Category Archives: General Blather
Arepas
I have started making arepas again and the family loves them. via Arepas on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading
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 … Continue reading Continue reading