The first rule of Beer Club:  You do not talk about Beer Club.

Our Beer Club held it's inaugural meeting last night at the Berkley Front in, uh, Berkley.  As the name implies, we are a group of guys who formed a club to drink beer.  Any excuse to drink, right?

But it's a good thing we only meet once a month.  It only took three pints over the course ( Read more... )

I've switched my literary social networking page from BiblioPhil to Shelfari, which, in my eyes, is far and away a better site.  I think a few of you might like it.

Here's my shelf.  Feel free to add me as a friend if you sign up.

There's also a Shelfari application on Facebook that will link to your Shelfari account.

Technology.

( The Obligatory Year-End Meme )

I'm not going to mince words on this foggy, post-Christmas work day:  My cousin got a Playstation 3 for Christmas and I am ( Read more... )

I came across a site recently called spokeo.com that allows you to see your friend's activity across the web, simply by typing in your e-mail address and password.  It then pulls your contacts from your e-mail contact list and displays everything they've done.  From updating an Amazon.com wishlist to posting a new blog on Myspace, it's all tracked ( Read more... )

There is only one thing more annoying than being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on my way into work.  And that's being stuck in bumber-to-bumper traffic for no reason.

Did you know that half of all traffic jams are caused by drivers who tap their breaks?  You didn't?  That's probably because I made it up.  But I would be willing to bet I'm not ( Read more... )

I enjoy sports for the escape they provide just as much as anyone else.  But when I read about the ticket sales the Tigers did after the trade for Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis, I can't help but think that the people buying these tickets could put their money toward something more useful.  Couple that with the news that the MGM Grand Detroit ( Read more... )

This says a lot about what's important to the average American citizen:

Yahoo lists top searches for 2007

Where are the search terms like "financial independence" and "personal health"? 

 1.  I'm amazed how quickly the e-mail piles up at work.  I've narrowed down my inbox from just over 3,000 to 121.  The ultimate goal, my friends, is to get below 100.  And keep it that way.

2.  If that was the last episode of The Office for season four, it was a damn good episode to end with.  I love the themes we see as the seasons progress and  ( Read more... )

Tonight I decided to take advantage of the mild evening and go for a run.  So I stretched, turned my iPod to shuffle mode, and took off.  The first song that came up was The Who's "Baba O'Riley".  The combination of the opening synthesizer loop, and my moonlit shadow running on the sidewalk, gave me the feeling of being in a Nike commercial, or ( Read more... )