If I go to to purchase a new operating system on the day it’s released, will I ever get laid again? Or will my nerdiness become so immense that it collapses upon itself?

So Dave has challenged me to take a Caesar’s Bath: Behold, the Caesar’s Bath meme! List five things that people in your circle of friends or peer group are wild about, but you can’t really understand the fuss over. To use the words of Caesar (from History of the World Part I), “Nice. Nice. Not ...

A new good one in the “in bed” fortune cookie game came with my chinese food leftovers tonight: “A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”

…where the buffalo roam…around Baltimore?! Seriously, I’d think someone high came up with this story if there wasn’t video of the incident.

Watching TV Makes You Smarter. And I apologize for the lack of blogging, but I’ve been totally sucked into 24 season 2 and a new highly customizable (read: time-wasting) IM Client. Have I mentioned lately that I’m a huge, huge nerd?

My dad’s old college roommate was going through his stuff and found a letter he had written in 1955 while visiting my dad’s family in Atlanta. It’s a fascinating little historical slice, using such deprecated language as “aircoach” and talking about things as they could really only be seen through the eyes of an 18 ...

Only in Los Angeles can you fulfill your lawyer and porn star needs with the same guy. The best part of the article comes in the form of a quote from an ethics expert: “There isn’t anything more unethical about that than being an actor or a novelist or somebody who sells frozen yogurt.”

Sitting on a couch with a frame that actually stays together is a hell of a lot more comfortable than on one with a frame that’s falling apart. Also, a Subaru Legacy station wagon is just long enough to fit a whole futon frame in it. In case anyone was wondering. Since I really have ...

There are a lot of implausible things that happen in the 24 universe, but fans can usually dismiss even the largest of plot holes. But tonight, they finally did it. They finally found a plot hole so utterly ludicrous, even I had to call bullshit. There was a convoy that was going from southern Illinois ...

In the space of about two hours today, my head acted both as a target and a chew toy. Unloading groceries from the car, I closed the hatchback of my trunk square on the top of my head. I’ve already got a little Bugs Bunny-cartoon lump rising from it. Perhaps I should get Daffy Duck ...