Oh, God. This makes me giggle like a school girl. Especially since O’Reilly reads it. From the Village Voice – http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared…_with_those.php QUOTE Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Those Who […]

I’m not sure if anyone had heard but the comic strip Problem Sleuth at MS Paint Adventures had concluded last week. The author, Andrew Hussie, wrapped it up rather nicely by saying It’s hard to believe it’s done, I’m sure mostly for me personally. If you do the math, you’ll note I produced an average […]

The tag line for Pedro Arzipe’s Port Sherry web comic is "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man…". The  March 4, 2009 comic titled "The Obsolete Add-on" so deftly illustrates how far we’ve come with video games […]

“[They] took 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD’s and put them in RAID to make this awesome computer!” 😯 Holy moly that rocks. I mean, seriously. With the amount of stuff that I do that requires rendering, encoding, etc. that would be amazing. I wonder how much that would cost? Think of the possibilities! I would […]

I suppose I don’t even know why I’m writing this post. It is quite possible because I’m annoyed with the following people People who cheat on their mate People who get caught cheating People who can’t think of the various methods of catching a cheater Let me preface this post by stating, right off the […]

When Angela and I went to the Spy Museum a few weekends ago we mulled around downtown DC for a bit as well. After lunch at the DC Chophouse, we decided to head home. As we were walking back to the parking garage we passed the ‘Crime & Punishment Museum’. The Crime & Punishment Museum […]

Angela went to Mexico last week for a vacation. Yeah, yeah – I know, she was running away to meet with her Latin lover, Inigo Montoya. Anyhow, the day before she left, Angela and I decided to go have a pleasant dinner out. I was thinking of something nice and small – maybe a burger, […]

Robots have become an integral part of our society. They build cars, act as a sentry (South Korean | Metal Storm AWDS), Even though they are just a little ways away from becoming the ass kicking, bone crunching Terminators or Transformers they still manage to capture our imagination. We’ve seen movies like Metropolis, Blade Runner, […]

A lot of people have been remarking in the main forums about their need to workout, etc. I normally work out early in the mornings, somewhere between 4am and 6am. I have my iPhone app to help me chart my weight, my personal trainer, my gym memberships. I’ve considered doing p90x, Body For Life and/or […]

Maybe I’m getting my hopes up but I want to watch this movie. According to the movie synopsis: A coming-of-age comedy set in the summer of 1987 about an uptight recent college grad (Jesse Eisenberg) who is forced to take a job at a local amusement park when he realizes he can’t afford his dream […]

Let me preface this post by saying that I’m an old school video game junkie. During the golden age of arcades and stand alone machines, I couldn’t get enough of them. My friends and I would ride our bikes up to the airport in Norfolk, VA, and hang out there to play all the cool […]

One of the first speech synthesizers that I ever used was AskSam for the Commodore 64. You would type in words or phoenetically spell things and this representation of the human head would repeat it. It was both advanced and primitive for it’s time. My friend Mike & I would sit there and constantly try […]

The Daily Show Today has been a pretty busy day for me. After a good amount of work Angela and I were able to sit down and watch some television. Like most people, we no longer watch much live television. With Verizon FiOS, we record our shows and watch them on our DVR. We hunkered […]

There are several deal breakers in a relationship. You’re ugly Your potential mate doesn’t bathe/brush their teeth They punched your grandma in the neck Once urinated on your pillow Failed to save you from a mob of zombies Had problems communicating Yeah, it is that last little item that sort of took me be surprise. […]

As I write this I am laying down on the floor with one of my dogs, Farley, trying to get some sleep. When I originally started to write this post it was when I would try to sleep in my office with Tobey. After the devastating loss of my little giant I find myself sleeping […]

I like nakedness. Ok, I like it when it isn’t my nakedness. Seriously, do you really want to see me nekkid? I thought not. However, I did find the following site absolutely fascinating: Naked People. Keep in mind that these are pictures of both everyday men and women. I try to picture what people look […]

I really enjoy living in a metropolitan area. Sure, I don’t really live ‘in’ the city, but I’m close enough to it that I can romp around and marvel at the sites and sounds. [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3010228[/vimeo] These guys aren’t in DC. They’re a group formed by eight brothers + one friend and they’re called ‘Hypnotic Brass’ […]

Isla Fisher. Isla, Isla, Isla… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcnMgH7PwQs[/youtube] …I want to wrestle you.

You have to love technology. We no longer have to write letters or pick up the phone or send telegrams. We have both text and instant messaging to help us quickly and efficiently converse across geographic boundaries. After nearly 10 years together, how have Angela and I leveraged this technology? Angela: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1141662/Australians-comfort-badly-burned-koalas-best-friends-surviving-bushfires.html Angela: awww!! Me: […]

I realize that as I grow older my interests will become more and more narrow. It’s like that with every generation, isn’t it? It is the fundamental reason why old people hate the way young people dress, listen to music and behave. Ultimately I’ll be an old curmudgeon, sitting in my rocking chair at the […]

First off, let’s just get this out of the way: most of us know that I delight in eating odd things. I’ve had several posts on this blog detailing my triumphs and my failures eating everything from various forms of Easter candy to hamburgers to who knows what else. If it is fried, I’m all […]

[myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43874870[/myspace] Yeah, pretty much enough said.

I was reading through Crunch Gear and came across Smittens – mittens for lovers. Oddly enough, these things are available through one of my favorite stores, Restoration Hardware. Ok, really? REALLY? Trust me, I love my wife, Angela, but if we were to ever use these things I would expect us to have matching outfits. […]

Ok, let’s see – all major political parties whittled down to their best candidates? Check. Debates have taken place? Check. Elections completed? Check. Historic inauguration and new president begins work? Done. With all that said and done and out of the way I can’t wait for…oh, I dunno…people to shut up about politics. We’ve been […]

I have a problem lasting through multiple seasons of a reality show. Survivor? Yeah, I got bored with it when they started their second season. The Real World? I was able to watch New York, San Francisco, London and Miami and then I burned out on it. After the first season of American Idol I […]

It seems like an eternity has passed since Tobey died in our home. Since then we’ve run the gauntlet of emotions. For the most part we’ve come to accept that our puppy is gone and, due to his medical conditions, it was probably for the best. Last week he finally came home to us. His […]

The pain of losing my little giant, Tobey, is at times overwhelming. He was our baby, the most inncocent and ‘pure’ dog in our family. He had the face and personality of a clown, constantly smiling and laughing and always looking lovingly at Angela. He was her little boy, brought into this house when he […]