Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that’s really a misperception. Because actually it’s just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers. That’s one of the money quotes from […]

So, the weekend events proved to be both as enjoyable and as stressful as I expected. I’m really not complaining about any of it, per se; I enjoyed the company of some quite wonderful people, and, somewhat unexpectedly, I had the opportunity to be a bit of company for someone else who maybe needed it. […]

For no particular reason, I provide here a link to the American Top 40 pop charts from the week I was born. All told, there’s not a lot of quality there, especially #1, which straddles the line between hokey and oddly creepy pretty well (though I suspect there were at least a few jokes cracked […]

So, yesterday was the day that Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released his 2010 tax returns. Sure, this sort of thing isn’t a requirement, but it’s one of those things that you do as a candidate, because it’s an indication of trust and openness (“hey, I have nothing to hide!”) and because it gives voters […]

Because I always link this, here’s the State of the Union Drinking Game for your imbibing pleasure. I’m not sure I’ll be watching. I’m really tired.

I did a bit of sleep deficit spending this weekend; such is the toll of a busy weekend followed by a week during which rest did not come easy, followed by another busy weekend. Mostly it was Saturday that did me in. It was really the two-pronged assault of (1) the labor involved in helping […]

I knew someone had to be looking at this, but nobody really knows why approximately one in four people (including me) experiences photic sneeze response; that is, sneezing when the sun gets in one’s eyes. There have been several different theories about why this reaction exists, and several of them have been considered and abandoned […]

Today this site, along with thousands of others across the web, is going dark (from 8am to 8pm) to protest SOPA & PIPA, two bills currently flying through congress which will have wide-reaching consequences regarding security and freedom of expression online. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please visit American Censorship dot Org, […]

Apologies up front for the almost-certain crap quality of this post; I woke up this morning feeling, shall we say, pretty awful, and that will probably color just about everything I produce throughout the day, at least. So, sorry. Still, stuff and adventures and things happened this weekend, so I feel I ought to chronicle […]

Although I’ve been “blogging” in some form since 1995 or so, well before the word ‘blog’ was coined in 1997, in the form of various crappy personal “home pages” and a relatively popular unofficial fan-page for the band The Badlees at the height of their commerical success, the project which you find yourself currently reading […]