The great Macaroni and Cheese Quest of 2007 was completed Monday night at approximately 6:45 PM ( Read more... )

I manage quality assurance at a small software company, and last December I created a series of test cases for a project we were working on. We make software for librarians, so all of the cases were fake books ( Read more... )

I realize I'm a month late for year end roundups but 2006 was monumental enough to justify some form of proper kiss off ( Read more... )

A bit self-indulgent this may be, but I'm a music nerd and we music nerds are all about the LIST LIST LIST so here we go:

( Don't let the suspense ruin your life, read my 2006 music roundup )

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I decided not to style my hair this morning as I had an early appointment to get it cut, but etiquette demanded that I not foist my untamed locks upon the virgin eyes of the world, and so I found myself searching throughout my condo for some kind of hat under which I could stuff my unruly tresses ( Read more... )

The Background:

Uwe Boll is quite possibly the worst director operating in mainstream cinema today, if by "mainstream cinema" you mean "movies so terrible they will undoubtedly pick up a derisive cult following." His preferred genre of mutilation is the cinematic adaptation of video games; Boll's recent roll of tripe includes House of the Dead, ( Read more... )

I was driving my car to work this morning while sleepily listening to NPR. The topic, I believe, was Ethanol gas.

"As consumers we Amercians have a large appetite," said the expert on the topic. "We like big cars, we like big houses..."

Without thinking I gleefully shouted, "I like big butts!"

It was about three months ago that the experience of entering the elevator and farting struck me as interesting. It wasn't the fact that this was an unusual experience for me, but instead the realization that this was merely another occurrence in a pattern of behavior. I had farted in that elevator many, many times before and I most likely would ( Read more... )