One’s perception makes a world of difference: I’m rather loving this whole “Coulson is badass” meme…

In a televised interview on Wednesday, President Obama announced that he personally supports the concept of same-sex marriage. This, of course, happened during a big information blackout for me (network problems at the office, followed by a lengthy subway jaunt and a stopover in Faerûn), so I haven’t really had the chance to react right […]

Starting right now, I resolve to live my life more in the manner of the stick figure narrator in today’s xkcd comic, because I suspect that it’s more fun that way: Introducing people to new stuff is fun. Watching someone discover something you love for the first time is sometimes just as good, if not […]

I must be doing something right if, inside a week, I can do more than fifty trail miles on a mountain bike, and top off the week by actually climbing a mountain: Also, along the way up that mountain? “Bear Resistant Food Storage Poles”. Yeah, I’m not nearly as sore and winded and beaten as […]

Around 3:30pm yesterday, I started putting together some disparate facts. I didn’t have to work on Friday. After a bit of checking around, I found that there were plenty of seats available for the midnight screenings of The Avengers in town. I wrestled with the implications of these facts on my afternoon bike ride (fifteen […]

Things have been really loud today, so I’ve been hiding inside the friendly bubble of insulating sound that my headphones provide. Why not track some of the stuff coming out of them? “Ribbon of Honor” – Innocent Nixon “Cool Rider” – Michelle Pfeiffer “Shut the Club Down” – Girl Talk “Stupid Thing” – Aimee Mann […]

I really don’t even have to point out the date anymore, do I? You people know what to do: Consider this your annual public service announcement.

So, last night I tagged along with the cub scouts on an outing to go see the local AA minor league baseball team, the Richmond Flying Squirrels, totally pound the Bowie Baysox into a pulp. It was a reasonably nice, if overcast evening out. If you’re familiar at all with minor league baseball, you know […]