The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)HighLevel 2 (Lustful)LowLevel 3 (Gluttonous)ModerateLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)HighLevel 6 - The ( Read more... )

Our trip to Italy was 7 days in Sicily and 3 in Rome. We happened to be in Rome the same night Tom Cruise was. There were about 200 people loitering outside his hotel waiting to glimpse the star. But... "It's frikkin' Rome!" How completely star-struck was a person be to waste hours waiting to see one in Frikkin' Rome ( Read more... )

With the election over, CNN is asking what sort of President we each believe we might be ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure most of you know that my twin brother forgot my birthday 6 years ago. I'm not so annoyed about that as I was; I'm really just mentioning it here to have an excuse to post this: Leave a comment  7 

Last week, I sent the following email to Crayola:

About six years ago, I wrote your company asking why you did not produce colors
by the names - Delayed Green, No Turn on Red, and Flashing Yellow. I was quite ( Read more... )

So, here are three pictures of - as one person who does not have a particularly high opinion of Mayor Street put it - "an award from one sort of vampire to another sort…":

The Award itself:

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In the late 80s, Game Designers' Workshop released a combined role-playing and miniatures-based ship warfare game setting called Space: 1889. I remember hearing some of the early press about the game before it would presumably hit the stores. RPGs up to that point were slavish copies of D&D, irredeemably silly (Gamma World), or utterly inaccessible ( Read more... )

Last night, I was given the opportunity to present an award from the Mayor of Philadelphia to a good friend - Patrick Rodgers. The story behind this is very, very long and a little odd. I'll spare the details until when I see you in person ( Read more... )

I've talked to too many people about Curious George's plan for port security and I got myself depressed about it.

Until I saw this:http://cgi.ebay.com/US-Border-Patrol-Agent-Little-

About a week or so ago, for no particularly good reason apart from curious nostalgia, I looked on eBay for the Fisher Price, Little People Castle. (The vintage version with parts that a child could choke on ( Read more... )