In case you were wondering what you’re reading right now, you can consult this article, dated 02/04/2008, which will explain it all. Now, I understand that this article wasn’t written with me in mind. There are plenty of Luddites out there to whom this is new information (even if the bit about Wil inventing the […]

we’re 18 messages short, and we have two days to get them. No biggie, if you’ll find someone who hasn’t sent something yet, and point them at 100emails4andrew@gmail.com!

Since we got these new cell phones the other week, I’ve been mildly obsessed with bluetooth, the cleverly named, short range wireless protocol with the really cool viking rune logo. In an effort to make my fancy bluetooth enabled phone communicate with my laptop, I ordered the optional bluetooth card (a postage stamp sized bit […]

Fred’s post over at slacktivist about Christian Groups in Austin TX using Interstate 35 as a focal point for badgering and hating on the gay community evangelism, based on the text of Isaiah 35:8, which talks about a “[high]Way of Holiness”. Seeing this article, I began to wonder what the scripture had to say about […]

I must be slipping. Until this week, I had never heard of Will It Blend? I bet Tom Dickson sells a ton of blenders. the Blendtec costs four hundred bucks, but can your fifteen dollar blender from the MegaMart blend fifty-three die-cast toy cars into a finely-granulated pile of powder? I know I want one.

One of my daily tasks around the office is to run a little application that attempts to re-process the data packets that, for whatever reason, did not post to the system the previous day. Anyway, this morning, before I set the job running in the background so I could take care of some other stuff, […]

There are some things that are common across all human cultures on this planet, independent of language, geography or creed. the smile, the power of touch… …and the hilarity inherent in the sound of a well-released fart. This universal fact of human nature manifests very early, too. At about ten weeks of age. Whenever Catherine […]

“Avast Ye, scurvy bilgerats, to the plank with Ye!” Yes, Friends, today is Semptember 19, known across the Wide World and the Seven Seas as Talk Like A Pirate Day, so give someone a hearty “Arrrrr!” today. I wisely haven’t told me kids about this yet…I don’t think their teachers would appreciate it (they both […]

In what could possibly be the best news ever, doctors finally come around to what we knew all along… A pint of Guinness a day is good for you. And in other news, upon changing the light fixture in my downstairs bathroom, the only thing the enhanced light is doing for me is showing me […]