I saw a beautiful thing today - a woman driving down the street, one hand pressing her cell phone to the side of her head, and the other hand shading her eyes from the sun. Darwin, where are you when we need you?! Oh wait, that's right, Santa Claus god says you're not real ( Read more... )

Last week my mom flew to Houston to visit her friend. Yesterday I heard hurricane Rita was increasing in intensity, so I called Mom to encourage her to come home early. She said she and her friend were currently in Shreveport, Northern LA, and she was trying to contact the airline to get an early flight home ( Read more... )

I love sharks. In fact, part of the reason I learned to dive was so I could see sharks up close, in the wild. So it makes sense that I've taken three separate trips to dive the area around La Paz, Baja California, which is famous for its schooling scalloped hammerhead sharks. During the day, the sharks congregate near El Bajo seamount, 80-120' ( Read more... )

It's true - the squeaky wheel gets the grease. But what about the other wheels who roll along, carrying their load without complaint ( Read more... )

I walked out to my car this morning on the way to the gym, barely missing a parking ticket. I pretty much slapped the DPT troll's claws off my car as I got to it. Then I get inside the car to discover some fucktard had destroyed the passenger door lock in order to break into the car. They didn't take the stereo but they did take the $2 in quarters ( Read more... )

I went to the gym today for the first time in 6+ months (yay me!) and paged through a discarded Cosmopolitan magazine to while the time as I was ellipticalling away. I don't know if Cosmo has gone through any changes since I last looked at one, but man, I have nothing in common with their target audience. I don't look like the people in the ( Read more... )

Here is something about me I bet most of my friends don't know - one of my main concerns in life, something I've been interested in since I was a child, is wildlife and environment conservation.

Conservation (or lack thereof) is also a topic which has frustrated me as long as I can remember. It's difficult to open a newspaper or a National ( Read more... )