Last Thursday, Liz and I went to visit two local cake shops for cake tastings. Believe you me, given all the stuff we’re currently doing to get ready for the wedding… cake tastings fall on the fun/plus side of things. Unfortunately for me, earlier in the day my stomach started to act up. The very…
I’m torn about this – it’s fascinating to look at, but also incredibly wrong on so many levels. Schadenfreude at its best and worst. Apparently, Tampa Bay provides real-time mugshots of people who were arrested in the last 24 hours in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties. But beyond just a singular photo, you can click…
A little amazing to see how much re-use there was, in some of the older Disney films. Part of the times I guess, but what I imagined to be slight similarities turned out to be exact scenes, for the most part duplicated precisely. The chuckles start almost from the beginning. But after 45 seconds, it…
Slow news day today. Mostly because I’ve spent the better part of the last 24 hours in the couch or in bed. Late Monday morning, my stomach started to hurt a little bit. From there, things slowly devolved into general nausea, fever and all the aches and pains one typically associates with the flu. By…
Doing a quick pass over my Google Analytics stats, I happened to notice that CNN was a referrer, pointing back to content on my site. Amazed, I dug a little deeper and found that they have a “From the Blogs” section, which picked up my mention of their article in my April Fool’s post. You…
ToneMatrix, by André Michelle, is simple in its design and a delightful interface to play around with. I started off by clicking a few random squares. And then, after a little while, mashed a whole bunch of them in a big frenzy. To my surprise, the audio results of that mashing ended up being really…
Some time ago, I happened across a blog called Youku Buzz, a kind of YouTube-ish site but based in China. The videos are always pretty sluggish, as the data is halfway around the world, but the content generally seems to be odd stuff that I’d not normally see anywhere else. Case in point: Jeffrey Lau’s…
On the way in to work last week, I spotted this guy on a lamppost near the California Blue Line stop. The thing that caught my eye was that it was done on a Priority Mail sticker from the US Post Office. I’d seen a lot more of these, back when I used to live…
For over 24 hours now, I’ve been looping the same song over and over again. It’s by Colin Hay, and entitled Overkill. I first came across Hay and his song when I was searching around for a Billy Bragg song entitled “The Only One.” I was trying to track down the tune for Jason’s Cassette…
Late yesterday morning, I noticed that I made my first official Amazon sale!. Based on my review, somebody out there bought a copy of David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Woohoo! While the title of this post is pretty flippant, seeing an actual sale was pretty damn exciting. While I…
My (soon to be) bro-in-law Darryl just launched a blog yesterday, entitled Souls Without Bodies. The title comes from a C.S. Lewis quotation: “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” Recently, Darryl was given a position at Bethel Church as Director of Connections. This was a fitting thing, as…
I’m not one who generally gets all hot and excited by tilt-shift stuff, but this particular video successfully won me over. At first, watching it I was thinking “ok, this is nice, this is neat.” But when the subject matter shifts to the Westpac Rescue Helicopter (around 1:02), it becomes an entirely different video. And…
Last night Liz made a batch of homemade marshmallows. While I’m not a big fan of marshmallows, the whole process was pretty interesting to see (particularly getting the sticky substance out of the pan to begin with). This batch has a particularly pepperminty flavor, which is heightened by a layer of crushed candycanes sprinkled on…
Absolutely incredible. It’s not even 9AM yet, and already the April Fool’s stuff has gotten WAY out of hand. No doubt some of you have heard about the April Fools worm (Conficker.c) going around. Well it turns out there’s a Facebook virus that’s also making the rounds – something that so far hasn’t really hit…