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Sadly, I Drive Past This Once Every Couple Weeks

2008-07-03T19:39:14Z

Looks like my city made it to the big time, and not in a good way: Shamefully, I didn't even think of capturing this for the Failblog on one of my many trips driving past it.

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5 Word Challenge: When Good Nursery Rhymes Go Bad

2008-06-25T14:29:28Z

This week's challenge: carpet, jury, pasta, shapeless, whey My apologies to Mother Goose. Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away. Miss Muff...

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Get Your Rock On

2008-06-25T13:29:29Z

Nothing cheers me up quite like counting down the hours on my last day before a 5-day vacation (it starts tomorrow for me). Except maybe some Nirvana, played on a group of ukuleles.

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Trivia Results - Episode 1

2008-06-20T12:36:39Z

As promised, here's the answers (in red) to yesterday's trivia questions. Categories highlighted in blue are the ones my team answered correctly. Round 1 1. Category: Military History. What major historical event happened on June 6th? For bonu...

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Thursday Trivia - Episode 1

2008-06-19T15:15:25Z

The wife and I left our kids with a non-family-member babysitter for the first time ever last night so we could go out with her sister & mother for some dinner and live trivia at a local restaurant. We didn't win the competition (not by a long s...

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AutoLink for Twitter - New Greasemonkey Script

2008-06-18T21:18:01Z

@Pistachio on Twitter gave me a great idea for a new Greasemonkey script. Twitter users know that putting the @ sign in front of someone's Twitter ID (e.g. @twitterID) is the way to reply to that person through twitter. When you're on twitter.co...

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Sometimes "Meme" Looks Suspiciously Like "Me! Me!"

2008-06-18T14:07:26Z

I'll thank Hieronymus for tagging me with this one: The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to t...

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For the College Fan Who Has (Virtually) Everything

2008-06-16T17:27:34Z

Saw this at a nearby store while I was out book-shopping this weekend. I'd love to find out how many people actually purchase these: And yes, that price tag is right. For about the same price as you would pay for a generic La-Z-Boy, you can g...

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Father's Day Weekend Fun at Casa de Ross

2008-06-16T16:16:46Z

Although this wasn't my first Father's Day weekend, it quite possibly might have been the best one yet. Saturday was just an easy-going sort of day - I worked out at the gym, did some shopping with Violet, puttered around the house, and cooked so...

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You Stole My Jesus Fish!*

2008-06-13T18:48:01Z

Just discovered what I want for Father's Day. Now how do I go back in time and tell my wife two weeks ago so it'll be here on Sunday? (Gefilte Fish plaque can be found for purchase at Sticker Giant, here) *Apologies to all who thought you wer...

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