you can't get excited about a big fireworks display there are two options: You are trying way too hard to be cool. You are dead inside. PS: My little boy Reese called the fireworks "Hot tweet tweets!" I think...
- Special Agent Conrad Uno
- The other night at about midnight i was getting ready to go to bed and Adrienne was up talking with her sister when the doorbell rang. Adrienne got to the door first, and there was no one there. I grew...
- My Boy
- Things fall Apart
- This entire post is copyrighted,trademarked, stealing verboden. Thank you. Adrienne and I passed an abandoned house the other day. It couldn’t have been more than 60 years-old. It was off the side of the freeway, in a stand of trees....
- Radio Silence
- Amish Radio is broadcasting once again! Due to a screw-up by GoDaddy my domain was expired in their records. This took amishrobot down for several days. If you have sent me an email in the past 5 days, I did...
- You are welcome
- 2 links that will, no doubt, bring you great joy. Unless you are somehow averse to enjoying anything. In that case, please leave. First, the greatest product review ever written. I defy you to read this and not want to...
- How About a Book on Hypocrisy?
- Every tuesday I do usability testing at work from 8am—5pm, with a one hour break for lunch. Eight people come in for about one hour each. they often come late which drives me crazy since it can cause a lateness...
- Hazards of Direct Linking
- Since no one has been able/willing to translate the comments about Reese on http://kimiya.persianblog.com/, and since the owner of the site is directly linking to an image on my server, I have stepped up my plea for a translation. View...
- We Have the Technology
- I am watching Ripley’s Believe it or Not! (only the highest quality for me) and they are going to drop the world’s largest rubber band ball from an airplane over the mojave desert (I am no physicist, but I think...
- Dear Internet, Translate This Page
- Dear Internet While looking through my referrer logs I noticed several hits from http://kimiya.persianblog.com/. I am always curious to see who is linking to me, and was intrigued by a Persian website finding something interesting on ye olde amishrobot so...
- Dear Internet, What Headphones Should I Buy?
- Dear Internet, I am looking for the best pair of headphones that $50 or less can buy (preferably ear-bud style). Any recommendations? Thank you, Josh...
- Is This So Wrong?
- I want to get a food handler’s permit and then go to the grocery store and paw through all of the produce—touch each and every last apple. Open up packages of ground beef and make little sculptures out of them....
- Adrienne
- This morning I came into work and checked a voicemail that I hadn’t noticed before I left yesterday. It was my wife, Adrienne. The interesting thing about an Adrienne voicemail is that it never sounds like a recording. I always...
- Killing Machine
- The world has never seen battles as fierce as these: Bad Day on the High Sea Killing Machine My money is on Bea Arthur and the Squid, but that is only because Flutter Maul isn’t in the fight....
- Fix Or Repair Daily
- I was just looking at consumer reports and I am ashamed to be an American. Someone enlighten me here, is it something genetic? Why can't Americans make a decent car? Reliability risks These cars have shown several years of much-worse-than-average...
- 4:20 a.m.
- This morning I woke up early and got ready for work. Adrienne was still asleep when I went back to our room to kiss her goodbye. As I bent over to kiss her I saw this transcript of my sleep-talking...
- The Grass *Is* Greener
- Summer seems to have arrived. My little boy watches out the window as I mow the lawn yelling, “Daddy, Daddy, non newew!”(that somehow means lawnmower). So we bought him a toy lawnmower. When I got back from work we...
- Mellow Sonic Wall
- I have been using Kung-tunes (and Kung-Log) for a while now. Great little applications made by Adriaan of Kung-foo.tv (I still owe you some $ Adriaan). On my homepage you can look over to the right and see what song...
- Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
- I was doing some computer spring cleaning and I stumbled on some photos from when Adrienne and I went to Europe. I really wish we could go back, I feel almost homesick when I see these. Maybe it is ancestral-homesickness....
- photos.com
- Dear photos.com, A couple of questions about your service. When looking at the search results for the phrase, "old man face", is it normal for coworkers to walk by and think you are looking at document.write('g' + 'a' +...
- I Agree With the Author
- My first automatically generated comment spam! It was hard for me to figure out this was spam because most people who comment on amishrobot simply say, "I agree with the author". A new comment has been posted on your blog...
- Workers of the World Unite!
- Happy May Day! Are you working only 8 hour days?...
- Croutons
- As many of you know, Apple just launched a music store. The interface is really pretty nice. One thing that jumped out at me was their use of breadcrumbs. You know those little trails at the top of the page...
- More Hideousness
- Against my better judgment I have posted more photos from the Chicago trip...
- Letters from Chicago
- Letters I wrote from Chicago, then forgot to mail, so I hid in our mailbox when I got home. Letter 1 Adrienne & Reese, I am sitting here in an enormous park overlooking the lake and downtown Chicago. I can...
- Next time I am flying Fed-Ex
- I am sitting on a Salt Lake bound flight right now, I have been reading Fresh Styles for Web Designers (generously given to me by Jason Fried), listening to The Very Best Of Elvis Costello And The Attractions, and reflecting...
- Look Away, I Am Hideous
- One of the secrets of good photography is to take a ton of pictures and only show your best. In a daring experiment, I have taken very very few photos, and now I am going to show almost all of...
- Internet Friends
- I will post some chicago photos tonight. I am sitting here in the 37signals office taking a lunch break from a very interesting workshop. I just remembered a hilarious incident that happened in a usability test a week or so...
- Chicago
- I am leaving for Chicago tomorrow. I am excited to be going to the 37signals Contingency Design Workshop. I will be there until Saturday evening. Anyone have any suggestions about what I should see while I am there?...
- Living in a Republican's paradise
- From a chat with Dad, who is in California: Dad: I am pleased, just got a 15 yr old car smogged Me: Well I just got a 20 year old car smogged Me: though I am in utah Me: and...
- Strep Update
- First: I am conquering strep throat through sheer force of will. I predict total recovery in two days (we are not going to talk about how I am starting to cough and be congested). Second: I am watching Ronin on...
- Don't Bother Me, I'm Retching
- Dear Carl's Jr,2 steps to success:Bring back those old crinkly fries.Fire Satan, who you have obviously hired to do your advertising. Your commercials have destroyed any desire I ever had to eat your food. Sincerely, Josh Penrod...
- Strep Experiment
- I am pretty sure I have strep throat. I felt great until last night when I started getting a sore throat. Then this morning at 4am I woke up because my throat hurt so bad. Checked in the mirror and...
- Snappy
- I have just been informed that the following does not count as a real apology: "I am sorry for being snappy with you.. I mean snippy. Snippy...snappy...snippy. I was snippy, but I am sure I was also pretty snappy when...
- Steve Gets Hit By The Ftrain
- If any of you were wondering what Steve Burns (the former host of Blue's Clues) was up to, he is being abused by Paul Ford under the pretext of an interview about Steve's new music career. 75,000,000 Toddlers Can’t be...
- The Searing Pain Means it's Working!
- I got my haircut today. The girl cutting my hair washed it with Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Oil Shampoo. I could feel her every breath on my scalp for the next hour. Now, I don't want to debate the merits...
- Bring the Noise!
- One challenge of working form home is not being distracted by the supernaturally cute Reese or the incredibly creepy transparent guy on tv. Blackhole media to the rescue! I am using their free “pink” noise generator, appropriately called Noise. It...
- (not so)Slim Goodbody
- Working from home today, and some PBS for kids show is on tv. It is giving me a major childhood flashback. Do you remember the guy who wears the suit with the organs and blood vessels on it? I don’t...
- The Christian Astronauts
- My new favorite song ever, Count Down and Blast OFF (mp3), by the musical geniuses, The Christian Astronauts. I have listened to it at least 35 times today. I recommend you do the same. Via Show and Tell Music...
- Note To Fellow Passengers
- I will be flying to the Washington DC area on what promises to be the eve of war with Iraq. Out of courtesy to my fellow passengers, this letter: Dear Fellow Passengers, We will be flying together at a time...
- Why Not Freedom Kissing?
- Dear American Restaurants, If I walk into your establishment and you are serving "Freedom Fries", I am going to give you a "Freedom Kick In the Groin"™ . Sincerely, Josh Penrod P.S. You are getting better. The last time...
- UTOPIA
- I can hardly type through the tears. I just got a letter from the city. Modem users like Dan, may not want to read this. Dear Resident: The City of Orem has joined with 16 other Utah cities to work...
- Turn It In
- I was looking through my log files, and I noticed that my site is being scanned by Turnitin.com, We prevent and detect plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to billions of pages of content located on the Internet and our proprietary...
- Ready For Anything
- In an attempt to make my little corner of cyberspace a bit safer I have redesigned the site. I believe this will render me safe from all chemical weapons, hacks, viruses, and denial of service attacks. I did this in...
- Soggy Airline Mechanic
- I am a usability researcher. I conduct tests on websites and find out what is confusing for people and then I make recomendations to improve them. I don't put any effort whatsoever into the usability of this website because I...
- Marketing Masterminds
- From: josh penrod Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:23 PM To: info@colgate.com Subject: Herbal White Beaver Dear Colgate, I just saw your commercial featuring "Mr. Beaver" and I am concerned. Correct me if I am wrong here, but it...
- Attribution Error
- 3 things I commonly interpret as signs of divine favor. Waking up before my alarm goes off. Any and all precipitation. Good songs on the radio when I drive to work. ("Watching the Detectives" was playing as I pulled into...
- I am a scientist
- A friend told me about when he was a kid, he and a friend came across another kid who was pulling a dead cat out of a ditch, they asked what he was doing and he replied in a robotic...
- Wearable Computing
- The obvious next step in technology is wearable computers. Apple just introduced a step towards that with a ski jacket with iPod controls built into the sleeve. Not bad looking at all, but apple has nothing on this guy! Who...
- Wandering Salt Lake
- Duane and I wandered Salt Lake and saw his brother-in-law play drums at the speed of light. I took a few photos, many of which feature my head quite prominently. Update: I took down the old galleries on amishrobot and...
- Bishop Allen
- I stumbled on this band, Bishop Allen, and I love them. They have an album out, Charm School, and you can download several MP3s on thier site.Here are some sample lyrics for you: And I tell you over and over...
- Busiest Man Alive?
- Today, while I was in the bathroom I hear a cell phone ring. The only other guy in the bathroom, who happened to be at the urinal at the time, answered the phone! How busy can you be that you...
- 4.5
- Got back from Denver on Sunday. John and I went to see Joe’s opening at the Cordell Taylor Gallery. The show was called 4.5 It was amazing! Joe’s art blew me away and there were tons of people there. You...
- Urban Exploration
- There is just something about “going places you’re not supposed to go.” My twin brother and I once tried to infiltrate the steam tunnels under BYU. It has been done many times, but we didn’t know where they entrances were....
- Note to self #1
- When someone says something that indicates they aren’t feeling that good about themselves, do not say, “Nice self-esteem loser!”...
- Che Robot
- Today I realized there was a void in my life. I am 27 years old. I have a wife, a child, a house, a college degree…. but something has been missing. A nom de guerre! I do not have a...
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- These satellite recordings are so cool! I am currently using one as my ring-tone, which probably drives everyone crazy. Update A lot of people are coming here looking for the band Sigue Sigue Sputnik (but everyone spells it Zig Zig...
- Handy Man
- We are in the house. Most everything is still in boxes, but we are slowly getting situated. We still don’t have the phone set up, but of course we already have high-speed internet. So far I have managed to break...
- This pink house
- Well, we bought a house. We picked up the keys last night. Adrienne and I jokingly call it “The House that Logic Bought”. It for sure isn’t our dream house, but it would be ridiculous not be overjoyed to be...
- The Gobbler
- You absolutely have to look at every page of this site to appreciate The Gobbler. I looked at every page. It took 3 days for my vision to return to normal, and I now vomit whenever I see the color...
- )( Amish Radio
- I returned the first wireless hub after a couple days of trying to make it work. I bought a second hub (netgear model MR314) and attempted to get it working. After 2 hours of swearing under my breath and one...
- Alpine Loop
- This morning my brother John and I decided that we should put off working for the man for a couple hours, so we drove up the Alpine Loop at 8am and took some photos. More pics in the just uploaded...
- The Wu-tang Frontier
- Last night Adrienne and I watched a re-run of the first episode of Frontier House. I am afraid I am totally addicted. It is great to watch the Clune Family living some sort of reverse Beverly Hillbillies existence. They had...
- b-day
- Happy Birthday Adrienne! *Adrienne took this picture...
- The Mirror Project
- Reese and I make an appearance on the mirror project....
- A plea to web developers
- Man, I wish my site got more traffic because everyone web developer alive needs to read How to Create Pop-Up Windows by aaron boodman of youngpup.net. Aaron wrote this about a month ago, but now I am as annoyed as...
- Fall
- MIT and OpenCourseWare
- “MIT and the OpenCourseWare team are excited to share with you a first sampling of course materials from MIT’s Faculty. We invite educators around the world to draw upon the materials for their own curricula, and we encourage all learners...
- tiBook
- Web Enabled Appliances and Joe
- Read this. I mean it, do it!...
- Everywhere in denver 2
- A photo from the 2nd Denver gallery....
- More Printing Press Photos
- I have posted a gallery of more photos from the printing press shoot. These are all uncropped. I really should have cropped them, but: A. I am lazy B. I am lazy...
- You're not punk and I'm telling everyone.
- I went for a walk and was blasting music on my mp3 player. I was totally feeling the music. You know when you can just feel the songs in your bones— and I was feeling so PUNK when I suddenly...
- Woo Hoo!
- The B&W photos on this site were taken by me. I am just a little excited to see my work out there like that. They were masterfully put in place by Josh Callaway of Kiora....
- This is the way the world ends
- In honor of our fallen heroes, FREE MEDIUM FRIES The coupon has been taken off line, but Burger King was giving Medium fries “in honor of firefighters killed Sept. 11 Cant let those tragedy and food cross-marketing opportunities slip past!...
- Operation You May Want to Stand Back From Our Republican Administration
- Since a war with Iraq seems inevitable I took the liberty of using the Ftrain American Military Operation Name Generating Device to come up with some suggested code names. Operation Don’t Piss off the Gunship Operation Ready-for-CNN Sunset Operation World-destroying...
- Everywhere in Denver
- I just discovered that I never linked to this gallery of pics from our trip to Denver to visit Joe and Michelle. Enjoy....
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- Mac
- I am really starting to think my next computer will be a Mac. I have used Macs and PCs both pretty equally over the past few years, but I never really thought of buying one until recently. The release of...
- I Dream of Art
- A friend is randomly mean to me. This part of the dream is vague, but I think he was chewing me out because we were playing baseball and I threw the ball over his head (That would have been a...
- Irony
- If it didn't fill me with murderous rage, I would think it was kind of funny that our bug-tracker program is full of bugs....
- Annoying Habit #1 (Of a possibly infinite series)
- I often force Adrienne to sit down and listen to a song while I hover over her and demand she have a semi-mystical experience. So far this week it has been a selection of Rilo Kiley, Modest Mouse, and Neutral...
- PHP
- The mySQL mayhem wasn’t really mayhem. Took about 10 minutes to get it fixed. The real mayhem lies in the php. My webserver throws a 500 error on me if I try to make the index page a php page....
- mySQL
- The old posts will be back as soon as I sort out the mySQl mayhem...
- Epidemia
- Holga shots by Joe Penrod...
- Technical Harassment
- I was telling some coworkers about my experience talking with one of the software engineers. He is a great guy, but after a few minutes he began using less words than acronyms, and showing me code that i couldn’t comprehend....
- The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes
- Lots of excellent stuff on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace site For example:The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba, and the Counterrevolution (161k pdf). Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas I am inclined to think that...
- Must...focus... rage!
- I am concentrating so hard, but the servers of Netster.com haven’t burst into flame yet. I am sure you have heard of netster.com, every time you mistype a url, there they are. Their misanthropic superhero flexing at you, taunting you....
- Chinese Army Hack Attack?
- CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. The amishrobot ministry of propaganda has come up with a campaign to rally americans for the coming battle. (and if a name hasn't been chosen for it yet, might we suggest...
- Summer Goth
- The other day it was about 80 degrees and I drove past a sweaty young goth clomping down the street in boots and a heavy cape. Seeing his pain, I came up with a solution for heat-opressed goths everywhere. SummerGoth.com...
- Tragedy
- it would take a victor hugo to say what needs to be said, and i am not he....
- I interpret this event to mean I am on the road to riches.
- I had to get a crown on a tooth. Being poor, and the holder of crappy insurance, I had to choose a silver crown instead of movie-star-white. (There was only something like a $400 difference in price). The tooth impression...
- Job Offer Imminent
- Waiting for ReadyMade to reply to my latest letter. The letters are in chronological order, rather than the most recent first, as you are used to seeing in emails. Scroll down to see the latest salvo in my employment war....
- Salsa of Death
- The devil himself posted this recipe for Chevy’s Salsa! We grew jalapenos and tomatoes in our garden this year. I was looking forward to making my own salsa, which I had done with great success last year. This year I...
- knee
- Update From Adrienne, Well, we’re home from the hospital and Josh is sound asleep. Everything went well. Dr. Jackson said it turned out that he didn’t have a meniscal tear after all. It seemed like he attributed the pain mostly...