Friday evening when Andrew and I got back from the movies, I found my much beloved, if a little bloodthirsty, blue female ,betta dead. She’d been with us for about two years, which is a pretty good span for a fish, especially since a good bit of that time involved me learning the hobby. I […]

Someone at the BBC let this one slide; even if it is entirely factual. That doesn’t stop it from being perhaps the best headline ever: “Great tits cope well with warming” Not only that, they apparently protect commercial apple orchards from caterpillar damage! As I’ve said before, I am a snickering twelve year old.

I meant to post this one yesterday when I discovered it at 7am; I just didn’t get around to it. Of course, now I’m just getting wheaton’s sloppy seconds… Anyway, it’s surprisingly deep for a one-panel, stick figure cartoon. It starts out one place, a place I definitely recognize; a moment in time that I […]

Anyone who’s a parent today is aware of the constant stream of requests for funds and resources that follow students home from school. Ten bucks here for a field trip here, a request for pencils there…a never ending process to pick up the slack that municipal funding doesn’t cover. So, when I see a story […]

Maybe it’s because this one intersects so well with my current life experience, or maybe because thanks to this week, I can see the wisdom inherent in young Mr. Henson’s world view… But this piece caused me to laugh out loud…in the literal sense, not the webspeak sense. Had I more energy, I might have […]

One of the enduring realities of the internet is spam. We all deal with email spam, imploring us to “check out these wild pics!” or “please her NATURALLY” or buy “V1@gr@ and C1@l!5 CHEAP!”; messages offering refinanced mortgages, escort services, or random links to sites that cause one to doubt one’s faith in humanity, and […]

As a person gets older and gains more experience with the world at large, I don’t imagine it’s uncommon for he or she to ruminate on past behaviors and, in retrospect, find them abhorrent, and wish they could take them back, even if a valid case could be made that at the time, their earlier […]

I spent a little time this week working on some updates to put up over at MTKdC, detailing Mike’s latest recording gig with the Norwegian metal band Gaia Epicus. The sample tunes they have posted aren’t bad; a catchy throwback to 80s metal. I liked it. However, I LOVE the album covers. Absolutely LOVE them. […]

Enjoy your daily meaure of bad puns, most stolen shamelessly from punoftheday.com. Perhaps in reading this, my daughter will understand the concept, through example, rather than simple definition. Now matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery. She was only a whisky maker but he loved her still. The roundest knight at […]