I really want to go to this nerdy lecture/reading on Wednesday, but I'll be traveling to Minneapolis/St. Paul for work instead. It's appropriately named Dorkbot - I copied the full description ( below the cut )

I'm trying to be a bit more regular in writing in here, so please forgive me if this is boring for a while. It'll take some time to clear off the rust ( Read more... )

Sunday ended up being a day of more injury and desperately needed recovery. After I turned butterfingers once again and sliced my thumb open cutting an apple (I swear, I do something like this once every six months - cannot forget the "cured meat" incident, or the "mandoline incident"), Marci and I headed to Chinatown for some full-body pummeling ( Read more... )

Today I think I finally feel recovered from Saturday, though my bruises might suggest otherwise. Another racing of the Idiotarod down, this year outfitted as the Hair Cult for Men:


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Let's say you had some hair. A whole LOT of hair. Bags and bags of hair clippings. How would you make a hair cannon?

(Yes, the Idiotarod is coming up.)

Following up on my lone publicly-stated resolution for the previous year, I can proudly announce that it was a one-hundred-percent success. I successfully gave up sports fandom for exactly one year. This meant no fantasy sports, no reading the NY Times sports pages, no checking Deadspin, and no watching sports on the tee-vee, unless it was in the ( Read more... )

TOP FIVE MOVIES OF 2007:

Blade Runner: The Final CutShockingly, I had never seen this movie in its entirety. I'd seen bits and clips here and there, but I never bothered taking the time to give it a proper viewing. And I'm glad that I didn't, because seeing it on a giant screen was a revelation. Marci, kind woman that she is, dragged me to it ( ( Read more... )

I only ever read on the subway anymore, so this list isn't as substantial as it could be.

TOP FIVE BOOKS OF 2007"Rabbit Run" - John Updike ( Read more... )

Finally, coming back at you with the first installment of my 2007 year-in-review ( Read more... )

This one's for you, Stephanie. And Hector.

It's not like I had high expectations. I would've taken a cheap Bloodsport parody and a few jokes revolving around paddles to the nether regions. But even that was too much to ask. Balls of Fury (no link, they don't deserve any promotion) was hands-down the worst movie I've seen in at least five years ( Read more... )