Have you ever taken out the trash, mowed the lawn, or fixed the car?

Have you boasted about this to your friends or family, only to be asked: "What do you want? A friggin' medal?"

Yes. Yes I do want a friggin' medal!

And now I can have it! Thanks to the World Skills Competition, which was going on while gieves and I were in Canada. It's a biannual ( Read more... )

"We will breed with their women, and in time, our differences will be forgotten ( Read more... )

I have a rant all stored up, but alas, lack the time to type it up just now. I will sometime soon. For now, updates ( Read more... )

If you're not familiar with the foodie site Epicurious, it's a food magazine, recipe archive, and foodie community centered around an extensive database of higher-end recipes ( Read more... )

There's something about the moist heat of mid-August that seems unwelcoming to NFL football. It's a game best played in mud and snow ( Read more... )

By now, all of you have managed to read the 2000+ pages in the Universal Health Care bills that our leaders are trying to ramrod through Congress, right? Of course you have... (just like the politicians supposed to vote on them.)

Well, for those who have not, an interesting article popped up on CNN's "Most Popular" list today. If you haven't ( Read more... )

This is still a post that I'm not quite happy about yet, but I feel it's time to release it into the wild. If for no other reason than I've been promising it to a number of folks for awhile, and have been getting gently hassled about when it might see the light of day. It's unlikely that I'm going to be able to do much more on-the-ground research ( Read more... )

It looks like I have to exonerate mokatz for his comments on my post regarding the rebranding of the Sci Fi Network. Unknown to me at the time, this past weekend was the annual furry convention in Pittsburgh ( Read more... )

2009 has been a lot of things to a lot of people -- most of them bad. But one thing that it is clearly becoming is the Year of the Brand. Every company fighting for an edge is trying to re-brand their image. Find that magical insight that will make people spend money in a down economy ( Read more... )

I pride myself on being one of those people who can have temporally-distant friends. Meaning: I tend to hang out with the sort of people whom I can go YEARS without seeing, and then the next time we're together, pick up right where we left off. Being as generally spastic as I am in the rest of my life, this skill is pretty much the one thing that ( Read more... )