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. While I was [...]

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 the media [...]

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 than selection [...]

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 interesting physics [...]

You know, I’m all for Rumsfeld resigning. I’m all for Kerry shutting his opportunistic yapper, too. As with most things, no one person or group is to blame. What I want to know is: what ever happened to the idea of comporting oneself with dignity and honor? Lyndie England and the others have dishonored themselves [...]

WordPress is great. So far it’s caught 100% (after I turned on the feature) of my comment spam. The technique the spammers seem to be using the most is to embed links in an otherwise innocuous looking piece of prose. The most recent one turned out to use content from a book review of Beauty [...]

A relative requested some prints today, so I hit Shutterfly, a site I’ve used in the past. They appeared to be down so I googled for information about them. It’s been so long since I’ve used them, I thought maybe they’d gone out of business (they haven’t). While searching, I ran across an article whichthat [...]

This afternoon, I took an unexpected turn towards the Eastland School For Young Women when I read that Lisa Welchel (the actress turned home schooling mother who played Blair on the stunningly awful but mysteriously popular 80s sitcom Facts of Life) advocates a method of “creative correction” called “hot saucing.” “Hot saucing” is, apparently, the [...]

I must be mad. I’m thinking of having a third kid just for the cool gadgets.