I’ve had my differences with Microsoft products for years now, and have all but abandoned them in terms of my personal computing, though I always kind of ambivalently liked Bill Gates (even if I found The Road Ahead a little dull and meandering). Sure he helped conjure a huge, semi-evil multiheaded demon to torment us […]

I suppose I should have expected this… Really, how can you look at those little guys and not smile at least a little bit? I just wish I came up with it first!

I spent a few minutes cleaning the inside of the aquarium glass today during routine maintenance, thus making it possible to take some video of the baby fish (as well as everybody else in the tank) we’re raising. The baby mollies are, not surprisingly, the little black ones. You also see their mom, a red […]

While I do tend to worry about carrying a few extra pounds*, I don’t make a habit of regularly tracking my actual weight numerical weight. Checking in every couple of months is plenty for me. I tend to worry more about displacement than I do about gravity’s pull. Like most tall endomorphic types, I’m more […]

–click to make bigger at the source, and enjoy all the other wonderful comics at xkcd— I’m glad I got better. To the targets of my teenage infatuation, sorry for the inconvenience.

On Tuesday, I put in an order for one of this year’s “family” Christmas presents, dropping six figures’ worth of hotel reward points on a PlayStation 3. I put in the order now because a few years ago, it took this particular outfit about eight weeks to ship me an ipod, and wanted to give […]

very wet, but fun. And, on Sunday, I got charged $34.92 for a loaf of bread. I will perhaps elaborate later. I’m tired now.

It seems that Jen finally caught this silly internet meme bug, and threw the venerable "7 things" my way. I normally don’t play along, but I had a few minutes to kill… So… While I revel in being the black sheep of my family and social circle, and work hard at maintaining the sophisticated posture […]

Mount Carmel PA woman mistakes skunk for cat, gets sprayed. I really hope this wasn’t any one I know….

During our usual “it’s 9am, let’s go outside and gossip for ten minutes” break this morning, a couple of co-workers and I had a close enounter with a non-naitive species. Right outside our office (which is converted warehouse space) is a loading dock with some benches and vending machines. Next to our dock is a […]