The 100 Bullets comic book series (I just finished reading the 13th and final collection) was fascinating, nearly genius, and obsessively engaging right up to the end ( Read more... )

That was a good burn. Excellent weather meant excellent days, which means good interaction and talking to people and seeing things.

This is how I burn, it was good.

I was made aware of this by Tosh.0 (worth watching from time to time). Some think it's fake but I seriously don't care. The whole story, from start to finish is beautifully told:

Subway Bully

Almost as good is Tosh breaking down the action:

Breaking it down

CNN.com has a column from Conservative David Frum about Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. And same-sex marriage. It's intriguing from a rhetorical perspective. The point he's trying to make is that the latest Palin/Johnston break-up (they're not-not-not getting married) is more relevant than the same-sex debate when trying to evaluate the status of ( Read more... )

Saw two posts in Facebook that are marginally related plus one that is simply awesome, and all are worthy of comment.

There's this scary piece. My favorite part is the Christian church leader who, with no irony (or sense of history) says of Islam "it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times ( Read more... )

As I feel myself aging (like right...now) I begin to understand more and more the befuddlment of my elders. I used make slow, patient, and loud explanations of "video game digital strategy guides" to my parents (who understood) and my grandparents (who never got it) with a lot of internal eye-rolling because, I mean, like, don't they get it?! It's ( Read more... )

When I was a kid a family friend gave me what can only be described as a Boy's Adventure Book. It was part of a series (similar to Peewee Harris or the Hardy Boys) but I only ever read the one. Now I want to know what it was and maybe someone out there can help me ( Read more... )

Co-workers of mine love, love, love Man vs. Food.

And so the 10 Taco Challenge was born. Ten Jack in the Box Tacos. Ten minutes. Five bucks to buy the tacos, five bucks in the pot. Winner takes all.

I did not win.

The almost-a-year-long project of building three new, bigger, stronger, faster bookcases is over. I officially and literally crossed it off my list.

I've wood-geeked all over the process with photos and descriptions in Flickr. You can find the set HERE, if wood-gasms interest you.


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NoNo and I dry fit the first of three bookshelves together today and routed the edges. I got better as we went along, remembering how to best use the nosiest machine in the shop. There will have to be some touch-up sanding ( Read more... )