I was touched yesterday when the first thing my daughter said to me when I got home was that she saved me something. She took a tiny package out of her pocket and handed it to me. It was half of a caramel candy. She saved half of a caramel for me. [...]
The Summer Olympics have concluded. Once again, athleticism, sportsmanship, and international good will, in my opinion, just barely edged out rampant commercialism and greed. Will the Olympics jump the shark? Maybe, but I don’t think it’s happened yet.
While watching the closing ceremony, I wished one of the athletes would have called out [...]
A strange turn-of-the-century postcard posted today by romanlily on Flickr:
strung up, originally uploaded by romanlily.
When I heard that Blockbuster was getting into the online video rental business, my first thought was “it’s about time.” Now that I’ve tried it, I think they should have waited a little longer to build up their warehouse network. With online rentals, one of the most important factors, possibly even more important [...]
I’ve just run across a very cool, very free platformer called N (via The Boji). Your character is a gold-collecting ninja dodging bad guys to survive. The stick-figure-ish character can pull off quite a few impressive stunts like scaling vertical walls; and he has many amusing ways to die, all driven by an [...]
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