So I was talking with my wife and a couple of her female friends last night about the guy with the gun and the aerobics class. This is the kind of thing that makes me crazy, the kind of thing that gives men a bad name. This is what makes women fearful of men, when most of us just want to love and protect you. This is what makes women afraid that ( Read more... )

Today I watched an episode of West Wing where one of the plots concerned funding for NASA. This is the quote that got me ( Read more... )

First of all in this second of all: is anyone still reading this? I'm sorry I haven't been updating, guys, for serious. I have no excuse. But gimme a while, I'll come up with something.

Second of all in this second of all: I'm seriously out of shape, bad enough where it's even annoying me. Also, money is tight. But I had a minor revelation: ( Read more... )

72°, 25% humidity, 5 mph winds. Man oh man. You folks can have your white Christmas, I'm perfectly okay down here.

So, I feel I should share something. If you were expecting a present from me this year, I feel I have to apologize for letting you down. Instead of buying gifts this year, I'm donating the money I would spend to the Pancreatic ( Read more... )

From Diesel Sweeties: would you rather be rich for being famous, or famous for being rich?

It would probably help to give you examples for each.

Famous for being rich: Paris Hilton. Kim Kardashian.

Rich for being famous: Jared the Subway guy. Joe the Plumber.

Discuss.

(I know I've not been around, like, at all. I'll try to be better.

For obvious reasons, I've been thinking about weddings lately. Mine, in particular. (Getting it out of the way: I can't invite all of you, Live Journal. Sorry.) There's been discussion with her parents while we're on vacation, and I expect more in the near future with my family since we're seeing them next, and the question that seems to keep ( Read more... )

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure, and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, Michael Reilly posted this reaction to a provocative article by Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic, titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

Here's the short of it: Carr says that the Internet is giving us ADHD in our reading habits. To which Reilly responds, "Duh." I can't argue it either, since I read more headlines than articles ( Read more... )

The truth of the matter is, if teenage girls were any more irritating to Roast Beef, his body would attempt to form a pearlescent enamel casing around them.

-title text of Thursday's Achewood

Achewood is a surrealist non sequitur comic with regular characters and continuity, and if that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you're right, but that ( Read more... )

I saw a full-on moped chopper, with the long fork and the small front wheel and the dude pedaling furiously while a lawnmower engine buzzed, driving on Congress Avenue this evening.

I love this town so hard.