Like a father of an accomplished yet somehow flawed offspring, I am both proud and I threw up a little in my mouth. Bon appetit ( Read more... )

The amount of coffee I drink in a day is not correlated with the number of hot girls working at Starbucks that day, although they do increase the enjoyment of my visit. This either means I'm not as bad a person as I might appear or that I'm really, really addicted to the bean.

When I was but a young man, a serious defect was found. It was not the crude presentation nor the abrasive manner, not the "I want to consume your flesh for it is sweet and delicate" way I looked at girls either - those, it turns out, were features. What I had wan an unhandled exception, in system.soul no less ( Read more... )

This is real. Frightening, unedited, unabridged, nothing was added, omitted or emphasized for any sort of misleading effect.


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You haven't seen the Watchmen yet? Why not? Go now ( Read more... )

Friends, Enemies, Future Girlfriends ( Read more... )

The 2010 winter olympics are a year away and I already hate them. Passionately. Desperately. I like winter sports a lot, and will likely be watching, but I hate the hype, the advertising, the crap and the borderline spirituality, and because the olympics are in Canada, you can't hide from it. And all that is bleakly contrasted against the unfolding ( Read more... )

This is an ode to my roommate. I expect bad things to come from this, as a harsh reprisal verse is bound to follow, though from some points of view this might sound more like a song of praise... Anyway, whatever. Here goes. Feel free to contribute your own pertinent poetry.My Aaron is ( Read more... )

...not giving a shit. There was actually more of a blog post here, but an exploration of the number of ways in which I increasingly don't give a shit doesn't exactly make for a gripping exposé. The gist of it is that, despite our conditioning to the contrary, no one's entitled to any specific victory, no matter how much we hope and try and struggle ( Read more... )

A funny thing happened today... if you're a nerd. I tried to update my firewall configuration and everything died. That's only slightly funny on its own but the cause of the whole mess is far more entertaining ( Read more... )