I’d been meaning to see this movie for a while, but I hadn’t gotten around to it. I’d been told it was a good, silly romantic comedy. It’s not very good, but it sure is silly. And it taught me a few things: – Advances in sound recording and editing capabilities mean that even the ...

I’d spend my vast amount of free time making flamethrowers out of PVC pipe instead of redesigning parts of my website. The site will take a while to load because there are a lot of pictures, but it’s entirely worth it to see what the power of geekiness and spare time (and I doubt it’s ...

After finding a workaround, Haloscan commenting is back. Begone, obnoxious Blogger commenting process! ETA: I also jury-rigged the hover command so it at least looks normal in Safari! Woo!

Summer unemployment continues, and it leads to the development of weird sleep habits and theses. This is just one of those theses. I’ve got a fiendish plot: I’m going to go all the way around the clock with my sleeping habits so that I’m actually waking up at a normal hour when I go back ...

This guy, who is clearly a trained concert pianist, playing nothing but Super Mario Brothers themes, some of them while blindfolded. This is fucking awesome. Thanks to my friend Miyuki for sending me this.

I suddenly decided I was sick as hell of my old template and have gone about redesigning one of Blogger‘s that was not totally hideous to my liking. So far, it’s coming along pretty well. There’s still a few kinks that need to be worked out, like why on earth my blog post text has ...

A contestant on the Australian edition of “The Price Is Right” conks himself with the big wheel, requiring five stitches. Australia, help control the moron population. Please, spay or neuter your contestants. I’d also like to note that “I reckon” is used not only by American rednecks, but apparently by Aussie ones as well. stolen ...

My dad (who I had expected to freak out and insist I move into a locked tower or something) had a surprisingly calm reaction to the whole drive-by thing (see previous post): Dad: We have had shootings down the street from us, so I am not too freaked out Me: well, i’m glad you’re not ...

Uh, there was just a drive-by shooting in front of my apartment building like 45 minutes ago. Scared the living hell out of me. Didn’t see anything, just heard the shots and the car peeling off and the guy who got shot yelling for help, but it’s gonna take a couple days to peel myself ...

Stay away from Mike’s Light, the attempt by the makers of Mike’s Hard Lemonade (a fine product on its own merits) to make a low-calorie/low-carb drink. I bought it because most iterations of Mike’s I’ve tried have been pretty damn good, so I figured they might be one of the companies that didn’t fuck up ...