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Sep 27, 2024: The ticker symbol for the iShares MSCI Agriculture Producers ETF is VEGI. I applaud you, sirs and madams.

Sep 25, 2024: The SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF’s ticker symbol is JNK, and that is some high-level dad joking/’80s referencing right there.

Sep 13, 2024: Happy new Stryper album day to all who celebrate! 🎉 #RockOn #RockinForTheRock

Sep 12, 2024: I feel it is very misleading that Center, TX, is not, in fact, in the center of Texas.

Aug 28, 2024: If you love reading thrillers, and you haven’t cracked open Jack Stewart’s Battle Born series, you need to correct this ASAP. I just …

Aug 25, 2024: I feel seen. Just had two more added today, though one has vaulted to the “reading now” list.

Aug 25, 2024: It was an absolute pleasure getting to meet Marc Cameron today, and Jack Stewart was a great host with superb questions that pulled amazing stories …

Aug 22, 2024: What a multicultural evening: took my Rwandan, fresh off lacrosse practice, to get South African chicken, at Nando’s Peri-Peri. He left a fan.

Aug 21, 2024: “Two drive-thru lanes aren’t enough to handle the volume we have every day!” “We can’t expand any more, there’s no …

Aug 19, 2024: A little over a third of the way through, Rob Kroese doesn’t so much break the fourth wall in High Plains Grifter as crack it. (It is not …

Aug 16, 2024: East of Monroe, LA, west of Tallulah. Trying out Halide’s Process Zero.

Aug 10, 2024: Started a Pathfinder campaign a couple of weeks ago with my buddy Nathan as DM, and the party includes his brother, and an assortment of our …

Jul 20, 2024: Signum Regis has released a new music video, “Ministry of Truth,” from their album “Undivided,” which came out this past …

Jul 18, 2024: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast, and we’re discussing the new movie Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, which …

Jul 15, 2024: It’s so cute getting the spam email from [MyDomain] IT department about my email password expiring soon. I am the [MyDomain] IT department.

Jul 13, 2024: In today’s episode of “Old Man Yells at Clouds”: I resent the branding “Cheetos Crunchy.” They’re just Cheetos. …

Jul 12, 2024: Being an adult means you can start The Princess Bride at 10pm on a Friday night if you want.

Jul 7, 2024: I’m somewhere between a third and halfway through Rob Kroese’s “A Grift Too Far,” and if this thing wasn’t already off …

Jun 29, 2024: On friction, and ownership Some time ago, I was going back and forth on my choice of blogging platform. (Totally a #FirstWorldProblem.) WordPress was working fine, but felt …

Jun 19, 2024: I’m sorry, we are nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and if your automated mailing system can’t handle that my full …

Jun 18, 2024: And yes, I absolutely turned a Jack Carr book signing in to my own personal Jack Stewart book signing. Had to get his autograph on my copy of Outlaw, …

Jun 18, 2024: Great seeing Jack Carr at Half Price Books again. I’m thinking Jack is going to need a bigger venue in Dallas in the future. Happy pub day, …

Jun 15, 2024: Clearly the people complaining social media is toxic and awful are not following the right people online. Because I am crying from laughter from my …

Jun 14, 2024: At one point tonight, the Mavs had a 48-point lead, the largest lead in NBA Finals history in FIFTY years. I was a toddler the last time a NBA team …

Jun 13, 2024: The Meta Quest commercial with the soon-to-be dad assembling the crib is sweet, but WHY IS HE NOT DOING IT IN THE NURSERY? YOU THINK IT’S …

Jun 12, 2024: Seeing The Goonies on the big screen with a couple of my Goonies.

Jun 8, 2024: Spending the morning watching this kid do his thing on the lacrosse fields. Complete team effort in the first matchup, resulting in an 8-1 win. …

May 30, 2024: This is what happens when you sell out. Now the only thing Deep Ellum about DEBC beers is the name. What a shame. …

May 29, 2024: I’m living in Office Space.

May 27, 2024: Stars win on the road in Edmonton, and Angel Hernandez retires from umpiring in the major leagues on the same day?!? God is good, y’all. God is …

May 18, 2024: I really appreciate the dad-nerd humor in the AutoZone commercial about the slow-starting car: “It just needs a charge. Don’t worry, …

May 18, 2024: It’s now more punk to be a practicing, Bible-believing Christian, than it is to be an actual punk rocker. And politics aside, what a story of …

May 12, 2024: Very shortly will be decoupling the retrophisch.net domain from my Micro.blog account. Part of an online presence reorganization I’m …

May 7, 2024: <Ponders how to get one of these, the perfect job for himself> Loud? ✅ American? ✅ Would love to tell people how stupid they are? ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

May 5, 2024: According to my college hockey player’s online reading, Golden Knights captain Mark Stone was injured in the handshake line following the …

May 5, 2024: I will not be able to hear “they eliminated the defending Stanley Cup champions” enough in all postgame broadcasts. LET’S GO …

May 2, 2024: It’s a rather odd feeling to fly from the US Central time zone to the Eastern time zone, then drive back in to the Central time zone in the same …

May 2, 2024: DFW 🚀 GSO to drive the college kid back home for the summer. Will fly over 4-5 states and drive back through 4 states later today.

Apr 23, 2024: We really are just going to give #Skynet every tool with which to obliterate us, aren’t we? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024…

Apr 8, 2024: Probably the best eclipse totality shot from the three family members in DFW area. Our high schooler captured this at school.

Apr 5, 2024: Happy new Sigum Regis music day! The band released a dedicated single, “No Middle Ground,” a classic metal tune with some Judas Priest …

Mar 14, 2024: Find Me’s “Dancing To a Broken Heartbeat” is like a perfect clone of ’80s adult-oriented rock, and I’m not saying that …

Mar 6, 2024: “One does not simply fly in to Mordor.” babylonbee.com/news/in-9…

Mar 5, 2024: Sly not making enough in royalties off the Rockys, the Rambos, the Creeds, and everything else, that he has to do a reality show with his family?

Mar 1, 2024: Alright. Everyone hurry up and go see Dune: Part Two so we can talk about it. I have thoughts.

Mar 1, 2024: Getting ready to nerd out with the high schooler at Dune: Part Two!

Feb 28, 2024: “Why do you have no desire to go on a cruise, Chris?” Gee, I don’t know. www.luxurlist.com/en/made-c…

Feb 24, 2024: Who Is Clark Barr? My friend Pastor Wildman called me up last year, and asked if I would be interested in participating in a music video for a song he was working on. I …

Feb 24, 2024: Retrophisch Review: Outlaw I will be honest up front that it is impossible for me to be totally unbiased in this review. I got to know the author, Jack Stewart, a bit before his …

Feb 23, 2024: Well, it’s quite obvious why the icon for the Apple Sports app is a soccer field. 🙄 No college baseball? College softball? Is there no NFL …

Feb 13, 2024: I will spare my Louisiana friends the utter travesty being displayed today at our office cafeteria. Let’s just say the items kale, tofu, and Old …

Feb 9, 2024: Eight years ago today, the first episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast (aka, the Tapestry Empowered to Connect Podcast) was published. It’s …

Feb 4, 2024: Okay, this is funny.

Feb 3, 2024: It’s incredibly humbling to be stopped by a stranger at a conference, and they can tell you the exact day in May 2017 when their life changed as …

Feb 1, 2024: Retrophisch Review: After Moses My Twitter pal Trevor has done some great writing on how the Western archetype has been so successful since it’s introduction on the silver …

Jan 24, 2024: If I had been thinking ahead, I would have dug out my “I was a Mac user before Apple was doomed” t-shirt to celebrate the 40th anniversary …

Jan 15, 2024: Not quite ready to say what’s going on here, but I can assure you it has nothing to do with Iowa caucus results.

Jan 9, 2024: Should you find yourself in the mood for some manly sailing acapella, may I suggest The Ballina Whalers? theballinawhalers.bandcamp.com “Adieu …

Jan 7, 2024: As if I needed any more reasons to love C.S. Lewis. x.com/henryeoli…

Jan 5, 2024: On the road with the oldest driving him back to college in North Carolina. As naturalized and native Texans, we fulfilled our obligation of stopping …

Dec 28, 2023: Retrophisch Review: Unknown Rider I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the novel I was most excited about this year, and that is Unknown Rider, by my friend Jack Stewart. Jack …

Dec 15, 2023: “Texas and Oklahoma think they’re ready for the hell that awaits them in the college football heaven known as the Southeastern Conference. …

Dec 10, 2023: Retrophisch Review: Montezuma Strip Some times, the Kindle Daily Deal email can really deliver, and one day this month, it did with Alan Dean Foster’s Montezuma Strip. A collection …

Dec 7, 2023: New Signum Regis single and music video released today! Joha’s vocals are terrific on “Servants of the Fallen One,” as well as …

Nov 30, 2023: Oh man, if only.

Nov 28, 2023: What if a fantasy band of adventurers were treated like we treat rock bands in our time? That’s the premise behind one of my favorite fantasy …

Nov 24, 2023: A public service announcement

Nov 24, 2023: The fact that the first song the Apple Infinite Playlist algorithm churned out after the entirety of the debut album by Bad English finished playing …

Nov 17, 2023: Happy Signum Regis release day to all who celebrate. And is that a kick-butt metal cover or what?

Nov 9, 2023: I pulled up “Close My Eyes Forever” by Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne, and the Apple Autoplay has been doing yeoman’s work with the …

Nov 3, 2023: Narrator: It would not be necessary. #WentAndTookIt

Nov 1, 2023: It’s been a pretty great year for baseball in our house! #GeauxTigers #LetsGoRangers

Oct 30, 2023: Started and finished Eric Bishop’s novella Ransomed Daughter. A great introduction to The Omega Group, looking forward to the next tale. Though …

Oct 28, 2023: Remember when we didn’t have commercials for medications for curved penises due to scar tissue or menopausal women’s hot flashes during …

Oct 26, 2023: Don’t send me political texts I didn’t ask for.

Oct 25, 2023: The latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast was recorded in front of a live audience at Replanted Conference. We chat with host Currey …

Oct 20, 2023: You know a cold is kicking your butt when you are talking to your 12 year-old and he asks, “Dad, why are you talking like that?”

Oct 18, 2023: The most unbelievable thing about that Taylor Swift Capital One commercial isn’t all the Taylor clones, it’s the fact she’d be in a …

Oct 12, 2023: The Empowered Parent Podcast crew is at the #replantedconference in Chicago this weekend!

Oct 10, 2023: Let’s Go Rangers!!! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Let’s Go Rangers!!! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Let’s Go Rangers!!! 🧹 🧹 🧹🧹🧹 5-0 in the postseason. They have …

Oct 10, 2023: According to the calendar, retrophisch.com is now old enough to legally drink.

Sep 28, 2023: The business equivalent of the phone call on speaker in public is the Zoom meeting on the conference room speakers with the door open.

Sep 20, 2023: Who else had one?

Sep 11, 2023: Ever wondered what happens to the prayer notes left in the crevices of the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Well, now we know. …

Sep 7, 2023: I seem to recall a documentary about something like this with Kurt Russell in the early ’80s and the solution is to KILL IT WITH FIRE. …

Sep 6, 2023: Oh look, the Astros-Rangers game is the Free Game of the Day on MLB.tv. Oh look, I can’t watch it on my phone at my kid’s basketball …

Sep 5, 2023: May have reached the point in the Rangers season where I’m actually glad I’m unable to watch the games due to local blackouts on MLB.TV (which is …

Sep 4, 2023: No one: Chris, what did you do when you got home from #ImmortalFestII? Me: Started ripping all the CDs I bought in to my iTunes library…

Sep 2, 2023: The two ladies manning the Hertz customer service booth at Dayton International were an utter delight to interact with. Sweet and quickly competent, a …

Sep 2, 2023: DFW 🚀 DAY for #ImmortalFestII!!

Sep 2, 2023: Jimmy’s having his cheeseburger in Paradise now. Had front row seats at a show he did in New Orleans in the mid-90s. Really fun. #RIP …

Sep 1, 2023: Everything in college conference expansion is stupid as the ATLANTIC COAST conference adds teams from California and Texas. /sigh …

Aug 13, 2023: Plane: booked Hotel: booked Car: booked 2-day pass: booked I’m going to Immortal Fest II - Part 2! www.bmieventcenter.com/2nd-immor…

Aug 11, 2023: From both aesthetic and tradition points of view, I do not care for the sleeve adverts on MLB uniforms. I firmly blame soccer.

Aug 8, 2023: Retrophisch Review: Wolf Trap I’m behind on my book reviews, so here’s looking back at my first read of the year. Consequently, my first six books of the year were all …

Jul 19, 2023: Always a good time to roll out this classic:

Jul 17, 2023: Tom Cruise may very well be the last great Hollywood star. Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning is incredibly entertaining. Even though you know the …

Jul 15, 2023: The band Behold the Beloved may have single-handedly redeemed the song “Oceans,” for me. It has been on my “Banned If I Were in …

Jul 14, 2023: On the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast, we’re talking about fear responses, and how they drive behavior. (Ours, as well as our …

Jul 10, 2023: I get the sense, going through the Prime Day Kindle deals, that there is a certain segment of romance novel totally about the woman fixing the broken …

Jul 8, 2023: If you’re nostalgic for the way Twitter used to be, give the Old Twitter extension a whirl. I’ve got it running in Brave and my unGoogled …

Jul 8, 2023: When parody accurately describes reality. babylonbee.com/news/new-…

Jul 5, 2023: With today’s big Threads launch, this latest post by CJ Chilvers seems highly relevant: www.cjchilvers.com/blog/open…

Jul 3, 2023: “5 actors who should be the next Indiana Jones” No one. That’s who. The character went out perfectly in Last Crusade. He …

Jul 3, 2023: The AOR rabbit hole I have disappeared down today after listening to Revolution Saints' latest single, thanks to Apple Music’s infinite …

Jul 1, 2023: Having just watched the original Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve Superman from 1978, I noted several little nods to this film that showed up in Man …

Jul 1, 2023: “There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it.” What a line. Oswald Chambers knew what was up with God’s redemptive …

Jul 1, 2023: “When You Walk,” from last year’s Q.A.R., shows that Kerry Livgren and Greg X. Volz still have their fastballs, both aging like a …

Jun 28, 2023: Finished Joel Rosenberg’s latest last night, finally completing his Marcus Ryker series I began in mid-April. Stellar books, definitely …

Jun 27, 2023: Because my sister knows they’re my jam, she sends me this.

Jun 25, 2023: No other words for it. That was just flat-out embarrassing. Champions definitely do not wear gold on this Sunday. Let’s rally for the final game …

Jun 25, 2023: “Gotta support the team.” Champions wear gold on Sundays. Let’s close this out, LSU baseball! #GeauxTigers #LSU

Jun 16, 2023: For those following along via RSS: I will be decoupling retrophisch.net as the domain for my Micro.blog site (explanation forthcoming). I’m not …

Jun 15, 2023: Oh look, it me.

Jun 13, 2023: Well, if anyone needs a good (sports, kinda) cry: theathletic.com/4575069/2… (Using reader view in Brave routed around paywall graphic for me.)

Jun 11, 2023: The only thing I can think after the Austin-to-Dallas drive is, “Why are people?”

Jun 10, 2023: Purely from an alliteration aesthetic viewpoint, the Michigan and Pittsburgh @USFL teams should swap nicknames. Michigan Maulers and Pittsburgh …

Jun 4, 2023: You know why I still pay for TV through Frontier & run it all through my TiVo? Because streaming live sports absolutely sucks. Watching LSU-OSU on …

Jun 2, 2023: Disappointing on many levels, but so far as I’m concerned, the definitive ending of The Punisher happened with the incredible run by Nathan …

Jun 1, 2023: It’s as if no one has ever read every sci-fi story written about AI, nor watched every movie made about same. www.foxnews.com/tech/us-m…

Jun 1, 2023: My wish for #WWDC2023 is if I get a voice mail on my iPhone, I actually have the voice mail available before or at the same time as the transcribed …

May 30, 2023: And in today’s metal mailbag, new Wytch Hazel music! And classics from Barren Cross, Bloodgood, Bride, and Petra, thanks to Girder Music’s …

May 27, 2023: The struggle is real. babylonbee.com/news/woma…

May 23, 2023: What I really want is a mechanical-key version of Logitech’s Ergo K860.

May 6, 2023: ‘A.I. Will Be Totally Great For Humanity,’ Says Man Who Has Never Read A Sci-Fi Novel babylonbee.com/news/ai-w…

May 6, 2023: In the last 22 hours, I have: flown 860 miles from Texas to North Carolina drove through 4 states (NC, SC, GA, AL) spent the night near my parents' …

May 5, 2023: DFW 🚀 GSO Going to drive the college boy back home for the summer.

May 2, 2023: Major Security Breakthrough In Star Wars Universe With Invention Of Door That Does Not Open If You Just Shoot The Control Panel …

Apr 28, 2023: Wild fans booing their team off the ice at the end of the second period. State of hockey? It ain’t Minnesota. #LetsGoStars #TexasHockey

Apr 28, 2023: “It is better for me to die than to live,” said Job at the end of the performance, much to his friends' disappointment. 🤣 …

Apr 28, 2023: Happy new @thedollyrots music day, everyone! New single, “Still Holding On,” has dropped: orcd.co/stillhold… And 2023 tour dates …

Apr 27, 2023: Is it, though?

Apr 14, 2023: Leave it to a homicidal weather AI to overreact. It wasn’t that gloomy here today, @CARROT@mastodon.social.

Apr 13, 2023: Loving this neat lyric video from Lux Studio for my favorite Barren Cross song: youtu.be/uAamzYzw0…

Apr 10, 2023: Always a great night to beat the Red Wings, especially in Detroit. And Joe Pavelski becomes the 11th U.S.-born player to reach 1,000 career points, …

Apr 6, 2023: Yeah, I’m not so much with the pretending, though.

Apr 5, 2023: The name of my next mariachi-fusion punk band is Incomplete Burrito. (Which came out of my team’s staff meeting today.)

Apr 4, 2023: App update notes I can get behind.

Apr 1, 2023: Yet another insane example of outrageous government overreach. www.latimes.com/californi…

Mar 31, 2023: For what it’s worth, readers of Rob Kroese’s Codex Babylon, Wytch Hazel’s album III: Pentecost is some excellent music to have on …

Mar 31, 2023: Sweet! New music coming from Wytch Hazel! wytchhazel.bandcamp.com/album/iv-…

Mar 30, 2023: I noticed both Knocked Up and Juno are making the rounds on the HBOs this month, and wow, it’s been 16 years since Hollywood gave us arguably …

Mar 28, 2023: With his goal tonight, Joe Pavelski is 8 points away from being the 10th U.S.-born #NHL player with 1,000 career points. And still the 3rd period to …

Mar 26, 2023: “All the demons I know are in middle management,” Martin said. —Robert Kroese, Codex Babylon I instantly thought of The Screwtape Letters.

Mar 25, 2023: Just as with the signature credits of the Avengers in Endgame, so too do I get a little verklempt with the signatures at the end of Star Trek VI: The …

Mar 25, 2023: Reposted by my sister on Facebook. Original caption: “Odin has really gotten into Casual Fridays. (Or maybe it’s Casual Wednesdays …

Mar 21, 2023: Having listened to the latest Wildman & Steve podcast with guest Bryan Duncan, I’ve decided the name of my next Christian punk band is going …

Mar 19, 2023: John Wick 4 tickets for Thursday night: secured.

Mar 18, 2023: Seventh read of the year is Traitor, the latest Victor thriller from Tom Wood. I like that we got another peek into Victor’s past, and the next …

Mar 17, 2023: Good #LSU sports day: Lady Tigers win their first game of the NCAA Tournament, and the baseball squad wins the weekend opener against The Cult in …

Mar 13, 2023: First non-ARC read of the year goes to Mark Greaney’s latest Gray Man novel, Burner, which I finished on my weekend trip to Pennsylvania to see …

Mar 13, 2023: “Staying true to the game” is (a) a cop-out to cover for lazy writing, and (b) a lie when so much of the season contained content not true …

Mar 13, 2023: I’m out on The Last of Us going forward. That was an awful season finale. “Oh, but it was quite true to the game.” Fantastic. Then …

Mar 13, 2023: Accurate.

Mar 12, 2023: I very much approve of the programming of The Empire Strikes Back content into a homicidal weather AI like Carrot.

Mar 2, 2023: Walking through my house just now: “Lo, I am become my father, Turner-Off of Light Switches.”

Feb 25, 2023: The heroes we need, and the ones we deserve. babylonbee.com/news/ohio…

Feb 25, 2023: In youth lacrosse officiating, the equivalent of the NFL’s “what is a catch?” has to be what is a pick?" Inconsistently …

Feb 24, 2023: Movies: don’t build the AI, it’ll destroy the world. People in reality: Let’s not only build the AI, but tell it all of our secrets! …

Feb 22, 2023: This year’s king cake rankings: Nonna Randazzo’s Rouses Market Caluda’s Bakery Manny has the Randazzo name recognition, but …

Feb 21, 2023: One Ring Funk - A Lord of the Rings Uptown Funk Parody: youtu.be/ZLjKYj0NW… It’s fantastic.

Feb 14, 2023: Our punk rock pal Frank Turner getting a ton of exposure with the Ted Lasso season 3 trailer!

Feb 14, 2023: The more I have to use Windows for my job, the more I enjoy coming home to macOS, even with its nuisances and issues. Better looking, better keyboard …

Feb 12, 2023: Top 3 Super Bowl commercials this year: Workday’s “Rock Star” Ben Affleck’s Dunkin w/cameo by J-Lo Bradley Cooper’s mom …

Feb 12, 2023: Workday may have taken the crown with “Rock Star.” Ozzy is hilarious: “I’ve done my share of bad things. I’ve done your …

Feb 12, 2023: Cue everyone talking about how amazing Rihanna’s halftime show was as if she designed, engineered, and built the entire floating stage herself, …

Feb 12, 2023: Okay, the Ben Affleck Dunkin commercial was hilarious.

Feb 12, 2023: I really should’ve started a pool on how many times tonight I’m going to say, “Can we just play effing football?”

Feb 11, 2023: This is incredible and awesome. Bohemian Rhapsody on the world’s largest pipe organ:

Feb 10, 2023: Finished Bill Schweigart’s “The Guilty One.” Solid cop thriller, excellent pacing. And then that third act. Hoo boy. There are writers who are great …

Feb 4, 2023: Amazon really needs to have profiles for accounts, like Netflix or Hulu, so that the stuff my wife reads and listens to doesn’t affect my …

Feb 3, 2023: This is fantastic. Nina’s art is stunning. That burning bush! And using the great Satchmo to boot.

Feb 2, 2023: The Apple Music algorithm for the extended playlist after I finished Whitesnake’s “The Rock Album” has been fantastic today. …

Feb 2, 2023: Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero” came up during random play in Apple Music, and because I am a dad with boys, this song became …

Feb 1, 2023: It is an utter travesty that reviewers, and audiences, panned Guy Ritchie’s “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” I just finished watching it …

Jan 31, 2023: Coming in at the wire, but T. R. Hendricks' “The Instructor” is my third finished read of the month. Solid debut in the action thriller …

Jan 29, 2023: The best thing about the State Farm Andy Reid commerical is the throwing of the marker. Makes me smile or chuckle every time.

Jan 28, 2023: Treated my basketball player to a treat after he played a good game. Photo courtesy of Stops, new camera app currently in beta. eff.co/stops

Jan 27, 2023: Oswald Chambers said, “A fanatic is one who entrenches himself in invincible ignorance.” That’s certainly true of a lot of people on …

Jan 24, 2023: Viewing advisory comes up at the beginning of Jack Ryan, season 3, episode 6: “Violence, smoking, foul language” I’m really glad …

Jan 22, 2023: Look, Tony Romo may genuinely be a nice guy. I don’t know, never met him. But he sucks as a color commentator. He does not know how to SHUT. UP. …

Jan 21, 2023: I wasn’t sure if Don Bentley would be about to unseat The Outside Man as my favorite Matt Drake novel with Forgotten War, but he certainly did …

Jan 18, 2023: I’ll be the guy that says it: Don’t tell me Walker Howard and Jack Bech are guys who loved LSU. If they loved it as much as they and …

Jan 18, 2023: What sorcerous abomination is this?!? www.dallasnews.com/food/rest…

Jan 15, 2023: You know, I could really use a @gluon for macOS…

Jan 15, 2023: Props to Mike Tirico, rocking that quarter-zip under the suit jacket with the button-up and tie. I would never have thought that would be a sharp …

Jan 14, 2023: Rockin' old school today, both in terms of music and the throwback iOS interface thanks to Zhenyi Tan’s Medley.

Jan 13, 2023: There has been what I hope will be a temporary change to my iPhone home screen. Yes, the Twitter iOS app sucks so bad, I spent $12 on the third-party …

Jan 5, 2023: Actually, if all the esteemed members of our government would watch those, they might learn a lot about what they shouldn’t be doing… …

Jan 3, 2023: Finished my first read of the new year, and it’s Connor Sullivan’s Wolf Trap, which comes out on March 14th. Connor has deftly wrapped an …

Dec 31, 2022: Michigan was all “We’re going to bring the Big 10 to the Big 12” and the exact opposite has happened. #LetsGeauxFrogs

Dec 27, 2022: I love that the expression on his face is “I’ve been Photoshopped on to what now?” twitter.com/Daily__Ow…

Dec 26, 2022: I remain baffled that a university named Bowling Green does not include green as a color in their school colors/athletic uniforms.

Dec 21, 2022: You have to love spammers. “Your devices are temporarily locked.” Really? How on earth am I reading this, then?

Dec 17, 2022: Again, if you’re going to give the metal treatment to a classic American spiritual, I cannot imagine a better outcome than 3 Days Under’s …

Dec 15, 2022: The only thing better than the Dallas Stars shutting out Ovechkin was winning the contest. What. A. Game, Otter!! #LetsGoStars

Dec 15, 2022: Alright, since Apple broke the noise cancelation in the AirPods Pro, is there anything better for the same price out there?

Dec 7, 2022: Chris has discovered the Hair Metal Essentials playlist on Apple Music.

Dec 6, 2022: I am old enough to remember when Apple still assembled Macs in California and in Ireland. I bought Macs made in those places. It’s good for …

Dec 2, 2022: iPhone home screen, 1 December 2022 There have been some changes.

Dec 2, 2022: Game day for High Point Hockey in Knoxville as they take on Tennessee. Rooting for our hockey player in his third outing of the season. …

Dec 1, 2022: The Dallas Stars need to dump the garish, all-“Victory” green jerseys and make these reverse retro unis their full-time dark attire. So …

Dec 1, 2022: Today was repping Stryper, but tomorrow will be time to promote the release of Les Carlsen’s new album, “He’s Coming!”

Nov 30, 2022: “Tim Cook Says He’s Ready To Pull Twitter From App Store Once President Xi Gives The Order” babylonbee.com/news/appl… Once …

Nov 26, 2022: We were picked to finish last or next-to-last. Instead, #LSU beat Bama and won the SEC West. We over-achieved per expectations. Players bought in to …

Nov 26, 2022: It’s a game played by kids, half of them teenagers. Hormones. Brains not fully developed. There are perfect games, and there are absolute duds. …

Nov 26, 2022: ESPN taking lessons from CBS on how to unnecessarily extend a college football game in this #LSU - TAMU contest…

Nov 26, 2022: Alright! @SouthernU_FB wins the Bayou Classic! #GeauxJags

Nov 26, 2022: Calling your movie “the motion picture event of a generation” before it’s even released is a sure-fire way for me to not to pay to …

Nov 25, 2022: This is some masterful trolling of the highest order. (Wave of the phin to @brentmckinney.) twitter.com/foxsoccer…

Nov 24, 2022: Hey @nfl, this isn’t the Super Bowl. It’s Thanksgiving Day games. Enough with the extended live music halftimes. Get back to football. You …

Nov 22, 2022: Even a homicidal weather AI knows what’s up with the #WorldCup.

Nov 21, 2022: Like, I don’t think Beckham is acting at all. I think you see his genuine frustration in having to be in a commercial with Peyton Manning.

Nov 21, 2022: Pairing David Beckham with Peyton Manning may be one of the most genius marketing moves ever.

Nov 19, 2022: Vandy just beat Florida in Nashville for the first time since 1988. I was a freshman in college. #GoDores

Nov 17, 2022: I unapologetically love the opening of Avenged Sevenfold’s “Hail to the King,” the way they build it one instrument at a time, …

Nov 15, 2022: Like, I already don’t understand how you could listen to @TheDollyrots and not get a smile on your face, but if you watch them just being …

Nov 12, 2022: Welp, pretty great winning the SEC West in the first year of a new head coach when all the sports writers and “experts” picked you to finish next to …

Nov 11, 2022: There have been lots of “Steve would’ve never!” type posts and articles published since Jobs' death, but I really wonder if he …

Nov 11, 2022: Thinking of turning off cross-posting to Twitter and Mastodon from Micro.blog. The paragraph formatting never seems to make it. Not sure if …

Nov 10, 2022: “Any last words, Winston?” “Have fun out there.” Hell. Yes. www.youtube.com/watch

Nov 9, 2022: I feel seen. twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Nov 9, 2022: And with zero apologies to U2, the better cover of “Helter Skelter” belongs to the Crüe.

Nov 9, 2022: Got it in my head to listen to some Crüe while working today. Apple Music has the 2021 remaster of Shout at the Devil, and let me tell you, …

Nov 8, 2022: Great book, highly recommended! twitter.com/Mansfield…

Nov 7, 2022: Sleeping Bear is so good, I had to start on the ARC of @CSullivanBooks' next book!

Nov 7, 2022: There’s not a lot that can pull my attention away from a #Saints game—well, maybe their ineffective offense—but the stellar debut from …

Nov 5, 2022: Stars win third straight, and third scoring 5 or more goals. Astros (first, but not current, baseball love) win World Series. LSU downs Bama in OT to …

Nov 5, 2022: That’s right. Rush the damn field. Pay the damn fine. #RollTideWhat #GeauxTigers

Nov 5, 2022: HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!! #GeauxTigers

Nov 5, 2022: Inasmuch as I don’t think the new Black Panther movie is going to be very good, I am curious about the plot, since the trailers/commercials make …

Nov 4, 2022: I can’t decide which one is my favorite! twitter.com/AdamCShar…

Nov 3, 2022: We used to have a proper country, a proper society. We celebrated Halloween, and only Halloween. Then we celebrated Thanksgiving, and only …

Nov 2, 2022: I may have laughed at this much harder and longer than I should’ve. twitter.com/Daily__Ow…

Nov 2, 2022: “Galactic Empire Requests Amnesty For Anyone Who May Have Gotten Carried Away And Blown Up A Planet” babylonbee.com/news/gala…

Nov 1, 2022: Mad props to all my GenX Stars fans continuing to belt out “Livin' On a Prayer” when @ShippySpins is forced to cut the audio at the rink. …

Oct 31, 2022: This is a great, fun read. twitter.com/BikerNerd…

Oct 31, 2022: Magnificent shot of a magnificent bird of prey. twitter.com/SimonWant…

Oct 30, 2022: The “For Brandon and Eliza” still gets me. #TheCrow

Oct 29, 2022: WOW! Just gorgeous. twitter.com/RSetford/…

Oct 28, 2022: I texted this link to my wife, and her immediate response was “Listening to one now!” www.youtube.com/watch

Oct 27, 2022: The only thing better than the Penguins beating the Caps is the Stars beating the Caps. And holding them scoreless to boot! #LetsGoStars

Oct 27, 2022: Politicians lie, water is wet, puppies are cute, sky is blue… twitter.com/townhallc…

Oct 27, 2022: The perfect Advent calendar doesn’t exi—

Oct 26, 2022: It’s not Monday, but I did do laundry, and I’m having red beans and rice.

Oct 25, 2022: Stryper’s To Hell With the Devil… twitter.com/GenTXer2/…

Oct 24, 2022: As someone who once upon a time cross-stitched, I’m impressed with that flaming cityscape. twitter.com/David_JWe…

Oct 23, 2022: Also, the stacking of the fee is ridiculous. It’s not preventing future events, and it’s not as though that money is going towards preventing it …

Oct 23, 2022: LSU should storm the field every single time it beats Ole Miss, even if Ole Miss isn’t undefeated. Because it’s Ole Miss. …

Oct 22, 2022: Youngest had a lacrosse tournament earlier today, so I TiVo’d the #LSU game. Just finished watching. That was quite satisfying. #GTHOleMiss …

Oct 21, 2022: Well, this certainly makes me miss my hometown. twitter.com/LSUsports…

Oct 21, 2022: “Beyond the Wall” 🤣 twitter.com/_willcomp…

Oct 20, 2022: It was a great mail day.

Oct 20, 2022: I know @BookstoreThor would be all over this. twitter.com/MatthewEP…

Oct 16, 2022: So in addition to needing more scores from the @Saints so I can nap, need some defense, too. So much for extending the 9-point lead.

Oct 16, 2022: I feel a nap coming on. Need the @Saints to salt away a couple more scores.

Oct 15, 2022: The pettiness of #LSU using Tom Petty against the Gators on their inaugural Tom Petty Day/Night/Whatever in Gainesville is part of what makes college …

Oct 15, 2022: Missed opportunity, @LSUFBEquipment… twitter.com/hscheinuk…

Oct 15, 2022: I am also beyond over the awful @ATT - Lebron commercial. As dumb as commercials can be, it’s really dumb. And the constant airing of it is so …

Oct 15, 2022: I am already over the Tom Petty-ness on @ESPN’s coverage of the #LSU game.

Oct 10, 2022: When parody speaks absolute truth. ‘God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle In Life,’ Says Man Unfamiliar With God, Life …

Oct 10, 2022: Still hoping they will go back to the PowerBook moniker… 9to5mac.com/2022/10/0…

Oct 9, 2022: I wonder what the odds were in Vegas four weeks ago for Cooper Rush to go 5-0 as the Cowboys starter? Surely someone placed that wager.

Oct 9, 2022: On September 25th, our hockey player skated in his first college game, and made the most of the opportunity: 2 goals, 8 seconds apart, and almost had …

Oct 9, 2022: Congratulations Craig and Charlie!! “The Proclaimers Blow Past Fitbit Step Goal” babylonbee.com/news/the-…

Oct 9, 2022: Normally I’m just annoyed they don’t show Saints games in DFW when the Cowboys aren’t playing, but the fact that Fox is showing …

Oct 8, 2022: There’s some utter brilliance in here. twitter.com/ALostrich…

Oct 8, 2022: Encyclopedia Brown twitter.com/moth_pira…

Oct 6, 2022: Man, you friend three authors on Facebook, and suddenly your “People You May Know” is lousy with more authors… (This is not a …

Oct 1, 2022: Love seeing Pete living his best life. What an inspiration this young man is. twitter.com/petedank/…

Sep 29, 2022: When your regular concert buddies can’t make it due to other (albeit more important) commitments, you go to the metal show by yourself. …

Sep 29, 2022: Rest assured, this will be the best thing to come out of the MCU since Endgame. twitter.com/VancityRe…

Sep 29, 2022: Well this stinks. I much prefer SwiftKey over the built-in keyboard. twitter.com/mjtsai/st…

Sep 28, 2022: Awwww, you guys are the best.

Sep 28, 2022: Well done, @flower_mound. After years of the old Tom Thumb sitting empty on 3040, when you could have lobbied for Trader Joe’s or shot for the …

Sep 26, 2022: Riddle me this: why is my “space gray” iPhone 12 mini more black than my “space black” iPhone 14 Pro?

Sep 23, 2022: And y’all wonder why I refer to them as minions of Lucifer… twitter.com/caz_tastr…

Sep 22, 2022: When we were both in college, I high-fived Shaquille O’Neal, who was in Good Burger with Dan Schneider, who was in The Big Picture with Kevin …

Sep 22, 2022: This is a great way to support street kids in Rwanda for whom we provide an education, meals, and medical assistance. It also helps with building a …

Sep 22, 2022: Absolutely true. twitter.com/TheJasonA…

Sep 21, 2022: Good life advice for nearly any situation. twitter.com/robkroese…

Sep 16, 2022: “Why You Should Stop Reading the News” eastermichael.com/why-you-s…

Sep 15, 2022: Seeing those MTN & Tigo SIM cards in @austinmann’s iPhone 14 Pro review has me thinking of, and missing, Rwanda. And Tigo’s not even a …

Sep 12, 2022: Big iOS 16 update for Things by @culturedcode. Still can’t change the damn font size.

Sep 11, 2022: This football weekend, I have not had to endure Gary Danielson or Joe Buck. If only I could have missed Cris Collingsworth.

Sep 11, 2022: Welp, have to root for the Cowboys tonight. This will be, no doubt, fraught with peril.

Sep 10, 2022: Pretty sure I’ve spotted @hscheinukphoto on the broadcast a few times. #GeauxTigers #LSUvsSU

Sep 10, 2022: They are all welcome at our home. twitter.com/nytimes/s…

Sep 9, 2022: But what if the goldfish is dead?

Sep 9, 2022: Fantastic read. An absolute steal at this price. twitter.com/mccloskey…

Sep 7, 2022: Hey, look, I’m dying in another book! Thank you, sir! 📚 twitter.com/david_jwe…

Sep 6, 2022: My review of Ryan’s debut novel: www.retrophisch.net/2022/09/0… 📚 twitter.com/RyanSteck…

Sep 6, 2022: Retrophisch Review: Fields of Fire The best conspiracy theories contain an element of truth, and the best novels containing conspiracies do as well. Such is the case with Ryan …

Sep 5, 2022: Mike is completely correct. mikestone.me/but-are-t…

Sep 2, 2022: I’m so happy there’s new Whitecross music. twitter.com/darkstarr…

Sep 2, 2022: I’m so happy there’s new Whitecross music. twitter.com/PastorWil…

Sep 2, 2022: The college football season is upon us, which means I’m changing the accent color in macOS from my usual green to purple… #nerd …

Aug 30, 2022: Finished “Fields of Fire,” @RyanSteckAuthor’s debut, last night. Well done, sir. If you like thrillers, you should definitely pick …

Aug 26, 2022: Released in the summer of 2020, in the heart of Covid-19 uncertainty, and featuring past and present members of the band, here’s Sacred …

Aug 26, 2022: Would watch. twitter.com/SocialSee…

Aug 26, 2022: Based on an actual life event that happened to me today, @bekindtobignate and I have decided our next band name will be Dental Implant, and our debut …

Aug 23, 2022: On the plane ride home Sunday, finished Heat 2 by @MegGardiner1 & @michaelmann, literally as the plane stopped at the gate. While we waited to …

Aug 22, 2022: Speaking of All For the King, this is the song that introduced me to them, and it remains my favorite of theirs: youtu.be/cc_sCQc1A…

Aug 22, 2022: I get back from dropping my oldest off at college in North Carolina to this awesome mail call.

Aug 22, 2022: The moniker “legend” gets thrown around quite a lot, but Nicholas Winton is the epitome of the word. What a man. …

Aug 19, 2022: The drive today was shorter, but may have been more stressful. AL->GA (Atlanta metro, ugh)->SC (most of the highway under construction)->NC …

Aug 19, 2022: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we’re talking about open adoptions. …

Aug 18, 2022: Today was spent on the road in four states, as I drive with our oldest to North Carolina where he starts as a freshman at High Point University on …

Aug 15, 2022: This is the most metal cover Stryper has had since the original To Hell with the Devil art, and honestly, I think it beats even that. …

Aug 14, 2022: If you don’t smile at least once during this video, I have to question if you have a soul. Just delightful. Glad to see these young men having …

Aug 14, 2022: This album, All Will Bow, kicks major butt. Been listening in Apple Music, already ordered a CD from @BillRoxx. twitter.com/RealPaulA…

Aug 13, 2022: And then we became the helicopter parents and messed it all up.

Aug 11, 2022: This was the first White Heart album I ever bought. It was also the first cassette I ever recall seeing that wasn’t white, clear, or smoked …

Aug 10, 2022: In a recent Recomendo newsletter, Mark Frauenfelder mistakenly (subconsciously?) wrote “PowerBook” in place of “MacBook,” and …

Aug 9, 2022: My copy arrived today, and my reading queue just got more complicated. 📚 twitter.com/BAndrewsJ…

Aug 9, 2022: Damascus Station, by @mccloskeybooks! 📚 twitter.com/JackCarrU…

Aug 9, 2022: Don’t be weak on dragons. 📚

Aug 8, 2022: Today’s @halfpricebooks find: large paperback edition of @wardlarsen’s first David Slaton book. Perfect for the re-read I have planned. …

Aug 7, 2022: I am ashamed to admit it, but me, too. twitter.com/tapbot_pa…

Aug 7, 2022: Likewise, @markgreaneybook’s catalog is deep enough he nearly has his own, too. At the moment, @jackcarrusa and @bentleydonb are sharing space, …

Aug 7, 2022: I have done something similar, with authors I know on Twitter, or have met in person. Given his productivity, @robkroese pretty much has his own …

Aug 6, 2022: For the record, Top Gun: Maverick is just as good the second time around. If you haven’t seen this on the big screen, do so before it’s …

Aug 6, 2022: Last night was another great show by @TheDollyrots! If you ever get the chance to see them, I highly recommend it. Just a fun pop-punk show. My …

Aug 5, 2022: Hey-ho, hey-ho, hey-ho! We’re heading out to @TheDollyrots punk rock show!

Aug 5, 2022: I have read the first two books, and they’re awesome. This is a great deal. twitter.com/David_JWe…

Aug 4, 2022: Oh look, it me.

Aug 3, 2022: #lifehack

Aug 2, 2022: These seats will do. #LetsGoRangers

Aug 2, 2022: On the way to the @Rangers game with my sweetie & some friends. First time we’ll be seeing the new ballpark, and first time I get to see …

Aug 2, 2022: I highly recommend his Brutal saga if you like sword and sorcery fiction. You’d swear you were reading Howard himself. …

Aug 1, 2022: I cannot tell you how badly I wanted this car when I was teenager. twitter.com/Super70sS…

Aug 1, 2022: No doubt you’ve spent more on coffee than that, and the long-lasting effects will not be nearly as enjoyable. This is a great, fun read. The poem at …

Aug 1, 2022: Oh look, it me.

Jul 30, 2022: This is so good, I listened to it this second time around. Don is so open and honest, some of his emotions still so raw, heck, I got choked up. …

Jul 28, 2022: Great, fun read, definitely recommend the Mammon series. twitter.com/robkroese…

Jul 26, 2022: It’s difficult to take the warning seriously when the minions of Lucifer are so darn cute. twitter.com/90snewssc…

Jul 26, 2022: At long last, my review of @TheJasonAnspach and @RealNickCole’s Forgotten Ruin: …

Jul 26, 2022: Retrophisch Review: Forgotten Ruin Let’s be clear about one thing right up front: I fully admit I am not an impartial reviewer of this book. Please allow me to explain. My …

Jul 26, 2022: Yay! New entry in a great series dropping in 3 days. twitter.com/SciFiSeri…

Jul 25, 2022: Somewhere, #Skynet is smiling. twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Jul 23, 2022: Staying put Photo by Kari Shea on Unsplash So my experimentation with Ghost as a new blogging platform is, for now at least, dead. My conclusion: I didn’t …

Jul 23, 2022: Treat yourself to @MarkGreaneyBook’s original vision of the story. You won’t regret it. www.amazon.com/exec/obid…

Jul 23, 2022: Watched the Russo brothers' take on The Gray Man last night. Great, fun flick. I’m okay with the myriad changes made from the book, it’s …

Jul 21, 2022: It is the year of our Lord 2022. If you would like me to take your solicitation seriously, perhaps update your database system to handle a …

Jul 20, 2022: Finished @robkroese’s third book in his Mammon saga, Nemesis, on the plane ride home today. While adding it to my reading list, I noticed I …

Jul 20, 2022: Dear @Avis, please stop buying Mitsubishi Outlanders. They are pieces of crap with no redeeming qualities whatsoever for drivers or passengers.

Jul 14, 2022: Two and a half hour plane rides are great for reading. Got over a third of the way through @robkroese’s latest in the Mammon saga, Nemesis.

Jul 14, 2022: I love a good Poe reference. twitter.com/madmup/st…

Jul 13, 2022: You can support The Empowered Parent Podcast by becoming a patron here: www.patreon.com/empowered…

Jul 13, 2022: We are celebrating half a million downloads of The Empowered Parent Podcast! To say thanks, we’ve released the “green room” episode …

Jul 11, 2022: Bob Odenkirk’s “Nobody” is fast becoming a favorite. Any time I see snippets, or catch part of it while channel-surfing, I’ll …

Jul 7, 2022: < Ponders moving to Phoenix, where if we’re going to have temperatures from the sun’s surface, at least the dry heat clears up …

Jun 30, 2022: Look at @ProtonMail getting some love on @TerminalListPV! It’s been my email platform of choice nearly since its inception. #GetOffGmail

Jun 29, 2022: Minions: The Rise of Gru is cute and hilarious. #ihavespoken

Jun 29, 2022: One positive on moving to a new domain, and a new blogging platform, is cleaning up old posts, and deleting ones where the content therein is no …

Jun 26, 2022: What a win-win for hockey fans: not only did Tampa Bay not win the Cup, but Gary Bettman wasn’t there to hand off Lord Stanley’s bowl to …

Jun 26, 2022: If I were still using Gmail, I would definitely jump on Mimestream: mimestream.com That is just gorgeous. I would love to see something similar for …

Jun 19, 2022: First Father’s Day in six years that I’m not at a hockey rink. Rather, the morning was spent cheering on this kid as he backstopped his …

Jun 17, 2022: “Smash your guitar during the 17th bridge of ‘Oceans’: Looks cool, and you never have to play ‘Oceans’ again.” 🤣 …

Jun 17, 2022: Oh noes. The replacement battery on my OG iPod may have finally died.

Jun 16, 2022: #GeekDad win: I have successfully sucked the middle child into the Dune-verse. We finished the 2021 film tonight, he is appalled it will be another …

Jun 16, 2022: The levels of hatred these folks manifest toward people trying to show there are options beyond abortion. I pity them. …

Jun 15, 2022: The fact that I can use the Command key on the Mac for both cool-switching between apps, and Cut/Copy/Paste, whereas I have to switch between Alt and …

Jun 13, 2022: This popped in my head earlier, so you can share in the earworm, too: youtu.be/0u8teXR8V… Bonus: Milton Berle, and…Milton Berle.

Jun 12, 2022: Over the past couple of days, I have rediscovered the joy of my Takeya hydro-flask. The ice retention capabilities of this thing blows away my Yetis. …

Jun 11, 2022: With the youngest at a sleepover for a friend’s birthday, I introduced the original #TopGun to the two teenagers tonight. Their verdict: despite …

Jun 9, 2022: Do your kids love doing chores? If so, count yourself blessed. Otherwise, check out the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast: …

Jun 7, 2022: I’ve been to the Sheldrick center in Kenya. Fascinating place, and had a baby elephant* lean on me while it was getting loved on by complete …

Jun 6, 2022: I feel attacked. babylonbee.com/news/husb…

Jun 6, 2022: Thirty years Thirty years ago today. Feels like the blink of an eye some times. Given the journey together up to now, the next 30 years should be interesting to …

Jun 6, 2022: Thirty years ago today. Feels like the blink of an eye some times. Given the journey together up to now, the next 30 years should be interesting to …

Jun 4, 2022: Former teammates, still friends, meet again on the #lacrosse fields. First time they’ve seen one another in over a year. #LAX #LAXlife

Jun 4, 2022: Amen and amen.

Jun 4, 2022: Oh, but to again have the energy of an 11 year-old who just played three #lacrosse tournament games in the summer heat, had lunch, and is now off to …

Jun 3, 2022: If, like me, you adore Johnny Cash’s rendition of the traditional American spiritual, “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” but thought …

May 31, 2022: Always and forever “To Hell with the Devil,” but I admit there’s a lot of teenage nostalgia at play there. “Yahweh” is a killer track to open a show …

May 27, 2022: At once it seems wrong and yet totally right to put this leftover lime White Claw in my @ATVShook koozie.

May 27, 2022: Here’s a Friday funny for everyone: www.youtube.com/watch

May 26, 2022: Here’s my just-got-finished-watching-it review of Top Gun: Maverick: Go see it. Go see it. Go see it.

May 26, 2022: I am prepping for the need for speed. #TopGunMaverick

May 26, 2022: Ticket for @TheDollyrots show in Dallas on August 5th: purchased.

May 20, 2022: Loving this! twitter.com/Wildmanan…

May 20, 2022: Sitting in my car in the driveway, reading today’s @myutmost devotional, with @OfficialPetra on the speakers. Sometimes you have to carve out …

May 20, 2022: There’s a new episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we are talking about connecting with the kids you struggle the most with. Listen …

May 18, 2022: Finished Travis Corcoran’s novella inside Mammon: Collateral, so I’m in the home stretch now. Some really great stories in here. Well …

May 17, 2022: My emotional support animal is a chicken. A four piece. With a biscuit. And a sweet tea.

May 9, 2022: During the period breaks of the Stars-Flames game, I’m watching a video on YouTube about the Rings of Power in Tolkien’s literature. And thus you have …

May 9, 2022: During the period breaks of the Stars-Flames game, I’m watching a video on YouTube about the Rings of Power in Tolkien’s literature. And thus you have …

May 6, 2022: Honestly, with the camera angle and not being able to see the fronts of players’ jerseys because they’re constantly skating and moving, if it weren’t …

May 6, 2022: I love this current cadre of thriller writers: @bentleydonb totally throws @NickPetrie under the bus by naming a “notorious” football …

May 4, 2022: Makes sense this exists; Jerry Jones doesn’t know how to play chess.

May 4, 2022: May the Fourth be with you, everyone! And always remember…

May 3, 2022: I truly appreciate Canadian country music singer George Canyon skipping through The Star Spangled Banner as the DRINKING SONG THAT IT IS. Kudos, sir.

Apr 30, 2022: If you know, you know. twitter.com/MontyYuan…

Apr 29, 2022: Heck yeah! New Signum Regis coming, and it’s a live album to boot! youtu.be/bYDl_fV2V…

Apr 27, 2022: First date, 32 years ago today.

Apr 27, 2022: Not going to lie, I feel like this one is speaking directly to me. babylonbee.com/news/conc…

Apr 25, 2022: Major props to Enterprise for their upkeep on this RAV4. It had over 32,000 miles on it, and the car, inside and out, looks and feels like it’s …

Apr 25, 2022: RAV4 XLE I’ve-had-it-3-hours review, cont’d: back seat 👎🏻 (it’s a good thing my smaller children are sitting back there); cargo area …

Apr 25, 2022: Long story, but I’m driving a Toyota RAV4 XLE for a week. The I’ve-had-it-3-hours review: exterior looks, 👍🏻; CarPlay 👍🏻; A/C 👍🏻 …

Apr 25, 2022: If you’re looking for quick news summary three times a week that doesn’t get bogged down in politics but keeps an eternal perspective, I …

Apr 25, 2022: This remains a tremendous cinematic moment. twitter.com/Southernb…

Apr 24, 2022: The fact not a single response was “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.” shows a …

Apr 23, 2022: There’s a new episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast out! Chris and Nathan break radio silence to review the latest Batman release directed by Matt …

Apr 19, 2022: Look at this find from Half Price Books today. Guess I know what I’m going to have Don sign for me next month.

Apr 17, 2022: The King is risen. youtu.be/crYKkehlH…

Apr 16, 2022: Roman Soldier Assigned To Guard Tomb Of Some Jewish Carpenter Looking Forward To Uneventful Weekend babylonbee.com/news/roma…

Apr 12, 2022: Catching this American classic tonight. #Wolverines

Apr 11, 2022: It’s been a long-standing vision of the Rwandan ministry our family is involved with to build Hope Village, a trauma-informed place to help the …

Apr 7, 2022: Lunchtime reading acquired. twitter.com/SciFiSeri…

Apr 6, 2022: This is such a specific Seinfeld reference, from early seasons, too, and I’m loving it. twitter.com/downi75/s…

Apr 6, 2022: Well of course Leo did a metal cover of Toto’s “Africa.” youtu.be/MH9FyLsfD…

Apr 6, 2022: Somewhere, an alt-history writer is having an epiphany. twitter.com/Christina…

Apr 4, 2022: This thread continues to amuse me. “How do I say there is no way you are this ****ing stupid?” 🤣 twitter.com/MeanestTA…

Apr 4, 2022: Decided over the weekend that, after 24 years in Texas, it was past time for some cowboy boots. Major props to all the folks at the FOUR different …

Apr 2, 2022: What am I watching? #top10movie

Apr 1, 2022: I realize these programming decisions are often made days, if not weeks in advance, but it’s still amusing, post-Oscars, that Independence Day …

Apr 1, 2022: William Gibson must be rolling over in his grave, giddy with excitement. twitter.com/geoffmana…

Mar 31, 2022: The Password Strikes Back. twitter.com/1Password…

Mar 22, 2022: This is me, but with Star Wars movies. There are only five. twitter.com/JohnTalon…

Mar 22, 2022: Take 15 minutes of your time to listen to Kassy Dillon’s reporting from Ukraine where she interviews several people on the ground, as well as …

Mar 21, 2022: All of politics these days.

Mar 21, 2022: You won’t find this on Apple Music, Spotify, or any other music streaming service. But thanks to YouTube and Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack, …

Mar 17, 2022: I feel seen. twitter.com/judedautr…

Mar 17, 2022: DFW 🚀 PHL with my sweet for an adoptive/foster parent retreat at a resort outside the city. Please pray for my parents, who have kid duty while …

Mar 16, 2022: Dogs are the best. #Corgis doubly so. twitter.com/lasrina/s…

Mar 16, 2022: Ian McDiarmid in the back with the “Can you believe this bloody awful dialogue?” look. 🤣 twitter.com/lightsabr…

Mar 13, 2022: In case you need a spark of joy, Cracker Barrel in Branson, MO has this.

Mar 12, 2022: Last night, got to re-acquaint ourselves with an old friend.

Mar 10, 2022: Finished the 7th Galaxy Run novella, Watchmen Waketh, during lunch today. Love that the adventures of Nixon and Laana are continuing. It’s a …

Mar 9, 2022: “As Jesus died and rose again, so we also believe that we will also with Him rise again. So no matter what happens, we have hope. We have Jesus …

Mar 7, 2022: Dinner tonight was a shepherd’s pie recipe from Home Chef, and all I could think about was this: youtu.be/Mx5Wpqf4-…

Mar 7, 2022: #ProudDadAlert: “Captain Clutch” (moniker bestowed by his coaches) comes through with the game winner in the shootout in today’s …

Mar 6, 2022: At least the excitement about elective surgery would be to the improvement of one’s self. twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Mar 5, 2022: At our friend Keith’s 50th birthday party, and the restaurant is on Lake Lewisville. Had to get a sunset shot with my sweetheart.

Mar 4, 2022: Adoptive/foster/kinship parents: there are heavy orphan/abandonment/orphanage themes in #TheBatman. Heavy. If you have a kiddo wrestling with trauma …

Mar 4, 2022: Thematically—and honestly, cinematically, too—#TheBatman is the darkest Batman film yet. This is NOT a superhero film for kids. Do not take your 8 …

Mar 3, 2022: Well. I have thoughts about #TheBatman. Many, many thoughts. Stay tuned.

Mar 1, 2022: It’s Mardi Gras! Time for some “Fat Tuesday” by The Friendly Indians: www.friendlyindians.com/audio/Fat…

Feb 28, 2022: Being one of the Kickstarter backers, I’ve read this. It is frightening in its examination of inflation and the death of the dollar while at the …

Feb 28, 2022: I nearly spewed out tea in the middle of Chick-fil-A when I read this at lunch today. twitter.com/bekindtob…

Feb 27, 2022: And now I have to find this for mine. Named, appropriately enough, Connor. twitter.com/RealPaulA…

Feb 26, 2022: Such a great show. twitter.com/Wildmanan…

Feb 26, 2022: I wonder which circle this is? twitter.com/kristenru…

Feb 24, 2022: Watched the film Nobody tonight (finally). @mrbobodenkirk is fantastic; it’s a fun flick with some great dark humor moments. And boy, does Derek …

Feb 24, 2022: This week, I’ve read @robkroese’s Messiah, book 2 in his Mammon series, and @NickPetrie’s The Runaway, book 7 in his Peter Ash …

Feb 22, 2022: Steve was the keynote speaker at a Bible conference our old church held over 15 years ago. I still remember words he spoke that day. Now he is …

Feb 21, 2022: I played Wordle a few times, but just not for me. Then Nathan told me about a Star Wars version… SWordle #24 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.starwars.guide

Feb 20, 2022:

Feb 19, 2022: Put the plane ride to good use. I’m nearly halfway through Messiah, book 2 of @robkroese’s Mammon series.

Feb 19, 2022: Eschewing the Cracker Barrel near my hotel for Bob Evans, since we don’t have these at home.

Feb 15, 2022: You guys! I just learned from the Central Intelligence Agency via email that the @FBI has overseen the transfer of $10.5 million to an account just …

Feb 14, 2022: Some times the parody is so close to the truth, it’s either not funny, or insanely funny. babylonbee.com/news/clar…

Feb 13, 2022: Happy for OBJ, Andrew Whitworth, and Stafford. Joe, J’Marr, and the Bengals will be back in this game in the years to come. Great #SuperBowl …

Feb 13, 2022: The fix is in for the Rams. #VegasKnows

Feb 13, 2022: Remember when the #SuperBowl was about football and not what celebrities, former players notwithstanding, were in attendance? /sigh #NoOneCares

Feb 13, 2022: One of the biggest problems with our politics today is the perceived need to “do something,” when the inherent design of our Constitution …

Feb 12, 2022: Surprised my youngest with our first-ever box lacrosse match, seeing @panthercitylax in action. He is super stoked.

Feb 8, 2022: Halfway through season one of #Reacher, and Finley’s “I hope you like .38 Special” is one of my favorite beats so far.

Feb 5, 2022: Yeah, buddy. Nice to get a taste of home while a state away. cc @patrickrhone

Feb 5, 2022: Just finished season 2 of The Witcher. Wow, well done. Definitely a step up from the first.

Feb 3, 2022: Even homicidal weather AIs know what’s up.

Feb 2, 2022: I’m starting to think The Book of #BobaFett is just a contest between Rodriguez, Howard, and Filoni to see who can top the others, with Favreau …

Feb 1, 2022: Look, Hendrix will always own the definitive version of “All Along the Watchtower,” but this rendition by Jay Howie is really great: …

Jan 29, 2022: Confession: if I happen to catch Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (the Gary Oldman version) while channel surfing, I’ll stop and watch, no matter …

Jan 28, 2022: “…[A] man who wore the walk of hard grounds & lost days” What a great line. From: poets.org/poem/test… (Link courtesy of …

Jan 28, 2022: Nailed it.

Jan 22, 2022: Twenty-five years since the release of L.A. Confidential, and man, does that film still hold up.

Jan 21, 2022: #RIP Meat Loaf youtu.be/9X_ViIPA-… (And do yourself a favor and check out the original album version on your music service of choice.)

Jan 16, 2022: Steve Vai, Ozzy, Saxon, The Scorpions, Aldo Nova, Quiet Riot, King’s X, Queensryche, and Stryper all either have new albums coming out in 2022 …

Jan 14, 2022: Well, this is some fantastic entertainment news! twitter.com/darkhoriz…

Jan 10, 2022: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out. Ryan and I have a wandering conversation in which both Ted Lasso and Simon Sinek are …

Jan 8, 2022: My new DVA Tailgating cap arrived today. Looks sharp, Zach Rau, nice work!

Jan 7, 2022: The King’s Man is a superb origin story, and dare I say, the best of the series thus far.

Jan 6, 2022: If you lament Robert E. Howard leaving us too soon, with no more Conan stories, this is for you. I’ve read the first two books in the saga, and …

Dec 30, 2021: Dogs are just the BEST, y’all. twitter.com/dog_rates…

Dec 29, 2021: “Our trustworthiness has really taken a huge hit these past six years. Maybe we should be more intentional and honest with our readers.” …

Dec 29, 2021: Finished building this masterpiece last night, just in time for today’s debut of #TheBookofBobaFett. Also, #prouddad alert: this set was a gift …

Dec 28, 2021: I feel seen.

Dec 26, 2021: Going to have to figure out how to move this up in the reading queue. #ChristmasBookHaul

Dec 26, 2021: “Nice suit. John Phillips, London. I have two myself. Rumor is Arafat buys his there.” #ChristmasMovie

Dec 25, 2021: Dear Fox, you should never, ever have ad copy for Joe Buck with the word “dopest” in it.

Dec 24, 2021: Corgi in Repose at Christmastime.

Dec 23, 2021: The Kirkland (aka Costco) brand trail mix has leveled up, with Peanut M&Ms being included now!

Dec 22, 2021: God, I love this aircraft. And good on Captain Bye for her coolness under pressure. www.businessinsider.com/a-10-pilo…

Dec 21, 2021: A late happy birthday and a merry Christmas to me, because new @TheDollyrots has landed!

Dec 20, 2021: Looking like a good thing I haven’t paid much attention to my favorite Marvel character since the spectacular @MitchGerads/Nathan Edmondson …

Dec 20, 2021: I’m so very happy the Saints could help Brady and the Bucs set a new #NFL record. #WhoDat

Dec 19, 2021: During last night’s recording of two new Empowered Parent Podcast episodes, Ryan informed me off-air of Sonic’s new hard seltzers. Yes, …

Dec 17, 2021: This is bloody brilliant. (Language warning) twitter.com/EleanorMo…

Dec 13, 2021: “Your mother is totally lame.” The timing. The delivery. This will never not be funny. youtu.be/mkUH6T7H8…

Dec 12, 2021: Once again, I am mystified by the choices of the @NFL and networks to show me Raiders-Chiefs instead of Saints-Jets, or Seahawks-Texans, given Houston …

Dec 10, 2021: Dear spammers, Perhaps sending email with the subject line “Exposed: This Could End Trump’s Presidency” in December 2021 isn’t …

Dec 7, 2021: Mark my words: @thebrianfallon’s newly-released version of Amazing Grace is going to be used at some point in the next year over a montage scene …

Dec 7, 2021: If anyone wants 15% off an order from Tony’s Chocolonely for holiday treats, here’s your code: 3HOYIWDH tonyschocolonely.com

Dec 5, 2021: Fun new animated lyric video from one of my favorite bands, @TheDollyrots! This is “Just Like All the Rest”: youtu.be/hT0QAzaVc…

Dec 4, 2021: Blue Mesa remains undefeated in the best birthday offerings of the local restaurants. Free queso, non-alcoholic drink, & dessert when you purchase …

Dec 4, 2021: There is something really beautiful in watching someone fully appreciate the art of another. Watching Elizabeth Zharoff’s reaction to …

Dec 4, 2021: This is a terrific way to spend 25 minutes of your time. www.youtube.com/watch

Dec 4, 2021: There is so much greatness in here about “Do They Know It’s Christmas” I couldn’t select just one quote. …

Dec 4, 2021: This is pretty cool. twitter.com/physicsJ/…

Dec 3, 2021: Politics is entertainment now. Most of our representatives are just as big morons as most entertainers. All they’re after is getting in zingers …

Dec 3, 2021: A vast improvement over the original. twitter.com/mdrockwel…

Dec 3, 2021: This is awesome. twitter.com/INTOY2014…

Dec 2, 2021: Big Nate sent me the link to the Reacher trailer that dropped today. I’m so in. youtu.be/GSycMV-_C…

Dec 2, 2021: We were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend for the social event of the semester for the circle we were both in. twitter.com/OllyWrite…

Dec 2, 2021: Just the whiskey, thanks. Preferably single-malt scotch, aged no less than 12 years. twitter.com/impudente…

Nov 27, 2021: Alarm on my phone just went off for nightly blood pressure check, and I’m like, “After THAT #LSU game? Are you kidding?” I’ll …

Nov 27, 2021: Burrow adds another target from the 2019 national championship team… #NFLSU twitter.com/Bengals/s…

Nov 27, 2021: Liking the look of TDP’s gold gloves with those stormtrooper-white unis. #LSU #GeauxTigers

Nov 25, 2021: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast up today. Fitting, given today is Thanksgiving in the United States, that it’s about …

Nov 25, 2021: Lee: great on apologetics, bad on soda. 🤣 Look, I love Pepsi. It’s great to have around to remind me why Coke is so, so, so much better. …

Nov 24, 2021: I totally blame @zrau and @valleyshook’s photos from the tailgate this past Saturday for this.

Nov 23, 2021: The Comite River. We could walk to it from the back of the large suburban neighborhood we lived in. My Greenwell Springs, LA peeps will know. …

Nov 22, 2021: I haven’t had a chance to read many books this year, thanks to a new job and undergoing financial licensing studies (passed all, yay!). But this …

Nov 21, 2021: I’m going to throw this out to those who follow me, to see how well you may know me. What am I watching? twitter.com/Bermuda_B…

Nov 19, 2021: Volcanic Light Pillar would be a kick-butt name for a metal album. twitter.com/Rainmaker…

Nov 14, 2021: SECONDED. twitter.com/SFFAudio/…

Nov 14, 2021: Got a little dusty in here thanks to that Amazon commercial with the bird feeder.

Nov 14, 2021: Not for one minute do I believe the Vince Lombardi Trophy flies around on FedEx planes.

Nov 14, 2021: Sam’s a tease, but when he delivers, he delivers. twitter.com/SciFiSeri…

Nov 13, 2021: This begs the question of what prompted someone to put together this shot? Is this Photoshop, or an old photo that was staged? I’m honestly …

Nov 12, 2021: DFW drivers: there is no reason for you to be lost in any of the suburbs. Even if your car doesn’t have in-dash GPS maps, the cheapest …

Nov 12, 2021: I mean, it is from the second worst movie in the awful sequel trilogy. twitter.com/nypost/st…

Nov 11, 2021: They make it really hard for the 7% of us who KNOW we are better than average drivers. twitter.com/qikipedia…

Nov 11, 2021: This is awesome. twitter.com/HunchoSha…

Nov 11, 2021: Dogs are the best. twitter.com/TheFigen/…

Nov 10, 2021: Because who couldn’t use some Corgi cuteness?

Nov 8, 2021: You had me at the Blazing Saddles homage. twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Nov 8, 2021: Already backed it, thanks to the early sign-up given to Patreon supporters. (Yes, yes, big surprise to anyone who knows me.) …

Nov 8, 2021: One of the great emotions of watching The Middle was always cheering on Sue’s relentless optimism, and wanting to give her a hug when it was …

Nov 7, 2021: Gentleman. Superb talent. Great voice. Consummate professional. Once again, so glad I got to see him play live. twitter.com/BluesArch…

Nov 5, 2021: Friends, if you weren’t already smitten with Ted Lasso, and the Christmas episode from season 2 didn’t push you over the edge, then …

Nov 5, 2021: SIE ✅ Series 7 ✅ Series 63 ✅ Done with licensing! Whew!

Nov 3, 2021: Oh hell yeah. twitter.com/getFANDOM…

Nov 3, 2021: Had to run up to Denton to pick up an item. Made my pilgrimage to the nearest Buc-ee’s, as required by Texas state law.

Nov 2, 2021: I am sad for the Astros, my first baseball love, but happy we got to have another World Series in Texas. May the Rangers figure out how to host those …

Nov 2, 2021: I am happy (and sad) for my sister-in-law, because her husband would have LOVED the Braves' WS win. I am happy for Ron Washington, that he got to win …

Nov 2, 2021: Just when the fish thought they were safe, the Orcan Air Force showed up. twitter.com/RebeccaH2…

Nov 1, 2021: Saw a chalk sign at a bar once that had the Ben Franklin quote, “Beer is proof that God loves us” amended with “And Scotch proves He …

Oct 30, 2021: It wouldn’t matter what the rest of his policy proposals were. If Pat were to demand members of the White House press pool have to spin a wheel …

Oct 30, 2021: Today I learned about this: twitter.com/SpotTheLo…

Oct 30, 2021: #ParentingWithBradbury twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Oct 29, 2021: I’m starting to think charts like this are not scientifically peer-reviewed, for it has obviously conflated December with July. …

Oct 29, 2021: One thing that I won’t be getting used to is macOS Monterey’s transparent menu bar. Yep, that’s got to go. Downloaded and bought …

Oct 29, 2021: After a bit of a false start, got macOS Monterey installed on my 2015 MacBook Pro. This interface will take some getting used to.

Oct 28, 2021: My favorite USAF aircraft. What a great shot. twitter.com/bigdaddyo…

Oct 28, 2021: Same. twitter.com/LadyDemos…

Oct 28, 2021: Same. twitter.com/LadyDemos…

Oct 27, 2021: Come for the golf, stay for the free wildlife interaction. twitter.com/buitengeb…

Oct 27, 2021: Proof that God loves us. twitter.com/latestins…

Oct 26, 2021: Happy Jack Reacher Day, everyone! 📚

Oct 26, 2021: I knew both of my great grandmothers on my dad’s side. One of them spent the last few years of her life in my dad’s parents home, which we …

Oct 24, 2021: No no no no no no no NO! twitter.com/Laura_Lam…

Oct 24, 2021: My parents were in town this weekend. Yesterday they got to watch their youngest grandchild play in goal, then score goals in a lacrosse tournament. …

Oct 24, 2021: The one-two punch of “Calling on You” and “Free” is among the best in all of metal. Favorite track is “More Than a …

Oct 24, 2021: Short take from last night’s Dune viewing: I am very pleased. It’s not perfect, but nothing will be unless it gets a big-budget, multi-season …

Oct 23, 2021: Because this is my only day off from licensing study, I am now seeing Dune on the big screen.

Oct 23, 2021: Both of Jason’s talks today were super. The afternoon session, “The Scandal of Grace,” was incredible. Check out all of …

Oct 23, 2021: One of the joys and privileges of getting to host Tapestry Conference is getting to know our speakers and panelists. Joanna’s story is, …

Oct 22, 2021: One of youngest’s spelling words for the week is “thirsty.” For an example sentence, I’ve been using “These pretzels are …

Oct 21, 2021: I don’t remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster, but you can never have too many… twitter.com/agiletort…

Oct 20, 2021: And boy, is this not one of the hardest things about this walk of faith… twitter.com/CSLewisDa…

Oct 19, 2021: Oh man, @iamjamiefoxx would be perfect for this, too.

Oct 18, 2021: Or while prepping for a conference for foster and adoptive parents and the professionals who support them… twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Oct 18, 2021: Foster and adoptive dads! Foundations in Fatherhood is for you! (And any other dads who would like better relationships with their kids.) Learn more …

Oct 17, 2021: This is the kind of petty that makes college football so damn great. twitter.com/BoilerFoo…

Oct 16, 2021: Both Stryper and Social Distortion this past week. Look, I’m complicated. twitter.com/2ndHandBo…

Oct 13, 2021: “Innocent until proven guilty.” Accusations are now enough to ruin a person, with no proof to back them up. The other is forgiveness. Once …

Oct 12, 2021: I’m nearly three-quarters through, and it’s fantastic. And scary as hell. twitter.com/robkroese…

Oct 10, 2021: I failed to note it at the time, but two weeks ago, I gazed upon the beauty of the Lady Galadriel in the Land of Lórien.

Oct 9, 2021: Can confirm. twitter.com/zrau/stat…

Oct 9, 2021: In my tech what-if fantasies, Instagram never was because someone at Yahoo had the temerity and vision to see how Flickr could have been the dominant …

Oct 8, 2021: What an abomination. The “candy,” not the review. The review is hilarious, A+ stuff. twitter.com/momofnora…

Oct 8, 2021: As someone who was made fun of plenty for being different, the gifted & talented classes was where I found others like me. News like this is …

Oct 8, 2021: As someone who, as a teenager, grew to love both J.R.R. Tolkien and Tom Clancy, Forgotten Ruin is the book (and series) I never knew I needed. Highly …

Oct 7, 2021: Now where did I put that cask and trowel? twitter.com/OccultDet…

Oct 7, 2021: If only we could know who these crew members are, but alas…er, I mean, masks… twitter.com/AmericanA…

Oct 7, 2021: Managed to squeeze in a reading of Kipling’s “The Army of a Dream” during breaks over the past few days. It was a major influence on …

Oct 6, 2021: “Wow, thank you so much for having the passion to not just come in and blaze a solo, but to actually care about the song, and make it …

Oct 6, 2021: “Where’s your brother?” “He’s mowing the roof.” twitter.com/theCGspal…

Oct 6, 2021: I still regret not acquiring one of these fine totems. twitter.com/pjperdaem…

Oct 6, 2021: I know I’m not the only parent that gets excited when he learns his kid’s school is having a Scholastic Book Fair, right?

Oct 5, 2021: God bless whoever programmed music at @fuzzystacoshop in Lewisville with the soundtrack of my teenage years: Rock of Ages - Def Leppard If You Needed …

Oct 5, 2021: God bless whoever programmed music at @fuzzystacoshop in Lewisville with the soundtrack of my teenage years: Rock of Ages - Def Leppard If You Needed …

Oct 5, 2021: It’s been a day.

Oct 5, 2021: Join Mr. T in saving the ta-tas! twitter.com/MrT/statu…

Oct 5, 2021: Will still cost two to three times what it should. twitter.com/DallasSta…

Oct 5, 2021: You know, the @Rangers, the City of Arlington, whoever owns whatever, can call the two stadiums whatever they want by whoever pays them the most. But …

Oct 4, 2021: Come on, people, let’s strap Dan to a desk! I want a second Heinlein book! twitter.com/dsawyer/s…

Oct 4, 2021: I’m wracking my brain, but I don’t think I watched a single @Rangers game this season. I was supposed to attend at least one game at the …

Oct 4, 2021: Which brings this question to mind: is anyone looking into semiconductor manufacturing in the Western hemisphere? twitter.com/Mansfield…

Oct 4, 2021: Note to self: don’t plan any trips to China in near future. www.cnn.com/2021/09/2…

Oct 2, 2021: I understand they’re trying to tell me that Behr Dynasty paint is supposedly the best paint you can buy for interior walls, but what I’m …

Oct 2, 2021: Thank you, @LSUJesus, for Kayshon Boutte. #GeauxTigers

Oct 2, 2021: Tell you what, College Football Playoff Committee: just do it. Put a Group of 5 undefeated team, like potentially Cincinnati, in the playoff. Just …

Oct 2, 2021: Well, knowing #LSU will get curb-stomped by Bama next month, it’s nice the same is happening to hated Ole Miss.

Oct 2, 2021: Great interview by @JacquesDoucet with @deesnider. Dee’s album For the Love of Metal is FANTASTIC. youtu.be/Vshzb6L0i…

Oct 2, 2021: It’s a really good story. Buy it, read it, enjoy it. twitter.com/Bookstore…

Oct 1, 2021: That line! That laugh!! 🤣 twitter.com/travisake…

Oct 1, 2021: Just a beautiful shot by Hilary. Look at the detail around Mike’s eye. twitter.com/hscheinuk…

Oct 1, 2021: Awww, thanks for the shout-out on the latest @SneakyGoodPod, @StepBaker1. It was great fun doing the podcast with you, miss the hanging out before and …

Oct 1, 2021: I don’t drink coffee, so just give me the heavy metal. twitter.com/Berserker…

Sep 30, 2021: Wild cloud formations over lacrosse practice earlier this evening. flic.kr/p/2mwegRJ

Sep 30, 2021: I am grateful for online friends who do the hard work of letting me know what sweets to avoid. twitter.com/madmup/st…

Sep 29, 2021: So long as Kathleen Kennedy is in charge at Lucasfilm, everything should be treated as suspect until release, with no prior excitement. …

Sep 29, 2021: I love how more people have voted for @ChickfilA in this poll than “The Protestant Church.” 🤣 …

Sep 28, 2021: Our long national nightmare is at an end. twitter.com/TND/statu…

Sep 28, 2021: And here I thought they were owned by Reddit all this time. Shows you how much I use or pay attention to either. twitter.com/mjtsai/st…

Sep 28, 2021: Gee, I feel so bad for Facebook, which could have chosen another business model beyond spying on its users at every step and thinking they are the …

Sep 28, 2021: I went to @mjtsai’s wedding. It was only the third time we’d ever met in person after what was at the time a 16-year online friendship. …

Sep 28, 2021: I cannot fathom why people will spend 20 minutes in the Chick-fil-A drive-thru to order and pickup food when they could use the app and be in and out …

Sep 28, 2021: What makes this even more glorious is Wake Forest’s size. Its undergrad student body is a quarter the size of Clemson’s. So a …

Sep 27, 2021: It’s so cute when the spammers send me messages about an email password expiring for an account only I have access to.

Sep 25, 2021: Always a special place in my heart. Laplace was where @klttx and I bought our first house. twitter.com/BarstoolM…

Sep 24, 2021: I’m thinking we have ourselves one heck of a party after we get finished shooting some of those 40 guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition down at …

Sep 24, 2021: This is incredible. twitter.com/the_megha…

Sep 23, 2021: Watched this show religiously with my dad. twitter.com/JackCarrU…

Sep 23, 2021: I cannot wait to show this to my 13 year-old future engineer. twitter.com/kevinbpar…

Sep 22, 2021: We need to bring “great googly moogly” back into more common usage. twitter.com/uppityhob…

Sep 22, 2021: I need Dom DeLuise in his outfit from Men in Tights saying this line. RIP, Dom. twitter.com/SparkNote…

Sep 22, 2021: Some times, I get the feeling a homicidal weather AI like @CARROT_app doesn’t really have my best interests at heart.

Sep 21, 2021: Here’s a thought: if every first-year student gets automatic scholarships, maybe, just maybe, and go with me here, they could LOWER THE COST OF …

Sep 21, 2021: Earlier this month I passed over the Bridge of Khazad-dum. The flame of Udûn did not.

Sep 21, 2021: I neglected to note last month that I have reached the Mines of Moria.

Sep 19, 2021: Whatever came before #1.

Sep 19, 2021: Between the futuristic looks of SoFi Stadium, the lighting there, and the focus camera work Fox is doing, it’s almost as if watching this …

Sep 18, 2021: Lord, have mercy. twitter.com/PatrickHa…

Sep 18, 2021: Munchkin and Exploding Kittens are both so much fun. twitter.com/Bookstore…

Sep 18, 2021: No good thing comes from admitting innocent people were killed but no one will be held accountable. twitter.com/LucasFoxN…

Sep 18, 2021: Quick but good interview with Desmond Shum, author of Red Roulette, which highlights the disappearing of his wife by the CCP. …

Sep 17, 2021: It’s where text starts on your iPhone! And your iPad. And your Mac. Look, it’s terrific and you should be using it. …

Sep 17, 2021: SIE: DONE. Next up, Series 7.

Sep 16, 2021: So glad I got to see him perform live. Susan Tedeschi, Buddy Guy, and Mr. King finishing the night. That was a heck of a show. …

Sep 16, 2021: Yes! Way to go, Mo!! 🎉 twitter.com/MosesUver…

Sep 16, 2021: Walk into a bar… twitter.com/upstreamr…

Sep 15, 2021: I feel seen. twitter.com/ADHDelaid…

Sep 15, 2021: Bought and added to the ever-growing list of things I need to read when I’m done with licensing. twitter.com/KarlKGall…

Sep 14, 2021: Great band. (I’m a little biased. #GeauxTigers) Great high priest, great book of the Bible. Norm: great comedian. A real loss. …

Sep 14, 2021: Disappointed there’s not a “Hell No!” choice. twitter.com/primalpol…

Sep 14, 2021: Come on, folks, only 30 bucks to get us to the second stretch goal! twitter.com/dsawyer/s…

Sep 14, 2021: I thought they did a good job adapting the book to the Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt film, but as always the book was better. And in the case of All You Need …

Sep 14, 2021: Double standards and “rules for thee but not for me”? I’m shocked — SHOCKED! twitter.com/wupton/st…

Sep 14, 2021: Those are not representative of society, because Twitter isn’t real life. What we should do is mock them for their hypocritical cosplaying and …

Sep 14, 2021: When your audio producer extraordinaire friend has to tell so-called professionals how to do their job. 🙂 twitter.com/iDoMeanDa…

Sep 13, 2021: The relevant quote mentioned in previous post: twitter.com/timkeller…

Sep 13, 2021: Well, this was a pleasant surprise. Created new note in Bear, a quote I wanted to keep and reference. One of the tags was #God. This was the first …

Sep 12, 2021: Read to the end. twitter.com/Wholesome…

Sep 12, 2021: Paladin. As if it would be anything else. twitter.com/uppityhob…

Sep 12, 2021: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die…from this laser hairball!” twitter.com/Bookstore…

Sep 11, 2021: I hadn’t heard this before. Great song. Thanks for sharing, Mike. twitter.com/mdrockwel…

Sep 11, 2021: Of the book’s title, I say, “There is no such thing!” twitter.com/kristenru…

Sep 11, 2021: This is the kind of awesome pettiness that makes college football so great. twitter.com/TheWilder…

Sep 11, 2021: For the 1989 home season, I was on the edge of the field for every home game, presenting the colors with the Pershing Rifles, with the band coming at …

Sep 10, 2021: My favorite #LSU podcast is back! @valleyshook takes over my engineering duties, & @ZacharyJunda & @maxtoscano1 chat about the disaster in the …

Sep 10, 2021: Tried the new-formula Coke Zero. It actually does taste more like regular Coca-Cola. I don’t have soda often, but when I do, it’s nice to …

Sep 10, 2021: Ginny speaking truth. One of our nation’s fundamental problems is too many don’t realize how good they have it, not only compared to …

Sep 10, 2021: This makes me wonder: if he’d been able to take the role of Indiana Jones, is this the look we would have gotten? twitter.com/caroljsro…

Sep 10, 2021: Will have to add this podcast to all the things I need to get caught up on after licensing study and tests are over. Petra was one of the Christian …

Sep 9, 2021: I only caught the last couple minutes of tonight’s #NFL game, but I got the gist: Dak played great Cowboys defense collapsed when needed most …

Sep 9, 2021: Likewise! twitter.com/KarlKGall…

Sep 8, 2021: Wisdom from the mouths of babes. twitter.com/XplodingU…

Sep 8, 2021: If you wish Douglas Adams had been able to write more Hitchhiker'’s Guide to the Galaxy books, then the Rex Nihilo series is for you. …

Sep 8, 2021: The finance and computer science ones are genius. 🤣 twitter.com/benorlin/…

Sep 8, 2021: Join me, won’t you? twitter.com/AHelleneA…

Sep 8, 2021: Or maybe keep reading in case it’s one of those books where magic and dragons make a comeback. twitter.com/KValeNagl…

Sep 8, 2021: SpamSieve continues to be a must-have if you use a Mac. twitter.com/spamsieve…

Sep 8, 2021: This is a great serial sci-fi series, and you should be reading it. twitter.com/SciFiSeri…

Sep 7, 2021: You know, as invasive as Facebook is, you would think they would have an algorithm smart enough to NOT tell me I liked and shared a post from a group …

Sep 7, 2021: Great thread. I’m left with praying for Richard, and now can’t get “William Tyndale. Bible gangster.” out of my head. That needs to be a t-shirt. …

Sep 7, 2021: This is why I still buy physical media. twitter.com/Grummz/st…

Sep 7, 2021: Boiled crawfish, po-boys, and gumbo. twitter.com/ahidalgos…

Sep 4, 2021: Game day meal: acquired. I’m officially ready for the first #LSU game of the season. #GeauxTigers #BeatUCLA

Sep 3, 2021: Y’all. I just laughed so hard. twitter.com/Wes_nship…

Sep 2, 2021: That last line. ❤️🥲 twitter.com/IMAO_/sta…

Sep 2, 2021: And the insult to injury will be that it collapses in a manner far more stupid and less entertaining than it will in the book. …

Sep 1, 2021: God bless friends who, upon request, will send you photos of their adorable babies to cheer you up when you’ve had a rough few days. Love and …

Aug 28, 2021: Someone did a Red Graphite/Dark Graphite—a la @bearnotesapp—light/dark theme for @obsdmd, and I’m tickled pink.

Aug 28, 2021: He also liked Twinkies for the awesome sugar rush. twitter.com/anccpt/st…

Aug 28, 2021: Truly we are living in the #Idiocracy twitter.com/FilmUpdat…

Aug 26, 2021: It’s #NationalDogDay? Well then let’s just show off another photo of this spoiled princess…

Aug 26, 2021: Definitely my favorite of @michaelhsweet’s solo albums. twitter.com/Wildmanan…

Aug 25, 2021: Welp, now to see how much of this I can put together as a playlist. twitter.com/Dooglar/s…

Aug 25, 2021: Down in Baltimore, hangin' with hip Poe Downing all that cask of Amontillado… twitter.com/scootergo…

Aug 25, 2021: I didn’t know I needed a good cry during my lunch break today, but there you go. twitter.com/PatinkinM…

Aug 23, 2021: “A great nation keeps it word.” We have let down allies time and time again. We still have a chance to make it right in Afghanistan. …

Aug 22, 2021: The dogs were better people than those who ordered and carried out the executions. www.smh.com.au/national/…

Aug 22, 2021: Han shot first. Boba flies Slave I. Retcon my childhood all you want, cowards. I know the truth. www.cinemablend.com/news/2572…

Aug 20, 2021: After a day of work, then lawn maintenance and tree trimming, baptized the latest Kroese Koozie with some Topo Chico hard seltzer and street tacos. 🌮 …

Aug 20, 2021: Lots of singers and bands have recorded this traditional American folk song over the years, most notably of late Johnny Cash. This is the heaviest …

Aug 13, 2021: Made me laugh, yet I wouldn’t be surprised… twitter.com/buffalowi…

Aug 13, 2021: My top 5 @russellcrowe movies (I went with ones I enjoy watching again and again): Gladiator Cinderella Man Master & Commander L.A. Confidential …

Aug 12, 2021: Whomever programmed the music at this Fuzzy’s must have ridden around in my car with me in high school and college. “Wanted Dead or …

Aug 6, 2021: The almost-a-teenager just rolled up to me with, “Dad, what’s the difference between deer nuts and beer nuts?” 🤣

Aug 5, 2021: Rick-rolling got Rick to a billion views and more! https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1421177522675347458

Aug 4, 2021: Volcanic Lightning is the name of my next metal band. cc @wildmanandsteve @realpaulahnert twitter.com/wonderofs…

Aug 4, 2021: Feeling like a bigshot because I just commissioned some artwork from a friend.

Aug 4, 2021: Going to give this a try and see if I prefer it over Things Dark as my nighttime theme. twitter.com/chris_law…

Aug 4, 2021: The book that introduced John Milton to the world is currently on sale for just a buck. If you love thrillers and haven’t read Mark …

Aug 1, 2021: What an incredible time last night at @TheDollyrots show. Huge shout out to Kelly, Luis, & @RikkiStyxx for making it an unforgettable night for my …

Jul 29, 2021: Fifteen-minute afternoon break. Need a protein pick-me-up. Hey, greek yogurt. Perfect. Only have vanilla. No problem, drop some honey in, good to go. …

Jul 28, 2021: Thanks to the Internet, I’ve updated Stryper’s The Yellow and Black Attack and To Hell With the Devil albums with their original artwork …

Jul 28, 2021: Adoptive & foster parents! Professionals who work with kids with trauma histories! Registration for Tapestry Conference 2021 is now open! Use code …

Jul 23, 2021: Hey, worship leaders! You want to wake up your flocks Sunday morning? Drop the sad pappy music and play this: youtu.be/a5n5GLBqV…

Jul 22, 2021: Finally! Alwyn Cashe will receive the Medal of Honor. @CoffeeOrDieMag has the scoop. coffeeordie.com/cashe-med…

Jul 22, 2021: Speaking of The Empowered Parent Podcast, there is a new episode out, and we’re talking about connection over consequences. All parents will …

Jul 22, 2021: Proving once again what an excellent executive producer he is, to celebrate 125 episodes of The Empowered Parent Podcast, @Ryan_North dropped off a …

Jul 21, 2021: Her life is really hard, y’all.

Jul 21, 2021: “Locals have asked Amazon to please ‘pick this thing up and bring it back to the warehouse’ as no one really wants it around or …

Jul 20, 2021: Apparently three tiny screws have just been falling out of the bottom of my 2015 MacBook Pro. Which sits on my desk, or rides in a backpack to some …

Jul 16, 2021: Speaking of Gabriel Allon, how fortuitous that the day after I finish @NickPetrie’s latest, @danielsilvabook’s arrives.

Jul 16, 2021: “Picasso painting discovered in a Maine closet after 50 years” There was no comment from Gabriel Allon. cc @danielsilvabook

Jul 15, 2021: Nine years after I purchased my first noise-canceling headphones, a pair of refurbished Bose QuietComfort 15s, I’ve stepped up to wireless ANCs …

Jul 13, 2021: Speaking of Hollywood’s empty ideas, I see they’re going to ruin the absolute best character from the G.I. Joe comics with this stupid …

Jul 13, 2021: They’re rebooting Sex & the City. Just when I think Hollywood can’t be any more empty of ideas, they manage to surprise me.

Jul 11, 2021: Foster and adoptive parents: the new Marvel movie Black Widow is pretty great fun, but there are some heavy abandonment elements in the plot. Your …

Jul 7, 2021: I will have more to say why later, but though I didn’t serve, I feel like @TheJasonAnspach and @RealNickCole wrote Forgotten Ruin just for me. …

Jul 5, 2021: This little girl turned one year old yesterday. Like the federal holiday, we observed her birthday today. (We hosted some friends for a pool party …

Jul 4, 2021: If only…

Jul 4, 2021: It’s good when a weather AI recognizes not just a true American hero, but one of the entire planet.

Jun 29, 2021: And tonight I learned of this little collaboration between @2CELLOS and @SteveVai: youtu.be/qfGggAGIT…

Jun 29, 2021: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out today. It’s part 2 of our discussion on parenting teens, and we are joined once …

Jun 28, 2021: Order shirt from @lifeisgood. Receive correct shirt, but wrong size. No biggie, just set up return/exchange. Keep it, says customer service, our …

Jun 23, 2021: It’s what we do.

Jun 23, 2021: Whoa. John McAfee hanged himself in prison in Spain today.

Jun 21, 2021: It’s always a treat getting mail from overseas. I wonder what this could be, @ZubyMusic? 😉

Jun 19, 2021: While Dad reads thrillers, Stella attempts to prove no dog toy is indestructible.

Jun 19, 2021: Just finished @bentleydonb’s first foray into the Clancyverse, Target Acquired. Holy. Freaking. Crap. Don just umped the ante for all the …

Jun 14, 2021: Rambo?

Jun 13, 2021: Let me get this straight: Ayatollah Khamenei can make outright genocidal statements against the state of Israel, but those aren’t considered …

Jun 13, 2021: This wasn’t the way any of us wanted to see @LSUbaseball’s season end, but then few of us thought they would get this far. Arguing the …

Jun 12, 2021: Okay, I’m ready. Let’s #GeauxTigers! Beat the Vols!

Jun 11, 2021: In tonight’s edition of “Chris randomly selects songs in his iTunes library”: There are lots of great music videos. Then there are a …

Jun 11, 2021: Everything about this is great, and then Rouhier takes it up a notch by adding Shaq to the mix. youtu.be/AAQSve4Ra…

Jun 11, 2021: At long last, I have made it to Rivendell.

Jun 9, 2021: Wow, just read the act-by-act plot of the Rock of Ages stage musical, and boy am I glad I never saw it (except for seeing @joelhoekstra13 as a member …

Jun 8, 2021: Missed it being Flash Gordon, which would have been personally on brand, by a week.

Jun 8, 2021: Private Benjamin. Um…

Jun 7, 2021: Well, my beloved 2015 MacBook Pro survives another year with being able to run the latest macOS. I mean, I haven’t installed the last two …

Jun 6, 2021: What’s better than celebrating your anniversary a day early? Having a teenager who can watch younger siblings and the timing to go out on your …

Jun 6, 2021: iPhone home screen, 6 June 2021

Jun 5, 2021: Twenty-nine years tomorrow that we tied the knot. Celebrating this evening; she’s still my favorite. 😉

Jun 4, 2021: Friends, if you have a Ring doorbell and don’t want to be part of Amazon’s creepy Sidewalk program that co-opts your device to be part of …

Jun 2, 2021: Three years ago yesterday. Can’t wait to do this again soon, @stryper / @michaelhsweet! flic.kr/p/26EhaLo

Jun 2, 2021: Part 2 of a “dads only” recording of The Empowered Parent Podcast is now on the air. Ryan and I talk about being present with our kids, …

Jun 2, 2021: To show what a sensitive fellow I am, I offset the Punisher skull socks with Grogu (aka “Baby Yoda”) ones.

May 29, 2021: Remember why Monday is a national holiday. Take a few moments to honor our fallen.

May 29, 2021: I do not recommend losing one’s grip on a pressure washer set to maximum and allowing it to come into contact with one’s unshod big toe.

May 28, 2021: It’s been a while since I’ve revisited Anberlin’s debut album. I really shouldn’t wait so long next time. So good.

May 28, 2021: Amen, and amen. …

May 27, 2021: When I turn on the TV to find my TiVo recording a cricket game from India, I tend to question the ruthless effectiveness of machine learning.

May 26, 2021: When Mom puts peanut butter in the treat hole of your chew toy. (She’s not let go of that thing for at least 10 minutes.)

May 24, 2021: After a too-long hiatus, I got back this past week to finishing the series Longmire. Finished the fifth season last night. Hoo boy.

May 22, 2021: I deleted my StoryGraph and GoodReads accounts today. I’m just not really using either, and they had become just one more place I needed to keep …

May 19, 2021: Well, I’ve met Glorfindel. #WalkToMordor

May 19, 2021: Great timing as we pull into a parking spot: Connor hit 100,000 miles. Took five years, three months.

May 13, 2021: Better late than never, I guess: my review of @bentleydonb’s latest book, The Outside Man: www.retrophisch.com/2021/05/1… TL; DR: Buy it …

May 13, 2021: Retrophisch Review: The Outside Man In his debut novel, Don Bentley introduced the world to Matt Drake, a new kind of thriller hero, yet one still recognizable to fans of the genre. …

May 11, 2021: My Facebook feed was suddenly full of videos of Ryan Miller’s last NHL game and Oshie’s hat trick two days after losing his dad, and now …

May 11, 2021: “Raise the Blood Flag and get our geeks to work.” I like it. I also like the analogy of cyberspace to the high seas. …

May 9, 2021: There is a special Mothers' Day episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast out today! empoweredparent.podbean.com/mobile/e/…

May 8, 2021: If the kidnappers knew what they were doing, I’d be gagged, blindfolded, and with some sort of hearing protection on to isolate me and keep me …

May 8, 2021: It’s an actual spring day here in north Texas! Which means it’s sunny, not scorching hot, but the wind is blowing pollen through the air …

May 6, 2021: Spammers can be so cute. Oh, an email from my retrophisch.com email support team? I am the retrophisch.com email support team. Well, me and the fine …

May 2, 2021: I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but the new album by Dirty Honey is pretty great. Straight-up rock in the vein of Aerosmith and Guns N' …

May 1, 2021: It’s a shame that Local Pint has been open for more than 4 years in our little burg, and tonight was the first time @klttx and I have been. It …

May 1, 2021: It’s Saturday night, and both the @Rangers and the @DallasStars are playing. And yet we’re still unable to watch… <looks askance …

May 1, 2021: Someone may be just a little spoiled.

Apr 30, 2021: Last night, finished coding project that is the final exam of my latest class. Everything worked, submitted, done. To celebrate, picked up where I …

Apr 29, 2021: It’s getting late in the day, but it’s still @robkroese’s birthday! Celebrate by buying any (or all) of his books, they’re all …

Apr 27, 2021: Thirty-one years ago today. Still together. Love you, Kel. flic.kr/p/MmqarG

Apr 23, 2021: Pour one out for Shock G, aka Humpty. Hilarious music video. RIP.

Apr 19, 2021: Not as hallowed ground as old Rosenblatt, but still cool nonetheless to see Ameritrade Park in person. Hoping @LSUbaseball is back here real soon. …

Apr 19, 2021: It’s not everyday you can be in two states at once.

Apr 16, 2021: I finally finished a non-school book in 2021, @robkroese’s The Legacy of the Iron Dragon. It was a great way to pass the time on the plane ride …

Apr 15, 2021: DFW🚀OMA with my hockey player to go cheer on our state champion Varsity Gold team in the national tournament. Let’s go FMM!

Apr 9, 2021: Second midterm exam in 30 years: done. Got an A. On one of the busiest weeks and weekends at the end of the hockey season, this was a weight off my …

Apr 4, 2021: When mom brings home a new toy, but you’re just too exhausted from having done zoomies around the yard. #corgilife

Apr 3, 2021: I’m quite serious and sincere in asking this: If you have to show ID to buy alcohol, get vaccinated, get a payday loan, or board a plane, why is …

Apr 3, 2021: “Things may be tough now, but there’s always light at the end of the tunnel.” The light at the end of the tunnel:

Apr 3, 2021: Having been reminded it’s @MikeNess' birthday just now, I guess it’s fitting I chose a @SocialD1 shirt to wear this morning.

Apr 2, 2021: iPhone screen shot, 2 April 2021

Mar 18, 2021: I am not a Guy Ritchie fan, but that could very well be because until tonight, the only work of his I have seen was the BMW short film he did in 2002 …

Mar 14, 2021: iPhone home screen, 14 March 2021 In honor of @drewbrees announcing his retirement. There will never be another like him. #GOAT

Mar 10, 2021: Kids download Paramount+ app on our Apple TV. I get an email from @AppleSupport about a Paramount+ subscription trial that will need to be canceled in …

Mar 7, 2021: There are times when YouTube rabbit holes pay off, and boy does it with this one: Larnell Lewis hears “Enter Sandman” for the first time …

Mar 7, 2021: Thankful the Stars got the win tonight, and thankful we got to see Jake Oettinger record his first NHL career shutout! Youngest goalie in @DallasStars …

Mar 4, 2021: I have the cutest coworker.

Mar 3, 2021: When you absolutely, positively need something to take 3 weeks to be delivered when it should take one, use the United States Postal Service.

Mar 3, 2021: A t-shirt Sheldon Cooper would certainly wear, given how he feels about most people. teesvibe.net/trh-scien…

Mar 2, 2021: First college class in 30 years is in the books. A on my final, A in the class. Two weeks off, then on to the next one.

Feb 26, 2021: Thirty years ago, as poor college students, some dates were nothing more than ice cream and video games. Today, a quick date night filled with ice …

Feb 22, 2021: There is a new member of our family. Say hello to Stella Harmony Turner. You can see she is totally not spoiled already. ❤️

Feb 21, 2021: First #lacrosse game of the season today, and our kiddo had a hat trick and the game winner! #lax

Feb 18, 2021: Today my boys got to do something they may never have a chance to do again, unless they move to more northern climes: play pond hockey. In Texas.

Feb 14, 2021: Courtesy of my buddy, Jake, and because it’s true.

Feb 14, 2021: A metal music care package arrived today from @MessengerMetal. Looking forward to the back catalog, since the latest, In To Win, is fantastic fun.

Feb 13, 2021: First @DallasStars game of the season in the books. Fun times visiting with friends, team fought back from a two-goal deficit to send it to OT and …

Feb 13, 2021: Been listening to my Rock of Ages (musical/movie) inspired playlist, and when hearing “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” it never fails to make …

Feb 12, 2021: This is an extremely #firstworldproblem, but it’s kind of crappy of Apple to start AppleCare coverage on a product I haven’t received yet.

Feb 12, 2021: Legendary World War II B-29 Pilot, Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Robert “Bob” Vaucher Dies at 102. www.aopa.org/news-and-… …

Feb 7, 2021: No Country for Old Men is on one of the Showtimes, and that’s way more entertaining than anything being shown at halftime for the Super Bowl.

Feb 7, 2021: You know, if I were a betting man, a horrendous defensive holding call on a Tom Brady tip-drill interception that keeps a drive alive might have me …

Feb 7, 2021: Hey look, Tony Romo finally made it to a Super Bowl!

Jan 30, 2021: This is one of those amusing regional colloquialisms I shall never tire of, having grown up in south Louisiana where they are called what they are: …

Jan 30, 2021: Ever since I learned about Electric Jesus (@ejesusfilm)–and thanks for that, @tonywoodlief–easily once a week seeing something about the movie makes …

Jan 28, 2021: Great mail week. My @ejesusfilm roadie shirt arrived (when’s the tour start, guys?) and today from Sweden landed two copies of the Metal Bible. …

Jan 28, 2021: Getting mail from overseas will never get old.

Jan 28, 2021: Thirty-five years ago today, we lost the Challenger and its crew. I stood in the library between classes at my high school, mouth agape, watching the …

Jan 26, 2021: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out today, and we’re going over the basics of attachment. …

Jan 22, 2021: I could be watching the @DallasStars season opener, but since @FOXSportsSW and @FrontierCorp can’t play nice with one another…

Jan 17, 2021: Unexpected find at the used bookstore yesterday. I don’t think I’ve read the original trilogy since high school. Maybe one other time, but …

Jan 16, 2021: Thanks to my 12 year-old, I finally found a way to actually enjoy The Last Jedi. youtu.be/VHevGQiu6…

Jan 16, 2021: The Legacy has landed. Now switching from my Kickstarter-backer electronic copy to the dead-tree edition.

Jan 15, 2021: This landed at our house today, so laissez les bons temps rouler!

Jan 14, 2021: You know, the more I think about it, the more genius that Nickelodeon-NFL partnership for the Saints-Bears game was. What better city in America for …

Jan 14, 2021: So while I fully expect the road to glory to be rocky, what if it’s not fulfilling? Is that actionable, attorneys? This looks like a written …

Jan 14, 2021: “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” came on in the restaurant. I ask my bride who sings it. Her first guess: Guns N' Roses. Her second guess: Bon …

Jan 11, 2021: There’s a new episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast out! www.andthevalleyshook.com/2021/1/10…

Jan 9, 2021: I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but the Tillamook Smoked Medium Cheddar Cheese is pretty great.

Jan 9, 2021: Like Elon Musk, I prefer Signal over any other messaging service out there. www.digitaltrends.com/news/elon…

Jan 9, 2021: A late Christmas present arrived from across the pond today: my new @WytchHazelBand shirt!

Jan 8, 2021: Ford vs Ferrari is such a great movie. It has vaulted into my can-watch-any-time-it’s-on-no-matter-at-what-point-of-the-story-I-find-it …

Jan 8, 2021: Today’s my Twitterversary, fourteen years. My Twitter account is older than two of my children, and just three years younger than my oldest. My …

Jan 6, 2021: Today I learned @KarlKGallagher lives just down the road from me, and now I’m plotting to get him on the @bigfatgeekpod at some point, along …

Jan 5, 2021: Shutting out Canada for the gold at World Juniors! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! #hockeylife

Jan 3, 2021: In honor of the Saints' victory over the Panthers, and winning the NFC South: muffulettas home-made by a friend’s great-aunt in New Orleans, and …

Jan 3, 2021: Was in the grocery store, heard a song playing, liked what I could hear, used Shazam to find out the name and who was singing it. Lord help me, I …

Jan 3, 2021: Watched the Miami Vice 2006 film again, first time in a long time. Man, that thing holds up. The use of the soundtrack with the shots is spot on. The …

Jan 2, 2021: We have a kiddo who loves sharks, and I cannot wait to read this article to him: “The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear”

Jan 2, 2021: Thanks to @JeffAbbott for the reminder. A Randazzo’s King Cake has now been ordered for our household.

Jan 2, 2021: The Tag Team GEICO commercial makes me laugh every time. That moment when the daughter is like “I’m out!” is hilarious.

Jan 1, 2021: Over this holiday season, I got my wife and two little guys to start watching The Mandalorian. We got through Chapter 7 tonight, and all three were …

Jan 1, 2021: For auld lang syne, my dears. For auld lang syne. wytchhazel.com/track/aul…

Jan 1, 2021: Shiner Cheer. Red beans and rice. Shrimp po-boy. 2021 is off to a fantastic start.

Jan 1, 2021: Pirates of the Caribbean, Last of the Mohicans, and Gladiator. twitter.com/Bookstore…

Dec 30, 2020: Also a nice self-own in the Christmas Vacation-inspired Mach-E commercial with the line “when cars used to make sounds.” …

Dec 30, 2020: The Mustang Mach-E is an utter travesty. Looks nothing like a Mustang, for one. More like a mix between a Tesla Model X and a Mazda crossover.

Dec 27, 2020: Speaking of new (to me) music acts, however, shoutout to @WildmanandSteve for turning me on to @Chaoticresembl and @WytchHazelBand in 2020. I have …

Dec 27, 2020: Getting notifications from Amazon Music about all the new music and new artists from 2020 while I’m listening through the 1980s and 90s catalog …

Dec 26, 2020: Just schooled two of my children in back-to-back games of basketball. The score was closer with the 9 year-old than with the 17 year-old.

Dec 26, 2020: In Die Hard 2, the Christmas movie sequel, John McClaine is waiting for his wife at the airport in Washington, D.C., and talks to her from…a …

Dec 26, 2020: Y’all thought I was joking about watching Die Hard, didn’t y’all?

Dec 26, 2020: Guess I should hurry up and watch Die Hard. Because it’s not really Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Tower.

Dec 25, 2020: Wishing everyone a very Mandalorian Christmas, and a Bountiful New Year!

Dec 23, 2020: Boy, am I glad my heart is right with Jesus. #GuinnessIsGoodForYou babylonbee.com/news/repo…

Dec 21, 2020: All the talk of The Great Conjunction, and all I can think of is this: youtu.be/4AyjKgz9t…

Dec 21, 2020: Yes, yes, @quiethandfilms! Join the rest of us Sith dads! insidethemagic.net/2020/12/g…

Dec 18, 2020: On the latest Big Fat Geek Podcast, we’re talking more Mandalorian, and what we think about the future of Star Wars given Disney’s recent …

Dec 18, 2020: There’s a new episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast out, and we’re recapping LSU’s sweet victory over Florida in the foggy Swamp. …

Dec 18, 2020: There’s a new episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast out, and it’s all about the holidays! empoweredparent.podbean.com/e/help-fo…

Dec 17, 2020: We have lost a legend. Rest in peace, Mr. Bulloch. www.cinemablend.com/news/2560…

Dec 15, 2020: Like I wasn’t going to buy this when presented the opportunity.

Dec 14, 2020: Online sellers, please, PLEASE, give me an option to pay extra to NOT have it come via @USPS. I have two packages which have arrived in the …

Dec 13, 2020: RIP John le Carré www.curtisbrown.co.uk/news/a-st…

Dec 13, 2020: Things overheard at board game night: “I have to spawn a monster.” “Shouldn’t have eaten so much pizza.”

Dec 12, 2020: Regarding #LSUvsFL 2020: …

Dec 12, 2020: Hey everyone! It’s @agiletortoise’s birthday! Let’s celebrate by downloading & subscribing to his incredible @draftsapp, the …

Dec 12, 2020: I’m partial to Han Snow-lo, Luke Snowalker, Darth Spreader, Snow Destroyer, and Snow Trooper, but David Plowie and Sir Grits A Lot are …

Dec 12, 2020: Well, this week’s episode of #TheMandalorian certainly got the blood pumping.

Dec 11, 2020: Happy new @SignumRegis music day, everyone! www.signum-regis.com/product/f…

Dec 11, 2020: With the continued division we see in our nation, I cannot help but feel Andy Andrews' “How Do You Kill 11 Million People?” remains …

Dec 9, 2020: There’s a new episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast out! We’re talking watching brand-new movies at home and the return of a beloved Star …

Dec 9, 2020: Everyone knows Mandalorians are heavy metal, so it’s only right that there is a metal version of The Mandalorian theme song. …

Dec 8, 2020: I have also been McGruff the Crime Dog. For a summer camp in New Orleans. New Orleans. Summer.

Dec 8, 2020: Fun fact: I have literally been Santa Claus. In the suit, fake beard, everything. twitter.com/IntentFat…

Dec 7, 2020: Does the hoody of choice perchance speak to what’s being discussed on tonight’s recording of the Big Fat Geek podcast? Or is Chris just …

Dec 7, 2020: The last line in this article made me laugh out loud. Icing on the cake.

Dec 7, 2020: So @DHLUS’s tracking info says they’ve turned the package over to @USPSHelp. The @USPS tracking info says they’re awaiting the …

Dec 5, 2020: This is pretty cool. “Watch a Submarine Launch a Torpedo—From the Torpedo’s POV”

Dec 4, 2020: For all my friends who asked me today for my reaction to this week’s episode of #TheMandalorian, does HOLY CRAP I AM SO STAR WARS HAPPY RIGHT …

Dec 4, 2020: Due to the doctor-imposed alcohol ban, I can’t tell you the last beer I had, especially under Covid. (Maybe our trip to PA in March?) But …

Dec 4, 2020: Where can I buy this?!?

Dec 3, 2020: 50

Dec 1, 2020: Day 1 of Advent. We read about the symbolism of Christmas wreaths, and God’s love for us. Then we built an A-Wing. ✝️❤️

Nov 30, 2020: I would certainly rather this than the elf.

Nov 29, 2020: Forever our Vader. Rest in peace, Mr. Prowse. The Force will be with you, always.

Nov 27, 2020: Finished my 35th book of the year yesterday, an ARC of @bentleydonb’s The Outside Man. Don’s debut, Without Sanction, was a great read, …

Nov 25, 2020: There’s a new episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast out! www.andthevalleyshook.com/2020/11/2…

Nov 22, 2020: Happy for Taysom Hill as he slings the ball in place of the injured Drew Brees, and gets two rushing touchdowns against the hated Falcons. With the …

Nov 16, 2020: Retrophisch Review: The Sentinel Much has been made of the latest Jack Reacher novel, The Sentinel, due to its collaborative nature between Lee Child and his brother, Andrew Child neé …

Nov 15, 2020: iPhone home screen, 15 November 2020

Nov 15, 2020: The 2014 Nic Cage film, Dying of the Light, isn’t great, but does have a component that makes it worth watching. My review: …

Nov 15, 2020: Retrophisch Review: Dying of the Light There are some roles which actors are born to play. There are some actors for whom roles are specifically written. Then there are those actors who …

Nov 14, 2020: My beloved and long-suffering LaCie enclosure has given up the ghost, so my Saturday night features open-drive surgery, moving the house media drive …

Nov 14, 2020: Proof that people actually win those book giveaways publishing houses push through their authors' email lists. Guess I should slot this into the queue …

Nov 14, 2020: Possibly the last lawn maintenance of the year: complete.

Nov 13, 2020: Let’s just say there was one part in today’s episode of #TheMandalorian where I bolted upright in my chair and may have cheered.

Nov 11, 2020: Having @robkroese’s latest book dropping tomorrow when I’m already in the middle of an ARC for one book with another ARC in the pipeline is, quite …

Nov 11, 2020: The tables are turned on the latest Empowered Parent Podcast as Kayla interviews me and Ryan on the dad perspective of connected parenting. …

Nov 10, 2020: At long last there is a new episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast out, and we’re talking The Mandalorian! …

Nov 9, 2020: Due to my oldest’s hockey game, and recording the first new @bigfatgeekpod episode in nine months, I had to record the Saints game. At least I …

Nov 8, 2020: Things were afoot this evening!

Nov 7, 2020: Among all the myriad things wrong with this election, can we discuss why @Raising_Canes refuses to accept my pm.me email as a legitimate email address …

Nov 7, 2020: The new single from @chaoticresembl, “Unto the Lamb”, really kicks butt. Masterful work, as always, from @SirOzFox in his guest …

Nov 5, 2020: Consequently, I finished this year’s Jack Reacher novel on the same date of the year as I did last year’s Jack Reacher novel. 📚

Nov 5, 2020: I finished reading *The Sentinel by Lee and Andrew Child. I can see why some say the collaboration isn’t as good as Lee by himself, but I say …

Nov 4, 2020: I just read the description for @AlexBerenson’s [new book coming out in February](http://www.amazon.com/dp/ B08BZXSMKD/retrophisch-20), and I …

Nov 4, 2020: I’m a little proud of myself for the episode title of the latest @SneakyGoodPod. www.andthevalleyshook.com/2020/11/4…

Oct 31, 2020: Bo Pelini defenses: making adequately serviceable quarterbacks look like Heisman contenders. #LSUvsAU #FirePelini

Oct 31, 2020: Leave Pelini on the plains. #LSUvsAU

Oct 31, 2020: Now I’ve caught up to live, and must endure Gary with everyone else. We suffer together, y’all. #LSUvsAU

Oct 31, 2020: The great thing about watching the #LSUvsAU game from the beginning, as I just got home, is that I can fast-forward through the in-between plays and …

Oct 31, 2020: Who had two goals in his team’s big win to open this weekend’s #lacrosse tournament? This guy! #lax #FMLA

Oct 30, 2020: I also have money to throw at Lucasfilm/Disney for a print of a certain piece of concept art shown during #TheMandalorian Chapter 9’s closing …

Oct 30, 2020: Those of you who didn’t follow the Star Wars universe after Return of the Jedi, outside all the movies, have NO idea how huge Chapter 9 of …

Oct 30, 2020: Off to a great start, just like the first season. #thisistheway

Oct 30, 2020: Work shift ended nearly 20 minutes ago. Hockey board meeting in about 10 minutes. Still need to get dinner after that. Then there are the children to …

Oct 30, 2020: “Reacher said nothing.” Yet someone has done gone and ticked him off in Lee and Andrew Child’s latest, The Sentinel. 📚 #amreading

Oct 29, 2020: While I’m posting about my podcasts: I never noted the completion of the John Wick episodes from the @bigfatgeekpod, so here’s Chapter 3!

Oct 29, 2020: On the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast, we talk about how trauma can impact children and how parents can show compassion and care to …

Oct 29, 2020: Drunk history, cooking shows, and the political machinations of Westeros are among the topics discussed in the latest Sneaky Good Podcast. Oh, and we …

Oct 28, 2020: “I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps. This is my story.” www.varsity.co.uk/interview…

Oct 27, 2020: If you can’t have fun with this insanity, what’s the point?

Oct 25, 2020: The @WizKhalifa Oreos commercial with his son Sebastian is utterly adorable.

Oct 25, 2020: iPhone home screen, 25 October 2020 Wallpaper courtesy of @impudentearworm

Oct 25, 2020: I like this uniform combination the Cardinals are wearing tonight. That’s a nice black jersey setup. #SEAvsAZ

Oct 24, 2020: Home from date night, and now time to go to work: have to watch the @LSUfootball game I recorded so I’m ready for the next @SneakyGoodPod …

Oct 24, 2020: I honestly cannot tell you how many times I have watched The Princess Bride over the years, but tonight was the first time I saw it drive-in …

Oct 24, 2020: Brick-oven pizza from inside a trailer, at the pop-up drive-in theater.

Oct 19, 2020: Is it really a behind the scenes shot of Tapestry Conference 2020 prep if I’m still in front of the camera?

Oct 19, 2020: You know, I’m starting to get the idea the problems with the Dallas Cowboys might have nothing to do with who is at quarterback…

Oct 18, 2020: We have a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, talking about the importance of self care and ways to avoid burnout.

Oct 17, 2020: So many memories of Tab, of my mom drinking it in the days before Diet Coke, of loading cases of bottles – yes, actual glass bottles – into the soda …

Oct 14, 2020: So the first time we met up to watch an Apple event together, @tapbot_paul gave me this. I haven’t been able to wear it until now. 😁

Oct 14, 2020: Who can tell me what this is from? @bekindtobignate, @idomeandallas, and @nealstephenson aren’t allowed to play.

Oct 14, 2020: And it’s like I’m 13 all over again.

Oct 11, 2020: Grateful for @Amazon delivery notifications that informed me a @USPSHelp driver decided to leave a package outside a closed business. What if this had …

Oct 10, 2020: Since I didn’t really have time to do it during the week with work and all, I have muted the Arkansas-Auburn game so I can listen to the Van Halen …

Oct 4, 2020: Scrolling through the TiVo program guide I mistakenly read “Stihl Timbersports Series” as “Sith Timbersports Series” and I got …

Oct 4, 2020: Hey, everyone! It’s @JarrettRush’s birthday! Wish him a happy one by buying one his great books. His latest is under pen name Sam Renner: …

Sep 28, 2020: Trying to get final edits done on the latest @SneakyGoodPod, but still cheering on my @DallasStars in Game 6. Let’s #GoStars!

Sep 27, 2020: The fact the State Fair of Texas put a mask on Big Tex is an outright travesty.

Sep 26, 2020: Look, I catnapped through most of the #LSU game because at noon I came off a 10.5-hour shift, having been up since 10 PM last night. What was …

Sep 22, 2020: It’s the 100th episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast! Our audio engineer extraordinaire Dallas put together a best-of episode that leads off …

Sep 21, 2020: Not a great sports night in our household as both the @DallasStars and @Saints lose, but it’s a now a best of five for the former and still …

Sep 14, 2020: Let’s. Go. Stars!

Sep 13, 2020: My hockey player taking the opening faceoff in this morning’s game. Outstanding effort by the entire squad in the 3-0 win.

Sep 12, 2020: I’ve been up for 22 hours now, but I’m here for you, @DallasStars. #GoStars

Sep 12, 2020: First varsity hockey game. First varsity hockey goal. First goal of the season for the team. A losing effort in the end, but my hockey player played …

Sep 7, 2020: If you need some levity on this Labor Day, I recommend these fun short stories by @BookstoreThor, “St. George Drive and Other Stories.” …

Sep 6, 2020: Took my Instagram account private, kicked off a bunch of followers I don’t know and have never heard of.

Sep 5, 2020: If you like thrillers, @bentleydonb’s Without Sanction is a can’t-miss. Moreso with the Kindle version being $2 today. Go buy it and enjoy. …

Aug 30, 2020: If you’re in the mood for a simple yet entertaining, straight-up revenge thriller, I can recommend Dead Body Road. It’s currently on sale …

Aug 29, 2020: My subconscious is certainly falling down on the job when it comes to the dream during my post-work nap today. The dream in which the key takeaway was …

Aug 26, 2020: Today, as I finished Proven Guilty, I learned @longshotauthor and I came to fantasy literature similarly. I had chickenpox in the 7th grade and my …

Aug 24, 2020: Props to the in-house DJ at Rogers Place in Edmonton for rolling with @tweetgrubes' Enya bit during video review. #LetsGoStars

Aug 23, 2020: Samara Ginsberg turns the Knight Rider theme into a haunting Baroque piece with her arrangement for eight cellos. [Wave of the phin to @BookstorThor …

Aug 20, 2020: I’m not saying my waking up had anything to do with the @DallasStars offense waking up for six straight goals after being down 3-0, but …

Aug 17, 2020: In case you weren’t sure of how much of a nerd I truly am, I am ridiculously excited about the new @sunniedogcom casters I just put on my Aeron. …

Aug 16, 2020: Two chapters in to @longshotauthor’s Proven Guilty, and I had to go look up plot summaries on Wikipedia for the prior seven books to remind …

Aug 10, 2020: “Texas judge chronicles 20-hour stand-off with trespassing raccoon before luring him out of house with tamales”

Aug 10, 2020: Yesterday, thanks to there being no new movies out due to Covid quarantines, I got to do something with my sons at our local dine-in theater I had …

Aug 3, 2020: Verily, I ask of thee: where in these United States is the worship leader and senior pastor with the stones to include @The_Proclaimers' “The …

Jul 29, 2020: Digging the GI Joe logo vibe on the shirt for my favorite firearms manufacturer. twitter.com/EliCrane_…

Jul 29, 2020: I had a knockoff unit of this. Maybe an Aiwa? Anyway, it got used for a few DJing gigs during college, one of which was instrumental in laying the …

Jul 23, 2020: I like the new Pong sound. I do not like the change to Sosumi, the new Empty Trash sound, nor the new Shutter/Screen Capture sound. The classics are …

Jul 23, 2020: When your wife is doing a virtual happy hour in which they’re learning to make cocktails, you can steal some of the rye whiskey for day …

Jul 23, 2020: “Seven ‘no log’ VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet” Remember, kids, …

Jul 23, 2020: Powerful episode of the @FDRLST Radio Hour yesterday, as @JewherIlham talks about her efforts to expose the Chinese government’s horrendous …

Jul 18, 2020: Every year. Every. Year. www.instagram.com/p/CCwzTD-…

Jul 18, 2020: “So far, this is not blowing my skirt up, gentlemen.” www.instagram.com/p/CCv_Gxs…

Jul 16, 2020: Oh, the things we do for our children…

Jul 15, 2020: Our budding engineer built his own Millennium Falcon from plans he found, using myriad random pieces in his LEGO collection.

Jul 14, 2020: When you send me an unsolicited text message on behalf of a political person I did not, do not, and would not support, and your systems are screwed up …

Jul 13, 2020: The Bee continues to deliver.

Jul 12, 2020: It’s just like that.

Jul 6, 2020: This afternoon I listened to @VranicarBrian’s sermon at @CoppellBible yesterday while I took care of the lawn. A great, encouraging message, …

Jul 4, 2020: I had not seen the episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with @KevinHart4real until today. I’m so glad I did. I feel like he and Jerry …

Jul 4, 2020: Kudos (and maybe a few curses) to @bentleydonb for keeping me up later than I should have been last night, finishing his incredible debut, Without …

Jul 4, 2020: Happy Independence Day, everyone!

Jul 3, 2020: On my walk today, I forewent my usual podcast listening for music. I got through all of @DivinerBandGr’s first album, Fallen Empires, and midway …

Jul 3, 2020: New @Stryper album coming later this year, and the first single is pretty killer. cc @ejesusfilm

Jul 1, 2020: Before John Wick there was Tom Knapp. Incredible mastery of one’s craft.

Jun 27, 2020: Wrapped up the first part of my Voltron LEGO build this afternoon with my construction partner.

Jun 25, 2020: Family movie night. Introducing the two younger boys to one of the greatest movies ever.

Jun 24, 2020: Well, I’ve gone and installed Roboto on my iPhone and it’s currently set as my main typeface in Drafts, thanks to Fontcase 2.0.

Jun 24, 2020: Adam’s story is worth the price of admission alone. More John Knox, please!

Jun 23, 2020: Rest in peace, sweet Winston. You were a very good boy.

Jun 23, 2020: Rest in peace, sweet Winston Since the fall of 1991, when my fiancée-now-wife and I got a black kitten with lottery winnings, there has not been a night in our home without a pet …

Jun 22, 2020: Not only was the autographed bookplate for @MansfieldWrites' latest book, Men on Fire personalized, the envelope it arrived in was hand-written as …

Jun 17, 2020: I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m most looking forward to the volcanic honey badgers and the bearricanes. twitter.com/TheBabylo…

Jun 16, 2020: “Electric Jesus followed you” Of course, @ejesusfilm, this instantly made me think of Bride’s “Psychedelic Super …

Jun 16, 2020: As an ‘80s kid who was into Christian hair metal bands big-time, I cannot wait to see this. twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Jun 13, 2020: My favorite pop-punk band—seriously, if the Ramones and the Go-Gos had a love child, it would be The Dollyrots—has put out an album of all the covers …

Jun 6, 2020: Twenty-eight years ago today. flic.kr/p/UicS6e

Jun 3, 2020: On @BookstoreThor’s recommendation, I listened to @VerbalDiorama’s episode on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. If anyone can make …

Jun 3, 2020: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out! We interview foster and adoptive parent Jillana Goble about her work helping foster kids in …

Jun 2, 2020: You have never heard Black Sabbath’s “Changes” the way Charles Bradley performs it. Stunning and heartbreaking.

Jun 2, 2020: What do you get when you mashup Danzig and The Temptations? Yes, I said Danzig and The Temptations. You get “Mother Was a Rolling Stone.”

May 29, 2020: In case anyone needs a break from all the bad news, I saw baby ducks on my walk today.

May 28, 2020: Shout out to the @EmilyBestler/@AtriaBooks/@simonschuster staffer who hand-addressed my and who knows how many other envelopes for the sweet …

May 28, 2020: Retrophisch Review: The Man Who Never Was

May 28, 2020: Retrophisch Review: The Man Who Never Was I do not recall how I first became aware of British author Mark Dawson. Given his prowess at web and email advertisements which inevitably lead one to …

May 26, 2020: College Memories Abound Tonight

May 26, 2020: College Memories Abound Tonight In January 1990, the first week of the semester at LSU, my best friend, on his way home from a night class, was hit by a drunk driver. Twenty-four …

May 25, 2020: Alright, time to bid farewell to the Pritchett clan. I’m watching the series finale of Modern Family.

May 23, 2020: Trevor, a former barista and current coffee roaster, has a great little ebook on brewing the best coffee that costs, for some, less than your …

May 23, 2020: “Before Covid-19, some of us had so many material and social needs met that we didn’t even know we needed them. More importantly, we didn’t know …

May 22, 2020: My beloved crafted some outstanding homemade pico de gallo for dinner tonight!

May 21, 2020: A thoughtful post from @ayjay on the bad experience of long-form writing on Twitter. Death to the Twitter thread!

May 20, 2020: Deleted my MeWe account. I hadn’t posted to it since October, and rarely think about it. And the six people I was connected to on there I am …

May 19, 2020: A rare moment of brothers not fighting…

May 16, 2020: Jackson McKay used footage from Rogue One and Star Wars Episodes IV-IX to create a tribute to his favorite starfighter, the X-Wing.

May 16, 2020: Conrad Heyer was born in 1749, fought as part of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and was photographed in 1852 at 103 years of age.

May 15, 2020: Waved and said hello to @FINALLEVEL (aka Ice T to everyone not on Twitter) as he was getting into a cab at the Adolphus in Dallas in 1998. He did say …

May 15, 2020: Had a chat with Michael O’Hare in a London hotel lobby, August 1995, while he waited for his limo. He was so gracious. #RIP …

May 14, 2020: “The idea that any of you would rather spend eight hours making shallot jam for a shallot pasta that is, by any measure, fine, as opposed to …

May 13, 2020: My review of @jackcarrusa’s latest, Savage Son, is now live.

May 13, 2020: Retrophisch Review: Savage Son The third book featuring Jack Carr's protagonist James Reece is indeed his best yet. It's a must-read for anyone who is a fan of the thriller genre. …

May 11, 2020: It takes about a year to get one’s driver’s license in Rwanda. You may be tempted to think it’s because of a slow bureaucracy in a …

May 11, 2020: iPhone home screen, 11 May 2020 There have been some changes.

May 11, 2020: In its past, The Empowered Parent Podcast was ministry-supported, backed by a church. Since being spun off, however, there has been no financial …

May 9, 2020: Gee, Chris, why don’t you ever want to go on a cruise? Gosh, I just don’t know.

May 6, 2020: I am a day late noting it, but Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) has an excellent historical piece on Cinco de Mayo. Oh, the what-ifs from this period …

May 3, 2020: Yeah, folks, it’s not really a podcast if it’s on YouTube and not available as a download into a podcast player app via a RSS feed. …

May 1, 2020: When the care package from your best friend in Baton Rouge arrives! #LSU #GeauxTigers

Apr 29, 2020: Happy birthday to @robkroese! Let’s all celebrate by buying of one his Blade Runner-esque The Big Sheep books, or one his hilarious Rex Nihilo …

Apr 28, 2020: The hunt is finished. One of us is way more impressed with @JackCarrUSA’s latest than the other. (Hint: it’s me.)

Apr 28, 2020: Yay for today’s mail and this goodie from @patrickrhone. I love this book size, Patrick!

Apr 27, 2020: In the field of marching bands, Frank Wickes is a legend. With a 30-year tenure at #LSU, he was, for many alumni, the only LSU band director …

Apr 24, 2020: For what it’s worth, I roll with “Modern Noir” as my @tweetbot icon, because @tapbot_paul once referred to that look as the …

Apr 23, 2020: With its five first-round #NFLDraft2020 picks, @LSUfootball had more players taken than the entire Pac-12 did (3). And the entire ACC (3). And as many …

Apr 23, 2020: A different type of tiger stripes in @Joe_Burrow10’s future. Way to geaux, Joe! Congrats! #NFLDraft2020

Apr 22, 2020: “Grief, as it turns out, is one of the dominant features of our having been engulfed by the events of our time, weaving its way in and around …

Apr 21, 2020: Tonight at Chez Turner, we tried out a new sous chef.

Apr 21, 2020: Please. Allow me to play you the song of my people.

Apr 19, 2020: This weekend I’ve been revisiting the greatness of @Evanescence’s Fallen. I continue to marvel at @AmyLeeEV’s vocals.

Apr 18, 2020: The Empowered Parent Podcast Shelters in Place

Apr 18, 2020: The Empowered Parent Podcast Shelters in Place Like most of our listeners, our families are sheltering in place, doing our best to remain in coronavirus quarantine except for venturing out for …

Apr 18, 2020: A sobering thought today: Tom Cruise’s first Mission Impossible film and John Frankenheimer’s Ronin are now the sort of espionage …

Apr 18, 2020: I’m firmly blaming Tim @smith (on Micro.blog) for my having spent the afternoon retooling my site’s theme to a modified version of …

Apr 17, 2020: Time to watch the (second) series finale of #StrikeBack.

Apr 17, 2020: Unbidden, and with no input from me, my middle child asked if he and his younger brother could watch “the last #StarWars movie” (Rise of …

Apr 16, 2020: “Treating Coronavirus in a Central Park ‘Hot Zone’”

Apr 16, 2020: Cleaning out old business documents, and apparently once upon a time, I had an email address ending in @maclink.net. That’s pretty cool.

Apr 14, 2020: Happy James Reece Day, everyone!

Apr 13, 2020: I was excited to learn last week about this documentary of @bloodgoodband, one of my favorite Christian metal bands from when I was a teenager/early …

Apr 12, 2020: Paul Harvey - ‘An Easter Story’

Apr 12, 2020: “Boys. It’d be a shame to have to kill you now.” The great Bernie Casey. RIP.

Apr 12, 2020: “That was a static-filled, triple-scrambled microwave transmission between 2 soldiers talking in mandarin Chinese.” “The Chinese …

Apr 12, 2020: “Wait. Is someone in this closet?”

Apr 12, 2020: Can you guess what I’m watching?

Apr 12, 2020: Three rounds of Spaceteam = fine family fun. Two rounds on easy, one on medium, all finished successfully with time to spare! Whew!

Apr 12, 2020: He’s alive! https://youtu.be/4Lmv_xR6_q8

Apr 12, 2020: Jesus is the Lord of all. We have been redeemed! youtu.be/PlY_rcKXk…

Apr 10, 2020: It’s totally, TOTALLY @theNthJennifer’s fault I’m watching Ladyhawke right now.

Apr 10, 2020: The external hard drive which contains all the house’s media files needed to be upgraded (and thus, its backup drive needed to be upgraded as …

Apr 9, 2020: Johnny has been restored to his place of honor in the study.

Apr 9, 2020: One benefit of quarantine is I finally got around to fixing the frame for my @theinkwellian commissioned Boba Fett art so it can go back up on the …

Apr 9, 2020: Re-upping this great cover/mash-up from about 18 months ago. Dream Patrol combines Bruce Dickinson’s “Tattooed Millionaire” with a …

Apr 7, 2020: There is some real gallows humor, some nearly off the rails, in the Liam Neeson vehicle, Cold Pursuit. It’s certainly not high cinema, nor even …

Apr 7, 2020: In totally nerdy news, I have decided on a new icon set for Calibre. Numix looks right at home in macOS.

Apr 7, 2020: To be fair, social distancing (minus the germaphobia) from most people has been my default operating system for decades.

Apr 4, 2020: Props to Jon for the White Claw reference. Now if we could just get him to shoot video in landscape instead of portrait… 😉 …

Apr 4, 2020: Had a family movie viewing of Disney’s Onward this afternoon. Fantastic and fun! Just for the fantasy RPG elements alone, this may have vaulted …

Apr 2, 2020: Sous chef helping prepare the evening’s gastrointestinal delights.

Apr 2, 2020: Found the receipt for what remains my favorite Mac portable, a 12-inch PowerBook G4. The dead-tree version came in this lovely receipt holder. Any …

Apr 2, 2020: Found my Mac OS X Public Beta receipt from September 2000. Anyone remember how much that cost?

Apr 2, 2020: Using quarantine time to clean out old folders. Just came across my non-disclosure agreement with Bare Bones for beta testing @bbedit 6 back in 2001. …

Apr 1, 2020: Genius.

Apr 1, 2020: Hey, @DallasStars fans! Our broadcast team clocks in at #2 in the league in “The 2020 NHL broadcast rankings: The best and worst markets to …

Mar 31, 2020: Settling in to watch this week’s #StrikeBack. After last week’s doozy, well….

Mar 31, 2020: You have to love the way the Amazon warehouse algorithms and shipping supply systems work. Hardcover book? Ship it in a box surrounded by bubblewrap. …

Mar 30, 2020: New patch for my GoRuck, Breast Cancer research fundraising edition.

Mar 29, 2020: Well, I just saw the Artemis Fowl trailer for the first time. I never got around to reading the books before letting any of the boys read them (and …

Mar 28, 2020: Prepping a MacBook to be shipped to a repair depot, and used Dropbox on the web to remote wipe the Dropbox folder from the damaged MacBook. Watching …

Mar 26, 2020: Incredible work by Filip Hodas in “Pop culture dystopia.” Part 1: www.behance.net/gallery/5… Part 2: …

Mar 26, 2020: Finished Scott Reardon’s The Prometheus Man, making it the 10th book I have read this year. It didn’t have the intensity of it’s …

Mar 26, 2020: The updated, but still incomplete @robkroese shelf. Awaiting my physical copy of “The End of All Things” to complete the Counterfeit …

Mar 26, 2020: Brilliant.

Mar 26, 2020: A reminder, LSU sports fans, as you are quarantined at home, needing something to do: we are, too, but we still managed to record a Sneaky Good …

Mar 25, 2020: Got the first lawn maintenance of the year out of the way today. Had a new guy on the crew.

Mar 25, 2020: A couple of nights ago, I finally got around to watching Zombieland: Double Tap. A funny and fine sequel to the original. If you haven’t seen it …

Mar 24, 2020: Some timely and hopeful words from Dr. Curt Thompson, a man whom I am honored to know.

Mar 23, 2020: At long last, there is a new episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast! In a timely release, we’re talking about stress, and doing the detective …

Mar 21, 2020: There were many musical artists who made early impressions on me growing up, mostly country, thanks to my father’s listening habits: the …

Mar 20, 2020: Oh look, one of my other podcasts has a new episode out today. Behold, the quarantine edition of the Sneaky Good Podcast!

Mar 20, 2020: Lock and load, casual nerds, there’s a new episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast! We’re talking about John Wick Chapter 2!

Mar 20, 2020: A happy and prosperous Newroz to our Kurdish friends, wherever they may be. Be careful jumping over those fires as you welcome the arrival of spring!

Mar 20, 2020: Scott Reardon’s The Dark Continent, which I reviewed on my blog, is on sale for Kindle for 99 cents for the next three days. Definitely …

Mar 19, 2020: Retrophisch Review: The Dark Continent 📚

Mar 19, 2020: Retrophisch Review: The Dark Continent Evoking plot elements from Justin Cronin’s The Passage, Scott Reardon’s The Dark Continent opens with CIA agent Karl Lyons looking for an …

Mar 17, 2020: I’m two-thirds of the way through Scott Reardon’s “The Dark Continent,” and it’s probably not the kind of book to be …

Mar 15, 2020: Today’s adventure.

Mar 14, 2020: Did you get a private concert from an incredible singer-songwriter tonight? Thanks, @rosskingmusic and @stacinking!

Mar 14, 2020: Today I finished that rat bastard @robkroese’s “The End of All Things,” the conclusion of his fun Counterfeit Sorcerer fantasy …

Mar 14, 2020: Amen, and amen.

Mar 14, 2020: The “office” today does not suck.

Mar 13, 2020: When your marriage retreat gets cancelled, but you’re already there and another attendee shares your sense of humor…

Mar 12, 2020: My next band name is going to be Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Mar 12, 2020: Watched Ford vs Ferrari with my bride this evening. What an outstanding film. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

Mar 12, 2020: When in Philly…

Mar 8, 2020: In a game in which they never trailed, @lsumenslacrosse downs Texas Tech 10-5 to go 1-1 on their north Texas road trip. Glad we got to see them play! …

Mar 8, 2020: LSU vs Texas Tech lacrosse on a cold and windy Sunday morning at the University of North Texas. #GeauxTigers

Mar 6, 2020: Even though @lsumenslacrosse falls to SMU 16-6, still glad we got to see another #LSU team play in Dallas, and our 8 year-old, new-to-lacrosse player …

Mar 6, 2020: “You are looking live…” LSU vs SMU lacrosse. A different sort of Friday night lights in Dallas, Texas. #GeauxTigers

Mar 5, 2020: This is truth.

Mar 5, 2020: I don’t see how such a system would ever possibly be abused. 🙄 “China adapts surveying, mapping, delivery drones to enforce world’s …

Mar 4, 2020: I don’t see how such a system would ever possibly be abused. 🙄 “In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags - …

Mar 4, 2020: I grew up in Baton Rouge from the age of 5, so LSU was always first. Before that, my first NFL games were in Houston with the Oilers, so they’ll …

Mar 4, 2020: I suppose there are worse songs to get an ear worm of than Bastille’s “Pompeii”.

Mar 3, 2020: Look, my reading queue is already years deep, so I seriously doubt I’m buying anything in the Smashwords Read an Ebook Week Sale. But a brief …

Mar 2, 2020: I get the feeling Pastor Rogers was ahead of the curve when it came to concepts like connected parenting and secure attachment. …

Feb 27, 2020: Due to my not liking their vocal stylings, whenever @TheBrometheus posts about listening to Amon Amarth, I inevitably turn to cranking @DivinerBandGr …

Feb 25, 2020: Those TXU Texas weather commercials are some of the most honest advertising I’ve ever seen. #nailedit

Feb 25, 2020: It’s Mardi Gras! Time for some “Fat Tuesday” by The Friendly Indians: www.friendlyindians.com/audio/Fat…

Feb 20, 2020: I went to a @MarkGreaneyBook book signing, and ended up in an impromptu @BigFatGeekPod meetup with @theCGspalding!

Feb 20, 2020: Don’t you love it when the most random thing pops into your head at the most random time? I’m at my kitchen table eating a late dinner …

Feb 18, 2020: I really need to finish @TheBrometheus' Valkyrie book, because @MarkGreaneyBook’s latest arrived today.

Feb 16, 2020: Hey, everyone! My friend @rosskingmusic is working on his next album and you can help! If it’s anything like his last one, it will be awesome!

Feb 11, 2020: My eight year-old Rwandan child is singing along to “Manic Monday,” so I consider his indoctrination into ’80s American culture a …

Feb 11, 2020: “I Can’t Stop Watching This Ice Chunk Fall Down an Absurdly Deep Hole”

Feb 10, 2020: I see coronavirus prevention gear has become the next big thing with email spammers.

Feb 10, 2020: Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday marked the 4th anniversary of the first episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast. At the time it was the Tapestry …

Feb 5, 2020: “Chris, why don’t you want to vacation in Mexico?” Gee, I don’t know.

Feb 5, 2020: Retrophisch Review: Blue Bell Mardi Gras King Cake Ice Cream If you’re expecting ice cream to taste exactly like king cake, you will be disappointed. If you don’t like cinnamon, you will be extremely …

Feb 5, 2020: Color me intrigued. Will report on results of taste test shortly.

Feb 5, 2020: Despite my best intentions to up my footwear style game, it is not meant to be for me and chukka-style boots.

Feb 4, 2020: I’m a bit over halfway through The New Girl by @danielsilvabooks, and he could have easily subtitled it, “They done gone and made Gabriel …

Feb 4, 2020: We’re not recording a @SneakyGoodPod episode this week, so give a listen to our latest, wherein I rain on @ATVSPoseur’s Goldblum parade, …

Feb 2, 2020: Super Bowl, schmuper bowl. Watching my favorite hockey player. Two goals and an assist. #HockeyDadLife

Feb 2, 2020: iPhone home screen, 2 February 2020

Jan 28, 2020: Finally got around to listening to the Rise of Skywalker episode (#76) of The Movie Proposal. @skyejethani and I are of like mind about the film and …

Jan 28, 2020: At my youngest’s basketball practice, which is at a nine-court Fieldhouse USA facility. You can imagine the constant noise of bouncing balls and …

Jan 28, 2020: Some encouragement I posted today to some foster and adoptive dads, but I’m sure there are plenty of parents who could use it, too: …

Jan 28, 2020: He'll never leave you or forsake you I help administer a private group on Facebook for foster and adoptive dads, and posted this today for encouragement, because I needed it myself: So …

Jan 28, 2020: Killed the Now page on my site. I simply don’t have the inclination to update it on a regular enough basis to justify its existence.

Jan 26, 2020: Just turned on the TV, which was tuned to the SEC Network from watching basketball earlier today. The 2019 Peach Bowl is on, and Justin Jefferson just …

Jan 26, 2020: Our local Kroger is importing Gambino’s king cakes, and one is now in our home. But it won’t be for long! 😉

Jan 22, 2020: The National Champions edition of the Sneaky Good Podcast is now available! #GeauxTigers

Jan 20, 2020: “Navy to name aircraft carrier for Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller”

Jan 18, 2020: There is a story and a reason behind this, but for now, let’s just say teenagers are funny and hockey players are weird, and this is a result of …

Jan 17, 2020: Hey guys, anyone close to @CARROT_app and can pull the plug? We might be in trouble.

Jan 16, 2020: DAL🚀PHX with the hockey player for another tournament. #HockeyDadLife

Jan 15, 2020: Yes, my iPhone’s wallpaper is #LSU champion @Joe_Burrow10 smoking a victory cigar, why do you ask? (Photo courtesy of @LSUTigersBook) iPhone …

Jan 15, 2020: “Last January, Clemson announced itself as college football’s preeminent power by shoving Alabama into a dumpster during the national title …

Jan 14, 2020: Greatest season in #LSU football history. Greatest season in college football history. I am so sports happy right now. #GeauxTigers

Jan 13, 2020: Now we’re doing shots of mead brought back from the UK yesterday. #GeauxTigers

Jan 13, 2020: LSU Jello shots. When you know you’re in the home of true LSU alumni. #GeauxTigers

Jan 13, 2020: Muffulatas, barbecued shrimp, crawfish casserole. Coffee stout. National championship food form, too. #GeauxTigers

Jan 13, 2020: Game day meal acquired earlier. #GeauxTigers

Jan 13, 2020: Better late than never, and just in time for y’all to give a listen before tonight’s championship game: the latest Sneaky Good podcast!

Jan 9, 2020: LET’S FREAKING GEAUX!!!!!

Jan 9, 2020: This little guy turned 15 today, so of course we had to get him a birthday treat to celebrate.

Jan 9, 2020: I heartily recommend Rob’s Iron Dragon trilogy (disclaimer: I backed it on Kickstarter). I have been reading Rob’s books since the third …

Jan 3, 2020: The first Sneaky Good podcast of 2020 is online, and we’re talking about LSU’s domination of Oklahoma in the college football playoff …

Dec 28, 2019: Been under the weather this weekend, so the first occupant of my new ATVS koozie is some Topo Chico.

Dec 28, 2019: I’m not sure what the rest of y’all are doing, but my wife made chocolate cake to celebrate LSU’s demolishing of Oklahoma. …

Dec 28, 2019: Couldn’t ask for a better start than that! #GeauxTigers

Dec 28, 2019: Today’s pregame preparations.

Dec 28, 2019: The skydiving has overtaken the surgeon as my favorite “just OK is not OK” commercial.

Dec 28, 2019: Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, my little green friend.

Dec 27, 2019: I get the college football fun of Mike Leach’s quips and his offensive schemes, but I’m totally pulling for Air Force in this bowl game. …

Dec 24, 2019: Being at the annual Christmas Eve party of Louisiana college friends means LSU trees, gumbo, and muffulettas.

Dec 24, 2019: God bless us, everyone! Thanks so much, @valleyshook. Appreciate it, PK!

Dec 24, 2019: At long last, all three geeks are back behind the mics, and we’re talking Rise of Skywalker on the latest Big Fat Geek podcast!

Dec 21, 2019: Finished up last of the holiday shopping today, and when I saw this, I instantly thought of @TheBrometheus and his son Rampage.

Dec 21, 2019: Double the Sneaky Good podcasts, double the Sneaky Good fun! SEC Champions! Heisman Winner! We’ve got it all! …

Dec 20, 2019: “Why do you not want to go on a cruise, Chris?” “Gee, I don’t know.”

Dec 18, 2019: The passing of an American who died in Vietnam, and lived long after. www.thedickinsonpress.com/obituarie…

Dec 17, 2019: I am so on board with Disney’s Onward.

Dec 16, 2019: I love how on his NFL record-setting touchdown throw, Brees sets a career high of 20 straight completions, and the pass goes to the tight end. And he …

Dec 12, 2019: Hey, everyone, it’s @agiletortoise’s birthday! Celebrate by installing and subscribing to @draftsapp on iOS or your Mac! I use this app …

Dec 12, 2019: Yesterday I finished “Lost”, the first in the Zulu Universe series by Sam Renner, aka @JarrettRush. And because he’s got a knack for …

Dec 9, 2019: “Want to stay healthy, both emotionally and physically? Researchers from UC San Diego and Yale have some simple advice for you: Limit the amount of …

Dec 8, 2019: I really need 67 of you to go download or listen to the latest episode of the Sneaky Good podcast: www.andthevalleyshook.com/2019/12/5…

Dec 8, 2019: While I’m not a fan of the Muppets hawking for Facebook, the Portal commercial with Kermit and Gonzo is terrific.

Dec 6, 2019: There are worse songs to get an earworm of than Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”.

Dec 5, 2019: LSU Football has completed #RevengeTour2019, and is 12-0. We talk about that and more on the latest Sneaky Good podcast.

Nov 29, 2019: Look at @tweetgrubes with the Ratt/Marvin Gaye mashup at the @DallasStars game! ❤️🎵🎸👌🏻

Nov 28, 2019: The only thing better than claiming the NFC South title on Thanksgiving is doing it against your hated rival. #WhoDat #GeauxSaints

Nov 28, 2019: Oh, #HailState, what is this atrocity of a uniform y’all are wearing? #EggBowl

Nov 23, 2019: Happiness is watching LSU scoring touchdowns while watching the Stars score goals. #LetsGeaux

Nov 23, 2019: The @DallasStars have really stepped up in the in-arena pregame videos and graphics. Amazing work, team!

Nov 23, 2019: Folks, I’m going to say something I never thought I would say: Another Star Wars character is very quickly becoming my new favorite character, …

Nov 22, 2019: My friend Ross King is doing some acoustic performances of Christmas songs he’s written and recorded over the years. I could sit and listen to …

Nov 22, 2019: A package from Slovakia can only mean one thing. Happy new @SignumRegis album day, everyone!

Nov 22, 2019: A new episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast is up. We dissect the Ole Miss game, and consider talking about the upcoming Arkansas contest but change our …

Nov 22, 2019: There’s a new episode of The Big Fat Geek Podcast up, and we dive into the world of everyone’s favorite professional assassin, John Wick! …

Nov 21, 2019: I’ve made my peace with God, so I’m okay with this. Let’er rip, @CARROT_app!

Nov 18, 2019: Tonight, my family tried the Popeye’s classic chicken sandwich. I will not presume to speak for the rest of the family, these opinions are mine …

Nov 16, 2019: Boy, did my friend Joshua’s recommendation of Tacodeli for lunch pay off. So, so good!

Nov 16, 2019: This was the most pleasant drive down to Austin in a decade. Slowest through Waco was 40 mph. Waze had us on the quick toll routes once we got close. …

Nov 15, 2019: The Sneaky Good Podcast celebrates its 75th episode with LSU’s victory over Alabama! www.andthevalleyshook.com/2019/11/1…

Nov 15, 2019: The one that got its head blown off, @CARROT_app?

Nov 12, 2019: Yes, I’ve watched the first episode of The Mandalorian, and I’m planning to watch it again tonight after Kid1’s hockey practice. …

Nov 11, 2019: This movie review for Midway is the best and funniest thing I’ve read all day. The harshness is inspired.

Nov 10, 2019: Little dusty in here. youtu.be/IPCozaQbU…

Nov 10, 2019: Look, you raving psychotics, just because you got the Christmas lights installed on your house already doesn’t mean you have to TURN THEM ON. …

Nov 9, 2019: In case you need something to listen to before the LSU-Bama game, the latest Sneaky Good Podcast is available. …

Nov 5, 2019: Speaking of authors hitting their stride, I finished Lee Child’s Blue Moon in less than 48 hours, in case anyone’s wondering how good the …

Nov 4, 2019: On the round-trip plane rides for the Tampa tournament, I started and finished @robkroese’s The Rise of the Demon Prince, second in his new …

Nov 3, 2019: This kid got the tying goal this morning in what ended up a heartbreaking semifinal loss in the Tampa tournament. Begged for us to get on an earlier …

Nov 1, 2019: Good start to the tournament for the hockey player and his team, a 4-1 victory. Things get tougher tomorrow. #HockeyDadLife

Nov 1, 2019: The body of Halloween isn’t even cold in the ground, we haven’t had Thanksgiving yet, and Target already has Christmas crap out the …

Oct 31, 2019: Weather delays flight nearly two hours. Plane at our gate is late pushing back, furthering delay. Passengers are loaded in time for new official …

Oct 31, 2019: Waiting on our nearly-two-hours-delayed flight to Tampa with this guy. Hockey tournament for the hockey player.

Oct 25, 2019: It’s Auburn Hate Week, so obviously there’s a …

Oct 22, 2019: There goes Disney, breaking my heart that the only version of Star Wars we’re going to get on Disney+ is the Special Edition. …

Oct 21, 2019: I will not get my hopes up with the new Star Wars trailer. I will not get my hopes up with the new Star Wars trailer. I will not get my hopes up with …

Oct 20, 2019: Saints score with under five minutes to go in the game, 27 unanswered points. This sort of drive is when my Christian charity goes out the window and …

Oct 20, 2019: When the Saints are beating the home town team so bad, the crowd boos failures by said team. The Bears have 17 yards rushing today. SEVENTEEN. …

Oct 20, 2019: Look at my youngest’s homeland becoming the first African smartphone manufacturer! I, among many others, have often thought Rwanda should …

Oct 20, 2019: iOS feature wish: silent mode, but still have the keyboard sounds on. Some times, I find it soothing, okay?

Oct 20, 2019: We’re never going to be honest about attendance figures are we? They can say it’s a sellout crowd at Soldier Field, but the camera pans …

Oct 16, 2019: I am sorely tempted to reply to this Evite email I just received for the event AT MY HOUSE with “Maybe”.

Oct 15, 2019: I couldn’t remember if I’d backed the physical copy level of @TheBrometheus' Kickstarter (and I never got around to looking), so this is a …

Oct 12, 2019: Have you registered for Tapestry Conference yet?! Don’t wait! #TapCon19 #KnowBetterDoBetter #Adoption #FosterCare #Kinship #AboundingLove

Oct 11, 2019: There’s a new Sneaky Good Podcast out. We dissect the Utah State game, talk about the Gators coming to Death Valley on a Saturday night, and …

Oct 9, 2019: I may or may not have just been given permission to wear Star Wars t-shirts on stage at Tapestry Conference, and I’m wondering how many wardrobe …

Oct 8, 2019: All this work I’m putting in, even while I wait for one of our vehicles to get serviced, so you people have a quality product at Tapestry …

Oct 6, 2019: Thanks to a source with photo-scanning/tracing software and a vinyl printer, the Star Wars sticker family lives again!

Oct 6, 2019: Honest question to all the Dallas Cowboys fans out there: do you really care about watching the games of Dallas' divisional opponents? This is the …

Oct 4, 2019: Pro tip: grill cleaning is really easy when you turn the burners on high and close the lid, allowing the interior to get to 600 degrees Fahrenheit.

Oct 4, 2019: Fire: Good Meat: Good Blood & Honey: Goooooooood

Oct 4, 2019: The @robkroese-induced music video rabbit hole continues. This is for @kristenrudd: www.youtube.com/watch

Oct 4, 2019: ‘80s style AOR/Melodic Rock is alive and well in Sweden. This album released just last year. www.youtube.com/watch

Oct 4, 2019: Hey, everyone, it’s @JarrettRush’s birthday! Let’s celebrate by picking up one of his excellent books! I’m especially fond of …

Oct 3, 2019: Because I led a sheltered childhood and didn’t have cable, and thus MTV, when I was growing up, I am just now seeing the original video for The …

Oct 3, 2019: Also, I fully blame @robkroese for the ’80s music YouTube video rabbit hole I’ve gone down.

Oct 3, 2019: It’s one of the quintessential ’80s songs, and ‘Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” still works for me. (Could do without …

Oct 2, 2019: Gee, you would think an advanced AI would have knowledge at its, er, microchips about animals' biology, eh, @CARROT_app? #carrotweather

Sep 30, 2019: Finished Adam Lane Smith’s “Gideon Ira: Knight of the Blood Cross” over the weekend. He describes it as “heavy metal Christian …

Sep 28, 2019: Thanks to @tweetgrubes dropping it at tonight’s Stars game, I have Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” on repeat. Then I mentioned it to …

Sep 28, 2019: Epic recording session last night for the Big Fat Geek podcast. I’ll let my iPhone’s background tell you what we discussed.

Sep 26, 2019: Praise the Lord. This is long overdue.

Sep 26, 2019: #PREACH twitter.com/tapbot_pa…

Sep 26, 2019: I am suddenly struck by an idea for a new type of prison ministry. I bet some @bigfatgeekpod listeners would be into this. …

Sep 22, 2019: JV hockey regular season kicked off tonight, and Kid1’s team started by leveling the only team they lost to in the leveling tournament, 4-1. …

Sep 21, 2019: Watching Notre Dame-Georgia, I am reminded of one thing: no matter how bad any of the ESPN/SEC Network broadcast teams are when covering LSU, none of …

Sep 21, 2019: And THAT is why you haven’t gotten any respect from the big boys for going undefeated, UCF. #GoPitt

Sep 21, 2019: I wonder what the bet was that he lost. twitter.com/meechone/…

Sep 19, 2019: On the latest Sneaky Good podcast, we preview LSU’S SEC opener against Vanderbilt with Tom from SB Nation sister site, @anchorofgold. …

Sep 17, 2019: I wrote about a place that was important to our family, but no longer exists.

Sep 17, 2019: An Ode to Our El Chico It is not hyperbole to say the Flower Mound location of El Chico has been very important in my life and that of my family. I have been going there …

Sep 17, 2019: “This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of the AT-AT driver, it will soon see the end of the Star Wars sticker family.”

Sep 15, 2019: This would have been AWESOME. twitter.com/Bookstore…

Sep 14, 2019: LSU podcast fans, we have new hosting digs for the Sneaky Good Podcast. Point your browsers to our new page: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/a… And …

Sep 14, 2019: We know it’s just Northwestern State today, so relive the greatness of downing the Longhorns in Austin on the latest Sneaky Good Podcast! …

Sep 13, 2019: Decided to create a Podcasts page on my site to link to all of the podcasts I am now involved with, since that number has expanded.

Sep 10, 2019: This can only mean one thing: more Sneaky Good podcasting is underway! #GeauxTigers

Sep 10, 2019: “Well, visiting LSU fans won’t have that long to drink before their September 21 game at Vanderbilt.” It’s comforting to felt seen …

Sep 10, 2019: Apple announces new iPhones! New watches! A new iPad! Yadda yadda yadda. Meanwhile, the real exciting news of the day…

Sep 10, 2019: All of these brilliant camera updates for the iPhone, but we still can’t force people to shoot video only in landscape. #AppleEvent

Sep 10, 2019: Like Conan, Aquaman, and Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, his casting in Apple’s new See appears perfect for Jason Momoa. The series looks pretty …

Sep 10, 2019: It’s amusing that Apple’s The Morning Show is about a 50 year-old Jennifer Aniston being replaced by a younger host. That whole 6 years …

Sep 10, 2019: I haven’t watched an Apple Event on a screen larger than a laptop or iPad since @agiletortoise and I hung out at @daveonkels' shop for a WWDC …

Sep 7, 2019: There is no better Matthew McConaughey than sad Texas football Matthew McConaughey. #GeauxTigers

Sep 5, 2019: I have a new favorite song mashup. twitter.com/BecketAda…

Sep 5, 2019: We talk about LSU decimating Georgia Southern! We talk about the game this Saturday against Texas! I dabble in amateur meteorology! All this and more …

Sep 4, 2019: Just finished listening to @bekindtobignate’s Meat Eaters sermon. Great, great stuff, he really brought it. overcast.fm/+QRlIwFCV…

Sep 3, 2019: Trying to sound like I know what I’m talking about as we record another @SneakyGoodPod episode. It’s Texas week! #HornsDown #GeauxTigers

Sep 3, 2019: The Big Fat Geek Podcast took the summer off, but we’re back! We hop in our T-16 Skyhoppers to navigate the Beggar’s Canyon of Comic-Con …

Sep 2, 2019: Just finished @robkroese’s latest, The Brand of the Warlock. Reminded me of the many fantasy novels from the 1980s I read and enjoyed as a …

Sep 2, 2019: There is a new episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast out! We discuss how to make sure we are repairing the relationship with our kids when we are …

Aug 31, 2019: Up and at a rink before dawn on Labor Day weekend can only mean one thing: the start of hockey season.

Aug 30, 2019: The latest Sneaky Good Podcast is up, and we preview LSU’s first contest of the 2019 season, against Georgia Southern’s triple option …

Aug 26, 2019: Latest Sneaky Good is up, and in the words of our host, we’re “doin' a little previewin'” of the Tigers' position groups. Five days …

Aug 24, 2019: My boy is 11 today! He’s always had those captivating eyes, though. Happy birthday, Sam!

Aug 24, 2019: Hello, new iPhone wallpaper… twitter.com/starwars/…

Aug 24, 2019: Hey guys, we really need to step up our connected relationship game. Craig is seeking validation from inanimate sticks of wood. …

Aug 24, 2019: I told @leebennett I would comment after I’d watched it 156 times. It hasn’t been that many, but I have lost count. Holy cow, I cannot …

Aug 24, 2019: Big props to the @MonkeySports crew in Allen, and the @CCMHockey rep who was in store today, for handling a warranty issue in the most …

Aug 23, 2019: Behind the mic last night at Nathan’s house can only mean one thing: there’s finally a new Big Fat Geek podcast episode coming!

Aug 20, 2019: College football is less than two weeks away and we’re here with our first look at the 2019 campaign. #LSU …

Aug 12, 2019: Here’s a thing about the nationalized 24-hour news cycle: 40 years ago, no one outside Oakland would even know about Antonio Brown wanting to …

Aug 9, 2019: Today my parents celebrate 50 years of marriage. Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad!!!

Aug 7, 2019: Happy birthday to this kiddo! Sixteen today, in the Garden of the Gods.

Aug 2, 2019: Honestly, if I could convince the @BearNotesApp devs to let me use my own typefaces, so I could select iA Writer Duo, I would have the absolutely …

Jul 31, 2019: It was awesome seeing the turnout for @JackCarrUSA tonight. Easily twice, and possibly three times, what it was last year for his debut The Terminal …

Jul 31, 2019: Snopes Issues Pre-Approval Of All Statements Made During Tonight’s Democratic Debate

Jul 30, 2019: Happy James Reece Day, everyone! Light and blade included because I know @JackCarrUSA appreciates sharp and useful things.

Jul 29, 2019: So proud of this kid. Yesterday, he led his JV team to the summer league championship. It’s the first JV championship of any kind for our …

Jul 27, 2019: I just finished @NerdKing52’s zombie novel, A Place Outside the Wild. With a different take on the zombie genre than I’ve read to date, …

Jul 27, 2019: Telling me it’s Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), only for me to discover it’s the wretched Special Edition is false advertising, TBS.

Jul 26, 2019: There’s a new episode of the Sneaky Good podcast up. A little football gets discussed, along with a whole lotta music. …

Jul 24, 2019: I guess when the teenager returns from camp counselor duties, we need to watch Ladyhawke. www.foxnews.com/entertain…

Jul 23, 2019: Reason #1,484 to not let your kids use anything related to Facebook: “Facebook design flaw let thousands of kids join chats with unauthorized …

Jul 23, 2019: So you know Evite, that online invitation service pretty much everyone uses? Yeah, there was a data breach there as well. You know what works for …

Jul 23, 2019: There is a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we talk about just saying yes.

Jul 22, 2019: Trump Finally Loses Baptist Support After Video Emerges Of Him Dancing babylonbee.com/news/trum…

Jul 18, 2019: Still love Charlton Heston in True Lies: “So far, this is not blowing my skirt up, gentlemen.”

Jul 18, 2019: I have seen the trailer for Top Gun: Maverick. Twice. I have thoughts. You’ll have to wait to hear them on an upcoming podcast. But I have …

Jul 17, 2019: You know you’re a grammar nerd when you find yourself proofreading the @Rangers game program after finding an error.

Jul 17, 2019: Game program: check. Theme night promo cap: check. Dallas Stars Night with the hockey player in the last season of the Ballpark in Arlington? Of …

Jul 16, 2019: I cannot help but wonder what is this I II III of which Louie speaks.

Jul 16, 2019: Happy birthday to my beautiful bride, my co-wrangler of our three yahoos. She’s truly a Wonder Woman. I love you, sweetheart!

Jul 15, 2019: Who has two thumbs and is co-hosting and presenting at Tapestry Conference in October? This guy! But don’t let that stop you from taking …

Jul 14, 2019: There’s a new episode of the Sneaky Good podcast up, and we packed the booth for an early preseason look.

Jul 11, 2019: ESPN showing the Joey Gallo/Bryce Harper youth baseball photo again, because they’re broadcasting a game one of them is playing in. Everyone …

Jul 8, 2019: So long, comments Occasionally, those follow-a-link-from-a-link-from-a-link blog trains land you in a thought pattern that ends up in a situation of “Why …

Jul 5, 2019: The fact they felt the last four words of the tweet were necessary is what makes it. twitter.com/NBCNews/s…

Jul 5, 2019: You may laugh. You may cry. You may decide it’s better than “Cats”. We aren’t singing show tunes in the latest Empowered …

Jul 4, 2019: The Star Wars sticker family is not long for this world, as Kid2’s AT-AT driver is starting to peel badly. And you cannot get these particular …

Jul 3, 2019: Finished “Enough” by Patrick Rhone yesterday. Gave me a nudge I needed. Definitely recommended.

Jul 2, 2019: iPhone home screen, 2 July 2019 The wallpaper is a shot from the beach at Destin, Florida, by my longtime friend Tammy.

Jul 1, 2019: Yesterday is funny and very sweet, a sing-along rom-com with a sci-fi twist.

Jul 1, 2019: Impromptu date night! Seeing Yesterday.

Jun 30, 2019: Walked through an Aldi supermarket today for the first time ever. If these had been around when I was in college, I would’ve lived at this …

Jun 30, 2019: Had Quiznos a bit ago for a late lunch. First time I’ve eaten at one in a couple of years, and boy do I miss having one in our burg.

Jun 27, 2019: Sitting down for another Empowered Parent Podcast recording, and for the first time, we’re going to be live on Facebook.

Jun 26, 2019: LSU and sports peeps, the latest episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast is out, and we answer the really important questions. Like, which athlete would …

Jun 25, 2019: Ever since @Amazon took over their own shipping, service from them on that end has gone downhill. I got an email today that Amazon’s delivery …

Jun 25, 2019: We have another episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we talk about fear and felt safety. www.onebighappyhome.com/2019/06/2…

Jun 20, 2019: You know what to do, social media peeps! Help my partner in crime, er, conference presentation partner help foster kids! twitter.com/Jake1725/…

Jun 18, 2019: What a delightful surprise to find @viticci and @johnvoorhees interviewing, on the latest Dialog podcast, one of my favorite artists, @frankturner! …

Jun 17, 2019: Oh look, my life. twitter.com/kristenru…

Jun 16, 2019: Fathers' Day date night with my bride. We saw MIB International. It’s great fun, though be advised there is some swearing and sexual innuendo, …

Jun 16, 2019: I also got a goal from this kid for Fathers' Day!

Jun 16, 2019: This is what I walked out and found waiting for me this morning. #onbrand Note: all original trilogy.

Jun 15, 2019: Let’s geaux, social media peeps! You know what to do. twitter.com/holleylol…

Jun 15, 2019: Excuse me, I’ll be in mourning today. twitter.com/austin360…

Jun 13, 2019: Honestly, this is an outright travesty. Right up there with no supporting actor nods for Jon Bernthal’s Punisher portrayal in Daredevil season …

Jun 13, 2019: The latest episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast, “Living on Baseball and Cookie Cake”, is up. We talk LSU baseball, US soccer, pro …

Jun 13, 2019: Some brony is going to get this tattooed on his body. twitter.com/theNthJen…

Jun 12, 2019: Thanks to Kelly and his @aggressionradio podcast, today I discovered Greek metal band Diviner. Their song “The Earth, the Moon, the Sun” …

Jun 11, 2019: Random musical opinion: of the male singers/groups who have covered “Landslide”, I still prefer Boyce Avenue. Honorable mention to Gavin …

Jun 10, 2019: How do I file a Radar for Apple’s dictation engine autocorrupting my child’s name to “the Phaniel”? Also, what the heck is a …

Jun 10, 2019: Make it so! twitter.com/ComicsByJ…

Jun 7, 2019: How much of a difference does adoption make? This much: the difference between the fates of Chunchun and Ming.

Jun 7, 2019: Today I learned that listening to Kerry Livgren/AD’s Art of the State while edging—specifically “All Creation Sings”, “The …

Jun 7, 2019: Look at this sweetheart. twitter.com/humoranda…

Jun 7, 2019: Parenting 101, post-Potter. twitter.com/kristenru…

Jun 6, 2019: Google profits from pedophiles, writes @markhurst: creativegood.com/blog/19/g…

Jun 6, 2019: Twenty-seven years ago today.

Jun 5, 2019: iPhone home screen, 5 June 2019

Jun 5, 2019: So I’ve picked up another gig, and I would appreciate everyone—especially my LSU peeps—checking it out. twitter.com/ATVSPoseu…

Jun 5, 2019: [twitter.com/RossDelle...](https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1136310915429744641)

Jun 5, 2019: Because today’s adorableness quota has not yet been reached… https://twitter.com/_11Remember_/status/1136087637914247170

Jun 3, 2019: Bokeh, the private, ad-free, user-funded photo sharing startup by Tim Smith, is currently $376 short of its funding goal, with 35 hours to go. This …

Jun 1, 2019: And then they grow up and become one of the tastiest animals God ever fashioned. (Especially if you’ve got a great butcher with the right …

Jun 1, 2019: Whatever music service this dealership subscribes to is hitting it out of the park with its mix. Aldo Nova just came on.

Jun 1, 2019: The lady sitting next to me in the service area is wearing ear buds while watching video on her smartphone, and ma’am I totally applaud your …

May 30, 2019: Casual nerds, assemble! At long last all of the geeks were able to record together, and we have thoughts on Avengers: Endgame! …

May 28, 2019: I may or may not have agreed today to join a third podcast as cohost. 😬

May 28, 2019: I wonder how many of these are about to be sold in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. twitter.com/businessi…

May 27, 2019: Last night, @bekindtobignate and I recorded our #GameofThrones series wrap-up episode for Big Fat Geek Podcast. If you’re curious about my …

May 22, 2019: His Rubble & Ruin series is outstanding, and the enjoyment will last longer than the coffee you’ll spend as much on. …

May 22, 2019: Need some help, folks. I’m having trouble remembering the name of a book I read a while back. It’s a modern-authored fantasy of the old German …

May 22, 2019: Zach Williams - No Longer Slaves (Live from Harding Prison)

May 21, 2019: Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it’s hard to delete May I suggest @ProtonMail, @FastMail, or email on a server you …

May 21, 2019: I’ve always been partial to “jackwagon” and “son of a nutcracker”. twitter.com/gshowitt/…

May 21, 2019: I sincerely hope everyone has a group of friends they can call on at a moment’s notice for support and prayer. I am very blessed in this regard, …

May 18, 2019: Even with all the plot holes I’ve had time to think about, still thoroughly enjoyed Avengers: Endgame the second time around.

May 18, 2019: Date night, and seeing Avengers: Endgame again!

May 18, 2019: Had lunch with my teenage-years mentor and spiritual big brother Tony today. First time we’d seen one another in 25+ years.

May 17, 2019: All you need to know about my thoughts of John Wick 3 is I am already plotting how many times I can see it before it concludes its run in theaters, …

May 17, 2019: Just a sampling of the speakers in this theater. I look forward to the bass rumbling my insides as John Wick strangles an antagonist.

May 17, 2019: Locked and loaded for John Wick 3 with this guy!

May 17, 2019: We’re going back to basics on the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast. We dissect–not literally– the most important organ in the …

May 16, 2019: Yep. Wasn’t emotionally ready. #BigBangTheory

May 16, 2019: It’s getting a little late in the evening for this kind of heavy thinking. twitter.com/hereiamja…

May 16, 2019: Wait, the series finale of #BigBangTheory is tonight?!? I don’t think I’m emotionally prepared for this.

May 16, 2019: My Everyman Hideout 5-Way Commuter Pack is still available. Come one, come all.

May 15, 2019: An evergreen reminder and prayer. Wave of the phin to Twitter pal @JarrettRush for the link.

May 15, 2019: Buckle up and hold on to your dragon’s scales, there’s a new episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast out! Nathan and I discuss the first three …

May 13, 2019: I would expect nothing less from Lucifer’s minions. twitter.com/evilbmcat…

May 13, 2019: “Migrating to a Google Account means turning all your Nest data over to Google—data that previously had been kept separate.” Gosh, if only …

May 12, 2019: Having just finished the next-to-last #GameofThrones with @bekindtobignate, I kind of wish we’d been recording our reactions during. We have SO …

May 12, 2019: Mothers' Day 2017, 2018, 2019. The hockey player is in skates in all three shots with his mom, aka my amazing wife. Happy Mothers' Day sweetheart!

May 11, 2019: This story on Hagoromo chalk is fascinating. It also sounds like something up @patrickrhone’s alley.

May 10, 2019: Finished Gone by Dawn, by Tom Wood, a novella that hearkens back to a time earlier in the Victor series. 📚

May 10, 2019: Finished Kill for Me by Tom Wood, another satisfying Victor the assassin novel. 📚

May 10, 2019: Five Finger Death Punch covers Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s “Blue on Black”, and bring along Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert, and Brian May for …

May 10, 2019: I think Treason & Blasphemy is the name of my next Christian metal band. 😉 @rosskingmusic

May 9, 2019: I allowed my children to pick out Mothers' Day cards at the Hallmark store, and now I am a glitter casualty.

May 8, 2019: Met Gala Features Dome Of Attractive Teens Battling To The Death

May 7, 2019: I have backed Bokeh on Kickstarter. While it’s too early to tell if it will replace Flickr as my go-to for online photo sharing, as Jack said, …

May 7, 2019: Personal de-Googlefication continues. I’ve swapped out Gboard for SwiftKey on my iPhone.

May 7, 2019: For Sale: Everyman Hideout 5-Way Commuter Pack I backed this project on Kickstarter and received it roughly a month and a week ago. I’ve used it exclusively for a couple of weeks and have …

May 6, 2019: “I’m not saying I’d like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.”

May 6, 2019: "Hold it, hold it. What is this? Are you trying to trick me? Where's the sports? "Is this a kissing book?" What am I watching?

May 6, 2019: Our friend Ross King’s new single dropped today. We had the privilege of hearing him play it back in March at the Together Called conference. A …

May 5, 2019: What a cruel proximity notification, Chick-fil-A.

May 4, 2019: This is how much I love our Big Fat Geek podcast listeners: recording new episodes for y’all last night and not watching the Dallas Stars …

May 3, 2019: Out of context, from an off-mic conversation during podcast recording tonight: “My next band name is Sassy Pillows.”

May 3, 2019: “Alexa, tell me a hockey joke.” “Okay, how many Maple Leafs does it take to change a light bulb? “How many?” “No …

May 3, 2019: iPhone home screen, 3 May 2019 There have been a couple of changes, and the background reflects my excitement for the upcoming show, The Mandalorian.

May 1, 2019: The sons of our friends Kara and Ryan, the founders of Imana Kids, are raising money to pay their way on the next Imana mission trip to Rwanda. One …

May 1, 2019: Marriage is tough and takes intentional investment to make it thrive. Our latest Empowered Parent podcast episode is for adoptive and foster families …

Apr 28, 2019: Just got finished watching this week’s #GameofThrones with @bekindtobignate, and WOW BLERUGHARUEJRV JEVRUFUCCXKWIEYIDB NJRJUSVQBAMCKGOUEIRHR …

Apr 27, 2019: The wind blows the pollen All over and around me Nature’s attempted murder

Apr 27, 2019: Twenty-nine years ago today. Still together.

Apr 26, 2019: Last night I finished an ARC of @steven_kotler’s “Last Tango in Cyberspace.” It’s a fun, engaging read of our near-future in …

Apr 26, 2019: Retrophisch Review: Last Tango in Cyberspace I was afforded the opportunity via NetGalley to read an advanced reader copy of Steven Kotler's Last Tango in Cyberspace. It's a near-future science …

Apr 25, 2019: Alright, everyone hurry up and go see Avengers: Endgame so we can talk about it.

Apr 25, 2019: I thought this appropriate attire for this evening’s premiere.

Apr 24, 2019: If you missed it earlier in the month, there’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, where we talk about incorporating play into …

Apr 22, 2019: Finally, a 2020 ticket I can get on board with.

Apr 22, 2019: I’ve long thought our youngest’s homeland had the potential to be a sort of African tech-Switzerland. It’s good to see others are …

Apr 18, 2019: I wonder if he blessed the rains while he was there.

Apr 16, 2019: The rebuild of Notre Dame will be well funded. In the past month, three historically black churches in Louisiana were destroyed by a racist arsonist. …

Apr 15, 2019: What is with accidental fires and holy sites today??? www.newsweek.com/notre-dam…

Apr 15, 2019: Proud of my hometown newspaper. twitter.com/theadvoca…

Apr 15, 2019: When I pulled up to the house last night for our #GameofThrones viewing, I told Nathan it was pretty brazen to just dump a dead body on the curb. …

Apr 13, 2019: He only had six lines of dialogue across two movies, so Boba Fett is totally a minor character, right? twitter.com/scottEwei…

Apr 13, 2019: ‘Tis a glorious day, my friends! For no matter the hail and rainy weather we doth suffer in the metroplex of Dallas and Forth Worth, today I …

Apr 13, 2019: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we’re talking about ways to incorporate play into every day.

Apr 12, 2019: There needs to be a way to tell one’s Apple Watch that today is a sick day, and the only standing and movement will be that which gets one from …

Apr 12, 2019: I have myriad thoughts on the new Star Wars trailer and what it means for the movie. We definitely need to record a new @bigfatgeekpod episode.

Apr 10, 2019: Truer words have never been spoken by Lucifer’s little minions.

Apr 10, 2019: Happy to have this in my hands, @TheBrometheus! Now to finish two other books and slot it into my reading queue.

Apr 10, 2019: Reading an ARC of @steven_kotler’s Last Tango in Cyberspace, and love, love, LOVE the quick shout-outs to two classic science fiction franchises in …

Apr 7, 2019: Last night, a new piece of kit for Empowered Parenting podcasting…

Apr 7, 2019: This is a great mashup.

Apr 6, 2019: My Personal de-Google-fication Continues

Apr 6, 2019: My Personal de-Google-fication Continues Google Photos is no more for me. I deleted all the photos in that account, then cancelled my Google One subscription. I removed the app from my iOS …

Apr 6, 2019: Shazam is really awesome, a fun movie, and has a really good pro-foster care family vibe on top of it. But adoptive and foster parents be aware: there …

Apr 5, 2019: I hardly ever get to Mavs games. Maybe once a year. This year has been my most in a season, at three. I’m 1-1, and the winner was when …

Apr 4, 2019: Let’s be honest, it was only a matter of time before they were driven to these lengths.

Apr 4, 2019: Watching the Joker trailer, I’m left with two thoughts: I’m certain Joaquin Phoenix is going to bring everything he has to the role, just …

Apr 3, 2019: “I don’t know how adoptive and foster parents walk their journeys without a tribe of kindred spirits who can confide in confidence with one …

Apr 3, 2019: Unlike Twitter, Micro.blog does indeed have an edit button when you make silly spelling errors.

Apr 3, 2019: Gee, Chris, why do you continue to buy physical media? Digital is so easy. Gosh, I don’t know why.

Apr 2, 2019: My non-hockey but musical kid got to meet @DallasStars music meister @tweetgrubes tonight. Thanks for showing him how you run things, Grubes!

Apr 2, 2019: iPhone home screen, 2 April 2019

Apr 2, 2019: Taking my non-hockey kid to the @DallasStars game because his school band is performing in the AAC South Plaza before tonight’s game. Then he …

Apr 1, 2019: Because who doesn’t want some “Boogie Woogie Piano” while catching a train in London?

Apr 1, 2019: I am five years behind the curve, but today I learned of the 2CELLOS' cover of “Thunderstruck”.

Mar 31, 2019: I may or may not have totally ripped off @Gabz’s typography modifications to the Kiko theme for Micro.blog because his site is so clean and …

Mar 31, 2019: Time for the Veep season premiere!

Mar 29, 2019: Strike Back season finale time!

Mar 28, 2019: The use of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” for this Godzilla trailer is inspired. youtu.be/yHzJSvVGn…

Mar 28, 2019: I fully support such legislation. babylonbee.com/news/more…

Mar 26, 2019: Finished the latest in Nick Petrie’s Peter Ash series while my SUV was getting serviced this morning. My only complaint about these books is …

Mar 25, 2019: Finished Mark Greaney’s latest Gray Man thriller last night on the plane ride home. Can’t recommend this series enough. 📚

Mar 24, 2019: I feel it’s highly ironic I wear this shirt today, when we are suffering our FOURTH delay while flying @AmericanAir this weekend (three on …

Mar 21, 2019: I pray everyone has at least one friend who gets and accepts them. I am blessed to have more than one.

Mar 19, 2019: Looks like I have a new sticker to go on the MacBook Pro! Thanks, @manton!

Mar 17, 2019: This dude has been in my musical wheelhouse tonight at the @DallasStars game: Jimmy Eat World, Living Colour, Crüe, Maiden, Alter Bridge, so much …

Mar 17, 2019: I don’t watch Narcos: Mexico, but this promo is awesome. www.youtube.com/watch

Mar 15, 2019: Studio Movie Grill Atari. Of course, it’s much, much cooler when the traditional initials are used: SMG Atari. twitter.com/merrittk/…

Mar 15, 2019: It’s true, I had a lot of fun working “Clank!” into sentences and phrases it might not otherwise go. twitter.com/bekindtob…

Mar 14, 2019: AKA “Oh crap, is this another possible regulatory lawsuit?” techcrunch.com/2019/03/1…

Mar 14, 2019: AKA “Covering our butts for possible regulatory lawsuits” techcrunch.com/2019/03/1…

Mar 13, 2019: The circled area literally made me laugh out loud. twitter.com/Southernb…

Mar 12, 2019: Potential awful news on the international adoption front.

Mar 8, 2019: Celebratory dinner at Mooyah with my hockey player for two of his favorite things: burgers and milkshakes.

Mar 8, 2019: 18-0. Couldn’t be more proud of these kids and how hard they worked all season.

Mar 8, 2019: For the record, and @DrewLeaumont can confirm, I totally called Captain Marvel’s end of credits scene before it came up.

Mar 8, 2019: I can confirm Captain Marvel is not as bad as I feared the trailers made it out to be. I wouldn’t say it’s Wonder Woman great, either. For …

Mar 8, 2019: Play is vitally important for children, especially our kids from hard places. We talk about this on the latest Empowered Parent podcast: …

Mar 7, 2019: A new BFG episode! Ever wondered what it would be like to sit around the table with the geeks while playing a game? Wonder no more, as the guys …

Mar 6, 2019: Mark Zuckerberg Finishes Morning Reading Of Favorite Devotional ‘1984’ babylonbee.com/news/mark…

Mar 5, 2019: It’s Mardi Gras, so it’s time for “Fat Tuesday”, by The Friendly Indians: www.friendlyindians.com/audio/Fat…

Mar 3, 2019: Between @EddieHinkle’s posts about starting the Star Wars film anthology with his kiddo, and that sweet new Star Wars: Always trailer, I think …

Mar 3, 2019: This is really, really good: Star Wars: Always

Feb 27, 2019: B-doe’s battle rap with his son is the adorable pick-me-up we all need. twitter.com/ThatsHowI… [Via Jennifer Ledford on Twitter]

Feb 22, 2019: I was trying to think of another word, but John aptly captures it with “amazing”. twitter.com/johndyer/…

Feb 21, 2019: Scrolling through my iTunes library, I noted a cover of Eddie Money’s “Take Me Home Tonight” by punk band Every Avenue. I love a …

Feb 21, 2019: I’ve known this young man since he was born. So awesome to see him pursuing this dream! twitter.com/RaginCaju…

Feb 18, 2019: The same day I’m finally able to finish season 2 of The Punisher, and Nathan sends me this. io9.gizmodo.com/netflixs-… Oh well. It was a …

Feb 18, 2019: “The TWA Hotel Turns an Abandoned Airport Terminal Into a Midcentury Dream” www.dwell.com/article/t… [via @patrickrhone]

Feb 18, 2019: If we need proof that AI algorithms aren’t up to snuff yet, here’s one.

Feb 12, 2019: This is so awesome. twitter.com/Hawk/stat…

Feb 12, 2019: This weekend’s positive Apple Store experience www.retrophisch.com/2019/02/1…

Feb 12, 2019: This weekend's positive Apple Store experience We hear a lot in the tech press and on personal blogs about bad experiences with Apple’s support of it’s products, so I thought I would …

Feb 10, 2019: I really like @TheAAF strategy of going into markets where they can be the top dog, not competing with a higher-tier league (Atlanta notwithstanding. …

Feb 10, 2019: Updated my now page, since it had been a month from the last update.

Jan 31, 2019: The thing that has always impressed me about the vault is the whole “I’m going to sprint at full speed then FALL ONTO MY HANDS TO PROPEL …

Jan 31, 2019: Minnesota Man Forced To Warm Himself In Tauntaun Carcass babylonbee.com/news/minn…

Jan 29, 2019: “Fighting for Normalcy” Heck, with that slogan, given how many feel about our current political culture, maybe I should run. …

Jan 26, 2019: Well, hello there, season premiere of Strike Back that I forgot was coming on but my TiVo still recorded because of the OnePass feature.

Jan 24, 2019: I backed this book on Kickstarter, and can’t wait for its release next month. Sounds like so much fun. twitter.com/TheBromet…

Jan 23, 2019: No Sweethearts candy this Valentine’s Day after company goes out of business www.usatoday.com/story/mon…

Jan 23, 2019: The grass withers, the flowers fade… www.retrophisch.com/2019/01/2…

Jan 23, 2019: The grass withers, the flowers fade... My friends Kara and Ryan, who founded and run Imana Kids, posted a photo to the Imana Instagram account with the text of Isaiah 40:8: “The grass …

Jan 22, 2019: Why have I never thought of this before?!? twitter.com/Bookstore…

Jan 22, 2019: Thirteen year-old me was obsessed with Stringfellow Hawke and the Airwolf.

Jan 20, 2019: It’s official: I do not give a rip about this season’s Super Bowl. I should find something else to do during that block of time in two …

Jan 20, 2019: What is it with officials and Louisiana football teams this season?

Jan 17, 2019: My all-time favorite Friends episode is “The One with the Embryos.” Second favorite is “The One with the Jellyfish”. …

Jan 17, 2019: Beets with crab cakes? BEETS? Chef should be drawn and quartered. twitter.com/ElenaBerg…

Jan 17, 2019: The Bogeyman himself, Baba Yaga, is back! Can’t wait. youtu.be/M7XM597XO…

Jan 15, 2019: First impressions of The Passage premiere www.retrophisch.com/2019/01/1…

Jan 15, 2019: First impressions of The Passage premiere I was worried about the Wolgast/Amy connection; I'm not worried any more as one expects of book adaptations, there are noticeable changes some of …

Jan 15, 2019: Well, I probably shouldn’t have watched the pilot of The Passage so late. At night. Before I had to take the dog outside. And I read the books. …

Jan 9, 2019: Hello, again, early 2019 edition www.retrophisch.com/2019/01/0…

Jan 9, 2019: Hello, again, early 2019 edition Retrophisch.com lives again. I have wandered aimlessly in the wilds of the Internet for far too long. It was finally time to own up to one of my …

Jan 4, 2019: News flash: based on conversations overheard at Whataburger, youth of America still literally using “literally” wrong.

Jan 4, 2019: iPhone home screen, 4 January 2019

Dec 30, 2018: The one Mavs game I make it to in a season, and who’s filling in on the DJ board but this guy! Great seeing you, @tweetgrubes!

Dec 25, 2018: My bride surprised me today with a new Series 4 Apple Watch, to replace the OG one I damaged a couple of months ago. Thanks, sweetie!

Dec 24, 2018: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast available! It’s part two of our Setting Up for Success, with an emphasis on the …

Dec 23, 2018: I am reminded today that I hope, in all of the festivities of the season, we do not forget to help others. A good bet is The Human Fund*. *“The …

Dec 20, 2018: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast up. In it, we share our thoughts on how to make Christmas Day a success! …

Dec 19, 2018: The new Hellboy movie looks like it’s going to be a fun ride of epic monster scale. youtu.be/dt5g5_1cK…

Dec 11, 2018: New specs. These are my first-ever all-polymer frames. Man, these things are light.

Dec 11, 2018: I love a good cover/mashup. youtu.be/6GG-m7j8l…

Dec 6, 2018: I am really digging the Whitney font from @HoeflerCo in the latest Day One for iOS update. Looks great on my iPhone. Can’t wait to have that in …

Dec 6, 2018: What’s it mean when your fortune cookie doesn’t have a fortune in it? Besides doing quick picks for the lotto?

Dec 3, 2018: I’m running a fundraiser for my birthday to help get street kids in Rwanda into school and off the streets. Would you please help? …

Nov 27, 2018: If you’re looking to help foster and adopted kids on this #GivingTuesday, please support Tapestry. I recorded a short message on what it’s …

Nov 27, 2018: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast available. It’s part two of our interview with Pam Parish, and we talk about how …

Nov 23, 2018: I absolutely love the Rubble & Ruin books. You can’t beat the prices this weekend. Please, please, please buy them, because I really want …

Nov 23, 2018: If you use a Mac, you need SpamSieve to keep your email inbox clean. I use EagleFiler for archiving email. It’s super fast for searching, even …

Nov 22, 2018: Saw Instant Family last night for impromptu date night. Outstanding film, full of heart and humor. Tig Notaro and Octavia Spencer were hilarious as …

Nov 21, 2018: Everyone: seriously, stay to the very, very, very end of the Ralph Breaks the Internet credits! It’s the only way to see the new Disney movie …

Nov 20, 2018: Well, I just signed the teenager and I up for a parent-led, Texas DPS-approved driver education course. Pray for me.

Nov 20, 2018: “It’s the online profiling of my currently unborn child – one that is probably already, unstoppably being developed from the baby sites we …

Nov 18, 2018: That Cowboys fan and Eagles fan in an elevator NFL Shop commercial is even funnier today, after the Saints utterly drubbed the defending “Super …

Nov 17, 2018: If it wasn’t for the first appearance of my favorite intergalactic bounty hunter, I would totally disavow this nonsense. …

Nov 15, 2018: This Corpus Christi Taco Weighs Nearly 5 Pounds and Only Costs $13 texashillcountry.com/corpus-ch…

Nov 15, 2018: I could have used this advice when I was in the corporate world. (Not really. My emails were never that important. But it would have been fun …

Nov 15, 2018: Love the Mak’tar reference in the forecast. Dr. Lazarus would be proud. #RIPAlanRickmam #nevergiveup #neversurrender

Nov 14, 2018: I love how, at the time of my typing this, Tony Stark and Scrooge McDuck are neck-and-neck. twitter.com/jaketappe…

Nov 14, 2018: If you like Douglas Adams, you’ll love Rob’s Rex Nihilo series. And you can’t beat a free book. twitter.com/robkroese…

Nov 13, 2018: I think it’s great the two worlds of my podcasts, casual nerdom and adoption/foster care, collide today in Tony’s post. I’m even …

Nov 13, 2018: My favorite Stan Lee MCU cameos: Guardians 2 Thor: Ragnarok Captain America: Winter Soldier twitter.com/chuuzus/s…

Nov 12, 2018: I can’t drink coffee, so my MudLOVE mug—a thank-you gift for hosting Tapestry Conference 2018—pulls duty as hot chocolate delivery vehicle.

Nov 12, 2018: In today’s edition of Now You Really Feel Old… twitter.com/actuallya…

Nov 8, 2018: Anything in this article that isn’t “They were the only team to offer me a job” is superfluous.

Nov 7, 2018: What are the odds Dez has acquired even an ounce of humility and accountability? I don’t need him poisoning the Saints locker room the way he …

Nov 7, 2018: If only this were true. babylonbee.com/news/nati…

Nov 6, 2018: Election Day humor: Why does the U.S. Capitol have a rotunda? So politicians can run around in circles!

Nov 6, 2018: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out. In this first of three episodes with Pam Parish, we talk with Pam about how she and …

Nov 6, 2018: There’s a new episode of The Big Fat Geek Podcast out! We’re back! We talk about movies from our childhoods and young adult years that …

Nov 3, 2018: I couldn’t be at a tailgate in Baton Rouge, so I got my game day meal of red beans and rice, and a shrimp poboy, at Fish City Grill.

Nov 3, 2018: After the oldest’s hockey practice this morning, getting my LSU game day tunes started.

Nov 2, 2018: In Boy2’s room, Amazon’s “Instrumental Lullabies” playlist featured a slow-tempo, xylophone cover of Guns ‘N’ …

Nov 1, 2018: The premise reminds me of cheesy ’80s action movies I devoured as a teenager, so I had to back it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

Oct 31, 2018: Baby Ruth is a superior candy bar to Snickers. #fightme twitter.com/robkroese…

Oct 30, 2018: Words from 1970 Thanks to Jack pointing to Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler, here are a few words that first appeared in print in the year I was born (1970): …

Oct 30, 2018: If you liked Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels, you’ll like Rob’s Dis trilogy. Fun reads, and this is a steal. buff.ly/2CPNIFs

Oct 24, 2018: Accurate. twitter.com/KyleJames…

Oct 21, 2018: Once again, doing Skynet’s work for it. twitter.com/StartGrow…

Oct 20, 2018: That’s a wrap on Tapestry Conference 2018. Thanks to everyone who attended! #TapCon18

Oct 19, 2018: “If the truth will set us free, then the opposite is true: a lie will put us in bondage.” — Dr. David Schooler #TapCon18

Oct 19, 2018: Audience participation during the morning session of the Schoolers' workshop at #TapCon18

Oct 19, 2018: “Healing requires presence. Healing IS presence.” —David Schooler, #TapCon18

Oct 18, 2018: Ready for tomorrow. Are you coming? #TapCon18 tapestryconference.org

Oct 18, 2018: So. Cool. twitter.com/JasonKire…

Oct 18, 2018: The bookstore’s almost ready for Tapestry Conference 2018! #TapCon18

Oct 18, 2018: “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.” It is legit scary when smart people in positions of power think they’re …

Oct 18, 2018: I know several parents who can relate to this. babylonbee.com/news/daug…

Oct 17, 2018: All of the watch aficionados who may happen to follow me will be interested in this. twitter.com/LSUEngine…

Oct 17, 2018: I hadn’t watched the full video until my eldest hockey player insisted I do so tonight. If you need a good sports cry, here you go. …

Oct 17, 2018: It might as well be true. babylonbee.com/news/face…

Oct 16, 2018: How far away are we from someone firebombing Boston Dynamics' labs, a la Sarah Connor in Terminator 2? twitter.com/gavinsblo…

Oct 16, 2018: Oh, just roughing out stage scripts for #TapCon18. It’s getting close! Have you registered yet? tapestryconference.org

Oct 16, 2018: The iCloud syncing on the Drafts Mac beta is so freaky fast, Jimmy John’s would be jealous. #geekingout #beenwaitingforthis #finally

Oct 16, 2018: YEESSSS!!!! twitter.com/draftsapp…

Oct 16, 2018: Hey, I know that guy! omahamagazine.com/articles/… This is a great piece that, while highlighting Ismail’s story, gives lots of good …

Oct 14, 2018: Yes. I also think about “bacon bits are the magic fairy dust of salads” whenever there’s a conversation about bacon. …

Oct 13, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 20. Like the Louisiana Purchase shirt, this is courtesy of @zrau. After watching LSU pound Georgia, going into the Mini …

Oct 13, 2018: The genius of the Progressive commercial poking fun at the Chevrolet commercials is it shows how ridiculous the Chevy commercials have become.

Oct 12, 2018: There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and it features long-time friend of the show, Cindy Lee! Cindy is speaking at …

Oct 12, 2018: Dear God, we really are just going to hand our annihilation over to #Skynet, aren’t we? twitter.com/WIRED/sta…

Oct 11, 2018: I saw the design for the official Tapestry Conference 2018 shirts tonight, and it is AWESOME!

Oct 11, 2018: American history buffs will appreciate the latest addition to No-Repeat LSU Shirts (Day 19).

Oct 11, 2018: I have a cousin with cerebral palsy, and he cannot even manage what Justin can. This makes me inordinately happy. twitter.com/SInow/sta…

Oct 6, 2018: Spotted this Tolkien fan while driving around our little burg today.

Oct 6, 2018: Do tell.

Oct 5, 2018: To be fair, the Samson art isn’t quite like the rest. Easy mistake. twitter.com/David_JWe…

Oct 3, 2018: Over the past couple of days, I finally got my wife to start using the @ProtonMail account I set up for her and get her off of Gmail. …

Oct 3, 2018: Grammar and a Dad-ism all in one? I don’t even drink coffee and I want this mug. twitter.com/HollyBell…

Sep 30, 2018: On the return from Dad Camp today, we had to make a special stop.

Sep 30, 2018: Spent the weekend at Dad Camp, for foster and adoptive dads. Couldn’t beat the scenery.

Sep 27, 2018: Having actively participated in Memorial Day ceremonies in the Oak Grove while in ROTC at LSU, this is very cool. www.lsu.edu/mediacent…

Sep 25, 2018: On the New Magnum Watched the pilot of the new Magnum, P.I. I have a few thoughts: It’s your typical CBS action drama; plot moves way, way faster than it would …

Sep 25, 2018: Hetero life mate Nathan pointed me to Rob Rock’s solo work, and I’m now devouring the catalog. “Holy Hell” is a real kick-butt …

Sep 21, 2018: It’s a wild melee! Three down, three to go!

Sep 21, 2018: Game Night at Nathan’s! We’re starting Gloomhaven. I elected a Cragheart. I’m pretty proud of his name.

Sep 21, 2018: SpamSieve 2.9.33 streamlines the flow of using SpamSieve with Apple Mail on macOS 10.14, and much more. It’s my spam filter of choice and should …

Sep 20, 2018: “The king’s stinking son fired me. And thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you’re at it, why don’t …

Sep 20, 2018: The truth is out there. babylonbee.com/news/nati…

Sep 19, 2018: Last week, we finally found a box of shirts that had been missing since our move last year. This classic was in it.

Sep 19, 2018: If only. babylonbee.com/news/jour…

Sep 18, 2018: I may or may not have bought something for myself at the elementary school book fair tonight.

Sep 18, 2018: “Don’t be evil.” theintercept.com/2018/09/1…

Sep 17, 2018: I updated my iPhone 7 to iOS 12. I ran the updates afterward, which included one for the “new” Shortcuts app. And yet…

Sep 15, 2018: 3-0, baby! A typical LSU-Auburn game: slugfest at the lines, close game, fantastic finish. #GeauxTigers #BeatAuburn twitter.com/LSUJesus/…

Sep 15, 2018: I have taken to muting the LSU-Auburn game in between plays so I don’t have to listen to Gary.

Sep 15, 2018: Army went for it on 4th down for a 9th time so far this season and were finally stopped. Eight out of nine have been successful. Three weeks into the …

Sep 15, 2018: They answered, so I’m doubling down.

Sep 15, 2018: Today I received an unsolicited text message from the Beto O’Rourke campaign. I felt obliged to reply.

Sep 14, 2018: You know, Wendy’s has that 4 for $4 thing where you can have beef AND chicken. twitter.com/kvetchkwe…

Sep 14, 2018: So playing “Punchbuggy" with my boys while driving around is going to get a little harder in the near future. www.reuters.com/article/u…

Sep 14, 2018: Given the situation in the Carolinas and surrounding areas, it’s good to revisit this post from our friends at TCU’s Karyn Purvis …

Sep 13, 2018: Thanks to @zrau, it appears I’m not quite done with No-Repeat LSU Shirts! Looks like I’m set for the next home game.

Sep 13, 2018: We have a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, where we highlight the upcoming Tapestry Conference in October! …

Sep 13, 2018: I may have laughed even harder at this one. More adventures in replying to spam | James Veitch www.youtube.com/watch

Sep 13, 2018: This is what happens when you reply to spam email | James Veitch www.youtube.com/watch

Sep 12, 2018: I wish I could act surprised at this news. Seems about right. www.theadvocate.com/new_orlea…

Sep 12, 2018: This shirt seemed appropriate for an #AppleEvent day. (Shirt courtesy of @pbur, or perhaps his friend Jordan before his passing.)

Sep 12, 2018: I’m looking forward to all the tech pundits having to type out “iPhone Xses” as well as all the inevitable INXS-related jokes.

Sep 12, 2018: This is why I still buy physical discs of movies. twitter.com/drandersg…

Sep 12, 2018: As it turns out, I am worthy. twitter.com/GKCdaily/…

Sep 11, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 17: The End! Picked this dri-fit shirt up for tailgating in the heat outside Cowboys Stadium before the LSU-TCU season …

Sep 10, 2018: I’ve seen it before, but I’ll watch it six or seven times whenever someone posts it. I’m crying from laughing so hard. Crying. That …

Sep 10, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 16. Another baseball one, and one of my favorites. So comfortable.

Sep 9, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 15. It’s LSU-Auburn week, so I rolled out the 25th Anniversary of the Earthquake Game shirt. I was there.

Sep 9, 2018: Once again, the mystery of Fox’s NFL broadcast scheduling: why are we getting Jaguars-Giants in DFW instead of something more regional, like …

Sep 8, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 14. Last year, my parents managed to find the same LSU shirt in both adult and children sizes, and outfitted our whole …

Sep 7, 2018: iPhone home screen, 7 September 2018 Featuring Mike VII as a nod to LSU’s first home game of the season.

Sep 7, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 13. #GeauxTigers

Sep 6, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 12, celebrates Tiger Stadium, aka Death Valley. The quote on the back is by Les Miles in 2012, after LSU upset visiting …

Sep 6, 2018: I forgot to note it last week when it happened, but the pool construction in our back yard has claimed its first victim. (Still works.)

Sep 5, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 11. In 2012, Texas A&M began play in the SEC, and I was there with my buddy Drew at College Station for the first …

Sep 5, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 10. Forgot to post this yesterday. Possibly the most “boring” LSU shirt I own.

Sep 4, 2018: We have a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out: The Healing Power of Story. Available anywhere you can subscribe to podcasts, or listen …

Sep 4, 2018: There was an orange Jeep behind me at a stop light a few minutes ago, and I immediately thought of @shawnblanc.

Sep 3, 2018: God moves. www.espn.com/espn/feat…

Sep 3, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 9. Though I spent most of my first 21 years on this Earth in Baton Rouge, these days I’m a Texas Tiger.

Sep 2, 2018: TIGERS WIN! Undefeated, 4-0, at Tiger Stadium West. They need to convince Jerry to paint the eye of the tiger at midfield next visit.

Sep 2, 2018: You are looking live… #GeauxTigers #BeatMiami

Sep 2, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 8. It’s Game Day!!! #GeauxTigers #BeatMiami #ForeverLSU

Sep 1, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 7. Opening Saturday for the 2018 college football season, but my team plays tomorrow. #GeauxTigers

Sep 1, 2018: I see we have a new show to watch with our boys. (Thanks to Joel Bezaire on Twitter.)

Sep 1, 2018: I should really try to work the first two Witcher novels into my reading queue. twitter.com/Videogame…

Sep 1, 2018: This seems problematic. twitter.com/SportsBiz…

Sep 1, 2018: It’s the chicken that makes the costume. twitter.com/theNthJen…

Sep 1, 2018: For what it’s worth, @brentsimmons, I never uninstalled NetNewsWire 3.3 from my old iMac, and even transferred it to my new iMac last year. …

Aug 31, 2018: James Koole asks on Micro.blog: “Why would anyone use Chrome?" Indeed. If you’re on the Mac and don’t want to use Safari, get …

Aug 31, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 6. The “Honey Badger takes what he wants!” shirt from 2011 is an ode to Tyrann Mathieu (@Mathieu_Era). I wore …

Aug 31, 2018: And what a fantastic shot of Mike in the linked article, coming out of the green space in his habitat. twitter.com/gardenand…

Aug 30, 2018: Logged into my Twitter account on the web to make a settings change. Noticed I had 1,299 followers (one more for lucky 1,300!). Decided I wanted to …

Aug 30, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 5. I know I’m doing this for the start of football season and this is a baseball shirt, but still. Celebrating the …

Aug 29, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 4, celebrates the 2002 as-time-expired victory over Kentucky. The name of the game-winning, Hail Mary play called is on the …

Aug 29, 2018: I’m channeling my inner @tweetgrubes and playing music at my oldest’s hockey practice (coach’s request).

Aug 29, 2018: Oh, look, my life. twitter.com/Introvert…

Aug 28, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 3. Game day shirt for the 2014 season opener against Wisconsin, played in Houston.

Aug 28, 2018: John Wick Changed Action Movies And You Barely Noticed

Aug 28, 2018: The Kindle version of The Whole Brain Child is only $2 today. I highly, highly recommend this book for all parents, but DEFINITELY for foster and …

Aug 28, 2018: This may be a game I have to get to Baton Rouge for. twitter.com/LSUfootba…

Aug 28, 2018: Grzegorz Witczak has created the Carlton dance purely in CSS: codepen.io/Wujek_Gre… (Via John Dyer on Twitter.)

Aug 27, 2018: No-Repeat LSU Shirts, Day 2, features a line from the song “Hey, Fightin' Tigers”. Headgear from Bengals and Bandits.

Aug 27, 2018: Yesterday’s shirt, kicking off No-Repeat LSU Shirts in celebration of the start of the 2018 college football season. I was there for the first …

Aug 27, 2018: I failed to mention last week that we have a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out: How Do We Deal with Drama? …

Aug 26, 2018: This is fantastic. twitter.com/SummaMeol…

Aug 25, 2018: So great catching up with Patrick while he’s in town. Glad I could help you cross El Chico off the trip dining list, buddy!

Aug 25, 2018: That the lobster doesn’t appreciate the great Johnny Cash is sufficient reason for it to be boiled. twitter.com/bestofnex…

Aug 24, 2018: My buddy Jake with a behind-the-scenes look at how former #LSU Tiger Alex Bregman and other players from my first and former baseball love stay in …

Aug 24, 2018: With the college football season around the corner, I wonder if I should do a “How many #LSU shirts does Chris have?” photo run, a la my two …

Aug 24, 2018: I’m really digging the dark mode in @dayoneapp.

Aug 24, 2018: This is simply fantastic news for Texans. 🙄 techcrunch.com/2018/08/2…

Aug 24, 2018: “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me, a Mustang GT…” Spotted a few moments ago while heading to lunch and Lowe’s.

Aug 23, 2018: A wonderful thread on one of my favorite books. 📚 twitter.com/PulpLibra…

Aug 23, 2018: A fun read, definitely recommended, and you can have it for less than a small coffee from that big Seattle chain. 📚 twitter.com/robkroese…

Aug 23, 2018: Some times, it’s the little things in spam subject lines. It’s not that “Exotic Chinese women are waiting for you,” it’s that …

Aug 22, 2018: You just want to snuggle up to him, don’t you? twitter.com/MikeTheTi…

Aug 22, 2018: I’m sorry, but it’s going to be pretty hard to put this particular cat back in the bag. babylonbee.com/news/morm…

Aug 21, 2018: Gee, there’s no way this will be abused or anything. www.washingtonpost.com/technolog… (Via James Koole on Micro.blog)

Aug 20, 2018: I may not have read, seen, or played as much as I would have liked, but I submitted my Dragon Awards ballot all the same, for the things I have read, …

Aug 19, 2018: Frank Turner, acoustic version of “Be More Kind,” The Selector Radio Session youtu.be/Usz47jYN9…

Aug 18, 2018: Ah, the mysteries of how the US Postal Service works. I ordered a book from a third party on Twitter. Shipping originated in Reno, then went to Las …

Aug 16, 2018: Someone at @Amazon needs to tell Alexa that @DhaSickest’s last name is “Guice”, not “Juice”.

Aug 15, 2018: I bet all the employees with allergies love this. twitter.com/tim_cook/…

Aug 15, 2018: I would definitely be down for this kind of Bond reboot. twitter.com/AmericanD…

Aug 12, 2018: When you get an ARC of the latest book by one of your favorite authors, but you are in the middle of a book by another of your favorite authors. …

Aug 12, 2018: I see all these posts about going iPad-only, and increasingly I find I’m barely using my iPad at all and I wonder if I’ll actually buy …

Aug 12, 2018: I’m noticing some of my Twitter friends are looking at Mastodon. I’m on there, too, but not often. I’d much prefer they look at …

Aug 11, 2018: From Nathaniel Williams (@Natdavewilliams) on Twitter: “One year ago, Ken Parker was a white nationalist and member of the KKK who marched on …

Aug 11, 2018: I love the physics of chicken strip dipping. youtu.be/bC58-rXE8… (Via @brucekendrick on Twitter)

Aug 4, 2018: iPhone home screen, 4 August 2018

Aug 4, 2018: “Look, we know the new Star Trek series sucks and no one’s watching it because it’s behind a pay wall, so here’s a beloved character …

Aug 3, 2018: “Hurt” by Johnny Cash. twitter.com/joshgreen…

Aug 1, 2018: “They say Jesus was a poor man, I guess I wish I had a little more Him in me.” Amen, Cody. Amen. youtu.be/_AcPnI7oR…

Aug 1, 2018: We should only be concerned if some of them start outfitting them with frickin' laser beams. twitter.com/Jezebel/s…

Aug 1, 2018: Sage advice from my buddy Luke. twitter.com/WarriorGo…

Jul 31, 2018: Thanks to so many on Micro.blog raving about Feedbin, I decided to give it a shot last night (14-day free trial). I am loving it so far. I am not …

Jul 29, 2018: Finished these two tomes this past week while in Florida. It’s cliche but it’s true: like a fine wine, Gabriel Allon keeps getting better …

Jul 28, 2018: Wheels down, DFW. It is good to be back in the homeland, where Blue Bell ice cream is native and does not carry an import markup.

Jul 27, 2018: I see Twitter API changes means multi-photo crosspostings from Micro.blog no longer work. As with Facebook, just the first photo makes it through.

Jul 27, 2018: Twenty years ago I started working as a copy editor on About This Particular Macintosh. Lee came aboard a couple months after I did, and a friendship …

Jul 21, 2018: Why, yes, I am of the age where Star Wars Dad Jokes amuse me. Why do you ask? twitter.com/rstevens/…

Jul 18, 2018: Well, this is a departure from our normal podcast recording setup. I wonder what’s going on?

Jul 18, 2018: Me, next week. twitter.com/tonywoodl…

Jul 17, 2018: Happy Gabriel Allon Day, everyone!

Jul 17, 2018: Frank Turner, acoustic version of “Blackout,” The Selector Radio Session youtu.be/wDXp8SaYY…

Jul 17, 2018: This is one reason we sponsor kids in our youngest’s home country: to give them a chance they might not otherwise get. I’ve met Ismail, …

Jul 16, 2018: Happy birthday to the love of my life! She’s a fantastic woman, an awesome mom, and an incredible wife. I love you, Kelly!

Jul 15, 2018: Waaaaaay too many people are shooting vertical video at the Echo & the Bunnymen show, and I feel my eye twitching. Thanks, @Apple!

Jul 15, 2018: Why we love Belts. twitter.com/JeffWilso…

Jul 14, 2018: Will definitely be pre-ordering this when able. Anything @ScribblerSix is involved with is a must-buy. www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-visi…

Jul 14, 2018: My kind of church. babylonbee.com/news/guit…

Jul 14, 2018: Just saw the preview for the upcoming season of Ballers, and I confess: I’m not that jazzed about it.

Jul 14, 2018: A very underappreciated bit of Die Hard, one of the greatest Christmas movies ever, is the inclusion of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, …

Jul 13, 2018: Guess which one of Joel’s photos is my favorite. twitter.com/joelbezai…

Jul 11, 2018: The Weather Channel: “Category 2 Chris Strengthens: Here’s What’s Next” Obviously I’m going to try for Category 3. Duh.

Jul 9, 2018: Finally got around to watching the first two episodes of Yellowstone. Perfect role for Kevin Costner as the Dutton patriarch. The dynamics at play in …

Jul 9, 2018: In the latest Empowered Parent Podcast, we talk about equipping the family and friends who walk with us on our adoption and foster care journeys. …

Jul 9, 2018: No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Stop it. twitter.com/wannabef/…

Jul 9, 2018: Crying. I’m crying. twitter.com/Daddy_War…

Jul 8, 2018: I have no strong feelings on the sports analogies, but otherwise yes to this. twitter.com/kristenru…

Jul 8, 2018: Definitely #evergreen. twitter.com/kristenru…

Jul 6, 2018: The only thing missing from tonight’s meal of red beans and rice was an adult beverage in my hand while I cooked, and while I ate. Silly doctor’s …

Jul 3, 2018: When you learn one of your best friends reads the same book each year, you decide to give it a go. Finished Jonathan Maberry’s Dead of Night …

Jul 3, 2018: Maybe you figure you have nothing to hide. (That’s not the point, anyway.) Maybe you’re okay with giving up your privacy to get something …

Jul 1, 2018: I have been able to repeat something with all three of my sons that my dad got to do with me: see a first-run Star Wars film in the theater. The Clone …

Jun 28, 2018: On the latest Big Fat Geek Podcast, we talk about how we each got started with role-playing and tabletop games. How did you get started? …

Jun 28, 2018: Unlikely, since China is no longer taking our recyclables.

Jun 27, 2018: With my MacBook Pro out of commission until at least Friday (and if what I think is wrong with it is wrong with it, it’ll be much longer), I’m using …

Jun 27, 2018: What if sword-wielding, spell-slinging mercenary bands were treated like our culture’s rock bands? That’s what Nicholas Eames answers in …

Jun 26, 2018: Because I haven’t spent a lot of time there of late, I didn’t know you could download an archive of your Tumblr blog. I now have mine. Guess all we …

Jun 26, 2018: Since May 29th, every @Rangers game I have watched on TV or in person, they’ve won. Every one I didn’t watch, they lost. Tonight, the …

Jun 25, 2018: Of course I had to bring the teenage hockey player to Dallas Stars Night at the Ballpark.

Jun 25, 2018: Last night I finished the first in Michael Ridpath’s series about Icelander-American detective Magnus Jonson. Tolkien fans should recognize the …

Jun 25, 2018: I failed to publicly note it 10 days ago when I finished reading it, but the second volume in Rob Kroese’s excellent Viking alternative history …

Jun 23, 2018: Ladies and gentlemen, I have been informed that The Empowered Parent Podcast has now been downloaded more than 130,000 times! Thank you, listeners! …

Jun 23, 2018: Two and a half weeks after the fact, but a lovely anniversary dinner and night with no kids with my bride of 26 years.

Jun 23, 2018: New Star Wars shirt. Now why is this a Star Wars shirt?

Jun 18, 2018: I’m a couple weeks behind on this season’s Westworld, but finally finished the episode “Kiksuya". WOW. What a performance by …

Jun 17, 2018: Two dollars at Half Price Books and the teenager now has his own copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

Jun 16, 2018: It’s been 10 days since I watched a Rangers game on TV. They haven’t won in that time. Today, I turn it on and they’re tied. I watch …

Jun 16, 2018: After his basketball doubleheader this morning, brought this incredible kid to see Incredibles 2!

Jun 16, 2018: Postmodern Jukebox, with Maiya Sykes on vocals, covers Fleetwood Mac. youtu.be/eCUoh8Vn5…

Jun 15, 2018: Earlier this week, we released a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast, talking about something parents feel but are afraid to admit. …

Jun 14, 2018: The latest episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. We talk good and bad sci-fi tech. What would you vote for …

Jun 13, 2018: Frank Turner at the House of Blues, Dallas, TX, 12 June 2018 My seventh time seeing Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls. They’ve never put on a mediocre show.

Jun 12, 2018: The Menzingers, from Philly.

Jun 12, 2018: Hey-ho, hey-ho, hey-ho, with this guy at Frank Turner’s punk rock show.

Jun 10, 2018: Finished G.T. Almasi’s Talon of Scorpio this evening, the third book in a fun, alternative history sci-fi series. 📚

Jun 8, 2018: The bacon-wrapped filet is so delicioso, I might cry. #FogoDeWOW

Jun 8, 2018: Wearing this shirt to dinner at Fogo de Chão tonight, and as we’re heading to our seats, another patron said, “Sir! Excuse me, sir! I LOVE …

Jun 7, 2018: LSU-based baseball programs certainly like winning championships on walk-off home runs. twitter.com/NJCAATV/s…

Jun 7, 2018: Every night I have to put drops of this in a kid’s diffuser, I think of Frank Costanza.

Jun 7, 2018: At least the teenager still wants to do this last day of school tradition with his dad.

Jun 7, 2018: Not to mention the great beers they brew. twitter.com/Shakespea…

Jun 7, 2018: Milestone: last day of middle school for the teenager.

Jun 6, 2018: No autotune required. twitter.com/BBCSpring… (Via voice actress extraordinaire Jennifer on Twitter)

Jun 6, 2018: Twenty-six years ago today. flic.kr/p/UicS6e

Jun 6, 2018: DC learns nothing. variety.com/2018/film…

Jun 5, 2018: Gallo just hit a 2-run home to stretch the lead, so maybe leaving the TV on is the right call. #LetsGoRangers

Jun 5, 2018: I just turned on the Rangers game, and contrary to earlier viewings, they are ahead. I’m not sure what to do here.

Jun 5, 2018: “It was encouraging to find that the border is a different place than the one cut and edited for the news. It’s a region caught in the middle. …

Jun 5, 2018: Hokey religions and ancient weapons may not be a match for a good blaster at your side, kid, but we’re talking Solo: A Star Wars Story on the …

Jun 4, 2018: iPhone home screen, 4 June 2018. There have been some changes.

Jun 4, 2018: My “extra” Mac portable, a 2011 MacBook Air, used mainly by the teenager, will not see macOS 10.14 Mojave. Not supported. That’s …

Jun 4, 2018: So my teenager’s iPhone 5S will be able to run iOS 12 this fall, but my first-generation Apple Watch is no bueno for watchOS 5. Well.

Jun 4, 2018: Getting caught up on #WWDC18 news, and I lament there was no lunch with @tapbot_paul and @agiletortoise, because based on content, there …

Jun 2, 2018: Two nights in a row, I turn on the Rangers game, they’re down in the count, but come back to win. The next two nights in a row, I’m unable …

Jun 1, 2018: “Soldiers Under Command”. Crowd is screaming the chorus. I am at church.

Jun 1, 2018: Oh right. One guess where I am.

Jun 1, 2018: Hey, everybody, help my #LSU Twitter friend @holleylolley raise some dough for the fight against Alzheimer’s disease! …

Jun 1, 2018: Showing up for the start of the supporting acts is how @BrentMcKinney and I discovered Frank in the first place! And @lindiortega! And @TheTwoTens! …

Jun 1, 2018: This shot from last night can only mean more Big Fat Geek discussions hitting your podcast player soon.

May 31, 2018: We have a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast: preparing our kids for summer camp! empoweredparent.podbean.com/mobile/e/…

May 31, 2018: Complaining about Star Wars Totally agree with this assessment. Those of us who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy need to remember two things: These movies are made …

May 31, 2018: “Out of Touch" by Hall & Oates. Does the fact that I don’t like this song or the band confirm or deny this premise? …

May 31, 2018: Two nights in a row now I’ve gotten home late, turned on the Rangers game, see it’s midway through and they’re behind. And by game’s end, …

May 30, 2018: #PREACH twitter.com/mmburleso…

May 30, 2018: Playing over the speakers in the waiting area at the kid’s dentist office is “Funkytown”. Sung by Alvin & the Chipmunks. 🙄

May 30, 2018: Iron Horse does “Rocket Man": youtu.be/forqmom3Y…

May 28, 2018: “Let us live for them.” angrystaffofficer.com/2018/05/2…

May 27, 2018: Well, I’m seeing Infinity War again. (Brought the teenager, his first time to see it.)

May 26, 2018: Star Wars bobblehead day at the Ballpark. These seats will definitely do. (Except for the heat. My God, the heat.)

May 24, 2018: Getting settled in to watch Solo with this guy and the rest of the family!

May 24, 2018: I was the first to sign up for Jarrett’s newsletter-that’s-not-a-newsletter. Let’s make sure I’m not the only one. His Rubble and …

May 24, 2018: Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, arranged by Tom Hodge. youtu.be/RLd9PcZW5… Absolutely beautiful. …

May 21, 2018: I see what they did there. twitter.com/TheLEGOMo…

May 19, 2018: If you don’t mind the crass humor and the ultra-violence, Deadpool 2 is an utter hoot. I will definitely see it in the theater again. I cannot …

May 19, 2018: It’s the slow-motion that really makes it. twitter.com/GabbyGeno…

May 17, 2018: Honestly, I was willing to give the new Magnum, PI a chance until I saw the ridiculous, Fast and Furious-like stupidity at the end of the promo. …

May 16, 2018: Now who do I know is in to all the essential oils stuff…? babylonbee.com/news/dote…

May 16, 2018: I suppose I should get around to seeing the first one. www.maxim.com/entertain…

May 16, 2018: I wanted to jump out of my chair and pump my fist in the air when Weird Al unloads about irony and the use of “literally”. But I’m …

May 16, 2018: I wish we’d had this for the Predator episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast. twitter.com/GregLongs…

May 15, 2018: When our oldest was 5 or so, he had tae kwan do classes with Cristian Driver. We had the occasion to chat with Donald and Betina a few times as a …

May 15, 2018: On the Big Fat Geek Podcast, it’s part 2 of our coverage of Avengers: Infinity War. You can leave your own thoughts via voice or text for our …

May 15, 2018: On the latest episode of the Empowered Parent Podcast, it’s Round 4 of Give Me an Example! empoweredparent.podbean.com/mobile/e/…

May 15, 2018: Both of my podcasts have new episodes out today!

May 15, 2018: I really don’t like when book adaptations to TV make massive character and plot changes for no discernible reaons. It’s TV. You literally …

May 14, 2018: I wouldn’t say they’re missing it, Bob. twitter.com/helytimes…

May 14, 2018: James Harrison’s blood has unique antibodies that fight rhesus disease. He began donating blood after getting transfusions himself during …

May 14, 2018: With much hard work from Dallas, who proved more adept at graphic design than Nathan or myself, we have a new logo for the Big Fat Geek Podcast! …

May 13, 2018: On the left, Mothers Day last year. The hockey player is on skates. On the right, today, again, he’s on skates.

May 12, 2018: Trail Break Today was our Cub Scout pack’s end-of-school-year bridging ceremony. My two guys bridged from Lion to Tiger and Bear to Webelos. It also marked the …

May 10, 2018: I Love A Good Tiki Mug I also love a good ThinkGeek sale, and thus took advantage of their May the Fourth Be With You one to get my favorite Star Wars character in tiki …

May 10, 2018: We are seriously our own worst enemies. youtu.be/vjSohj-Ic… (Link via John Dyer on Twitter.)

May 10, 2018: We’re talking Avengers: Infinity War on the latest Big Fat Geek Podcast! Spoilers abound! A conversation so great, we had to break it into two …

May 8, 2018: John is on to something here. I’m currently reversed: I’ve relatively removed Google from my online life, but I’m still engaged on …

May 7, 2018: Bye, Instagram (kinda) Thanks to Instagram offering users downloads of data, and the work @manton put in to build an importer, all of my Instagram photos are now on my …

May 5, 2018: I consider it a grand triumph of parenting that my children are all aware of Episodes I-III of the Star Wars films, yet never, ever ask for them to be …

May 4, 2018: Back to work with my Big Fat Geek compatriots.

May 4, 2018: It’s really great when your favorite hockey team and your favorite Star Wars character come together on Star Wars Day. …

May 3, 2018: iPhone home screen, 3 May 2018

May 2, 2018: The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Oh, and 42. (Also the number of the great Jackie Robinson.)

May 2, 2018: It’s funny how life works out sometimes. A billing problem for an ebook I’d pre-ordered two years ago led to my discovery that the latest …

May 2, 2018: I would totally pay for a printed Y’all version of the Bible. @Zondervan or @ThomasNelson needs to make that happen. www.yallversion.com

May 1, 2018: Finished “A Monster Calls” last night. Is the movie as good as the book? Because this is great. 📚

May 1, 2018: When it comes to parenting, our expectations can make or break our connecting with our kids. This is what we talk about on the latest Empowered Parent …

May 1, 2018: Well. I saw Infinity War.

Apr 30, 2018: This will ruin your day. twitter.com/historylv…

Apr 30, 2018: If you’re on the Mac, you want SpamSieve filtering spam for you. c-command.com/blog/2018…

Apr 30, 2018: Well, that was amusing. Between replying to @ben and trying to @manton, I got the message my Micro.blog hosting had expired. Kickstarter reward time …

Apr 25, 2018: I don’t recall King Jesus promising Internet access in Scripture, but He’s doing exactly that in Poland. …

Apr 24, 2018: I might actually look forward to using Facebook, if only. babylonbee.com/news/face…

Apr 24, 2018: This is a great story from the writing life. www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpen… (Via @macgenie on Micro.blog)

Apr 24, 2018: The latest episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast is now available, featuring our interview with Tony Kim, Mr. @Crazy4ComicCon himself! …

Apr 23, 2018: My friend Kristen wrote a wonderful piece about what’s really going on in Cinderella. (No, not the Disney version.) …

Apr 23, 2018: Finally(!) got around to finishing Jocelyn Glei’s “Unsubscribe”. Should be required reading in high schools and colleges.

Apr 22, 2018: Finished the latest Peter Ash novel, and my only complaint is that Nick Petrie can’t write the next one fast enough. I definitely recommend his …

Apr 21, 2018: The refrain of parents, dressed to the nines to go out, when their children want hugs as they leave: “Please don’t touch me.”

Apr 20, 2018: Happy New Stryper Album Day, everyone!!

Apr 18, 2018: Love coffee? Sure you do. Like saving money? Sure you do. Want to directly help Rwandan coffee bean farmers? Sure you do. THIS WEEK ONLY use code …

Apr 18, 2018: Gosh, Chris, why don’t you want to vacation in Mexico at one of the resort towns? They’re safe! Gee, I don’t know why I don’t …

Apr 17, 2018: So you’ve been to an adoptive & foster care parenting conference. What now? We talk about that on the latest Empowered Parent Podcast. …

Apr 12, 2018: Wow. A microphone with my name on it! That is the sign of a good producer: keep the talent happy.

Apr 12, 2018: And we wonder how young people could fall for the alt-right, or fake news. What sort of history are we teaching anyway? twitter.com/jaketappe…

Apr 12, 2018: Best one of these I’ve seen yet. twitter.com/gfrancie/…

Apr 11, 2018: My wish for this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs: Vegas defeats Nashville in an epic, seven-game Western Conference final. Pittsburgh sweeps …

Apr 11, 2018: Look. My life. twitter.com/copymama/…

Apr 10, 2018: Help me help street kids and orphans in Rwanda Our youngest is from Rwanda, and one way we maintain contact with his homeland is our involvement with Imana Kids. We have a big vision for helping …

Apr 7, 2018: Ladies and gentlemen, I have been informed our little niche podcast for adoptive and foster parents has now surpassed 100,000 downloads! Thank you so …

Apr 6, 2018: We have a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast! Our friend Allison joins us to talk about schooling options for our kids from hard places. …

Apr 6, 2018: The Two Tens! Such a fun band.

Apr 5, 2018: Second opener The Sweethearts (also from Austin). Tight unit, fun set.

Apr 5, 2018: The hetero life mate and I hanging with Adam and Rikki, aka The Two Tens. Adam was smitten with my shirt.

Apr 5, 2018: Openers Sideshow Tragedy (from Austin, TX). Started strong and kept the energy going. Really liking what I’m hearing.

Apr 5, 2018: What?!? Concerts two nights in a row? Who am I?

Apr 5, 2018: Last night, the superb Lindi Ortega, with “Champagne” James Robertson on guitar.

Apr 5, 2018: Last night, saw my first show at Club Dada, and got the artsy photo shot.

Apr 4, 2018: Finished Nicholas Petrie’s The Drifter today. What a debut novel! I can’t wait to get caught up with the next two books in the Peter Ash …

Apr 4, 2018: Finished an ARC of Mark Dawson’s Redeemer on Monday. John Milton fans will be pleased. Solid thriller. 📚

Apr 3, 2018: I knew there were good reasons I quit Tumblr. www.newstatesman.com/world/201…

Mar 30, 2018: My original podcast gig has a new episode out. Do I talk about lightsaber battles as a parenting tool? You’ll have to listen to find out. …

Mar 29, 2018: Behold the secret of the time capsule! This AM radio from 1978 still works. #vintage #StarWars

Mar 29, 2018: Each visit, as my parents slowly empty their house in preparation to move permanently to the farm my mom grew up on, they bring something from my …

Mar 29, 2018: I believe when I get caught up on my Mark Dawson reading, I’m going to blaze through the Chronicles of Prydain. It’s been more than a …

Mar 28, 2018: I’d fallen behind in my Mark Dawson reading, so this was a great time to start getting caught up. Knocked this novella out this evening. 📚

Mar 28, 2018: Finished this today, and now I want to get @Nicholas_Eames on the Big Fat Geek Podcast. Such a rollicking, bloody, fun fantasy read. 📚

Mar 27, 2018: It’s our biggest episode yet on the Big Fat Geek Podcast as we talk Black Panther with our friend @MosesUvere. It’s a deep dive beyond the …

Mar 26, 2018: That, and Natchitoches. twitter.com/cajunhumo…

Mar 26, 2018: Help me help trauma kids in Rwanda Rwanda will always hold a special place in my family, as it is the birthplace of our youngest child. One way we stay connected with his home nation is …

Mar 26, 2018: Rwanda has similar warnings on cigarettes: flic.kr/p/aXmTBB twitter.com/SkyeJetha…

Mar 25, 2018: Can we start with people who use clearly-defined nouns as verbs? twitter.com/KentWGrah…

Mar 23, 2018: The hockey player cleans up pretty well for the end-of-season banquet.

Mar 21, 2018: Well, even in these crazy times, this is not a headline you see every day: www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-…

Mar 20, 2018: Great talk tonight by @JackCarrUSA about his debut novel, The Terminal List. If you like thrillers, pick this one up.

Mar 20, 2018: Ever wanted to attend a comic or science-fiction convention, but you’re not sure what they are or what to expect? We’re here to help. …

Mar 19, 2018: From last night’s show, the headliners. Kelly, Luis and Justin playing “Satellite”. Another great, fun show by the Dollyrots! (I …

Mar 18, 2018: Erik Chandler Band closes their set with my favorite song of theirs, “Tonight’s the Night”.

Mar 18, 2018: Second opener, Sweet Chaos. Amazing the sound they’re getting from a bass guitar and drum kit.

Mar 18, 2018: This is Not Ur Girlfrenz, one of the openers for The Dollyrots. These girls are only 14, and kicking some serious butt. Great stage presence, better …

Mar 16, 2018: Grape. Always grape. twitter.com/DennisLok…

Mar 14, 2018: Now both of my podcasting gigs are on Spotify! twitter.com/OneBigHap…

Mar 13, 2018: My buddy Rob is blowing out extra hardcovers of his book The Big Sheep for $12, signed. badnovelist.com/12-hardco… This volume is in my …

Mar 13, 2018: We’ve got a new episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast up. Pop some fresh batteries in your Walkman, put on your denim jacket, and charge up the …

Mar 10, 2018: Despite strong performances by Storm Reid, Deric McCabe, and Levi Miller, A Wrinkle in Time flat out sucks. Horrible, horrible pacing. Gutted the …

Mar 10, 2018: I’m shocked. SHOCKED! twitter.com/kronayne/…

Mar 10, 2018: We cannot allow this persecution to stand. Join me, won’t you? #IStandWithZackh babylonbee.com/news/wors…

Mar 10, 2018: In the vein of my last post, why yes, I did get a new book today. @JackCarrUSA

Mar 10, 2018: There are times when it’s nice to have your desires justified. (Via @HelenLeeBooks on Twitter)

Mar 9, 2018: Champions!! Tonight, our youngest and his teammates played a hard-fought game against their arch-nemesis for the league championship, prevailing in a 5-2 win. So …

Mar 8, 2018: Heading back to the future with these nerds (plus Dallas, off-camera).

Mar 8, 2018: Promote freedom as the key to economic growth “One of the greatest contributions the United States can make to the world is to promote freedom as the key to economic growth. A creative, …

Mar 8, 2018: What I’ve been finishing the past four days.

Mar 7, 2018: Walked in to our local Market Street, and @frankturner’s “The Way I Tend to Be”, one of my favorite songs, is playing. Sang every word out loud …

Mar 7, 2018: Hey, hey, what do you say? There’s a new Big Fat Geek Podcast today! We talk about the bad sci-fi movies we can’t help but love and watch …

Mar 6, 2018: Paul Allen-led team finds the USS Lexington, sunk 76 years ago during the Battle of the Coral Sea. www.paulallen.com/uss-lexin…

Mar 6, 2018: Presented without comment for members of my tribe. twitter.com/johnbcris…

Mar 5, 2018: A Hillary Staffer Goes to CPAC www.wsj.com/articles/…

Mar 3, 2018: Have I mentioned lately how much I love the Bee? twitter.com/TheBabylo…

Mar 2, 2018: This could have come from an actual study and an actual news source, and I would not have been surprised. #FirstWorldProblems …

Mar 1, 2018: This song impacted me greatly as a teenager, and continues to do so to this day. I regret never seeing the Altar Boys live. www.youtube.com/watch

Feb 28, 2018: As a matter of public record, I will NOT use this new metaphor. twitter.com/drdrang/s… #GetOffMyLawn #SpinalTapForever

Feb 27, 2018: Facebook keeps telling me about all these people I “should” be friends with, and I keep thinking I need to be FB friends with fewer of the …

Feb 27, 2018: Once again, the most vulnerable among us are being exploited. “Women in Syria have been sexually exploited by men delivering aid on behalf of the UN …

Feb 27, 2018: There’s a new episode of the Big Fat Geek Podcast, and it’s our first interview! Author @robkroese joins us to talk about his books, …

Feb 26, 2018: My buddy Jake (@Jake1725 on Twitter) rode out Hurricane Harvey with his wife and their kids on the second floor of their home as the downstairs …

Feb 25, 2018: I would totally buy a t-shirt that said “Welcome to the Duck Side” or better, a hooded DDG duck beckoning “Come to the Duck …

Feb 25, 2018: Then the shark jumped out of the holding tank and…

Feb 24, 2018: We have a new episode of the newly-rebranded Empowered Parent Podcast, and it’s on an issue all parents face: mealtime struggles. …

Feb 23, 2018: The killer features of @chrislopez’s Micron beta for me so far are the layout/design/typography and the 3D Touch action to open conversations. …

Feb 23, 2018: Folks, if you get the chance to meet @markgreaneybook, do so. Fun speaker who writes terrific thrillers. Thanks for your time, Mark!

Feb 23, 2018: I have questions. twitter.com/TashaRobi…

Feb 22, 2018: Any guesses as to who we’re going to be talking to on tonight’s Big Fat Geek Podcast recording?

Feb 21, 2018: The Day Martin Luther King Jr. Prayed at the Billy Graham New York Crusade www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/eva…

Feb 21, 2018: It appears I did not lose any followers in the Great Twitter Purge of 2018. Or not enough that I noticed, at any rate. Make of that what you will.

Feb 21, 2018: In celebration of Billy Graham’s life, my pal Kevin, who worked for Graham’s organization once upon a time, offers 25 curious facts about …

Feb 21, 2018: "Sabotage" – Trek vs Solo Given the characters involved, the use of “Sabotage” didn’t really make sense in the Star Trek reboot, even with a young and …

Feb 21, 2018: Most trailer recuts aren’t that great, and the Beastie Boys' “Sabotage” has been overused. But this recut of the Solo movie trailer …

Feb 21, 2018: My teenager read the Maze Runner trilogy in something like a week and a half, and wanted me to read at least the first book. So I obliged him and …

Feb 20, 2018: “I tell you one thing, though. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we’re gonna take this luggage with us.” #awayfromthethingsofman

Feb 20, 2018: Ryan Coogler breaks down the casino fight scene from Black Panther. Full of symbolism, meaning, and awesome. www.youtube.com/watch [via Patrick Rhone …

Feb 20, 2018: Happy Court Gentry Day, everyone! @markgreaneybook

Feb 20, 2018: I’ll grant you that @jarrettrush’s latest, Rubble and Ruin: The Road North is more a novella than novel. But I read it all yesterday in a …

Feb 20, 2018: In case anyone is stumped about what to get me for my birthday… twitter.com/bobafettf…

Feb 19, 2018: Tim has the best Olympics coverage. twitter.com/badbanana…

Feb 19, 2018: Disgusting. UN staff “responsible for 60,000 rapes in a decade” www.thetimes.co.uk/article/u…

Feb 19, 2018: With the same 4-1 score they bested the same team with yesterday, Kid1’s team take the tournament championship for their division.

Feb 18, 2018: With this morning’s win, no matter what happens later today, Kid1’s team is playing for hardware tomorrow.

Feb 16, 2018: Someone’s first game of the weekend tournament is at 6:15 AM tomorrow. Which means as his driver, I have to get up around 4:30. So the bag gets …

Feb 15, 2018: Back recording with some of my favorite people in the world.

Feb 15, 2018: I suppose any day we can expect a Sarah Connor wannabe to try and blow up the Boston Dynamics facility. twitter.com/netflix/s…

Feb 15, 2018: Again, do NOT enable the “Protect” feature in the Facebook mobile app unless you want all online activity on your phone tracked. Just use …

Feb 14, 2018: It really is an awesome book. twitter.com/robkroese…

Feb 14, 2018: Friends don’t let friends enable Facebook’s “Protect” feature: 9to5mac.com/2018/02/1… If you want real protection, get …

Feb 14, 2018: Do you want to know what the Big Fat Geek Podcast gang think about the Solo movie trailer? You’re in luck: …

Feb 13, 2018: Happy Mardi Gras, everyone! youtu.be/SW8kYDPo6…

Feb 13, 2018: A long overdue upgrade for my sweetie to a new iMac. And now for the long data transfer process.

Feb 12, 2018: Last night, recording with my Big Fat Geek Podcast brothers. Two new episodes coming soon!

Feb 11, 2018: The song that, 26 years ago today, introduced me to Social Distortion: youtu.be/NMfbPsv2y…

Feb 11, 2018: I had an occasion this evening when a musket emoji would have been perfect.

Feb 11, 2018: 6:50am. Three hockey games today, two before 11am. Both hockey players on the ice, one in goal. #hockeydadlife

Feb 10, 2018: Where this falls down is the olives should have been used for the T-visor plate. No crust loss that way. twitter.com/bobafettf…

Feb 10, 2018: Quite a haul our Cub Scouts pulled in this morning for the annual Scouting for Food drive. And this isn’t even all of it! There were some wide …

Feb 10, 2018: I cannot recommend Lindi’s music enough. Modern lyrics, but classic country sound. As if Loretta Lynn and a Ramone had a musical love child. …

Feb 10, 2018: Yet once again, a few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us. Honestly, I’m surprised it took this long. twitter.com/SonnyBunc…

Feb 9, 2018: Because the people of Haiti, especially the kids, haven’t suffered enough. Disgusting. twitter.com/thetimes/…

Feb 9, 2018: This is so true. I’m so thankful for producer extraordinaire Dallas of the two podcasts I’m on. He does all the heavy lifting so I can …

Feb 9, 2018: Monowi, Nebraska. Population: 1 “When Eiler’s husband, Rudy, passed away in 2004, he didn’t just leave her to run the tavern, but the whole town. Today, according to the US …

Feb 8, 2018: Perhaps one problem with hockey not gaining a wider audience in Texas is that tonight’s game between Central Division opponents with playoff …

Feb 8, 2018: That final fight scene notwithstanding, I still really like “Blade”. www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-…

Feb 8, 2018: iPhone home screen, 8 February 2018, featuring the poster we really want to see for the new Solo: A Star Wars Story film.

Feb 8, 2018: The “No Disintegrations” series continues to deliver. youtu.be/2GjAO6Jzt…

Feb 6, 2018: That loud whooping sound you just heard were scores of mid-80s Jeep Grand Wagoneer owners, knowing that buyers are coming, thanks to tonight’s …

Feb 6, 2018: This is excellent life advice. twitter.com/Whataburg…

Feb 6, 2018: That’s my little guy in the Spider-Man helmet! youtu.be/_rU2f1Zu2…

Feb 6, 2018: “She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket She wears a cross around her neck Yes the hair is from a little boy And the cross is someone she has not …

Feb 5, 2018: “I spent 919 days in a North Korean prison. I endured crippling isolation, hard labour and the daily threat of execution. This is how I …

Feb 4, 2018: Tonight I’m rooting for a meteor displaying the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer to smash into the Super Bowl field 🏟, not hurt anyone, but …

Feb 2, 2018: New season of #StrikeBack starts tonight!!

Jan 31, 2018: April 1997, O’Reilly’s “PGP: Pretty Good Privacy” tome. Still have no idea what I did with my key. …

Jan 31, 2018: The Paw Patrol conspiracy. Some of these are great. twitter.com/i/moments…

Jan 31, 2018: Last night, my youngest’s hockey team had the opportunity to do a shootout during intermission at the Dallas Stars game. A teammate of older brother …

Jan 29, 2018: If you’re a Star Wars fan and you’re not watching the #NoDisintegrations series on YouTube, you’re missing out. Always remember, bounty hunters: “See …

Jan 29, 2018: For Micro Monday, I’m sending a shout-out to @craigmcclellan, whom I met on Twitter through my hosting of Tapestry’s Empowered to Connect …

Jan 28, 2018: Pinewood Derby 2018 We take our Cub Scout Pinewood Derbies very seriously, but the point is to have fun, in the building, in the painting, and in the racing. My oldest …

Jan 27, 2018: Seeing the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters. The boys are captivated.

Jan 27, 2018: Inasmuch as I enjoyed all of the talk about and photo of Ford actually punching Gosling during the filming of Blade Runner 2049, the ongoing schtick …

Jan 27, 2018: If we were the type of people to have signage in our home, I have the found the perfect one for my wife.

Jan 26, 2018: “Dreams”, covered by Marc Martel and Leigh Nash. Beautiful. youtu.be/6FWnokedN… (Wave of the phin to @joelbezaire)

Jan 26, 2018: With myriad reading apps available for smartphones, there really is no reason to #NELTHWAB. jamesshelley.com/2018/01/2… (Wave of the phin to …

Jan 25, 2018: This is awesome. I’m so glad my little hockey player has men of color to look up to in the NHL, like Trevor Daley, Johnny Oduya, @PKSubban1, and …

Jan 25, 2018: Another window sticker spotted today. I agree, and I know my buddy Jake does, too.

Jan 25, 2018: One of my favorite science-fiction novels of the last decade, and the sequel is even better. bookclubbabble.com/the-big-s… 📚

Jan 25, 2018: Everyone needs to remember this when it comes to all politics in America: more often than not, actions can be attributed to stupidity rather than …

Jan 24, 2018: Spotted this little guy today while out and about. Would love to know where they got it from, but my back glass is already spoken for.

Jan 22, 2018: Northern Afghanistan, October 2001. twitter.com/goodreads…

Jan 22, 2018: The sentiment carries over to this year. twitter.com/retrophis…

Jan 20, 2018: I “blame” @patrickrhone for this.

Jan 20, 2018: Today last year: twitter.com/retrophis… Cranking this again today sounds like a good idea.

Jan 19, 2018: I have resurrected my dwarf fighter from Epic Win, Bjorn Retrophischen, for a new campaign.

Jan 19, 2018: Robert Kroese has crafted an epic in The Dream of the Iron Dragon. Human spacefarers from the 23rd century find themselves hurled back in time and …

Jan 17, 2018: I’m really digging @RyanStar’s cover of Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”, featured most recently in the 12 Strong trailer. Great …

Jan 17, 2018: “If you’re not paying, you’re not the customer.” hotair.com/archives/…

Jan 16, 2018: Of the 61 shirts worn for #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, 20 featured the best bounty hunter in the galaxy. cc @bobafettfanclub Full album: …

Jan 16, 2018: Day 61 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. This is it! The end! Finito! No more @starwars shirts in the closet. Repping my homies at @bobafettfanclub! …

Jan 15, 2018: I’ll be cranking “Zombie” and “Dreams” the rest of the day in remembrance. twitter.com/The_Cranb…

Jan 15, 2018: Surely you’ve run out of @starwars shirts, everyone says. Day 60 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts says otherwise. And don’t call me Shirley. …

Jan 15, 2018: Did you think Chris had run out of @starwars shirts? Because Day 59 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts did happen, so find the X-Wing in the starship …

Jan 13, 2018: Day 58 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts showcases my favorite insult from my favorite movie. flic.kr/p/23oQvtJ

Jan 12, 2018: Day 57 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts features a creation by a former coworker, as thanks for something I did in my former life in Mac IT. …

Jan 11, 2018: Yay! My copy of the full Black graphic novel arrived today.

Jan 11, 2018: Day 56 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts features an alternative Boba Fett from The Empire Strikes Back. flic.kr/p/23oK5ha

Jan 11, 2018: Yesterday, Day 55 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts continued with Emperor Brain and Darth Narf plotting to take over more than just the world. …

Jan 10, 2018: Day 55 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts continues with Emperor Brain and Darth Narf plotting to take over more than just the world. flic.kr/p/23mVqe6

Jan 9, 2018: Day 54 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is my UNICEF “Force for Good” purchase from a couple of years ago. flic.kr/p/Fd7EE7

Jan 9, 2018: Nathan, Dallas, and I are grateful for everyone listening to the Big Fat Geek podcast. We’ve now surpassed 1,000 downloads. Thanks, everyone!

Jan 9, 2018: The first episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast for 2018 is here! Yes, we are still talking Last Jedi, but so are our listeners! We thank everyone for …

Jan 9, 2018: Oh look, Bama wins another national title they don’t deserve. #winyourconference

Jan 8, 2018: Day 53 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts has Blinky calling in some Dark Side reinforcements. flic.kr/p/23iYjiv

Jan 8, 2018: My teenager sent this to me. Dying. I’m dying. youtu.be/Ek4-xXgx8…

Jan 7, 2018: Day 52 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts showcases the cover of one of the original @starwars comics. Still have the comic book, too. flic.kr/p/F9xKsh

Jan 6, 2018: Day 51 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts features Wookie the Chew and Roo2. flic.kr/p/JimaaK

Jan 5, 2018: Day 50 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is my Star Tours “Last Tour of Endor” shirt from 2010, from just before the original ride was closed …

Jan 4, 2018: Back to work. First recording of 2018 with my fellow casual nerds.

Jan 4, 2018: Day 49 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts features R2 in a spot of trouble. flic.kr/p/239nLyG

Jan 4, 2018: Day 48 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, part deaux: Vader, like a certain Wookie, doesn’t like to lose. flic.kr/p/Dwu5op

Jan 4, 2018: Day 48 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, from yesterday. Took the shot but forgot to post. Vader gets served. flic.kr/p/JezkPi

Jan 2, 2018: Day 47 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts features best friends. flic.kr/p/223pBVG

Jan 2, 2018: 2011 College Football: We need a playoff so this all-SEC national championship doesn’t happen again! 2017 Georgia & Alabama: LOL

Jan 1, 2018: Sorry, folks, #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts will resume tomorrow. Last game of the season for #LSU football, so have to go with my Tigers.

Jan 1, 2018: Millions of Americans this morning.

Dec 31, 2017: Day 46 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is just good advice for intergalactic smugglers. flic.kr/p/2344dxc

Dec 30, 2017: Day 45 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is Space InVader. flic.kr/p/21Wh7Pq

Dec 30, 2017: Day 45 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is Space InVader. flic.kr/p/21Wh7Pq

Dec 29, 2017: There’s a new episode of the Tapestry podcast up. We discuss how the brain processes trauma, and how this affects our kids' relationships with …

Dec 29, 2017: Day 44 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts! We surpass the 2015 total and venture into new territory, this time with a classic New Hope poster with a Far East …

Dec 28, 2017: This week I’ve now used Dropbox Paper to share documents: one with my co-hosts of the Big Fat Geek podcast; and one with my wife to plan our NYE …

Dec 28, 2017: Day 43 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is another one from the vault. It’s true. All of it. flic.kr/p/EQB5JA

Dec 27, 2017: Day 42 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, and we’re going into the vault to bring you some poetry. flic.kr/p/22WkYPP

Dec 26, 2017: Day 41 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is one of my top three favorite Fett shirts. flic.kr/p/22RDCs1

Dec 26, 2017: Day 41 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is one of my top three favorite Fett shirts. flic.kr/p/22RDCs1

Dec 25, 2017: Day 40 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. It wasn’t a white Christmas in Dallas/Fort Worth, but… flic.kr/p/DeuSPT

Dec 25, 2017: Friends, as we celebrate today the birth of “the one poor child that saved this world”, I wish for you now and always, better days. …

Dec 24, 2017: Day 39 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts shouldn’t be a surprise: Holiday Special. flic.kr/p/22QaRRr

Dec 24, 2017: So long, and thanks for all the GIFs If you’re still following along on here and paying attention to my little ol’ Tumblog, you’ll note it’s been a few months since I’ve posted. Lots of …

Dec 23, 2017: I said goodbye to my Tumblr blog today. retrophisch.tumblr.com/post/1688…

Dec 23, 2017: Day 38 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, another fun mashup. flic.kr/p/22Nz372

Dec 23, 2017: Took the boys to see the LEGO Ninjago movie at the dollar theater. It was a lot better flick than I was anticipating. I also took the time to update …

Dec 22, 2017: Day 37 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. You stay classy, Mos Eisley. flic.kr/p/HPNVLV

Dec 21, 2017: Day 36 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is my kind of tarot card. flic.kr/p/D6fj2K

Dec 21, 2017: OH. YEAH! youtu.be/74NMhaeC6…

Dec 21, 2017: My kingdom for the ability to tweak the interface colors of the iOS Music app to something beside that garish pink.

Dec 21, 2017: Boys saw the big guy today.

Dec 20, 2017: New specs courtesy of Kenneth Cole.

Dec 20, 2017: Day 35 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is my favorite mashup. flic.kr/p/21mXXGx

Dec 19, 2017: “An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah’s billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House’s desire …

Dec 19, 2017: Micro.blog is now open Manton Reece announced today that at long last, Micro.blog is open to the public. Currently, he plans to limit it to 100 new sign-ups each day. This …

Dec 19, 2017: Day 34 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. I dig the ’70s/early ’80s design of this one. Looks like something that might have been around in my …

Dec 19, 2017: Day 34 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. I dig the ’70s/early ’80s design of this one. Looks like something that might have been around in my …

Dec 19, 2017: Someone in @Dreamhost marketing is on top of their game. I just asked for ninja robot stickers. This notebook they sent too is awesome.

Dec 18, 2017: “And desperate hostage situation is what Christmas is all about. Why do you think Die Hard is a stone cold classic?” The writers of …

Dec 18, 2017: Day 33 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. Keep calm. Fly casual. flic.kr/p/21i8faZ

Dec 18, 2017: Wouldn’t 20-19 be the narrowest of margins in this game? www.dentonrc.com/sports/sp…

Dec 17, 2017: Day 31 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. Forgot to capture and post earlier today. Yesterday. Whatever. flic.kr/p/HCCERa

Dec 15, 2017: Day 30 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, second Last Jedi viewing edition. flic.kr/p/EpHGd9

Dec 14, 2017: HOLY FREAKING CRAP #TheLastJedi

Dec 14, 2017: Totally unplanned, and this is why we’re hetero life mates. flic.kr/p/EoeAyA

Dec 14, 2017: Ran into Kylo Ren and his Vader teddy bear. flic.kr/p/21aF9gi

Dec 14, 2017: One hour until #TheLastJedi!!!!!!

Dec 14, 2017: Day 29 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, first Last Jedi viewing edition. Are you a good parent? flic.kr/p/HyC5yg

Dec 13, 2017: From Joshua Trevino’s email list: The weird, wild story of SuperShadow, the late-1990s Internet hoaxer who bamboozled a generation of Star Wars …

Dec 13, 2017: I wore out a cassette (showing my age with that phrase) of their album “11”. RIP Pat. twitter.com/nprmusic/…

Dec 13, 2017: Day 28 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. In a little more than 24 hours from this posting, the Big Fat Geek podcast crew will be seeing The Last Jedi! …

Dec 13, 2017: Day 28 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. In a little more than 24 hours from this posting, the Big Fat Geek podcast crew will be seeing The Last Jedi! …

Dec 12, 2017: Whoops. That should be Day 27 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts…

Dec 12, 2017: Day 26 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, a prize of the collection. This is from Star Wars Celebration Europe II, which was held in Germany. …

Dec 11, 2017: Day 26 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. We are T-minus 3 days, 30 hours from seeing #TheLastJedi, people! flic.kr/p/22mbjZJ

Dec 11, 2017: Day 26 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. We are T-minus 3 days, 30 hours from seeing #TheLastJedi, people! flic.kr/p/22mbjZJ

Dec 10, 2017: Day 25 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. Just a couple of hockey dads both named Chris. flic.kr/p/CJBnZi

Dec 10, 2017: I am shocked—SHOCKED! www.city-journal.org/html/fant…

Dec 9, 2017: Day 24 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. Can’t wait to see Luke Skywalker back on this bucket of bolts in a few days. flic.kr/p/EcmKdS

Dec 9, 2017: This quote is speaking to me today. twitter.com/GKCdaily/…

Dec 8, 2017: The new Diane Kruger film, In The Fade, looks really good. youtu.be/UyjnzhXJl…

Dec 8, 2017: Day 23 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. Given the frigid overnight temps here in DFW, plus snow in Houston, San Antonio, and my hometown of Baton Rouge, …

Dec 7, 2017: Day 22 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, one of my favorites. “Hands up if you love @StarWars”! flic.kr/p/HjEr2a

Dec 7, 2017: Day 22 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, one of my favorites. “Hands up if you love @StarWars”! flic.kr/p/HjEr2a

Dec 7, 2017: Apparently I drafted this yesterday and forgot to post it! Day 21 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, another mashup with the minions! flic.kr/p/219A7S1

Dec 6, 2017: Day 21 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, another mashup with the minions! flic.kr/p/219A7S1

Dec 6, 2017: Gonna tell all y’all right now: @zrau is a heck of a human being. flic.kr/p/219zXnu

Dec 6, 2017: Seriously, has no one working in robotics EVER seen a Terminator movie? twitter.com/Moristico… #SkynetIsSmiling

Dec 5, 2017: Day 20 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, my concert stalwart as I get ready to see Alter Bridge for the first time live! flic.kr/p/217Ucgs

Dec 5, 2017: The Bee is just the best. twitter.com/TheBabylo…

Dec 5, 2017: In his final studio recording before his death, Lemmy covered Bowie. youtu.be/J06yQb4lb… (Wave of the phin to HLM Brent for the link.)

Dec 5, 2017: Mess with the Moon Pie, and the Moon Pie will mess you up. twitter.com/MoonPie/s…

Dec 4, 2017: I have found my people. twitter.com/TheNerdFu…

Dec 4, 2017: Holy crap. That’s a lot of bears. twitter.com/TheHershe…

Dec 4, 2017: Day 19 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, more WWII aircraft-style art, this time for the good guys! flic.kr/p/CwFL6g

Dec 4, 2017: My favorite part of this is Bill and Ted. “Birth of the Savior! Excellent!” (Guitar riff) twitter.com/Unvirtuou…

Dec 4, 2017: iPhone home screen, 4 December 2017. Made a couple of changes, trying some stuff out. flic.kr/p/227ZHWq

Dec 3, 2017: Day 18 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, birthday edition. Of course I’m going to sport some Fett wear. flic.kr/p/E1haym

Dec 2, 2017: Day 17 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. Who knows the band this pays homage to? flic.kr/p/DYucG7

Dec 2, 2017: My inner type nerd is giddy with excitement over iA’s Writer Duospace typeface. Not only have I changed over to it in iA Writer on all …

Dec 1, 2017: Day 16 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, and remembering those deployed for RED Friday. flic.kr/p/ZJ2EFx

Nov 30, 2017: Day 15 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, Darth Gru and his Miniontroopers. flic.kr/p/ZGbKkX

Nov 30, 2017: Coming soon to a Hollywood production near you: twitter.com/ABC/statu…

Nov 29, 2017: On the latest Empowered to Connect podcast, we talk about how TBRI concepts can be put into practice for toddlers and preschoolers in our homes. …

Nov 29, 2017: Day 14 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, everyone’s favorite bounty hunter. flic.kr/p/21XLbzs

Nov 29, 2017: Day 14 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, everyone’s favorite bounty hunter. flic.kr/p/21XLbzs

Nov 28, 2017: Day 13 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, 8-bit Boba. flic.kr/p/ZTJrVL

Nov 28, 2017: I would totally buy a Black Flour shirt. #SuperiorDonuts

Nov 28, 2017: “Murderous piñata” es el nombre de mi próxima banda de death metal. twitter.com/kristenru…

Nov 27, 2017: I am totally using this at our next Cub Scout pack meeting. twitter.com/gregtitus…

Nov 27, 2017: Day 12 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, simple Empire. flic.kr/p/21WFH4Z

Nov 27, 2017: Finished The Punisher. All in all, I’m satisfied. There was one aspect of the ending I’m disappointed in, but will save that for later. …

Nov 26, 2017: Given what I’m hearing and seeing on the broadcast, there are a LOT of Saints fans in Los Angeles.

Nov 26, 2017: Day 11 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts — the sequel we really want to see made. flic.kr/p/21UvS3c

Nov 26, 2017: Sweet. The CBS national broadcast here in DFW later this afternoon is the Saints-Rams game. I wonder if we’ll get to see @Jarrius dancing in the …

Nov 26, 2017: Yes! The #StarWars halftime show by the #LSU band is online. fb.me/1w26KuZzP

Nov 25, 2017: To paraphrase a post of mine 366 days ago, today I am thankful my Tigers #BTHO the Aggies for the seventh straight time. #GeauxTigers #LSUvsTAMU …

Nov 25, 2017: The #LSU Golden Band from Tigerland did a #StarWars-themed halftime show, and now I’m sad I didn’t switch over to the SEC Network alt …

Nov 25, 2017: As a former clarinet player, so great to see the woodwind section of the #LSU Golden Band from Tigerland shown on the broadcast cheering on the …

Nov 25, 2017: Sorry, folks, #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts will resume tomorrow. Had family portraits today, and have to rep my Tigers against the Aggies tonight. …

Nov 25, 2017: I would totally be there for a Chewbacca/Mike the Tiger #StarWars Story film. twitter.com/MikeTheTi…

Nov 24, 2017: Day 10 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts — this Under-The-Weather Edition features best friends. flic.kr/p/21LgwsS

Nov 23, 2017: Thanksgiving’s not over until the tree’s up and #BobaFett is hanging out, searching for his prey.

Nov 23, 2017: Day 9 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts — “They’d be crazy to follow us.” Happy Thanksgiving! flic.kr/p/ZHTh7j

Nov 23, 2017: Day 9 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts — “They’d be crazy to follow us.” Happy Thanksgiving! flic.kr/p/ZHTh7j

Nov 22, 2017: Just in time to tune out your in-laws at Thanksgiving: the latest episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast! We gearing up for The Last Jedi, and we …

Nov 22, 2017: Day 8 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts — what if there were World War II style bomber art in the Star Wars universe? flic.kr/p/ZrkGDX

Nov 22, 2017: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been informed that Tapestry’s Empowered to Connect podcast has surpassed 70,000 downloads! Thanks so much to …

Nov 21, 2017: Day 7 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts is another mashup, combining my favorite character with an iconic anime shot. flic.kr/p/ZpUJf8

Nov 21, 2017: Pop Tarts declares all of Oklahoma disrespectful. This is America, 2017. twitter.com/PopTartsU…

Nov 20, 2017: Day 6 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts: Great Moments in Galactic Sports flic.kr/p/GMnskn

Nov 19, 2017: It joins Die Hard in the pantheon. twitter.com/kristenru…

Nov 19, 2017: Day 5 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts. “Dad, we’re both wearing #StarWars shirts!” flic.kr/p/DyiRpN

Nov 18, 2017: It slays me that the players dress the plank. Love it. twitter.com/kennesaws…

Nov 18, 2017: Day 4 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts features two hunters combined into one: Fettator! flic.kr/p/DwA5j5

Nov 18, 2017: Watched the first two episodes of The Punisher last night after I got the hockey player to sleep. (Yay, headphones!) It moves a lot slower than I …

Nov 17, 2017: Day 3 of #NoRepeatStarWarsShirts, hockey road trip edition with my little guy! This is one of my favorite shirts, for multiple reasons, not least of …

Nov 16, 2017: Looking forward to this film very much. Time to break out “Horse Soldiers” for a re-read. youtu.be/-Denciie5…

Nov 16, 2017: Day 2 of 2017 No-Repeat Star Wars Shirts. Straight from the 2017 Tapestry Conference last month! flic.kr/p/ZwoH6w

Nov 16, 2017: I’ve long thought about why Houston can’t maintain a professional hockey team, given the disposable income of its metroplex. …

Nov 15, 2017: As always with superhero movies, stay until the VERY END of the credits for Justice League. If you care about cinematic universe continuity, that is.

Nov 15, 2017: Justice League is pretty great. Still a little too Zack Snyder-y for my tastes, but a big improvement over Batman vs Superman.

Nov 15, 2017: Day 1: The 2017 Edition of No-Repeat Star Wars Shirts has begun! flic.kr/p/GCB4Xc

Nov 14, 2017: As my buddy Poseur says, “Pretty much everything would be better with John Williams scoring it.” twitter.com/LightsCam…

Nov 14, 2017: The latest episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. We talk Thor: Ragnarok! …

Nov 14, 2017: Congress’ IT Scandal Is Being Kept Behind Closed Doors www.forbes.com/sites/fra…

Nov 14, 2017: It was disappointing when The Odd Couple was cancelled, but I’m happy to see one of my favorite actresses immediately get another gig. And what …

Nov 13, 2017: Twitter’s growth team: “They were more concerned with growth numbers than fake and compromised accounts.” Well, of course they were. …

Nov 13, 2017: Given the amount of time I’ll be spending in an Austin (hi @manton!) hotel room this coming weekend (hockey tournament), I’m definitely packing …

Nov 13, 2017: Wolves are my favorite land-based animal, and here’s just one more reason why. twitter.com/planetepi…

Nov 11, 2017: This is what happens when you marry your theology with politics. Because politics is a zero-sum game, and winning ultimately becomes more important …

Nov 11, 2017: Notre Dame-Miami is precisely the sort of game for which I wish ties were still possible in college football.

Nov 11, 2017: #GeauxTigers twitter.com/LSUfootba…

Nov 11, 2017: “You need deodorant, son. And none of that all-natural stuff. The more chemicals, the better. Kill that funk dead.” Laurence Fishburne on #Blackish is …

Nov 10, 2017: How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met gizmodo.com/how-faceb…

Nov 10, 2017: We talk about the importance of maintaining biological family relationships (if possible) on the latest Empowered to Connect podcast: …

Nov 10, 2017: There’s some Big Fat Geek podcast recording underway! New episodes coming soon!

Nov 8, 2017: So Thor: Ragnarok is terrific and lots of fun. But @Disney, @Marvel: the bit about orgies was totally unnecessary and not family-friendly.

Nov 7, 2017: Those Argentinian soccer hooligans…. mobile.twitter.com/ABC/statu…

Nov 7, 2017: Happy Jack Reacher Day, everyone!

Nov 7, 2017: I’d not heard of Tyler Childers prior to this popping up in my Twitter timeline, but I love a good singer with just a guitar. Powerful song. …

Nov 6, 2017: iPhone home screen, 6 November 2017. Not much has changed since last month. flic.kr/p/GhLJUc

Nov 5, 2017: If y’all think @tweetgrubes is a kick during a Stars game, try a Sunday night youth hockey game at a nearly-empty AAC when you can yell at him …

Nov 5, 2017: Well, if you’ve got to be at the AAC before 9am for youth hockey, at least you can see @tweetgrubes, too! Fun talk as always, Michael!

Nov 4, 2017: And they wonder why people hate Alabama beyond just football. twitter.com/Mike_Gegs…

Nov 4, 2017: I wish this proven true, but I have zero confidence in the current administration to do the right thing. twitter.com/Mansfield…

Nov 3, 2017: On point. twitter.com/GKCdaily/…

Nov 3, 2017: Brandon does an excellent job distilling why the GOP tax bill’s elimination of the adoption tax credit is very bad for adoption: …

Nov 3, 2017: I do believe I prefer the acoustic version over the full band one. www.youtube.com/watch

Nov 2, 2017: We’re back at it, Tapestry podcast fans!

Nov 2, 2017: I was in the same math class as Corey my freshman year. He was such a nice guy then, and I’m happy to see the success he’s had. …

Nov 2, 2017: Not only was this a no-brainer buy for our youngest, but I share a name with the illustrator! www.joyofbeingablackboy.com

Nov 1, 2017: I wish my grandfather—who took me to the Astrodome in the early ’70s for my first baseball games—was alive to see this. Congratulations, Astros. …

Oct 31, 2017: Best costumes tonight. These teenagers made them themselves!

Oct 31, 2017: When the usual “This IS my Halloween costume” t-shirt is still missing post-move, a @redteamsblog Oni shirt is a superb substitute.

Oct 31, 2017: Is it just me, or does this read like Planned Parenthood is telling black women to basically commit genocide? twitter.com/PPBlackCo…

Oct 31, 2017: “My dearest Annabel, We are in the third hour of minivan service at the Honda dealership, and morale is low. The supply of donut holes has run …

Oct 31, 2017: Napoloeon on Elba - one of my favorite song lyrics Because I’m jamming to Frank while waiting for my wife’s vehicle to be serviced, and it’s Halloween: “So come on now Josephine …

Oct 29, 2017: Or you know, just use SMS. twitter.com/TheBabylo…

Oct 27, 2017: Better: don’t use any social media as your only news source. twitter.com/TutanotaT…

Oct 26, 2017: Of course, children six and under get a pass on this. But parents, please, educate and enunciate. twitter.com/crowdermu…

Oct 26, 2017: New episode of the Tapestry podcast is up today. We talk about why we need to practice mindfulness, and why it is especially important for adoptive …

Oct 24, 2017: Exactly how many Star Wars shirts does Chris own? www.bigfatgeekpodcast.com/2017/10/2…

Oct 24, 2017: So Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona doesn’t like the way the Republican Party is changing under Trump (and rightly so), but his solution is not to …

Oct 24, 2017: Practical effects rule. twitter.com/CooeeVisu…

Oct 24, 2017: That’s what friends are for. twitter.com/bigfatgee…

Oct 22, 2017: It Came From Beneath The Earth. twitter.com/GoogleFac…

Oct 22, 2017: This is rough. Ole Miss is THE rival for #LSU, as far as I’m concerned, but again, at its heart, it’s still kids playing a game. Best …

Oct 22, 2017: This is great. At its heart, it’s still kids playing a game. twitter.com/JacquesDo…

Oct 22, 2017: I’m sensing a theme when it comes to Ole Miss. twitter.com/ESPNStats…

Oct 22, 2017: Presented without comment. (Which, let’s be honest, is still a comment.) nyti.ms/2yDLAMM

Oct 21, 2017: And that’s a wrap. Thanks so much to everyone who attended! #TapCon17

Oct 21, 2017: And I have another addition to my Star Wars shirt collection (well, kinda). twitter.com/Jake1725/…

Oct 20, 2017: Amen, and amen. twitter.com/LizOcchip…

Oct 20, 2017: Boy, @curt_thompsonmd is absolutely killing it, and this is just the first session! #TapCon17

Oct 19, 2017: Dying. I’m dying. twitter.com/MikeBeauv…

Oct 19, 2017: This is great. twitter.com/LSUfootba…

Oct 19, 2017: Final preparations are wrapping up for the 2017 Tapestry Conference! #TapCon17

Oct 19, 2017: If you’re looking for a silo application for your data without the silo lock-in, EagleFiler is for you. (Mac only) twitter.com/eaglefile…

Oct 19, 2017: Somewhere, #Skynet is smiling. www.bloomberg.com/news/feat…

Oct 18, 2017: Leave it to a parody site to be eerily on point. babylonbee.com/news/face…

Oct 18, 2017: Animal is so metal. 🤘🏼 twitter.com/ElectricM…

Oct 17, 2017: I wish I didn’t have to show this to my teenager to help him understand the world his little brother will have to face, but there it is. …

Oct 16, 2017: The horror. /frightened whisper/ The horror…. twitter.com/catesish/…

Oct 16, 2017: In other news, Amazon has an “Instrumental Lullabys” playlist that we play through our kids' Echo Dot. One of the instrumental lullabys is …

Oct 16, 2017: How are there people from the South who have never been to Chick-fil-A before??? They do exist, and are standing next to our table. One of them is …

Oct 16, 2017: I like Rally in the Valley better, but I think The Comeback Game is going to stick. twitter.com/dandydonl…

Oct 16, 2017: iPhone home screen, 16 Oct 2017, featuring untitled art by Jason Goad (@ingoadwetrust on Twitter) that I’ve taken to calling “Fett is …

Oct 16, 2017: Couldn’t be worse than most everything else the Christian retail industrial complex turns out. 😉 twitter.com/ATVS_Chef…

Oct 14, 2017: Just finished episode 8 of season 1 of Mr. Robot. HOLY CRAP.

Oct 14, 2017: When AU was up 17-0, I thought that was it. Game over. I’ve never been more happy to have been wrong. #GeauxTigers twitter.com/RossDelle…

Oct 14, 2017: The hockey player and I “watched” the last 6 minutes via the CBS Sports app while driving home from the rink. WOW. …

Oct 14, 2017: Ever read a book and totally miss the point? Clearly members of the Biloxi, MS, school district have. twitter.com/aldotcom/…

Oct 14, 2017: It may have been time for Les to go, but I love how the guy is still such a homer for #LSU: twitter.com/BrandonSa…

Oct 14, 2017: Happy Chuck Yeager Day, everyone!! twitter.com/BellHelic…

Oct 13, 2017: I fear yes. twitter.com/Mansfield…

Oct 12, 2017: I’d say something about having to step up my jack o’lantern game, if I actually had one. twitter.com/starwars/…

Oct 12, 2017: How adorable is this guy?

Oct 12, 2017: Dear lord, I have not stopped laughing. twitter.com/oscarewil…

Oct 10, 2017: You could list the shortcomings of talent in #LSU’s Danny Etling, but you can’t say he doesn’t have guts. #leader …

Oct 10, 2017: 11-year-old girl's reaction to finding out she's getting adopted I have mixed feelings about this video. It’s AWESOME. Did they ask her if they could post this publicly? Even if she said yes, I’m still …

Oct 10, 2017: For the record, I always run Twitterrific with the dark theme, aka, “Tron mode”. twitterrific.com/mac/

Oct 10, 2017: With so much blue already in my Mac’s Dock, I’m still running the beta icon. twitter.com/eli_schif…

Oct 10, 2017: As a Kickstarter backer and beta tester of this new version, I’m so happy my original Mac Twitter client of choice is back. …

Oct 10, 2017: If you don’t use a third-party Twitter client on macOS, I highly recommend you do. And this is a great one: twitter.com/Iconfacto…

Oct 10, 2017: What a sweet dog! twitter.com/FluffSoci…

Oct 9, 2017: Yes, YES! So red! Oh so very Sithly… twitter.com/starwars/…

Oct 9, 2017: All I can say about the Last Jedi trailer right now is I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS AND THEORIES.

Oct 7, 2017: I’m 46. I was 27 when this went into a cask.

Oct 7, 2017: It should be illegal to do this to a po-boy. flic.kr/p/Y9swjo

Oct 7, 2017: Such a great new tradition. You know those kids are jacked, waiting for the waves every football Saturday. twitter.com/Southernb…

Oct 7, 2017: Dogs are the best. twitter.com/TravelLei…

Oct 6, 2017: Yes! I fully endorse this. Write it! Take my money! twitter.com/TheSWU/st…

Oct 6, 2017: While Nathan was under the weather this week, Dallas and I talked about our favorite and not-so-favorite starships. …

Oct 5, 2017: The work Anthony Anderson and company are doing on #Blackish is outstanding. What a season premiere!

Oct 5, 2017: Based on back jacket, it reads like Pastor Atwood is of the “it’s about hunting, not resisting tyranny” school of Second Amendment thought. …

Oct 4, 2017: The Poetic Justice of Empathy, a guest blog post by Curt Thompson, M.D. www.theryanblog.com/poetic-ju…

Oct 4, 2017: Jerry Rice: NFL Hall of Famer, Wedding Crasher “The best was when my mother-in-law was kissing Jerry Rice. My husband went over to his dad and said, ‘Dad, mom is kissing Jerry Rice,’ and his dad …

Oct 4, 2017: Boy, do I miss Mailsmith and Claris Emailer. twitter.com/mjtsai/st…

Oct 4, 2017: Once again, you are not Facebook’s or Google’s customer. You are the PRODUCT. And if you’re on Twitter, get out of seeing ads by …

Oct 3, 2017: The 2017 Tapestry Conference will feature Curt Thompson, author of Anatomy of the Soul and The Soul of Shame. We talk more about the upcoming …

Oct 2, 2017: Any episode of #BigBangTheory with Regina King is a great one. Her delivery at the end of tonight’s episode had me in stitches.

Oct 2, 2017: Someone has spent WAY too much time overthinking Thomas the Tank Engine. www.newyorker.com/culture/r…

Sep 30, 2017: Well, in celebration of a dear friend’s birthday, and in mourning the end of the golden age of LSU football, tonight I’m off the wagon.

Sep 29, 2017: Can’t say enough good things about Cyimbili Coffee, from how it helps Rwandans to how great it tastes. I can’t drink coffee anymore, but …

Sep 28, 2017: Two tweets today I need to edit. Because of mistyping, I sound like a moron. But nooooooooo. Twitter thinks I’d rather have twice as many characters …

Sep 28, 2017: New episode of the Tapestry podcast is up! We talk about the importance of self-care for parents. tapestryministry.org/podcast

Sep 27, 2017: “Leave your stuff in the laundry room so I can wash it,” I tell the teenage hockey player. Go into laundry room. Die. Die die die.

Sep 27, 2017: “Lord, thank you. Even though You can do anything, THAT was MIGHTY impressive.” God, I love Sheldon’s mom. I’ve missed …

Sep 27, 2017: “We really do need to decide what kind of country we want. But, unless we start treating each other with more understanding and kindness, …

Sep 26, 2017: Walk into our favorite pizza joint, head to a table. Teenager says, “Dad, I’m cold, so I’m going to sit in the corner. It’s 90 …

Sep 26, 2017: Eminemarines instagram.com/p/BZhLQgY…

Sep 25, 2017: What do you say, social media friends? Can we get the Smiths over $5,000? www.gofundme.com/baby-leeu…

Sep 25, 2017: “We chose to kneel because it’s a respectful gesture. I remember thinking our posture was like a flag flown at half-mast to mark a …

Sep 25, 2017: Standing with our Kurdish friends today as they vote on a referendum for independence!

Sep 25, 2017: Live long and prosper, casual nerds! It’s a spoiler-ful entry as we talk Star Trek Discovery’s first two episodes! …

Sep 21, 2017: Six years after our son was the last non-special needs child adopted out of Rwanda, the nation is re-opening to international adoptions: …

Sep 19, 2017: The Soviet officer who saved the world. arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

Sep 18, 2017: A reminder that once upon a time, Ted Nugent was a damn good guitarist: youtu.be/BtuOAnsuZ…

Sep 17, 2017: It has been a very rough sports weekend for our household, mitigated slightly by the fact the Cowboys got absolutely stampeded by the Broncos.

Sep 16, 2017: The Coca-Cola tacos commercial definitely did its job: now I really want tacos.

Sep 15, 2017: Having read my first Mitch Rapp novels—American Assassin and Kill Shot—over the summer, I’m very excited to be seeing American Assassin on …

Sep 14, 2017: Our friends at TCU’s Institutue of Child Development have some tips on helping kids traumatized by a natural disaster: …

Sep 12, 2017: Talking Poop Emoji is the name of my next emo band. #AppleEvent #iPhoneX

Sep 12, 2017: How soon until Hollywood works the “point dead guy’s iPhone X at his face to unlock it” trope into a movie or TV show? #AppleEvent

Sep 12, 2017: Let’s get this out of the way now: it’s iPhone X as in “ten”, just like Mac OS X.

Sep 12, 2017: Is that the first time the phrase “rain fire down on our enemies” has been used in an Apple keynote? Besides Jobs talking about Google, I …

Sep 12, 2017: I’m getting the feeling Apple may be trying for a new record on most videos shown at one of their events.

Sep 12, 2017: Florida parents of kids from hard places: our podcast about Hurricane Harvey and trauma kids can help you, too! tapestryministry.org/podcast/

Sep 6, 2017: When your teenager stayed home sick from school, you took him to the doctor, and then in the late afternoon, the symptons start showing up in …

Sep 6, 2017: Trying to get the GoFundMe for our friends Peter and Ruth over the $5K mark. Please consider helping someone whose life is devoted to helping others. …

Sep 5, 2017: Activity app says 12,064 steps today. Lose It says 12,098 steps. Pedometer++ says 13,124 steps. All linked via HealthKit. Supposedly. Why don’t …

Sep 5, 2017: How fun! Letters from our four sponsor kids, across three different NGOs in two different African nations, all arrived in the mail today.

Sep 5, 2017: iPhone home screen, 5 September 2017 flic.kr/p/YbTDhs

Sep 4, 2017: “It’s because of the citizens that we were able to get everyone out.” www.star-telegram.com/news/nati…

Sep 3, 2017: “(H)e doesn’t have it in him to quit. It was never going to be quitting anything.” savannahnow.com/news/2017…

Sep 1, 2017: The latest episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast, all about toys, is now available: www.bigfatgeekpodcast.com/2017/09/0…

Aug 31, 2017: Friends take care of friends. A gift from fellow Big Fat Geek podcaster, Dallas, from his recent trip to Austin.

Aug 31, 2017: Feeling like a genius for filling up the Highlander’s tank yesterday, before the DFW metroplex lost its collective mind over fuel …

Aug 31, 2017: Meeting Achievement Stickers. If I were still in corporate America, I would so be getting these printed for distribution. …

Aug 26, 2017: My kids just used Alexa and our Echo Dot to play the latest Big Fat Geek podcast. Because that’s a thing now.

Aug 21, 2017: Fire up the Epstein drive. Set phasers for stun. Frak some toasters. We’re talking sci-fi TV: www.bigfatgeekpodcast.com/2017/08/2…

Aug 21, 2017: Just in time for eclipse-mania, the latest episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast is now available. We talk sci-fi TV shows! …

Aug 20, 2017: Should George R. R. Martin even bother finishing the books? Because I can’t imagine him topping where the TV series has gone.

Aug 19, 2017: Dunkirk is a fantastic film.

Aug 18, 2017: You know you’re in a Stockholm Syndrome relationship with north Texas weather when you see one day next week is projected to have a high of 88 …

Aug 18, 2017: Just deleted my Foursquare/Swarm account. I’m already using Yelp or Google Maps for exploratory functions, and my public check-ins are …

Aug 18, 2017: My Twitterrific Phoenix shirt arrived yesterday, pefect timing for #RED Friday! flic.kr/p/Xfb44m

Aug 16, 2017: Time to go to work. flic.kr/p/WyvnQV

Aug 15, 2017: The only reason for an American to hold a Nazi flag: instagram.com/p/BXy23un…

Aug 14, 2017: “Quite possibly the most compelling libertarian pitch in years.” —Joshua Trevino mises.org/blog/wron…

Aug 13, 2017: Life as an American defector in the Hermit Kingdom. www.latimes.com/world/asi…

Aug 10, 2017: Ladies and gentlemen, the latest episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast is now available for your listening pleasure: …

Aug 8, 2017: iPhone home screen, 8 August 2017. Horn Creek Camp, Colorado, edition. flic.kr/p/Xjz6Ve

Aug 5, 2017: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve just been informed that the Tapestry adoption & foster care podcast has surpassed 50,000 downloads! Thank you, …

Aug 3, 2017: The latest episode of the Big Fat Geek podcast is now available! www.bigfatgeekpodcast.com/2017/08/0…

Aug 3, 2017: Teens who spend more time than average on a screen are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities …

Aug 1, 2017: This photo from last night can only mean there’s more Big Fat Geek podcast hitting the feed soon.

Aug 1, 2017: On this day last year, the @TapestryIBC podcast surpassed 5,000 downloads. Now, we’re close to hitting 50,000. Thank you, listeners!!

Jul 28, 2017: A thousand times, yes. Stick to the end for the name Harry should’ve named his kid. “Severus Snape Was Not a Hero” …

Jul 27, 2017: The eight year-old has informed us it’s not a play date when he goes to a friend’s house. They’re just getting together to …

Jul 27, 2017: The second episode of the Big Fast Geek podcast is now available for your listening pleasure: www.bigfatgeekpodcast.com/2017/07/2…

Jul 26, 2017: We go another round of Give Me An Example on parenting tools in the latest Tapestry podcast: tapestryministry.org/podcast/

Jul 26, 2017: Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Sold nyti.ms/2tX7VB2

Jul 25, 2017: Those of you who know my musical proclivities: how could you not let me know about Revolution Saints? Fired, all of you.

Jul 25, 2017: A long time coming, and it cannot happen soon enough: www.imore.com/adobe-fin…

Jul 24, 2017: My friend Bruce has a simple yet excellent guide on how to support your friends who are fostering or adopting: embracetexas.org/2017/07/2…

Jul 24, 2017: If Stitcher is your thing for podcast listening, the Big Fat Geek podcast is now available there as well: www.stitcher.com/s

Jul 24, 2017: Adoptive and foster parents! Early-bird registration is now open for the Tapestry Conference, with the code TAPCON20EB, through July 31st. …

Jul 22, 2017: Just saw the Bright trailer. The first Will Smith film in a long while I’m actually anxious to see. And again, would make a killer series …

Jul 22, 2017: Increasingly, I’m thinking a lot of properties getting snatched up for movies would be better served from a story standpoint by being a …

Jul 22, 2017: I have mixed feelings about the Ready Player One trailer. Visually, it looks fantastic. But is it going to lose so much greatness from the story by …

Jul 20, 2017: So I launched something new and fun today with a couple of friends: www.bigfatgeekpodcast.com/2017/07/2…

Jul 16, 2017: Happy birthday to the Wonder Woman I’m married to! I love you, sweetheart!

Jul 12, 2017: Happy Gabriel Allon Day, everyone!!

Jul 7, 2017: Greatness. instagram.com/p/BWQCBqr…

Jul 4, 2017: iPhone home screen, 4 July 2017 [gallery] iPhone home screen, 4 July 2017 on Flickr.

Jun 20, 2017: Courtesy of @ted: Proofread, modernized, open source public domain books with professional-grade design and typesetting: standardebooks.org

Jun 18, 2017: I’m not sorry. I’m going to be the grammar police on this one. It’s annoyed me all day: Fathers Day. Or Fathers' Day. NEVER …

Jun 15, 2017: Curious. Made a GIF from a video with GIPHY Cam on my iPhone 7. Tweetbot/Twitter recognized it as a GIF, but apparently that wasn’t the case for …

Jun 15, 2017: I’ve mentioned my favorite Star Wars character before, right?

Jun 12, 2017: He knows nothing.

Jun 11, 2017: I’d love a second one for my favorite hockey team, but for my second-favorite club:

Jun 9, 2017: New Rise Against album [gallery] Happy new Rise Against album day, everyone!

Jun 9, 2017: Happy new Rise Against album day, everyone!

Jun 9, 2017: Have you ever wondered how connected parenting works in a big family? Here’s a podcast episode that may help: buff.ly/2szYsjN

Jun 9, 2017: I loved Glenne Headly in 2 Days in the Valley. RIP.

Jun 5, 2017: Just booked anniversary dinner for tomorrow night, and I’m pretty sure the gal on the phone was younger than my marraige.

Jun 5, 2017: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 5 June 2017

Jun 2, 2017: [gallery] artverso: Travis Charest - Darth Vader

May 30, 2017: It’s pretty amazing, given how nostalgia-minded our pop culture is, that no one has convinced the Friends cast to do a reunion miniseries.

May 25, 2017: I may be at ETC Train the Trainer, but I didn’t forget about the 40th anniversary of Star Wars.

May 23, 2017: First time the iPhone 7 no-headphone-jack has bit me. Left the adapter at home. Amazon Music web player on my MacBook to the rescue.

May 20, 2017: This guy earned his Wolf badge and bridged to Bear!

May 19, 2017: And this was after the one on top accidentally whacked the one on bottom in the neck with a mini hockey stick. #brothers

May 19, 2017: I never got into Soundgarden, though given my musical preferences, I likely should have. But that first Audioslave album really took.

May 19, 2017: I am not your rolling wheels I am the highway I am not your carpet ride I am the sky I am not your blowing wind I am the lightning I am not your …

May 19, 2017: [gallery] I’ve had a new slab of glass and black plastic for just over a week now. While this wasn’t a planned purchase, I can’t say I’ve been unhappy …

May 19, 2017: I’ve had a new slab of glass and black plastic for just over a week now. While this wasn’t a planned purchase, I can’t say …

May 9, 2017: From my friend and colleague in our podcasting endeavor, @ryannorth7: Our podcast has been downloaded more than 30,000 times. Thanks to all our …

May 8, 2017: I’ve given the Apple Magic Trackpad the ol' college try; used it exclusively for over a month with my iMac. I’m going back to my Logitech …

May 5, 2017: When did this become acceptable behavior for a shared seat?

May 5, 2017: [gallery] iPhone home screen, Cinco de Mayo 2017 edition on Flickr.

May 5, 2017: iPhone home screen, Cinco de Mayo 2017 edition

May 4, 2017: Amen, and amen. https://flic.kr/p/UhBczc

May 4, 2017: Amen, and amen.

Apr 28, 2017: The best parts of the Bryce Harper T-Mobile commercial: “That’s how he wakes up! Perfectly coiffed!” Bryce is wearing a onesie

Apr 28, 2017: It’s a Tesla 2013 set list kind of day. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tesla/2013/house-of-blues-dallas-tx-33d9cc9d.html

Apr 28, 2017: Last night, chasing after kids 30 years younger and 150 pounds lighter than me, pulled a hamstring. #gettingoldsucks

Apr 26, 2017: My Micro.blog account is now live. I’m looking forward to social media (hopefully) breaking free of the silos of Twitter, Facebook, and …

Apr 26, 2017: Changes are afoot If you follow this blog, you notice it doesn’t see a lot of updates of late. I have likely posted my last here at Tumblr. If you reach this blog …

Apr 22, 2017: “To counteract a minority child’s formation of negative identity, they must experience, and be told, they and their group are as equal, as …

Apr 13, 2017: Earlier tonight, post-hockey game dinner at Chipotle. I made Mr. Super Smelly 4 Goals sit away from me and my dad.

Apr 8, 2017: Last game of the season, had to make sure to see this guy! Fun as always, @tweetgrubes !

Apr 8, 2017: The artist and his work.

Apr 8, 2017: Our artist’s “The Amazing Elephant” was selected to represent his school at the LISD Art Show.

Apr 6, 2017: What a glorious day for driving with the moon roof open on the way to a spring league hockey game!

Mar 30, 2017: It’s podcasting time again, and look what I got!

Mar 17, 2017: For people of a certain age, they do not see these and not think, “E.T., phone home”. I am of this age.

Mar 15, 2017: #remember

Mar 4, 2017: I’ve never played a Zelda game. My phone wallpapers are nearly exclusively Boba Fett. But I loved the Hyrule shield sketch @gedeonm did and …

Mar 4, 2017: Bounce house!! #schoolopenhouse #whatwecamefor

Mar 4, 2017: Dribble dribble #schoolopenhouse

Mar 4, 2017: Tall ladder truck is tall. #schoolopenhouse

Mar 4, 2017: Ladder truck is Shark Boy approved. #schoolopenhouse

Mar 4, 2017: Checking out the town ladder truck! #schoolopenhouse

Mar 4, 2017: Shark boy!!! #favoritefish #schoolopenhouse

Mar 4, 2017: I wonder what that’s going to be… #favoritefish #schoolopenhouse

Mar 4, 2017: Late breakfast with this guy, and being silly.

Feb 23, 2017: From a couple of weeks ago: helping me assemble a new cabinet for new garage workshop. Love his missing-teeth smile.

Jan 19, 2017: Sunny skies and 55 degrees. What a great day to have the moon roof open while driving!

Jan 13, 2017: A goal and two assists for our guy tonight as his house team cruised to a 8-2 victory at the AAC!

Jan 3, 2017: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 3 January 2017 on Flickr.

Jan 2, 2017: I got to see and visit with these lovely people tonight, all while eating awesome food.

Jan 1, 2017: Life with people who get you is always more fun.

Dec 27, 2016: New addition to Connor’s back glass.

Dec 27, 2016: After years of roughly the same style frames, went a little old school with these Ray-Bans.

Dec 25, 2016: Wearing shorts. Enchiladas are the main course. We are Texasing so hard this Christmas.

Dec 24, 2016: Because he’s super awesome, Ryan got me a Tapestry-logoed fleece vest as a thank-you for hosting the podcast!

Dec 23, 2016: Ran into this guy this morning! #baumblesbounce

Dec 15, 2016: #RogueOne premiere viewing shirt. Says I’m optimistic in more ways than one.

Dec 14, 2016: [gallery] brucesterling: *Information (about you) Wants To Be Free (to us)

Dec 10, 2016: Getting burgers with my Cub Scout. You may now swoon over those eyes, ladies.

Dec 10, 2016: The Pack 280 holiday parade crew, ready to roll!

Dec 10, 2016: This lady got a cart solely so she could put the sleeping bag thing and her purse in it while she waited in the return line. So she could play on her …

Dec 9, 2016: Single-dad night means we’re watching…

Nov 29, 2016: Didn’t really feel like being at my standing desk in my study tonight, so…

Nov 26, 2016: Her: “I’ll get you a slice of pie. Which do you want, chocolate or sweet potato?” Me:

Nov 25, 2016: We were on TV. This is seconds after I took the “Victory” shot of the boys. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: “Victory for LSU!” My two Tiger fans left happy. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Tre White was injured on one of the final plays of the game. Left the field on crutches. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: He had a great time, but faded late in the game. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: He had the BEST time with my dad. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Sam definitely got into the cheering spirit as the game went on. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Etling hands off to Guice on the latter’s way to a record-setting night. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Sam having a great time with Mom cheering on the Tigers. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Tiger D-line getting instructions from Coach Pete. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Last night’s kickoff. Can you find the ball? #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Coach O was being Coach O. He really cracked us up in the third quarter. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: The Tigers looked primed and ready before the game. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 25, 2016: Sam, anxiously awaiting the start of his first #LSU game, with his Granddaddy.

Nov 25, 2016: “General Reveille, ma’am,” is how she’s addressed by the cadets.

Nov 25, 2016: Aggie band making its round of Kyle Field, pregame last night.

Nov 25, 2016: TAMU Parsons Mounted Cavalry unit, outside Kyle Field last night.

Nov 24, 2016: The boys ran into some members of the Golden Band from Tigerland. #LSU #LSUvsTAMU

Nov 24, 2016: You are looking live…

Nov 23, 2016: Taking this dime piece out for steak!

Nov 15, 2016: Brent Spiner in the role that made him famous.

Nov 8, 2016: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 8 November 2016 on Flickr.

Oct 31, 2016: No, as a matter of fact, I did NOT tell him how much it will hurt when he takes it off.

Oct 31, 2016: I’m pleased to say I avoided extermination at the, er, hands of one of my neighbors.

Oct 25, 2016: When a dining establishment speaks your love language.

Oct 17, 2016: Later that same year, post-engagement. Someone’s showing off her ring.

Oct 17, 2016: First date.

Oct 10, 2016: Repost from @karamidwife: Go. Be. Love. Imana Kids, our ministry, was birthed out of a trip. We now have 127 kids in school, 6 children adopted, 4 …

Sep 6, 2016: iPhone home screen, 6 September 2016 Awesome new background image by Mike Mitchell, and how about that kick-butt nvNotes 3 icon?

Sep 4, 2016: [gallery] I love Twitter serendipity. on Flickr.

Aug 19, 2016: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 19 August 2016 on Flickr.

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Aug 16, 2016: [gallery] westcoastavengers: Spider-Man by Paolo Rivera

Aug 15, 2016: laughingsquid: R2-D2 Feels Empty Inside

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Jul 22, 2016: [gallery] unsplash: Photo by Jeremy Gallman

Jun 28, 2016: [gallery] mystarwars: Calvin Hobbes Star Wars mashup  by SaMuEl-MeLeNdEz

Jun 25, 2016: [gallery] mystarwars: Star Wars Original Trilogy as Pulp Novels by Russell Walks

Jun 23, 2016: [gallery] mystarwars: On the hunt   by snatti89

Jun 22, 2016: I’d rather have 80% of Google’s features along with 100% of Apple’s interest in protecting my privacy than 100% of Google’s features with 0% of that …

Jun 7, 2016: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 7 June 2016 on Flickr.

May 28, 2016: The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never …

May 27, 2016: [gallery] starwars: It all started a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

May 10, 2016: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 10 May 2016 on Flickr.

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Feb 23, 2016: Well, that’s a heck of a mashup.

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Feb 22, 2016: [gallery] starwars: #McQuarrieMonday - “Where? Found him in a junk pile?”

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Feb 11, 2016: The Fire Theft - Heaven - YouTube The Fire Theft - Heaven - YouTube Via Ethan Luck

Feb 10, 2016: This is Your Fight Song (Rachel Platten Scottish Cover) - YouTube

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Feb 5, 2016: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Grendel by Matt Wagner

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Feb 4, 2016: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Greg Capullo

Feb 4, 2016: [gallery] lospaziobianco: by Tim Bradstreet

Feb 4, 2016: [gallery] onlyemilyacosta: The Last Bookstore Los Angeles, CA

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Feb 3, 2016: [gallery] animationtidbits: Star Wars - Matte Paintings (x)

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Feb 2, 2016: [gallery] yourstrulyfranca: euph0r14: nature | Eagle landing on a little pine tree | by priits | http://ift.tt/1PL1tqs 💕

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Feb 2, 2016: [gallery] unsplash: By Joanna Kosinska http://ift.tt/1PpEQ97

Feb 1, 2016: [gallery] unsplash: By Lukas Budimaier http://ift.tt/1PpEQ9c As if the Romans’ favorite method of execution was dropped on a hill outside Winterfell.

Feb 1, 2016: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 1 February 2016. A couple of changes… on Flickr.

Feb 1, 2016: [gallery] superasente: Bad-ass warrior princesses by the incomparable Jessica Madorran.  Go to her page and follow her …

Feb 1, 2016: [gallery] spideyssense: by Joe Quesada.

Jan 28, 2016: [travisellisor: Peanuts Comic Strip from 11-16-69 by Charles Schulz

Jan 27, 2016: [gallery] keyframedaily: Emperor of the North (1973).

Jan 27, 2016: Write This Down: Note-Taking Strategies for Academic Success Write This Down: Note-Taking Strategies for Academic Success

Jan 16, 2016: [gallery] coolpages: Wolverine #2 (Marvel Comics - October 1982) Writer: Chris Claremont Illustrators: Frank Miller (Pencils) & Joe Rubinstein …

Jan 4, 2016: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 4 January 2016 on Flickr.

Jan 2, 2016: newoldstockphotos: New York City Ticker Tape Parade for Apollo 11

Jan 2, 2016: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Star Wars - art by Howard Chaykin

Jan 1, 2016: [gallery] philnoto: The Legacy

Jan 1, 2016: comicblah: Batman/Houdini: The Devil’s Workshop cover by Mark Chiarello

Nov 26, 2015: [gallery] Thanksgiving family movie night.

Nov 24, 2015: Shop for yourself or others, and help me go to Rwanda to care for orphans In April 2016, I will be heading back to Rwanda to assist in caring for some kids at an orphanage in Kigali, the nation’s capital. My team members and …

Nov 17, 2015: [gallery] Coincidence that on the anniversary of Boba Fett’s debut, the appropriately-titled “Holiday Special” shirt arrives? on Flickr.

Oct 29, 2015: [gallery] Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls, House of Blues Dallas, 28 October 2015 on Flickr.

Oct 5, 2015: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 5 October 2015 on Flickr.

Aug 28, 2015: artverso: Jason Fabok - Batman Eternal 

Aug 28, 2015: The thoroughly disappointing scene in The Bourne Identity SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MATT DAMON FILM, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, STOP READING. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. In all Hollywood thrillers, there’s a …

Aug 8, 2015: [gallery] Today was a great mail day. on Flickr.

Aug 3, 2015: iPhone home screen, 3 August 2015 There have been some changes.

Jul 29, 2015: I’m glad this story is getting this sort of wide exposure, even if it’s at the hands of Michael Bay.

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Jul 16, 2015: laughingsquid: The Muppets as Characters in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

Jul 16, 2015: [gallery] xsoldier: This is, unquestionably, the greatest moment I’ve ever read in any piece of Star Wars media. It shook me to the core going through …

Jul 15, 2015: laughingsquid: Man Honors Late Wife by Walking 645 Miles to San Diego Comic-Con Dressed as a Stormtrooper

Jul 15, 2015: [laughingsquid: ‘Avenue of Literature’, Biloxi Teachers Turn Worn-Out School Lockers Into the Spines of Classic and Modern Books

Jul 15, 2015: comixology: Another awesome lego display from San Diego Comic Con!

Jul 14, 2015: laughingsquid: A Quick History of the Royal Corgis, the Favored Dog Breed of Queen Elizabeth II CORGIS WERE VIKING DOGS!!!

Jul 13, 2015: spyrale: Batman vs Superman by James Harren & Mike Spicer

Jul 13, 2015: [gallery] The Dark Knight - Batman, Robin, and Superman by Dave Wilkins * This is awesome.

Jul 12, 2015: Daredevil by alex maleev

Jul 12, 2015: laughingsquid: Hacked Security Cam Footage of George R.R. Martin Working Hard On His New ‘Game of Thrones’ Book None of these would surprise me in the …

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Jul 11, 2015: comixology: philnoto: Just announced- My pal Gerry Duggan and I will bringing a Chewbacca mini-series to you starting in October. Rawwwrrrrrr!!! More …

Jul 7, 2015: [gallery] New Star Wars VII teaser poster. on Flickr.

Jun 17, 2015: Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of …

Jun 14, 2015: [vimeo 130711948 w=250 h=141] There is nothing like being in the building when a team wins a championship. from Chris Turner on Vimeo. The closing …

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Jun 6, 2015: [nerdistindustries: This timeline of the history of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek is our new fave GIF.

Jun 6, 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road by John Paul Leon

Jun 2, 2015: Stormbringer by Michael Whelan

Jun 2, 2015: Admiral Ackbar by Steven Daily

May 29, 2015: headlikeanorange: Yosemite Falls, California (Visual Relaxation)

May 27, 2015: skottieyoung: X-men ‘92 variant.

May 27, 2015: He Smashes Things by Pascal Campion

May 27, 2015: [gallery] The Thing vs The Wrecking Crew by Pascal Campion

May 26, 2015: tbridge: Agreed. Very much so.

May 19, 2015: Why is it that a large segment of left has embraced a code of appeasing “sensitivity” toward Islam—when they are its obvious next victims? Why do they …

May 19, 2015: [gallery] Love the days I mow the lawn. Getting to 10,000 steps is a piece of cake. Mmmmmm…cake… on Flickr.

May 15, 2015: [gallery] “You’re a handsome devil. What’s your name?” Must be the shirt. on Flickr.

May 15, 2015: The Shadow by Francesco Francavilla He knows.

May 15, 2015: ABC News, if it cares one whit about its reputation, should ban Stephanopoulos from doing any 2016 campaign coverage. It’s bad enough that he was once …

May 9, 2015: [gallery] Broken stick #2 on Flickr.

May 8, 2015: [gallery] “You stay classy, Mos Eisley.” on Flickr.

May 5, 2015: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 5 May 2015

Apr 25, 2015: Cyimbili Coffee: an exciting development in the homeland of my youngest child.

Apr 25, 2015: [gallery] starwars: Just making sure… Still not canon. But it’s the Fett, so…

Apr 24, 2015: Ed Sheeran - “I See Fire”, live for BBC Radio 1. Around the 5-minute mark…oh boy.

Apr 24, 2015: The Scorpions’ “Wind of Change”, fingerstyle guitar, by Kelly Valleau

Apr 22, 2015: Daredevil by Chris Samnee

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Apr 22, 2015: The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International “An Iraqi officer planned Islamic …

Apr 21, 2015: mrhipp: Handy Can you name them all?

Apr 21, 2015: Tusken Raider reacts to new Star Wars Episode VII trailer.

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Apr 20, 2015: Christian Boy Torched by Two Muslims Dies in Pakistani Hospital after Forgiving Attackers - Breitbart Christian Boy Torched by Two Muslims Dies in Pakistani Hospital after Forgiving Attackers - Breitbart

Apr 20, 2015: All Nippon Airways unveils 'Star Wars' themed jetliner | EW.com All Nippon Airways unveils ‘Star Wars’ themed jetliner | EW.com

Apr 20, 2015: BB-8 on the stage at Star Wars Celebration 2015 - YouTube BB-8 on the stage at Star Wars Celebration 2015 - YouTube

Apr 19, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: Planet Hulk 1

Apr 19, 2015: [gallery] Every boy who listened to rock and roll in the ‘70s wanted to do this.

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Apr 18, 2015: mamarenren: the best moment in tv history Now I have to go hunt up the video, because I laughed so hard at just these, I began to cough.

Apr 18, 2015: Elektra by Bill Sienkiewicz from the cover of The Comics Journal #107 (April 1986)

Apr 18, 2015: comicbookartwork: Captain America by Lee Weeks

Apr 18, 2015: laughingsquid: Special Effects Video of a ‘Star Wars’ Imperial Army Invading Los Angeles

Apr 17, 2015: laughingsquid: Scott Lang Prepares for the Heist of the Century in a New Trailer for the Upcoming Marvel Film ‘Ant-Man’

Apr 17, 2015: brianmichaelbendis: ANT-MAN - Official Trailer #2 (2015) Paul Rudd Marvel Superhero Movie HD

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Apr 16, 2015: Star Wars #2 variant by Sergio Aragonés, a Sergio Aragonés Stomps Star Wars homage. 

Apr 16, 2015: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: ‘Chewie’, A Parody of the Louis C.K. Series ‘Louie’ Starring Chewbacca From ‘Star Wars’ (Source: …

Apr 15, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: LEGO Recreates the First Six ‘Star Wars’ Movie Posters With Minifigs and LEGO Bricks

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Apr 14, 2015: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: Incensed Cat Pushes a Noisily Barking Dog into the Swimming Pool Beside Them Cats: minions of Lucifer. …

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Apr 14, 2015: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Daredevil by Esad Ribic

Apr 13, 2015: [gallery] starwars: McQuarrie Monday - Classic McQuarrie poster art before the 1977 release of A New Hope.

Apr 13, 2015: AdwareMedic AdwareMedic “Removes all known adware from your Mac. It is very simple to use, and should clean up your system in less than a minute, from start to …

Apr 10, 2015: Should we be concerned that in China they have developed a shape-shifting liquid metal? brianmichaelbendis: Between the shape-shifting liquid metal in China, and the robots in Japan, it’s probably easy odds in Vegas that our robot …

Apr 10, 2015: [gallery] Wolverine, Vol. 2 # 27, by Jim Lee.

Apr 9, 2015: [gallery] Winter of Siberia tiger by Ryu Jong soung Absolutely beautiful.

Apr 9, 2015: Privacy Badger Privacy Badger “Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what …

Apr 9, 2015: HTTPS Everywhere HTTPS Everywhere “HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your …

Apr 8, 2015: How to ditch Google for more privacy and fewer ads How to ditch Google for more privacy and fewer ads Nice workup on getting off the Google train. I still have a Gmail account, but never use it. If I …

Mar 29, 2015: ifo Apple Store shutting down The site isn’t going away, but Gary Allen is ceasing new updates on the best tracking site of Apple retail sites outside (and possibly inside) Apple …

Mar 26, 2015: laughingsquid: A Look at Some of the Best and Worst Ways to Shuffle Cards

Mar 25, 2015: [gallery] extraordinarycomics: Spider-Man by Skottie Young.

Mar 24, 2015: [vimeo 121101874 w=250 h=105] Hockey Sounds from Scott Duffy on Vimeo. Although I’m looking forward to spring/summer, I’ll be sad to see our backyard …

Mar 24, 2015:  Elektra By Arthur Adams

Mar 24, 2015: [gallery] Via Betsy Langowski by way of Eric Blair.

Mar 20, 2015: The Smartest Things Ever Said About Facebook The Smartest Things Ever Said About Facebook thislifeofleisure: To commemorate the demise of my Facebook account, and the myriad of questions people …

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Mar 11, 2015: [gallery] Totally getting this from the gift shop. on Flickr.

Mar 11, 2015: [gallery] Eastman Kodak No. 2 pull string 1890 on Flickr.

Mar 10, 2015: [gallery] I wonder how many of my friends I can make hate me right now? on Flickr.

Mar 10, 2015: comicbookartwork: Captain America by Andy Kubert

Mar 10, 2015: Classic X-Men by Alex Ross

Mar 9, 2015: [gallery] Captain America and Red Skull by Felipe Massafera

Mar 9, 2015: starwars: #SpotlightOfTheWeek - An inelegant weapon for a less civilized age.

Mar 9, 2015: everydaycivilian: crysomemoar: everydaycivilian: Please Follow EveryDayCivilian for SHOT Show 2014 Coverage. January 13th-17th. Show Floor Pictures …

Mar 8, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: Ingo and Else, A Series of Photos That Capture the Unique Bond Between a Shepherd Dog and a Tiny Owl

Mar 8, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: Filmmakers Destroy Drones in Service of Capturing Unseen Angles From the Inside of an Active Volcano

Mar 8, 2015: unsplash: By Nick Diamantidis http://ift.tt/1KX8Mn5

Mar 7, 2015: unsplash: By Ales Krivec http://ift.tt/1Ds5ac2

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Mar 6, 2015: [gallery] black-box-comics: Wolverine by Max Dunbar More comic art at Black Box

Mar 6, 2015: black-box-comics: Batman: Arkham Knight Batmobile Cover by Dan Panosian More comic art at Black Box

Mar 6, 2015: black-box-comics: TMNT by Chris Stevens More comic art at Black Box

Mar 5, 2015: [gallery] unsplash: By danist soh http://ift.tt/1Ds58B0

Mar 5, 2015: adamkubert: #AACC sketch #dccomics #batman

Mar 5, 2015: [gallery] snarkydiscolizard: snarkydiscolizard: IT’S ALMOST 1:00 AM AND I GOT THE BEST WRONG NUMBER TEXT EVER. here, by request of more than one …

Mar 5, 2015: [gallery] starwars: [Lightsaber clashing noises]

Mar 4, 2015: [gallery] averypottermormon: fangirltothefullest: hiccupatheart: mysharona1987: stuffstuffstuffstuffstuffstuffst: mysharona1987: Funny library …

Mar 4, 2015: [gallery] Given the weather we’re expecting tonight, figured this shirt was appropriate. on Flickr.

Mar 4, 2015: [gallery] black-box-comics: Batman Art by Garry Brown Colors by Mike Spicer More comic art at Black Box

Mar 4, 2015: [gallery] starwars: Spotlight of the Week - Snowspeeder: Rebel Alliance Modified T-47 Airspeeder

Mar 3, 2015: starwars: Snowspeeder concept art by the legendary Joe Johnston.

Mar 3, 2015: [gallery] unsplash: By Jay Mantri http://ift.tt/1KX8UD2

Mar 3, 2015: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: No one illustrates the Star Wars universe quite like Darek Zabrocki.

Mar 2, 2015: [gallery] humanoidhistory: The Space Shuttle Discovery photographed from inside the International Space Station prior to docking, February 26, 2011. …

Mar 2, 2015: [gallery] This always makes me happy to see. on Flickr.

Mar 2, 2015: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Daily Life of a Stormtrooper by the talented Joel Erkkinen.

Mar 2, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: #DailySketch Penguin. I found a few pads of gray and tan paper at the art store. I figured it’d be fun to add some tones to …

Mar 1, 2015: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Two commission illustrations, and the original, unpublished cover illustration by Dale Keown for The Incredible Hulk …

Mar 1, 2015: [gallery] starwars: “At last we will have revenge.”

Mar 1, 2015: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 1 March 2015 on Flickr.

Mar 1, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: Hawkeye #1 young variant cover

Feb 28, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Custom-Built ‘Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon Six-String Electric Guitar and Four-String Bass Guitar

Feb 28, 2015: [gallery] everydaycivilian: The Sig MPX…….nope, it’s the CZ-USA Scorpion EVO 3 S1. Simple but rugged Blow-Back bolt, mags drop free with ease, 30 …

Feb 28, 2015: How to beat procrastination How to beat procrastination For me the biggest challenge that I face while trying to write my book is to not get stuck in the middle of the story. …

Feb 27, 2015: [gallery] Our greenbelt area. Somewhere under all that powder is a slit of a creek. on Flickr.

Feb 27, 2015: [gallery] bernardin: “If she says ‘Get away from her, you bitch!’ you better do what she says.” This is relevant to my interests.

Feb 27, 2015: [gallery] cottonbureau: fallonvenable: Orphaned Lamb Thinks She’s a Dog YES, IT IS FRIDAY. Party like a lamb this weekend y’all, you deserve it.

Feb 27, 2015: [youtube …

Feb 27, 2015: laughingsquid: A Colorful Infographic That Plots the Most Popular Beers in the United States Calculated by Annual Sales This makes me want to cry.

Feb 26, 2015: [youtube …

Feb 26, 2015: unsplash: By Sarah Bürvenich http://ift.tt/1DRSM5p

Feb 26, 2015: humanrightswatch: Sudan: Mass Rape by Army in DarfurSudanese army forces raped more than 200 women and girls in an organized attack on the north …

Feb 25, 2015: [gallery] unsplash: By Kelly Sikkema http://ift.tt/1DRSN9i

Feb 25, 2015: [gallery] nealcampbell: Sun Records in Memphis

Feb 25, 2015: marvelentertainment: Check out the official poster for Marvel’s “Avengers: Age Of Ultron”!

Feb 23, 2015: [youtube …

Feb 23, 2015: [gallery] While You Were Sleeping, by Justin Terveen http://flic.kr/p/qoezd7

Feb 20, 2015: [gallery] Dallas Skyline by Justin Terveen on Flickr.

Feb 20, 2015: brianmichaelbendis: Masks #1, November 2012, cover by Alex Ross

Feb 19, 2015: [gallery] ruckawriter: Offered without comment. (at NE Portland Oregon)

Feb 18, 2015: [gallery] thehappysorceress: Donald/Two-Face by LavaPixie

Feb 18, 2015: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Wolverine by Pascal Campion

Feb 18, 2015: Jules Winnfield Hockey Coach Jules Winnfield Hockey Coach I can not stop laughing.

Feb 3, 2015: [gallery] Seemed appropriate for watching Justified tonight. on Flickr.

Jan 30, 2015: All Aboard the Texas Eagle: Austin to Dallas Edition – No. 4 St. James All Aboard the Texas Eagle: Austin to Dallas Edition – No. 4 St. James Dallas or Fort Worth - San Antonio might be a fun trip with the boys the next …

Jan 30, 2015: In This Year’s Super Bowl Ads, Positive Portrayals Of Men—And More In This Year’s Super Bowl Ads, Positive Portrayals Of Men—And More The Dove ad may have caused some dust to get in my eyes…

Jan 29, 2015: [gallery] thedaddycomplex: obviousplant: I’m doing important work here I would go to Dad Land. I would go so bad. Take my money.

Jan 29, 2015: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Dark Knight by Tim Townsend

Jan 29, 2015: The Evolution of iOS The Evolution of iOS

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Jan 25, 2015: laughingsquid: The Original Apple Watch, A 1995 Watch Given Out by Apple as an Incentive to Upgrade Operating Systems Somewhere in a dresser drawer, …

Jan 24, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: Rocket Raccon #10 

Jan 24, 2015: toddnauck: Black Widow post-it note sketch

Jan 24, 2015: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Spider-Man by Derek Laufman

Jan 23, 2015: wingedbyday: //Absurdly helpful for people writing royal characters and/or characters who interact with royalty and members of the nobility. [x]

Jan 23, 2015: comicbookartwork: Hawkeyes and Deadpool by Christian Nauck

Jan 23, 2015: PSA: How to do good backups PSA: How to do good backups tbridge: Since a friend of mine had a data loss incident and is now struggling without a good backup, I thought I’d …

Jan 22, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: ‘Gotham 7.5K’, Stunning High-Altitude Photos of New York City at Night Taken From a Helicopter

Jan 22, 2015: [gallery] brucesterling: *Uh, what are those?

Jan 22, 2015: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Cyclops by Rafael DeLatorre

Jan 21, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: Howard The Duck #1 variant 

Jan 21, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: Spider-Gwen #1 variant

Jan 21, 2015: [gallery] skottieyoung: Spawn #250 variant. 

Jan 20, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Daily Project Where Artist George Folz Translates Scenes From ‘Star Wars’ Into Standalone Comic Panels

Jan 20, 2015: [gallery] starwars: StarWars.com speaks with artist Craig Drake and offers a first look at a new Star Wars Celebration variant poster, show badges and …

Jan 20, 2015: brianmichaelbendis: the Marvel artwork of Aleksi Briclot 

Jan 19, 2015: [youtube …

Jan 19, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: Man Builds a Wooden ‘Star Wars’ Ride-On Rocker Toy That Looks Like an X-Wing Starfighter, Comes With Removable R2-D2

Jan 19, 2015: thebristolboard: Original watercolor painting by Bill Watterson from the cover of the Calvin and Hobbes calendar, 1989-90.

Jan 18, 2015: comicbookartwork: Cable by Livio Ramondelli

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Jan 18, 2015: [gallery] unsplash: By Dustin Scarpitti http://ift.tt/1ICvMsj

Jan 17, 2015: [gallery] laughingsquid: Cartoonist Gemma Correll Illustrates Winter Hazards From the Mundane to the Unexpected

Jan 17, 2015: brianmichaelbendis: Bill Watterson ~ Calvin & Hobbes: the Snowmen, Part 1.

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Jan 17, 2015: [gallery] And we have our first stick casualty of the hockey player’s career. on Flickr.

Jan 16, 2015: laughingsquid: ‘Know Your Enemy: Xenomorph’, An Art Print Inspired by James Cameron’s Classic Sci-Fi Action Horror Film ‘Aliens’

Jan 16, 2015: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS By Frank Miller, Klaus Janson & Lynn Varney

Jan 16, 2015: laughingsquid: A Sleek iMac Concept Inspired by Early Macintosh Desktops Created Using Macbook Air Components

Jan 16, 2015: [gallery] comixology: A comiXologist Recommends: Dane Cypel recommends Star Wars #1 Marvel’s Star Wars #1 is a new, fresh, and exciting take in a …

Jan 3, 2015: [gallery] Just a little hockey in the cul-de-sac. on Flickr.

Dec 28, 2014: [gallery] The hockey player and I may have fallen in love with LEGO trains today. on Flickr.

Dec 24, 2014: [youtube …

Dec 24, 2014: brianmichaelbendis:  ‘Blade Runner’ production design art by Syd Mead.

Dec 23, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Silver Surfer and Galactus by Andrew Maclean

Dec 23, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Captain America: The First Avenger Trivia Click gifs for more trivia in captions

Dec 23, 2014: comicbookartwork: The Hulk by Michael O’Hare

Dec 22, 2014: comicbookartwork: Captain America by Adam Kubert

Dec 22, 2014: chroniclebooks: #GiveBooks this holiday!

Dec 22, 2014: [gallery] starwars: It’s officially winter… welcome to Hoth.

Dec 18, 2014: Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology — The Message — Medium Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology — The Message — Medium

Dec 13, 2014: [gallery] Twenty years since their first album, 14 years we’ve lived in DFW, but first time seeing The Old 97s. on Flickr.

Dec 11, 2014: [gallery] Artsy out-of-focus Christmas tree shot. on Flickr.

Dec 11, 2014: [gallery] The Rustic, Dallas, Texas. on Flickr.

Dec 9, 2014: tbridge: tiffanyb: For my Christmas-celebrating people: Possibly my favorite “O Holy Night,” the one from Studio 60. I love “O Holy Night” as much for …

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Dec 6, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Greg Staples 

Dec 6, 2014: laughingsquid: A Detailed Chart Showing the Scale of Every Vehicle and Space Station in the History of Human Spaceflight

Dec 6, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Spider-Man by Edgar Tadeo

Dec 5, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: IRON MAN BY KAARE ANDREWS

Dec 5, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: THE HULK AND HAWKEYE BY KAARE ANDREWS

Dec 5, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Spider-Man and Wolverine by Gerardo Sandoval

Dec 4, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Superman/Batman # 1 Variant, by Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines.

Dec 4, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Wolverine by Tim Townsend

Dec 4, 2014: comicbookartwork: The Black Widow, by HyeinGo

Dec 3, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Iron Man by Kailyze

Dec 3, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Three new Mondo prints of The Iron Giant by Jason Edmiston, 2014 The first one is awesome.

Dec 3, 2014: laughingsquid: Tiny Vintage Arcade Machine Christmas Tree Ornaments Built Using LEGO by Chris McVeigh

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Dec 3, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Beautiful ‘Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens’ Movie Poster Illustrated by Phil Noto

Dec 2, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: An Eager ‘Star Wars’ Fan Already Has a Tattoo Depicting the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Spherical Astromech Droid Really? …

Dec 2, 2014: comicbookartwork: Captain America by Alex Ross

Dec 2, 2014: [gallery]

Dec 1, 2014: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 1 December 2014 on Flickr.

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Dec 1, 2014: [gallery] micdotcom: Most people give the homeless change or leftovers, Mark Bustos is cutting their hair For the past few months, New York City …

Nov 30, 2014: laughingsquid: A Gorgeous Photograph of the Milky Way Galaxy Over Devils Tower in Wyoming

Nov 30, 2014: [gallery] francavillarts: OMG! #StarWars new episode poster by Francesco Francavilla.

Nov 30, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: AKIRA Vol. 6 By Katsuhiro Otomo

Nov 29, 2014: [vimeo 112360788 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: ‘Two Lands’, Gorgeous Time-Lapse Video of the Landscapes and Skies of Greenland and Iceland (Source: …

Nov 29, 2014: [gallery] rodolforever: Samurai Jack INSPIRED poster for the Hero Complex Gallery event, you can purchase the limited edition HERE

Nov 29, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Empire Strikes Back by Jim Steranko (from Prevue #41)

Nov 28, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: “Black Dawn” BATMAN #406 (April 1987) Art by David Mazzucchelli (pencils/inks) & Richmond Lewis (colors) …

Nov 28, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Fantastic Four by Thony Silas Dias de Aguiar

Nov 28, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: In Toy Story 3,  there is a reference to the Pixar movie Up in Andy’s bedroom. There is a postcard from Carl and Ellie …

Nov 27, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: By Jeff Sheldon http://ift.tt/1prjP3p

Nov 27, 2014: unsplash: By Jeff Sheldon http://ift.tt/1prjUnE

Nov 27, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: By Jeff Sheldon http://ift.tt/1prjIER

Nov 26, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: By Jeff Sheldon http://ift.tt/1prk0eX

Nov 26, 2014: laughingsquid: A Supercut of Kramer Stealing Food From Jerry on ‘Seinfeld’ (Source: http://links.laughingsquid.com/)

Nov 26, 2014: [gallery] nubbsgalore: photos from dubai’s 828 meter tall burj khalifa (save the first and last photos, which show the building) by (click pic) …

Nov 25, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Wolverine by Phil Jimenez

Nov 25, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Captain America battles Ultron by Jerome Opena and Dean White

Nov 25, 2014: [gallery]

Nov 24, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Iron Ghost Rider by Lucas Alpay You know, I’d buy this comic.

Nov 24, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: The Punisher by Stefani Rennee

Nov 24, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Doom by Marco Russo

Nov 23, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Sue Storm and Johnny Storm by Phil Noto

Nov 23, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: CAPTAIN AMERICA BY MICHAEL LOMBARDI

Nov 23, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: WOLVERINE BY MICHAEL LOMBARDI

Nov 22, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: SPIDER-MAN BY MICHAEL LOMBARDI

Nov 22, 2014: [gallery]

Nov 22, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: The Thing by José Quintero

Nov 22, 2014: notahammer: Black Widow #12 [Noto, Edmondson] Edmondson’s doing some writing over on Black Widow?!? May have to start looking at the one…

Nov 21, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: The Thing by Ramon Perez

Nov 21, 2014: comicbookartwork: Wolverine by Andy Kubert

Nov 21, 2014: [gallery] pieissupernatural: MY WRITING MASTERPOST I just have a lot of writing tips and masterposts and just stuff in my likes and I decided to put …

Nov 20, 2014: newoldstockphotos: A Pilot’s Life at 65,000 Feet over Alaska

Nov 20, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman & Robin by Arthur Adams

Nov 20, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Colossus by Arthur Adams

Nov 19, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Gambit and Rogue by Francis Manapul

Nov 19, 2014: comicbookartwork: Wolverine by Alex Ross

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Nov 18, 2014: [gallery] cleverhelp: There’s no shortage of essays on writing out there. Authors, poets, scholars and other creative voices spend years devoted to …

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Nov 17, 2014: thecomicsvault: Inside the Batcave by Brian Bolland

Nov 17, 2014: philnoto: Black Widow #14 

Nov 17, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Dyslexie, An Ingenious Typeface Designed to Make Reading Easier for People With Dyslexia

Nov 16, 2014: [gallery] Been there, done that.

Nov 16, 2014: [youtube …

Nov 16, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: ‘Fiction Meets Fiction’, A Fake Ad Campaign Featuring LEGO Minifig Mashups of Pop Culture Characters

Nov 15, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: David Mack art for the Winter Soldier credits

Nov 15, 2014: starwars: Impressive. Most Impressive. Get a first look at Alex Ross’ variant cover for Star Wars: Darth Vader #1, coming soon from Marvel!

Nov 15, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Spider-Woman #1

Nov 14, 2014: [gallery] patloika: Batman by Rafael Grampa.

Nov 14, 2014: [gallery]

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Nov 13, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Thunderbolts by Phil Noto

Nov 13, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Magneto by Declan Shalvey

Nov 9, 2014: [youtube …

Nov 9, 2014: [gallery] 海之聲 Road to the Paradise by Bibi Paradise on Flickr.

Nov 8, 2014: Broadway Tower by tich66 on Flickr.

Nov 8, 2014: Valley of Colour by Sam_C_Moore on Flickr.

Nov 8, 2014: starwars: Big Hero 6 Baymax trooper helmet by Juan E. Hernandez from Star Wars Legion art exhibit.

Nov 7, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: ‘Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy’, A Book Featuring an Inside Look at Outfits From the Classic Films

Nov 5, 2014: [gallery] textsfromsuperheroes: Happy Halloween from Texts From Superheroes! I know Halloween was five days ago, but I’m a little behind on my …

Nov 3, 2014: [gallery] iPhone (6) home screen, 3 November 2014 on Flickr.

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Oct 17, 2014: [gallery] idwcomics: TMNT/Ghostbusters #1 RI Cover by Kevin Eastman, colors by Ronda Pattison

Oct 16, 2014: [youtube …

Oct 16, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis:  from New Avengers #24

Oct 16, 2014: [gallery] scareletwitch: Deadpool’s Art of War 001

Oct 15, 2014: [gallery] I haz the sadz. on Flickr.

Oct 11, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Spider-Man by John Romita Jr.

Oct 10, 2014: [gallery] idwcomics: G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes: Agent of COBRA #1 Cover by Paolo Villanelli

Oct 10, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Groot and Rocket Raccoon by Ryan Stegman

Oct 10, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Superman by Alex Ross

Oct 8, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Avengers vs. X-Men #11 pencil by Olivier Coipel / ink by Mark Morales 

Oct 8, 2014: [gallery] starwars: McQuarrie Monday - Often called Hammerheads, Ithorians are known across the galaxy as generally peaceful beings.

Oct 8, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Boba Fett by skottieyoung My favorite Star Wars character sketched by one of my favorite artists? Like I wasn’t …

Oct 7, 2014: [gallery] newoldstockphotos: Ed White First American Spacewalker

Oct 7, 2014: starwars: #SpotlightOfTheWeek - AT-AT: All Terrain Armored Transport

Oct 7, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Rogue And Gambit By Jon Sommariva This guy may be on to something.

Oct 6, 2014: [gallery] iPhone home screen, 6 October 2014 on Flickr.

Oct 6, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Punisher and Wolverine By Jon Sommariva

Oct 6, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Wolverine And Deadpool By Jon Sommariva

Oct 6, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Red Skull

Oct 3, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: #DailySketch #Inktober Hellboy Original sketch available in my shop http://skottieyoungstore.bigcartel.com

Oct 3, 2014: [gallery] newoldstockphotos: First Picture of the Earth and Moon in a Single Frame

Oct 3, 2014: [youtube …

Oct 3, 2014: [gallery] cottonbureau: Good advice Friday.

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Sep 14, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis:  Gotham by gaslight original artwork by Mike Mignola

Sep 14, 2014: chrissamnee: Lunch time Bat scribbles.

Sep 13, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: by Francesco Mattina

Sep 13, 2014: [gallery]

Sep 12, 2014: [gallery] thecyberwolf: The Wings of Night Created by Ruslan Leschev (Khajiit Sawyer)

Sep 12, 2014: [gallery] laurakinnye-deactivated20160616: Stephanie Brown’s evolution by Marcio Takara

Sep 12, 2014: skottieyoung: Check it out, 3d artist Luis Gomez-Guzman made a model of my Yoda #DailySketch WANT!

Sep 11, 2014: [youtube …

Sep 11, 2014: ruckawriter: brianmichaelbendis: Uncanny X-Men # 23 - Guardians of the Galaxy variant by Arthur Adams That’s just exquisite.

Sep 11, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Matt Wagner, 2005

Sep 8, 2014: [gallery] untitled by chrisakelley on Flickr.

Sep 8, 2014: [gallery] I’d like to thank one of the maybe 3 people I care about for bringing my attention to this shirt. on Flickr.

Sep 6, 2014: [gallery] Star Wars Night at @Rangers Ballpark off to a good start. on Flickr.

Sep 5, 2014: infinity-comics: Invincible Iron Man v1 #500 cover by Salvador Larroca

Sep 5, 2014: [youtube …

Sep 4, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Thor God of Thunder #1 variant

Sep 4, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Elektra & Wolverine by Dan Brereton

Sep 4, 2014: [gallery] browsethestacks: Wolverine by Moebius I did not know this existed. Awesome.

Sep 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman: Black and White #4 cover by Alex Toth Great mini-series.

Sep 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: The Sandman by Alex Toth

Sep 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Alex Toth

Sep 2, 2014: [gallery] kellysue: DeFraction Family Rules Good start.

Sep 2, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Supergirl by Mahmud Asrar In case it hasn’t become obvious, I’m digging Mahmud’s style.

Sep 2, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman - Germany Tour 2014 Pre-Show Commmission | Mahmud Asrar

Sep 1, 2014: [gallery] mahmudasrar: Superman - Special Edition NYC 2014 Pre-Show Commission

Sep 1, 2014: starwars: Spotlight of the Week Image - Yoda (art by Brian Rood)

Sep 1, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Psylocke - Mahmud Asrar

Aug 31, 2014: [gallery] Beautiful day lead to beautiful night at the ball park. on Flickr.

Aug 31, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: All lit up.

Aug 31, 2014: [gallery] It’s a beautiful (though HOT) day for a ball game. on Flickr.

Aug 31, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Tim Mossholder

Aug 31, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Dark Knight Returns by Jim Cheung

Aug 30, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Patrik Goethe

Aug 30, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Artur Pokusin

Aug 30, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Rocketeer by Matteo Scalera

Aug 29, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Sylwia Bartyzel Old school, no GPS.

Aug 29, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Hellboy // Dave Stevens

Aug 29, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Jonas Nilsson Lee

Aug 28, 2014: [gallery]

Aug 27, 2014: [gallery] Waiting on Flickr.

Aug 26, 2014: [gallery] cthulhu-hand-luke: Giorgio Comolo; Galactus & Silver Surfer

Aug 26, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Darth Vader by Walter Simonson From Simonson: I always thought it was too bad that David Prowse didn’t get to play Darth …

Aug 26, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Ales Krivec

Aug 25, 2014: starwars: McQuarrie Monday - “We’ve got to go back.”

Aug 25, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Michael Hull

Aug 25, 2014: gregorypecks: Cary Grant’s hair and makeup test for North by Northwest (1959). The card reads “HAIR MUSSED + DRUNK”.

Aug 25, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Thomas Lefebvre

Aug 25, 2014: [gallery]

Aug 24, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: CAPTAIN AMERICA BY MARK BAGLEY

Aug 23, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Rocket Raccoon #5 cover

Aug 23, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: MOON KNIGHT BY RYAN STEGMAN

Aug 22, 2014: [gallery] Jamestown B.B. Club, 1901 by California Historical Society Digital Collection on Flickr.

Aug 22, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Superman by Mike Oeming

Aug 22, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Punisher Vs Moby Dick by Mike Deodato Jr

Aug 21, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Marvin the Martian by Seth Fisher (2004).

Aug 21, 2014: comicbookartwork: ALEX ROSS: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

Aug 21, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: Gullfoss at dusk, photographed by Jerome Berbigier. Found at Colossal.

Aug 20, 2014: comicbookartwork: AUNT MAY AND SPIDER-MAN BY ALEX ROSS

Aug 20, 2014: [gallery] The closest one gets to an “Oh shit!” moment in a family-friendly Lucasfilm show.

Aug 20, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Liquor Bottles Re-Imagined With Labels That Describe The Night Ahead

Aug 19, 2014: [gallery] Heavy Clouds by freddy.olsson on Flickr.

Aug 19, 2014: I Have So Much to Learn From My Sister, Africa - Prodigal Magazine I Have So Much to Learn From My Sister, Africa - Prodigal Magazine I sit on the ground with her, this woman in the brightly printed dress and crow’s …

Aug 19, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Final Adventure.

Aug 18, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: The Renovo Coupe, An All-Electric Car With a Shelby American Chassis

Aug 18, 2014: [youtube …

Aug 18, 2014: [gallery] starwars: McQuarrie Monday - Covert meetings at Jabba’s Palace.

Aug 18, 2014: [youtube …

Aug 18, 2014: [gallery] -teesa-: 7.23.14 George Takei describes the moment when he and his family were sent to an internment camp.

Aug 17, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis:  Ultimate Spider-Man by Kaare Andrews

Aug 17, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Rocket Raccoon & Groot by Ricardo Tercio / Blog

Aug 17, 2014: [gallery] ilovereadingandwriting: Start writing today…

Aug 16, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: The Strikingly Bizarre Patches of the Drug Enforcement Administration

Aug 16, 2014: laughingsquid: After Battling Cancer, 11-Year Old Girl Invented a ‘Chemo Backpack’ to Replace Bulky IV Poles Something to make cancer suck just …

Aug 16, 2014: comicbookartwork: BRUCE BANNER: THE INCREDIBLE HULK BY SKOTTIE YOUNG

Aug 15, 2014: comicbookartwork: INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #13 by Mukesh Singh

Aug 15, 2014: laughingsquid: Artist Ben Long Creates Traveling Artwork on the Dirty Rear Doors of Commercial Vans Whoa.

Aug 15, 2014: yahooentertainment: Here’s a dancing baby Groot for your blog Because at some point, everyone needs dancing baby Groot.

Aug 15, 2014: [youtube …

Aug 4, 2014: AP vs. Chicago AP vs. Chicago tiffanyb: “A guide comparing Associated Press style and Chicago style for editors, writers, teachers, students, word nerds, and anyone …

Aug 4, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Dark Tower variant cover If only I could afford a potential print or the original. Just awesome.

Aug 4, 2014: Love Rocket Raccoon? Please consider donating to writer Bill Mantlo's ongoing care! » Love Rocket Raccoon? Please consider donating to writer Bill Mantlo's ongoing care! » comixology: If you saw #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy and loved Rocket …

Aug 3, 2014: [gallery] isaacgoodhart: Guardians is finally out!! Her’e a fan art I made after the first trailer came out and melted my mind.  Love it!

Aug 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Bill Sienkiewicz

Aug 3, 2014: [gallery] comicbookartwork: Iron Man and the Hulk by Greg Land

Jul 30, 2014: [gallery] merlin: Life hack. Boom.

Jul 30, 2014: [gallery] cottonbureau: needimprint: Somehow, here at Need headquarters in Dallas, we are managing to find time between our busy schedules to …

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Jul 29, 2014: [gallery] starwars: This guy… Putting this here for future usage reference…

Jul 29, 2014: [gallery] ilovereadingandwriting: All I Want To Do Is Read (by meganleestudio) Yep.

Jul 28, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Working on a cover. #rocketraccoon

Jul 28, 2014: [youtube …

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Jul 28, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Colorful Minimalist Series of Flat-Shadowed Icons Depicting Famous ‘Star Wars’ Characters Yes, you can download them.

Jul 27, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Sacha Diener

Jul 27, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: 1984 - Cloak & Dagger Portfolio Part #2 By Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin

Jul 27, 2014: laughingsquid: ‘Star Wars’ Darth Vader Lightsaber Barbecue Fork With a Hilt Modeled After the Sith Lord’s Iconic Weapon Design I need this.

Jul 26, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: 1984 - Cloak & Dagger Portfolio Part #1

Jul 26, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Ralph McQuarrie, 1977.

Jul 26, 2014: [youtube …

Jul 25, 2014: [gallery] Moonset by Sentinel Mission/B612 Foundation on Flickr.

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Jul 25, 2014: Houses (Explored #21) by Yoonki Jeong on Flickr.

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Jul 25, 2014: [gallery] Mt Rainier - Explored - July 21 2014 by saint1271 on Flickr.

Jul 25, 2014: [gallery] Ultra-wide daybreak by Ed Rosack on Flickr.

Jul 24, 2014: [youtube …

Jul 24, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Lost at Sea in a 1997 Container Ship Accident, LEGO Pieces Continue to Wash Ashore in Southwest England

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Jul 23, 2014: laughingsquid: ‘Mouse Guard: Swords & Strongholds’, A Two-Player Board Game From the ‘Mouse Guard’ Comics Backed.

Jul 23, 2014: starwars: Artist of the Week - Sacha Diener

Jul 23, 2014: The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything. Warren Buffett (via …

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Jul 22, 2014: humanoidhistory: July 20, 1969 — Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin at work on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong, who can be seen reflected in a …

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Jul 22, 2014: [gallery] starwarschroniclebooks: Know some Padawans who don’t want to go to bed? Order a copy of Goodnight Darth Vader and use The Force to get them …

Jul 17, 2014: cottonbureau: Time For A Beer from Kara Bigelow. Look at that, it’s even time for us to close up our laptops and go home for the day!

Jul 15, 2014: [gallery] Note to self.

Jul 8, 2014: [gallery] oeming: POWERS! https://www.comixology.com/Michael-Avon-Oeming/comics-creator/421

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Jul 8, 2014: [gallery] tomfowlerstuff: wonder woman. That’s how Amazon warrior princesses roll, yo.

Jul 7, 2014: laughingsquid: ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Cocaine’, A Parody of ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ Featuring Joel McHale & Tony Hale Because …

Jul 7, 2014: [gallery] blackwidov: Well. this day just keeps getting better and better. Rocket Raccoon #1 Picked up my issue today! Off to read!

Jul 2, 2014: Prototype Boba Fett Black Series figure revealed! Only in the six-inch size, but I’ll definitely be saving my pennies for it.

Jun 26, 2014: [gallery] Trying out b&w photography app Lenka, while grinding suburban angst. on Flickr.

Jun 25, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Spider-Man And Daredevil by Frank Miller

Jun 25, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Peanuts Cosplay: Avengers by ChrisGritti

Jun 25, 2014: My analysis of a sneeze versus a toot - The Oatmeal My analysis of a sneeze versus a toot - The Oatmeal

Jun 24, 2014: [gallery] idwcomics: TMNT #25 - 28 Covers by Kevin Eastman, Colors by Ronda Pattison

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Jun 24, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: 1981 - Star Wars #51-54 covers by Walt Simonson

Jun 23, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Sam Fout

Jun 23, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: Caption: The rotating updraft base of a supercell thunderstorm is pictured against the setting sun in Climax, Kansas, US. …

Jun 23, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Cloak and Dagger by Walt Simonson I have some of these comics in a box in storage…

Jun 22, 2014: [gallery] kmwritingdesign: It ain’t easy.

Jun 22, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Colossus by Lee Bermejo Colossus has poor trigger discipline.

Jun 15, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Star Wars Droids: Rebellion art by Kilian Plunkett

Jun 15, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Avengers Babies art by Gurihiru.

Jun 14, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Jonas Nilsson Lee

Jun 14, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Caleb George Morris

Jun 14, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Dan & Levi

Jun 14, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Piotr Kwiatkowski

Jun 13, 2014: ruckawriter: A coalition security force member stands watch with his loyal partner during a mission that arrested a Haqqani facilitator in Pul-e ‘Alam …

Jun 13, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Disney princesses by Heather Theurer Love the Lilo and Stitch. Mulan js amazing.

Jun 13, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Glass lake. 

Jun 12, 2014: starwars: This early concept for Boba Fett, created by Joe Johnston, shows the Bounty Hunter in all white armor used later in screen-testing.

Jun 12, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman vs Joker by Gabriele Dell’Otto Phenomenal.

Jun 12, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross

Jun 12, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Judge dredd by Jock

Jun 12, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Mary Jane Watson by Adam Hughes A very Zooey Deschanel vibe with this one.

Jun 11, 2014: [gallery] davidpetersenart: TMNT: Turtles in Time #3 cover for IDW Process Blogpost: …

Jun 11, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Marvel baby variants by Skottie Young (part 8) - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7

Jun 11, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Oops… Hey, it still works as an abstract.

Jun 11, 2014: [gallery] idwcomics: The Crow: Pestilence #4 SUB Cover by Darick Robertson

Jun 11, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Death of Wolverine #1

Jun 10, 2014: [gallery] jthenr-comics-vault: Batman by Frank Miller & Dave Stewart

Jun 10, 2014: [gallery] Yeah, this will go over well.

Jun 10, 2014: [gallery] ryanlangdraws: Space Ghost.

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Jun 10, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Art used for a vintage triple feature poster.

Jun 10, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Illustration of Ronald Reagan Driving Off-Road and Wreaking Havoc in His Patriotic Muscle Car Sure, why the hell not?

Jun 9, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: wolverine by Olivier Coipel

Jun 9, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Gamora by Gabriele Dell’otto

Jun 9, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Little Heroes & Villains by Darren Rawlings

Jun 9, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Forrest Cavale

Jun 9, 2014: [gallery] ryallsfiles: Judge Dredd #24 cover by Jeffrey Veregge

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Jun 8, 2014: [gallery] ryallsfiles: Samurai Jack #12 cover by Genndy Tartakovsky

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Jun 8, 2014: [gallery] xombiedirge: Machines of Domination & Through The Fire by Raymond Swanland

Jun 8, 2014: [youtube …

Jun 7, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Has Bonk

Jun 7, 2014: [gallery] idwcomics: Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #5 Cover Inks by Ulises Farinas Colors by Owen Gieni Great piece.

Jun 7, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Wolverine by Barry Windsor-Smith

Jun 7, 2014: [gallery] herochan: Twilight Turtles Created by Gustavo Godoi

Jun 7, 2014: [gallery] starwars: A commemorative poster from 1978.

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Jun 6, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Miles Morales by Jamie McKelvie

Jun 6, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Star Wars Montage by Walt Simonson for Topps Cards in 1993

Jun 6, 2014: newoldstockphotos: Virgin Forest in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

Jun 6, 2014: laughingsquid: Special Effects Artist Rick Baker Reveals Creature Designs for Abandoned Pre-’E.T.’ Spielberg Project

Jun 5, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Hellboy by Mark Hammermeister

Jun 5, 2014: laughingsquid: BarkBuddy, An App for Finding Local Adoptable Dogs

Jun 5, 2014: laughingsquid: Art Duo Os Gêmeos Spray Paints Brazilian Soccer Team’s Boeing 737 With Giant Street Art Mural for 2014 World Cup Whoa.

Jun 5, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Alex Talmon

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Jun 4, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: True Detective season 4 Wouldn’t even care about a plot. Would watch those two act anything.

Jun 4, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Captain America The Winter soldier End Credits. David Mack did the illustrations.  LOVED these.

Jun 4, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Leaked ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Production Photos Show the Beginning Stages of the Millennium Falcon My inner six year-old …

Jun 4, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: This photograph, snapped by an astronaut aboard the ISS on December 12, 2013, shows a white flash of lightning amidst the …

Jun 4, 2014: A Bleak Look at the Life of Migrant Workers Building Qatar's World Cup A Bleak Look at the Life of Migrant Workers Building Qatar's World Cup ruckawriter: Found at Gizmodo. Here are just a few of the most horrific facts …

Jun 4, 2014: idwcomics: Wraith #7 Cover by C.P. Wilson III And a very Happy Birthday to the talented and wonderfully creepy Joe Hill! Love this throwback artwork!

Jun 4, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Mario Calvo

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Jun 3, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: A long exposure shows lightning in the sky with reflection in the water on the floor of a building under construction during an …

Jun 3, 2014: [gallery] seguin2011-deactivated20160217: Because you and me? Together? Together, Clint, I think you and me are the person we both wish we could be. …

Jun 3, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Peter Meets Miles SPIDER-MEN #5 (Nov. 2012) Art by Sara Pichelli & Justin Ponsor Words by Brian Michael Bendis

Jun 3, 2014: laughingsquid: Sets From the James Cameron Film ‘Aliens’ Recreated With LEGO

Jun 3, 2014: astonishingx: Marvel vs Capcom 2 - X-Characters + Sketches by Bengus

Jun 2, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Alex Gindin

Jun 2, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: oeming: POWERS BladeRUNNER HOmage https://www.comixology.com/Powers-Vol-3/comics-series/1018

Jun 2, 2014: spaceexp: Boeing continues to develop the CST-100 in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The spacecraft is designed to launch humans to …

Jun 2, 2014: starwars: Dave Filoni’s concepts for The Clone Wars’ Death Watch warrior, Bo Katan.

Jun 2, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Star Wars: The Ralph McQuarrie Gallery // artwork by Ralph McQuarrie (2014) Behold the art of the ultimate conceptual …

Jun 1, 2014: [gallery] godotal: Great use of a snow day…

Jun 1, 2014: [gallery] comicsalliance: Kai Lim Paints Grown-Up Star Wars Scenes the Way They Should Be [Art] Lim has some absolutely amazing work.

Jun 1, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Wolverine by Oscar Römer

Jun 1, 2014: ruckawriter: One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station used a 14mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph …

Jun 1, 2014: tbridge: inapprehension: kellinova: XD Dawww And now I need to get a Bucky Bear for Charlie. Screw my kids, I want a Bucky Bear for me.

May 31, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Funky Beats, Sir? by Jim Mahfood

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May 31, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman 1939 by DiegoYapur

May 31, 2014: laughingsquid: A Lion, A Tiger and A Bear Are the Best of Friends at Noah’s Ark Animal Sanctuary

May 31, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Elektra #2 cover by Mike Del Mundo

May 31, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: pandemiclaughter: odditymall: The SlideRider turns your stairs into a slide and is great for kids on rainy days, or adults with no …

May 31, 2014: ruckawriter: The Equalizer is one of the handful of shows, along with The Sandbaggers and The Rockford Files amongst others, that had a huge influence …

May 30, 2014: laughingsquid: Apple II Computer Model Created Using LEGO by Chris McVeigh

May 30, 2014: [youtube …

May 30, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Elektra Assassin by Giovanni Costa

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May 30, 2014: [gallery] Where’s my jetpack? Oh, it’s right over there in the rental locker.

May 30, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Marvel Art of Joe Madureira

May 30, 2014: Reblog if you want a Black Widow Movie tiffanyb: tj: karategirl666: My guy friend says “No one wants to see some chick do back flips around bad guys.” I want to prove him wrong. Not to …

May 30, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: ‘X-Men’ Actors James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender Do Impressions of Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart

May 29, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Walter from Big Lebowski

May 29, 2014: [youtube …

May 29, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Galactus

May 29, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Moon knight

May 29, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Wolvie art by Valderama.

May 28, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Batman Duh.

May 28, 2014: [gallery] Yeah, I’ve seen this movie before. The tech’s going to have to be way advanced for me to trust it.

May 28, 2014: [gallery] redcell6: Warpath, Domino & Archangel by Clayton Crain (Thunderbird/Warpath spam brought to you by the mighty themechannic)

May 28, 2014: [youtube …

May 28, 2014: “Exactly which elite, liberal institution does have to live up to the left’s values?” Good question. Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir

May 27, 2014: starwars: McQuarrie Monday - Yeah… We’re acutally pretty happy this giant spider-thing didn’t make the final cut.

May 27, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Chris Burnham Awe. Some.

May 27, 2014: [gallery] I hope to see this future sign a LOT.

May 27, 2014: [gallery] davidpetersenart: TMNT 30th Anniversary pinup for IDW Process blogpost: …

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May 26, 2014: [gallery] fyeahmilesmorales-blog: MILES MORALES: THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #4 BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • DAVE MARQUEZ (A/C) THE SPIDER-MAN STORY …

May 25, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Felipe Santana

May 25, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Tirza van Dijk

May 25, 2014: [gallery] comixology: mahmudasrar: The Legendary Star-Lord #1 Variant Cover This here is the colour version rendered by the skillful Jason Keith. …

May 25, 2014: [gallery] starwars: A classic poster celebrating the first 10 years of Star Wars… and now we’re coming up to 40!

May 24, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Wolverine Vs. Ninjas by Mukesh Singh

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May 23, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Rocket Raccoon #1 variant cover. Walk tall and carry a big gun.

May 23, 2014: tbridge: North toward Cape Foulweather from Yaquina Head on Flickr. I would really like to be here right now. Sadly, it is 2,916 miles away.

May 23, 2014: [youtube …

May 23, 2014: [gallery] starwarschroniclebooks: Don’t underestimate the power of reading… Pre-order your copy of Goodnight Darth Vader™ today! Click here to …

May 23, 2014: starwars: Spotlight Of The Week - Bespin

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May 22, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: New Avengers #1 variant cover by Joe Quesada and Richard Isanove

May 21, 2014: chompersthecorgi: Pfffft. Did you really think I would forget to post for Tongue-out Tuesday?? 😜 #chompersthecorgi #tongueouttuesday …

May 21, 2014: [gallery] starwars: The Empire Strikes Back… after these messages.

May 21, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: The original Star Trek cast by Al Hirschfeld.

May 21, 2014: yesterdaywasonly: Baron Pilot.

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May 20, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Miles Morales meets Peter Parker by RipRedwood

May 20, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Crazy-cool original poster art.

May 20, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Gear Up to Protect Our Universe From Villainous Scum in Second Full Trailer

May 19, 2014: [gallery] xombiedirge: The Bat by Nat Jones / Tumblr

May 19, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Camelot 300 house ad Ah, Camelot 3000. The first time I remember being exposed to sex in a comic book.

May 19, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Ready.

May 19, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Avengers versus Justice Friends by Mike Oeming

May 19, 2014: yesterdaywasonly: Lock and load. 

May 19, 2014: amyreeder: Checkitouuut!!! I got to do an Ultimate Spider-man variant cover. I think it’ll be for issue 4. Spider-man has been done so many times and …

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May 18, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: #DailySketch Powers. A great indie comic by brianmichaelbendis and oeming

May 18, 2014: laughingsquid: The Copperhead Fight Scene From ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 1′ Re-Enacted by Kids On the one hand, very cool. On the other hand, wrong, wrong, …

May 18, 2014: [gallery] marvel1980s: Spider-Girl Selfie But we all know her secret identity now, right?

May 18, 2014: [youtube …

May 18, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Captain America #10 variant cover by Gerald Parel

May 18, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Ultimate X-Men by David Finch 

May 17, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Pictorial History of the Pocket Knife, From 600 BC to Present As a long-time, every-day carrier of a pocket knife, this is …

May 17, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: Mangiabarche. Lighthouse Mangiabarche (eater of boats) A very wild coast off Calasetta, Sardinia, Italy. Photo by Enrico Puddu. …

May 17, 2014: ruckawriter: A Guide’s Eye View, by Philip Field. His caption: Two mountain guides direct a helicopter into land high in the Swiss Alps on top of Mt. …

May 17, 2014: idwcomics: Samurai Jack #10 Cover by Andy Suriano

May 17, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Toy Story 2 by Drew Struzan

May 17, 2014: [vimeo 93003441 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: ‘Awakening’, A Stunning 4K Time-Lapse Video Featuring New Zealand’s Natural Landscapes (Source: …

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May 17, 2014: [gallery] chartier: NEEEEEEEEEED I would go see this.

May 16, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Dave Seeley

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May 16, 2014: [gallery] instagram: Exploring Dublin’s Long Room To view more photos and videos from Dublin’s Trinity College Library, explore the Long Room location …

May 16, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: luanneclatterbuck: coconutshipwreck: He got lost in is own museum. I was never a Star Wars kid. I was an Indiana Jones kid. …

May 16, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: Few things more frightening than Frank Castle with a smile on his face. Art by Marco Chechetto.

May 16, 2014: laughingsquid: Beautiful Photo of an Eta Aquarid Meteor Streaking Over Yosemite’s Half Dome

May 16, 2014: laughingsquid: An Incredible Photo of an Alaskan Aurora Shaped Like a Dog

May 15, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: King.

May 15, 2014: [gallery] merlin: Kirk never had to put up with this shit.

May 15, 2014: yesterdaywasonly: Reserved.

May 15, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: humanoidhistory: The Gemini-Titan 10 spacecraft attempts to rendezvous with the Agena Target Docking Vehicle on July 18, 1966. …

May 15, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Joker by Scott Morse

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May 14, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Iron Man 2 poster by John Romita Jr.

May 14, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: #DailySketch “But… I’m just a girl from Fairly.” Original art available in my store

May 14, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister From ‘Game of Thrones’ Illustrated as Disney Characters

May 14, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Cable by Bill Sienkiewicz

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May 14, 2014: hennnypotter: This. More men need to be men. Yep.

May 14, 2014: powells: This one goes out to all the aspiring writers out there during Children’s Book Week. Don’t forget that you have the power to write your own …

May 13, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Keith Misner

May 13, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Ben Moore

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May 13, 2014: 70sscifiart: H.R. Giger on the set of Alien, creating the props, set-pieces and costumes, 1979. via Reddit

May 12, 2014: [vimeo 93043141 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: Dumb and Dumber as an Epic Drama (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

May 12, 2014: [vimeo 92659631 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: “Exit Log”, A Sci-Fi Short Film About Two Time Traveling Astronauts (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

May 12, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Bamm-Bamm - art by Patrick Owsley

May 12, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: The cover of Marvel’s collected comic adaption of DUNE, 1984, by Bill Sienkiewicz. The cover art was light-years better than the …

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May 12, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman & Hellboy by Christopher Stevens

May 11, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Usagi Yojimbo by Bill Sienkiewicz for Sharon and Stan Sakai

May 11, 2014: [gallery] davidpetersenart: TMNT Turtles in Time #2 cover for IDW Process blogpost: …

May 11, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Dr. Seuss Portrait by Bill Sienkiewicz

May 11, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batgirl by Alex Ross, 2010 “Crikey, isn’t he tired of all this Alex Ross art?” NEVER.

May 11, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Star Lord #1

May 11, 2014: comixology: kane52630: Watchmen Chapter I Art by Dave Gibbons Words by Alan Moore Kane52630 Gifs x

May 10, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Batman by Enrique Alcatena

May 10, 2014: writewild: John van de Ruit

May 10, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Jim Henson sketch #c2e2

May 10, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: My brother and I had a brief outing into an area we had not explored in years and years. We used to sneak off down here …

May 10, 2014: bobbyrubio: My X-Men Photoset by Animator/Story Artist, Bobby Rubio Rubio rocks. These are fantastic.

May 10, 2014: [vimeo 68450739 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: ‘Kinetic East’, A Time-Lapse Tour of Southeast Scotland (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

May 9, 2014: [gallery] Punisher: Kitchen Irish, 2004, cover by Tim Bradstreet Frank Castle’s badassness, perfectly captured.

May 9, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Bladerunner by Drew Struzan, 2007

May 9, 2014: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVs_ozJTnVk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] -- …

May 9, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Ghost Rider by Bill Sienkiewicz

May 9, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: An Illustrated Guide on How to Survive a Lightning Strike by The Art of Manliness

May 9, 2014: [gallery] klappersacks: 1976 Sealed KISS Rock and Roll Over 8-Track by gregg_koenig on Flickr.

May 9, 2014: The Last Phantom #10 cover by Alex Ross

May 8, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Waiting to be replaced. 

May 8, 2014: Barry Windsor-Smith in black and white.

May 8, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: cwj: Koch told me that for years he has swallowed your standard Fleischmann’s dry yeast before he drinks, stirring the white …

May 8, 2014: Batman: Gotham Knights #2 cover by Brian Bolland

May 8, 2014: Every Single Lawsuit From Elmo's Accusers Has Been Thrown Out of Court Every Single Lawsuit From Elmo's Accusers Has Been Thrown Out of Court nerddotis: jimmymarks: Kevin Clash was a young black man from the projects of …

May 8, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Leinil Francis Yu ~ Pencils for his Variant Covers for Secret Invasion #s 1-8 These are totally badass.

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May 7, 2014: Everything We Know About...Editing! Everything We Know About...Editing! lettersandlight: Are you tackling a writing project that isn’t a brand-spanking new novel during Camp NaNoWriMo? …

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May 6, 2014: Superman & Batman by Alex Ross

May 6, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Frank chos cover to this summer’s guardians of the galaxy annual

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May 6, 2014: starwars: Spotlight of the Week - Y-wing: tough, dependable Rebel bomber. I always thought the Y-Wing looked cooler than the X-Wing.

May 6, 2014: Batman Beyond by Alex Ross Yes, you may have noticed I have a thing for Alex Ross’ art. So?

May 6, 2014: Batman by Alex Ross

May 6, 2014: oreo: See how food innovator Michael Voltaggio’s Fanatic Hack flips the script on game time chips. Yes, I’m reblogging a sponsored post, but …

May 5, 2014: Joker’s Reckoning by Alex Ross. This was also the cover for Wizard Magazine #99.

May 5, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Usagi Yojimbo by Gabriel Bá

May 5, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Kingdom Come novelization artwork by Alex Ross

May 5, 2014: [gallery] idwcomics: 30 years ago today, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuted! Happy 30th, dudes! Love the Turtles! (Parents, be warned: the …

May 5, 2014: [gallery] Cinco de Mayo? No. It’s the Revenge of the 5th.

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May 5, 2014: newoldstockphotos: Pegasus Carried by B-52

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May 4, 2014: [vimeo 92382021 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: ‘Silent Storms’, A Short Film Capturing The Gorgeous Geomagnetic Storms of the Scandinavian Night Sky …

May 4, 2014: starwars: Hammerhead at Mos Eisley Cantina. Concept art by Ron Cobb.

May 4, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Detailed Mosaics of ‘Star Wars’ Characters Created Using Tens of Thousands of Multi-Colored Staples

May 4, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Star Wars Legion, An Art Show Featuring Artist’s Unique Interpretations of the Iconic Stormtrooper Helmet

May 4, 2014: [gallery] starwarschroniclebooks: Help Leia get through to her father… Find more Star Wars Day fun and games on the Chronicle Books Blog, and May the …

May 4, 2014: Just putting this here for future usage reference.

May 4, 2014: starwarschroniclebooks: “That which you seek, inside you will find.” —Yoda Happy Star Wars Day! Download a May the 4th activity kit with finger …

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May 3, 2014: Four New Species of Deep-Sea Killer Sponge Discovered Four New Species of Deep-Sea Killer Sponge Discovered ruckawriter: Four new species of carnivorous sea sponge have been discovered in a place where …

May 3, 2014: [gallery] newoldstockphotos: Explorer XVII Satellite

May 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Bucky Barnes by Alex Ross

May 3, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Dramatic Photo of Ash and Lightning Taken at Eyjafjallajokull Volcano in Iceland

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May 3, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Hey everyone, I’ll be in Des Moines, IA at Mayhem Collectibles this Saturday, May 3rd for Free Comic Book Day. Come say hi. …

May 2, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: Dunstanburgh’s Dramatic Sunrise, by Donald McClymont. Photograph: RNLI Found at The Guardian.

May 2, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Mirage and the Demon Bear by Bill Sienkiewicz

May 2, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Paul E. Harrer

May 2, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Matthew Wiebe

May 2, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Judge Dredd by Brian Bolland

May 2, 2014: ruckawriter: nbcnews: Worst Nightmare: Terror group sells kidnapped girls (Photo: Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters) Mothers marched Wednesday in Nigeria to …

May 2, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Usagi Yojimbo sketch #c2e2

May 1, 2014: 8 Points to Consider When You Name Your Book 8 Points to Consider When You Name Your Book writewild: via “The title you give it will have a life of its own. It is the first thing a reader …

May 1, 2014: newoldstockphotos: Cobra Helicopter at Sunrise

May 1, 2014: [gallery] writewild: Sinclair Lewis

May 1, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Captain America: The Winter Soldier poster by Paolo Rivera There is nothing I do not like about this.

May 1, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Guardians of the Galaxy #16. Cover by Nick Bradshaw. Figured I needed to give a little love to someone other than RR …

May 1, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Samurai Jack sketch #c2e2

May 1, 2014: PEBKAC: Finales, Friendships, and the Future This column originally appeared in the May 2012 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. Thus, we arrive at the end of the road. Two constants in …

Apr 30, 2014: [gallery] newoldstockphotos: The Control Room

Apr 30, 2014: [gallery] chroniclebooks: 5 Unforgettable Love Letters to Libraries

Apr 30, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: X-Men: Days of Future Past by Alex Maleev

Apr 30, 2014: [gallery] chroniclebooks: 5 Unforgettable Love Letters to Libraries

Apr 30, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Star Wars #1 by Alex Ross Story by Brian Wood. A great reboot by Dark Horse. Will be interesting to see what happens with it once …

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Apr 30, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Rocket raccoon sketch #c2e2

Apr 29, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Rocketeer Adventures covers by Alex Ross

Apr 29, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: How about a little Rocket Raccoon sneak peek? Ongoing series written and drawn by me, colored by my main man Jean Francois …

Apr 29, 2014: [gallery] chroniclebooks: Me too. 5 Unforgettable Love Letters to Libraries Should really use our library more. Especially for the boys.

Apr 29, 2014: [gallery] francavillarts: BAT HUNTER (2006 circa) Concept/Art by Francesco Francavilla Cheers, FF

Apr 29, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The Batman by Daniel Krall

Apr 29, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Hawkeye sketch #c2e2

Apr 28, 2014: [gallery] writewild: Like my Marketing teacher once said: and the most important rule is to never follow rules. 

Apr 28, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: Five Caterpillar Excavators Play a Giant Game of Jenga With a Massive Tower Wooden Blocks (Source: …

Apr 28, 2014: humanoidhistory: Apollo 15 astronaut James B. Irwin at work on the Moon, 31 July 1971. (NASA)

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Apr 28, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: GoPro First Person Point of View Video Showing What It’s Like to Set Off an Avalanche and Then Ski …

Apr 28, 2014: booksforsoldiers: Help us put together care packages for deployed US troops fighting for us. Donate today. Yep, many are still deployed and in harm’s …

Apr 27, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - David Michael Beck

Apr 27, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Captain America by Alex Ross

Apr 27, 2014: [youtube …

Apr 27, 2014: laughingsquid: 3D Models of Cute Robots in Real World Situations The Hellboy robot? I’d pay for a figurine/statue of that one. Incredible work.

Apr 27, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Marvel Comics Will Be Killing Off Wolverine In September 2014 With the ‘Death of Wolverine’ Miniseries But will he actually …

Apr 26, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Line em up.

Apr 26, 2014: laughingsquid: BatDad Is Back with His Seventh Compilation of Funny Vine Videos The scene with the kids all on the couch? I was crying. (Source: …

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Apr 25, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Set.

Apr 25, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Eric Powell Awesome.

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Apr 25, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Series of Interactive Maps Showing Preferred Major League Baseball Teams by Region Across the United States

Apr 25, 2014: [gallery] imagecomics: arcaneimages: And if you don’t like it…the doors over there. Via Jordie Bellaire ‏@whoajordie 16h Good news. If you want a …

Apr 25, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Spotlight Of The Week - Han Solo (art by Jerry Vanderstelt)

Apr 24, 2014: Kauai 2014 I finally got around to uploading the rest of my good photos from our trip to Kauai earlier this month, including some from swimming with a pair of …

Apr 24, 2014: laughingsquid: Two Older Women Take Their First Flight On A Plane Together What a brilliant pairing. I found myself smiling the entire time the two …

Apr 24, 2014: starwars: This fighting tauntaun concept was created as nose art for a Republic ship used in The Clone Wars. Awesome.

Apr 24, 2014: A major concern in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones is power. Almost everybody – except maybe Daenerys, across the waters with her dragons – …

Apr 24, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch starwars: There’s hope for the rest of us! Even Jedi Masters flub their lines… Because who doesn’t like seeing Hayden …

Apr 24, 2014: [vimeo 89298972 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: Quick 4, A Workout App Based on the Tabata Regimen Originally Used by Japanese Olympic Athletes Your …

Apr 24, 2014: [gallery] chompersthecorgi: corgidogsorg: I’d love to be run over by this stampede over and over again :) I love this!! You need Corgi puppy …

Apr 23, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: 1983 - Star Slammers original art by Walt Simonson

Apr 23, 2014: Imagine going back to 2009 and telling your iPhone 3GS-carrying self that, by 2013, you’d be downloading apps by scanning your fingerprint on the Home …

Apr 23, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Heading out. 

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Apr 23, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Ryan Church’s concept for the firey planet Mustafar

Apr 23, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - David Michael Beck

Apr 22, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: ‘A Film About Johnny Cash’s Out Among the Stars’, A Short Documentary That Pays Tribute to the Man in …

Apr 22, 2014: [vimeo 90707024 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: ‘This Is Iceland’, A Stunning Time Lapse Video Documenting the Northern Lights Over Iceland Because I …

Apr 22, 2014: yesterdaywasonly: New toys.

Apr 22, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: #DailySketch The Maxx The Maxx is one of my favorite things ever and my buddy Ryan Ottley drew him a few days ago so I …

Apr 22, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch First person view of Blue Angels practice [via Shawn King at The Loop.] (Source: http://www.loopinsight.com/)

Apr 22, 2014: Report Finds 30 Million Slaves Around The World - International News - redOrbit Report Finds 30 Million Slaves Around The World - International News - redOrbit An estimated 30 million people around the world are living as slaves, …

Apr 21, 2014: laughingsquid: How Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Should Have Ended (Source: http://links.laughingsquid.com/)

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Apr 21, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman & Catwoman by Cliff Chiang

Apr 21, 2014: [gallery] rodolforever: IRON MAN

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Apr 20, 2014: [vimeo 90536368 w=250 h=132] laughingsquid: ‘Eye of the Storm’, A Short Film Documenting the Extreme Beauty of an Icelandic Winter If you find the …

Apr 20, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: This has made me laugh SO HARD. As Tiff just said on seeing this: “Every baby thinks that.” Yep, laughed out loud. Still giggling …

Apr 20, 2014: [gallery] comixology: onipress: joeinfurnari: Captain America blasts through today’s warmup sketch! Enjoy! Did you miss yesterday’s sketch? Batman! …

Apr 20, 2014: [vimeo 91359423 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: The Man Behind The Mountain, A Short Film About Salvation Mountain Artist Leonard Knight (Source: …

Apr 19, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Hitoshi Ariga

Apr 19, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Astro City: A Visitor’s Guide, December 2004, cover by Alex Ross One of those great comics where the story was as good as the …

Apr 19, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Decoding Your Menu, A Cute Illustrated Guide for Restaurant Patrons by Gemma Correll

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Apr 18, 2014: wolvensnothere: Always Reblog Ripley

Apr 18, 2014: My hunny bunny made bunny butt cookies for our youngest’s birthday party tomorrow. Recipe via Pillsbury.

Apr 18, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Captain America unused 1989 movie poster by Joe Jusko

Apr 18, 2014: dommifox: They’re gonna eat all the chickens…

Apr 18, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Hitoshi Ariga

Apr 17, 2014: [gallery] herochan: Happy Birthday to Artist Rodolfo Reyes! Check out his DeviantArt and be sure to follow him on Tumblr.

Apr 17, 2014: [gallery] writewild: Ray Bradbury

Apr 17, 2014: laughingsquid: A Fascinating 1978 Information Brochure for ARPANET, The Network That Evolved Into Internet Pretty sure a photocopy of this was on …

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Apr 17, 2014: “So,” said Mercury, “where are we going?” “I have to go see the Antichrist,” Christine said […] “Oh …

Apr 16, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel #1 to #4 by Darick Robertson Also, always reblog Conan. And no, not the tall red-headed dork.

Apr 16, 2014: [youtube …

Apr 16, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Hitoshi Ariga

Apr 15, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: Batman: Strange Days, A New Short Celebrating 75 Years of Batman by ‘The Animated Series’ Creator Bruce …

Apr 15, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Stormtrooper riding a Dewback by Walter Simonson Always reblog Simonson art.

Apr 14, 2014: [gallery] instagram: Exploring Sarajevo’s Abandoned Olympic Park To see more photos and videos of Sarajevo’s Olympic bobsled and luge track, explore …

Apr 14, 2014: [vimeo 90429499 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: ‘Water’, A Peek Below the Waves of Tahiti and Hawaii Gorgeous. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Apr 13, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Business Card Designs That Imagine the Real World Jobs of Famous Movie and TV Show Characters

Apr 13, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Björn Simon

Apr 12, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Afroz Nawaf

Apr 12, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Danka Peter

Apr 11, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Sonja Langford

Apr 11, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Ryan Schroeder

Apr 10, 2014: laughingsquid: The Many Varieties of Whiskey by Pop Chart Lab, An Art Print Categorizing All the Major Varieties of Whiskey

Apr 10, 2014: laughingsquid: TinkerBots, A Toy-Building Set That Allows Young Children to Build Simple Robots I’m in.

Apr 10, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: Excellent.

Apr 9, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: The powers universe by Michael Avon Oeming Love his art style.

Apr 9, 2014: Kapersky Lab Realtime Cyberthreat Map Kapersky Lab Realtime Cyberthreat Map ruckawriter: Neat. Seriously, NEAT.

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Apr 8, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Star Slammers #3 Cover by Walter Simonson Colors by Len O’Grady Loved this series when it originally debuted in the …

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Apr 7, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Wolverine by Paul Smith

Apr 6, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Original covers by John Byrne from Space: 1999 #3-6, published by Charlton Comics, March-September, 1976.

Apr 6, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Hugh Fleming > Star Wars

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Apr 5, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: theremina: I’m just gonna go ahead and start responding to any and all pleas for advice with that line. I’m gonna make that a …

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Apr 4, 2014: The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room …

Apr 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Spider-Man by Daniel Scott Gabriel Murray This is just some breath-taking art.

Apr 3, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Wolverine versus Usagi Yojimbo by Paul Smith

Apr 2, 2014: We opt for more instead of better. Better is better than more. Seth’s Godin — Not even one note (via minimalmac)

Apr 2, 2014: brianmichaelbendis: Batman by Alex Maleev

Apr 1, 2014: ruckawriter: Blast Off!, Spiegel Online, Picture This. Credit: Agence France-Presse. Caption: Ever wondered what a rocket launch looks like up close? …

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Apr 1, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Styles of Writing, A Comic by Grant Snider That Explores the Many Different Kinds of Writing

Apr 1, 2014: [gallery] hashiyasume: Sumo wrestler Playing baseball Oh my.

Mar 31, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: A Handy Flowchart To Determine Which Pet Is Best Love it.

Mar 31, 2014: Building your story: The Set-up Building your story: The Set-up writewild: I don’t know how you guys start writing a novel(s) - but I’m the kind of person who gets an idea, loves it …

Mar 31, 2014: [gallery] pitchersandpoets: jackie robinson, 1947, from the our game blog by john thorn.

Mar 30, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: Sneaky Dog Rolls Around On Forbidden Bed When Humans Are Away (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Mar 30, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: smoke break by xshaunx

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Mar 29, 2014: laughingsquid: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Shredder for the Fate of New York City in Film Reboot’s First Trailer Mixed feelings. (Source: …

Mar 28, 2014: laughingsquid: Famous Bands Recreated in LEGO

Mar 28, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Batman & Joker by Scott Morse

Mar 27, 2014: [gallery] laughingsquid: Behind-the-Scenes Photos of the ‘Star Wars’ Films

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Mar 27, 2014: starwars: Spotlight of the Week - Utapau

Mar 26, 2014: laughingsquid: Photographer Documents Wild Cheetah’s Personal Visit To Their Safari Vehicle In the Serengeti Um….

Mar 26, 2014: [gallery] justharleyquinn: Batman Villains by MikeMahle Wonderful.

Mar 26, 2014: starwars: Artist of the Week - Adam Hughes

Mar 26, 2014: laughingsquid: The ‘Devils’ Stir Throughout Westeros in the New ‘Game of Thrones’ Season Four Trailer Eleven more days! (Source: …

Mar 26, 2014: [vimeo 87973054 w=250 h=141] laughingsquid: Oreo the Tuxedo Cat Plays Ping-Pong With His Humans I was totally rooting for Oreo. (Source: …

Mar 25, 2014: laughingsquid: An Incredible Point-of-View Video of a BASE Jump From One World Trade Center at 3am You can skip to the 2:30 mark without missing …

Mar 25, 2014: [vimeo 88093956 w=250 h=141] ruckawriter: brucesterling: http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/plane-viz/ Amazing. (Source: …

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Mar 25, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch laughingsquid: Following a Blood Donation from Donor to Recipient Utterly fascinating. (Source: …

Mar 24, 2014: starwars: McQuarrie Monday - I’m watching you, Skywalker. Always watching…

Mar 24, 2014: ruckawriter: Photo credit: Muhammed Muhelsin/AP Caption: AP photojournalist Muhammed Muheisen continues to document the daily life of the poor and …

Mar 24, 2014: [gallery] stars-in-streams: Volcanoes: 1-Chaiten in Chile 2-Chaiten in Chile 3-Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland 4-Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland 5-Chaiten in …

Mar 23, 2014: [gallery] Dragon’s Play by Darryl Neeley on Flickr. Wow, what a capture.

Mar 23, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Truth.

Mar 22, 2014: [youtube …

Mar 22, 2014: starwars: Artist of the Week - Christopher Moeller

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Mar 22, 2014: instagram: World Water Day 2014 on Instagram For more photos and videos from World Water Day around the world, browse the #waterday and #worldwaterday …

Mar 22, 2014: [gallery] chrisuminga: Groot and Rocket. 11X17 ink on paper, colored with Photoshop

Mar 22, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Marco sama

Mar 21, 2014: Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel mordinwrites: Found this article. Found it incredibly helpful. Be sure to go read the full …

Mar 21, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Out on a limb.

Mar 20, 2014: [gallery] “Yahoo! Now let’s blow this thing and go home!” on Flickr.

Mar 20, 2014: starwars: Here’s your first look at the cover of William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher.  I haven’t finished the first one, but …

Mar 20, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Just as I stepped out of my car to park a train came roaring by at full speed, I instinctually raised my camera to my face …

Mar 19, 2014: Dumb — Shawn Blanc Dumb — Shawn Blanc My analog watches are my reminder that utility exists apart from an internet connection and usefulness doesn’t require the latest …

Mar 19, 2014: [gallery] starwars: This concept art by Dave Filoni hits us right in the feels.

Mar 19, 2014: staceythinx: Jim Urquhart has been documenting a team of scientists who are using the Utah desert as a dry run for future missions to Mars

Mar 18, 2014: [gallery] fer1972: Lord of the Rings illustrated by Frank Frazetta in 1975

Mar 18, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Passing by.

Mar 17, 2014: ruckawriter: A partially frozen Niagara Falls is photographed by Mark Blinch during sub-zero temperatures in Ontario. Photo: Mark Blinch/Reuters. …

Mar 16, 2014: [gallery] This could be useful in the future.

Mar 16, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Sylwia Bartyzel

Mar 15, 2014: How do you know if your idea for a book is a bad idea or not before you start writing? I don't want to get 20,000 words in and realize there's a major loophole in my plot or it's just overall a terrible book. fixyourwritinghabits: Constantly work on the plot. While writing, you’re going to come across ideas and realizations that will make it better. Don’t …

Mar 15, 2014: Karwendel Night Sky by _flowtation on Flickr.

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Mar 14, 2014: [gallery] starwars: May the Forks be with you this Pi Day. 

Mar 14, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Utapau grotto concept art from Episode III by Erik Tiemens.

Mar 13, 2014: [gallery] tiffanyb: thefrogman: Photographs by Barry Bland/Barcroft USA COME LIVE AT MY HOUSE KIDS Wolf AND tiger cubs frollicking together? Guys, …

Mar 13, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Ouch. Because don’t we all want to watch Jar-Jar get kicked repeatedly in the nuts?

Mar 12, 2014: [gallery] daveyoufool: Neither Courage Wolf nor Calming Manatee were doing much to help my anxiety, but I knew they were both on to something. So, I …

Mar 12, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Any other day.

Mar 11, 2014: [vimeo 70410780 w=250 h=141] tbridge: beefranck: everythinginthesky: Timeholes (2:00 min) SO GOOD Worth your two minutes. (Source: …

Mar 11, 2014: [gallery] skottieyoung: Usagi Yojimbo piece for the Sakai project.  drools

Mar 10, 2014: [gallery] merlin: comicbookartwork: Rocket Raccoon and Groot by Skottie Young My current-favorite buddy team, beautifully rendered by my …

Mar 10, 2014: [gallery] ratak-monodosico: B17 over San Francisco (1952) This has made the Internet rounds before, but I still love it. Iconic.

Mar 9, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: erictrautmann: The seriously enviable talent of Laurent Durieux. Agreed. These are fantastic. I love the Iron Giant one.

Mar 9, 2014: [gallery] instagram: Exploring the Clifftop Ruins of Scotland’s Dunnottar Castle For more photos and videos from the ruins, explore the Dunnottar …

Mar 8, 2014: [gallery] thehappysorceress: DC Trinity by Tony Dela Cruz Print available at ECCC I approve.

Mar 8, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Emanuele Pinna

Mar 7, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Pavel Voinov

Mar 7, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Tiago Gerken

Mar 6, 2014: If we’re to take the “collective right” explanation on its face, then the Second Amendment created a right that the states are powerless to execute, …

Mar 6, 2014: [gallery] tiffanyb: Always reblog.

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Mar 5, 2014: [gallery] starwars: A sick ARC-170 concept by Ryan Church from Episode III.

Mar 4, 2014: [gallery] polaroidtransfers: Heat to the Rescue: Sturdy Oil Drum Survival Kit Also Converts Into Stove. Like the Haitian earthquake of 2010, last …

Mar 4, 2014: [gallery] 051 by Old Bluebeard on Flickr.

Mar 4, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: redcloud: tymethiefslongerthoughts: Colonel Henrietta Wraithfield — not bad. Sir Ambrose Supperbottom, at your service. One I …

Mar 3, 2014: [vimeo 85134959 w=250 h=141] ruckawriter: Huelex by Randy Halverson. Found at Laughing Squid. Wondrous. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Mar 3, 2014: starwars: Artist of the Week - Cliff Chiang

Mar 3, 2014: [gallery] Thanks to the Tumblr staff, I was informed this little blog turned 7 today!

Mar 3, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch tbridge: Jimmy & The Muppets Say Goodbye To “Late Night” (w/ “The Weight” from “The Last Waltz”) (by Late Night with …

Mar 2, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Post boil. Great colors.

Mar 2, 2014: [youtube …

Mar 1, 2014: ruckawriter: spaceexp: Rhea and Titan together, taken by Cassini on December 10, 2011, processed by Gordan Ugarkovic That’s stunning.

Mar 1, 2014: yesterdaywasonly: Baby, it’s cold outside.  From a couple of weeks ago, but what a great shot.

Feb 28, 2014: How to Write a Strong Beginning How to Write a Strong Beginning writewild: via 1. Don’t open before the beginning. Mystery author William G. Tapley points out, “Starting before the …

Feb 28, 2014: Apparently, increasing the minimum wage was not important for American workers during the first five years of Obama’s presidency — least of all his …

Feb 28, 2014: [gallery] tastefullyoffensive: How October Jones Passes Time on the Train Related: Subway Snapchat Art Brilliant.

Feb 28, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch What happens when Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, and Conan O'Brien share a Lyft car? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Feb 28, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Character of the Week Image - R2-D2

Feb 27, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Spinning tonight: Beck, Morning Phase. The post man must really love me because both this and Nils Frahm’s Spaces arrived …

Feb 27, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Awesome X-wing concept art by the equally awesome VFX master-turned-director, Joe Johnston.  I’m a sucker for Star Wars …

Feb 27, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Down the line.

Feb 26, 2014: starwars: Take a sneak peek at TIE fighters, the Ghost starship, and new heroes in this special teaser! Woohoo!! (Source: …

Feb 26, 2014: [gallery] Very intriguing tip.

Feb 26, 2014: [gallery] xombiedirge: Usagi Yojimbo Tributes by Nat Jones, Antonio Crew, Shane White, Scott West, Craig Thompson, Cameron Stewart & Tim Shinn …

Feb 25, 2014: ruckawriter: notpulpcovers: Anything Goes No time for love, Doctor Jones. Because it’s Indiana Jones, that’s why.

Feb 25, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Sylwia Bartyzel

Feb 25, 2014: ruckawriter: optimysticals: bevkatzz: “I love that she’s unapologetically badass. There’s no back-story trying to explain something horrible that …

Feb 24, 2014: [gallery] starwars: McQuarrie Monday - Oh man, my dad is going to be so mad I was leading an attack against his base…

Feb 24, 2014: [gallery] tbridge: This is great. Where can one register for this seminar? Asking for a friend.

Feb 24, 2014: Opt out of Dropbox's arbitration clause Opt out of Dropbox's arbitration clause tiffanyb: If you’re a Dropbox user, you probably got an email in the last few days about an update to their …

Feb 24, 2014: Harold Ramis, Comedic Master tbridge: Harold Ramis, 69, died today in Chicago. Ghostbusters. Animal House. Groundhog Day. Analyze This. Caddyshack. Stripes. National Lampoon’s …

Feb 24, 2014: 5 questions to ask yourself when writing your novel. allenjf: Ask questions, take notes, and outline. 1. What does your protagonist want? 2. What happens if your protagonist doesn’t get what he/she …

Feb 23, 2014: [gallery] Downtown Dallas, on approach. on Flickr.

Feb 23, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Yair Hazout

Feb 23, 2014: A Word About The Creator of Rocket Raccoon A Word About The Creator of Rocket Raccoon ruckawriter: charlotteofoz: So the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer was sweet. We all love Rocket Raccoon. …

Feb 22, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Anders Jildén

Feb 22, 2014: [gallery] chroniclebooks: What is it about physical books that keeps us coming back for more? ALL THE FEELS. Fatbrain breaks it down, infographic …

Feb 21, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Nicola Perantoni

Feb 21, 2014: [youtube …

Feb 20, 2014: [gallery] mulhollanduncovered: Books do make the best weapons! For arguments as well as, um, bashing. Because: Stitch, and The Heat.

Feb 20, 2014: starwars: Throwback Thursday - Hunting for mynocks with Carrie.

Feb 13, 2014: [gallery] “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges

Feb 6, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Anders Jildén

Feb 6, 2014: [gallery] The latest tee acquisition. on Flickr.

Feb 6, 2014: starwars: To celebrate the upcoming Star Wars Rebels, Lucasfilm and Disney XD sent out these limited edition Imperial propaganda posters by Amy Beth …

Feb 5, 2014: [gallery] spaceexp: Northern Lights - Taken by a member of the ISS Crew

Jan 31, 2014: [youtube …

Jan 31, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Tim and Greg Hildebrant Fett. The Hildebrants. ‘Nuff said.

Jan 30, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Superheroes by John Gallagher / Website  So perfect.

Jan 30, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Wolfgang Moritzer

Jan 29, 2014: spaceexp: Astronaut Rick Mastracchio during the Christmas Eve spacewalk

Jan 29, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch ruckawriter: God help me, I’m posting a funny cat video. Found at Scientific American. The minions of Lucifer are so …

Jan 28, 2014: [gallery] brianmichaelbendis: Rorschach by Dave Gibbons

Jan 28, 2014: starwars: One of Kilian Plunkett’s concepts for the Ghost, our protagonists’ ship in Star Wars Rebels. Someone’s clearly a fan of World War II-era …

Jan 27, 2014: starwars: Artist of the Week - John Alvin Like this comes across my screen and doesn’t get reblogged.

Jan 27, 2014: yesterdaywasonly: Wide awake and dreaming.

Jan 26, 2014: [gallery] gameraboy: Star Wars Noir posters by Dean Reeves Fett just seems really cut out for the noir scene, doesn’t he?

Jan 26, 2014: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: This time things will be different.

Jan 25, 2014: [gallery] boomerstarkiller67: Rebel warfare - art Richard Lim These are incredible. Love the top one.

Jan 25, 2014: Something I hadn’t considered. That’s not bad advice.

Jan 24, 2014: [gallery] ruckawriter: This is cat battle armor. It is made by someone called sschnabuble, who is selling it on Etsy.. For real. Now you can dress …

Jan 24, 2014: starwars: Classic Ralph McQuarrie art used as the original Star Wars novelization cover. I have this paperback. On a shelf. In my home. Shocked, I …

Jan 23, 2014: Hey Matt, Was wondering what would be your favorite or most used writing techniques? If any? Thanks. mattfractionblog: panic and crippling self doubt The more you know.

Jan 23, 2014: [gallery] starwars: Artist of the Week - Howard Chaykin. First advance Star Wars poster given to fans in 1976 at comic conventions.

Jan 22, 2014: [gallery] Every interstellar smuggler should have a trusty sidekick. on Flickr. Complete with roaring Wookiee text tone.

Jan 22, 2014: [gallery] spaceexp: The Milky Way at Shenandoah National Park Source: vtgohokies (flickr)

Jan 22, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Kelly Sikkema

Jan 21, 2014: [gallery] The circle is now complete. on Flickr. Some may disagree with my statement in my last post. Fair enough. But he’s certainly *my* …

Jan 21, 2014: [gallery] jasonsmomoa: Han Solo Appreciation Post Everyone’s favorite smuggler.

Jan 20, 2014: [gallery] starwars: “This is no cave.” As an animated GIF, this scene now becomes utterly hysterical.

Jan 20, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Monika Majkowska

Jan 19, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Robin Röcker

Jan 19, 2014: [gallery] nanowrimoallyear: (via @bittergrapevine)

Jan 18, 2014: [gallery] I think I may be ready for our very early morning. on Flickr. Puck drop at 6:15. Which means we have to be there at 5:15. In the morning. …

Jan 18, 2014: James Earl Jones on Darth Vader, Mufasa and, natch, Totes McGotes James Earl Jones on Darth Vader, Mufasa and, natch, Totes McGotes bronwen: You’re never tempted to pick up the phone and pretend to be Darth Vader?I …

Jan 18, 2014: Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature    Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature  weed-speed-and-cigarettes: The Classics Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other …

Jan 18, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Todd Quackenbush

Jan 9, 2014: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch anniezard: nevertoooldtolovemuppets: nevertoooldtolovemuppets: nevertoooldtolovemuppets: Believe me when I say, …

Jan 8, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Dyaa Eldin Moustafa

Jan 8, 2014: [gallery] ponderation: One night in Himalaya by Ivan_Kozorezov

Jan 7, 2014: [gallery] Geminid Amazeballs! by Mike Bolam on Flickr.

Jan 7, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Beto Galetto

Jan 6, 2014: [gallery] nanohelpblog: signcherie: aphreal42: paperclippe: Before #nanowrimo, thoughts on writing from Neil Gaiman. #3 is definitely the hardest …

Jan 6, 2014: unsplash: Download / By Wojtek Witkowski

Jan 5, 2014: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Alex Talmon

Jan 5, 2014: [gallery] Pathway to Kirkjufell by StephenMcGill_UK on Flickr.

Jan 4, 2014: [gallery] Spirit of Etna by roberto_86 on Flickr.

Jan 4, 2014: [gallery] Raincoat by Nuno Caldeira on Flickr.

Jan 3, 2014: Mercurial Marina… by Charlie_Joe on Flickr.

Jan 3, 2014: [gallery] Red Mt. Fuji by tmizo on Flickr.

Jan 2, 2014: [gallery] Sunset 11-17-13 by Ellen Soohoo on Flickr.

Jan 2, 2014: Flight of Honour… by Charlie_Joe on Flickr.

Jan 1, 2014: [gallery] Good Morning Portland! by lumachrome on Flickr.

Jan 1, 2014: [gallery] Sron na Lairig by Colin Wells on Flickr.

Dec 31, 2013: [gallery] IMG_11369_Changhua by Mark Kao on Flickr.

Dec 31, 2013: Some Lillooet Ice by Dru! on Flickr.

Dec 30, 2013: [gallery] Carsington Sun Set by smittix on Flickr.

Dec 30, 2013: [gallery] 09-12-13 Moon and near miss Jet by James Lennie on Flickr.

Dec 29, 2013: Ice! by eric.dacus on Flickr.

Dec 29, 2013: What Do Your Android Reader Apps Know About You? What Do Your Android Reader Apps Know About You? ruckawriter: From The Electronic Frontier Foundation, by Parker Higgins. Graphic prepared by Matt …

Dec 28, 2013: [gallery] Beeley Fire by millsj82 on Flickr.

Dec 27, 2013: [youtube …

Dec 27, 2013: London typeface by Antonio Rodrigues London typeface by Antonio Rodrigues I stumbled upon one of the more unique (but still usable) typefaces I’ve seen in a while this week. London is an …

Dec 26, 2013: [gallery] Burning Dream by Jonathan J Scott on Flickr.

Dec 25, 2013: [gallery] Aurora og Nordlandsnupen by tomviktor on Flickr.

Dec 24, 2013: iPhone image on 2013-12-09 at 09:57:07.jpeg iPhone image on 2013-12-09 at 09:57:07.jpeg Shared with Droplr Just a beautiful wallpaper I came across via the social networks.

Dec 23, 2013: [vimeo 82595341 w=250 h=141] Running off some energy from Chris Turner on Vimeo. Eight hours in the car, and no backyard to play in like normal means …

Dec 23, 2013: ‘Bioluminescence’ - Black Point, Anglesey by Kristofer Williams on Flickr.

Dec 22, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse: Someone wants a belly rub.

Dec 22, 2013: [gallery] Rush Hour - Maldon by petach123 (Peter Tachauer) on Flickr.

Dec 21, 2013: lsuverse: “Proud to support the LSU Tigers while on mission in Afghanistan.” Brings a bit of perspective to the term “helmet sticker”.

Dec 21, 2013: [gallery] starwars: A classic, updated epically.  A completely acceptable use of animated GIF.

Dec 21, 2013: [gallery] starwars: An awesome #StarWars poster from 1977.

Dec 21, 2013: [gallery] IMG_11679_Hehuanshan by Mark Kao on Flickr.

Dec 21, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse: Tiger Stadium has the Christmas spirit. 

Dec 20, 2013: [gallery] Weir Inferno! by e600-Stu on Flickr.

Dec 19, 2013: [gallery] DSC_5209 by Mouhamad BZOU on Flickr.

Dec 18, 2013: [gallery] Festival of lights in Lyon by Croix-roussien on Flickr.

Dec 17, 2013: [gallery] dirtyriver: dyingofcute: http://freshome.com/2013/11/13/reading-can-fun-entertaining-creative-reading-net-playoffice/ Note to self: must …

Dec 16, 2013: [gallery] DBU Sunset by rcroth on Flickr.

Dec 15, 2013: gunsandposes-history: The Moon, December 11, 1972. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with the Earth above him. (NASA)

Dec 14, 2013: chroniclebooks: Wrapping gifts? Use the force! Download free printable gift tags and have a very Vader Christmas! …

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Dec 14, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse: Mike VI stares through you. hdpwip5: Tiger Face

Dec 13, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: beben-eleben: Origins of Common UI Symbols This is outstanding.

Dec 12, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: Using its suction discs for a firm grip, a red-eyed tree frog clings to a hercules beetle. The image, shot by Nicolas Reusens, …

Dec 11, 2013: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Alison Krauss & Union Station, “A Living Prayer”, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno I’m not sure why I was watching The …

Dec 11, 2013: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Swedish Chef vs Gordon Ramsay. That is all. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Dec 11, 2013: [gallery] tbridge: justinthorp: latimes: socaleveryday: The Entire In-N-Out Secret Menu in One Handy Infographic Some very serious information here. …

Dec 10, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Angelina Odemchuk

Dec 10, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: spaceexp: Stunning photograph of the ISS with docked Endeavour in front of the Sun Damn.

Dec 9, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Galymzhan Abdugalimov

Dec 9, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse: 2013 LSU Christmas tree lighting

Nov 30, 2013: Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. –Joyce Carol Oates

Nov 28, 2013: Even if what you’re working on doesn’t go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you’re doing. Make yourself available for something to …

Nov 28, 2013: [I]t is appropriate that we recall the first thanksgiving, celebrated in the autumn of 1621. After surviving a bitter winter, the Pilgrims planted and …

Nov 27, 2013: [gallery] Just know these are more for me than for you. But those who they are for know who they are.

Nov 26, 2013: It's Every Fan's Job to Police FIFA and the Olympics Committee It's Every Fan's Job to Police FIFA and the Olympics Committee ruckawriter: Neither World Cup nor Olympics authorities seem to mind Qatar’s and …

Nov 26, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Riley Briggs

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Nov 24, 2013: [gallery] leebennett: Magic Kingdom - Tomorrowland Sunset by SpreadTheMagic on Flickr. If you love Disney’s parks, you can’t beat …

Nov 24, 2013: [gallery] sarahmarian: Via Hunger Mountain on Facebook.

Nov 23, 2013: [youtube …

Nov 23, 2013: [gallery] That last part? That’s where I’m at with my NaNoWriMo novel. Power through!

Nov 23, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By petradr For those who love those fall colors.

Nov 22, 2013: [gallery] chroniclebooks: How to use your book for self-defense. via How to Win at Everything 

Nov 22, 2013: Amnesty International report yet another reminder that Qatar can be horrible, horrible place Amnesty International report yet another reminder that Qatar can be horrible, horrible place ruckawriter: Among other abuses, 90 percent of Qatar’s …

Nov 22, 2013: The Dark Side of Migration ruckawriter: Direct link to the Amnesty International report on Qatar’s labor practices in anticipation of the 2022 World Cup in PDF format for …

Nov 22, 2013: [gallery] thewriterwhocould: Patrick Rothfuss The constant reminder.

Nov 22, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Romain Briaux

Nov 21, 2013: [gallery] merlin: (via Bleep Bloop | artbyabc) cf.

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Nov 14, 2013: [gallery] instagram: Saving the Elephants on Instagram For more photos and videos from inside the elephant sanctuaries, explore the David Sheldrick …

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Nov 7, 2013: [vimeo 77694850 w=250 h=141] ruckawriter: By InkyMind. (Source: http://ruckawriter.tumblr.com/)

Nov 6, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: All I had to do was look up. 

Nov 6, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Once.

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Nov 4, 2013: ruckawriter: The Apollo 16 command module shown before splashdown on Apr. 27,1972, after completing a lunar landing mission. Credit: NASA From …

Nov 3, 2013: [gallery] landscapelifescape: Crater Lake, Oregon, USA by Nagesh Mahadev

Oct 31, 2013: ruckawriter: Astrophotographer Mike Taylor sent SPACE.com this photo showing an aurora at Moosehead Lake, Maine. Taylor took the photo on Oct. 10, …

Oct 31, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: vintagemarlene: nighthawk lego (www.google.com) ‘nuff said.

Oct 30, 2013: Memories of a Cover Story - The Photo Society Memories of a Cover Story - The Photo Society ruckawriter: Joe McNally recounts shooting Tom Clancy for the cover of Newsweek, at The Photo Society. …

Oct 30, 2013: [vimeo 16407339 w=250 h=141] Three years ago today, I also got to watch the Rangers win a World Series game. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Oct 30, 2013: Three years ago today, I was at a World Series game.

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Oct 30, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: thehappysorceress: On Patrol by Ian Navarro OK, this one’s fantastic.

Oct 29, 2013: [youtube …

Oct 28, 2013: I tried to think of a situation in which using LinkedIn's Intro is okay tbridge: There isn’t one. Don’t use it. This has been a PSA. Every week I try to think of a reason to keep my LinkedIn account going. They may be …

Oct 28, 2013: booksforsoldiers: $0 so far today to keep Books For Soldiers going & our bills are piling up! Donate today. Since 2003, we shipped over $30 million in …

Oct 28, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: brianmichaelbendis: art of John Berkey When I was a kid, I would stare at these illustrations, these paintings, for hours. To …

Oct 28, 2013: [gallery] tbridge: Best IT Solution ever. Thanks SNL. Watch the whole cold open.

Oct 28, 2013: The Big Bang Theory Video - From The Moment That I Met You - CBS.com The Big Bang Theory Video - From The Moment That I Met You - CBS.com tbridge: Look, I know there’s a lot of conflict about TBBT, but this moment from …

Oct 21, 2013: yesterdaywasonly: YoungDoo said, ”spooky”.

Oct 17, 2013: [gallery] –Eleanor Roosevelt (in case you missed it in the art)

Oct 16, 2013: [gallery] merlin: skottieyoung: Amazing X-Men #1 variant KURT!!!

Oct 16, 2013: If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, …

Oct 15, 2013: I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. …

Oct 14, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: ‘Tis the season. Kermit the Frog. Vincent Price. 'Nuff said.

Oct 14, 2013: [youtube …

Oct 14, 2013: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch tbridge: More Than A Feeling Scrubs Style (by Michael Teagle) Because your Monday that is a workday when a bunch of …

Oct 14, 2013: No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an …

Oct 13, 2013: Floating Castle by julian sawyer - Purbeck Footprints on Flickr.

Oct 12, 2013: When friends visit by Alex Schwab on Flickr.

Oct 11, 2013: [gallery] bobbyrubio: Happy World Teachers’ Day! by Bobby Rubio

Oct 11, 2013: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government …

Oct 11, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Mark Doda

Oct 10, 2013: [gallery] I am an intricately complicated person. on Flickr.

Oct 10, 2013: brianmichaelbendis: Art of Sean Murphy

Oct 10, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Guillaume

Oct 9, 2013: Hey Greg, have you seen The Guardian's report on Nepalese workers slave work in Qatar working on the 2022 world cup? ruckawriter: Yeah. It’s disgusting, but part of a longstanding problem in the region. Immigrant workers in Dubai have been brought over for years, …

Oct 8, 2013: donschaffner: Macs are so hard to use. If you use a Mac (and iOS devices), you really should be using 1Password.

Oct 8, 2013: [gallery] qwertee: Just 12 hours remain to get our Last Chance Tee “Bounty Hunter-賞金稼ぎ” on www.Qwertee.com/last-chance Get this great design now for …

Oct 8, 2013: ruckawriter: womeninspace: NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space …

Oct 6, 2013: [gallery] Fett boards the Prometheus lifeboat?

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Oct 5, 2013: Gedeckte Brücken, Strassburg by Wolfgang.Grilz on Flickr.

Oct 5, 2013: poniesetc: Original concept art for Star Wars by Ralph McQuarrie.

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Oct 4, 2013: Some Good Rules to Live By by maczter on Flickr.

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Oct 3, 2013: [gallery] starwarsfreak: I just had to. #starwars #teefury

Oct 3, 2013: many glacier sunrise 9896 - Explored by Light of the Moon Photography on Flickr.

Oct 3, 2013: alexlikesdesign: Here’s Boba Fett made out of 144 pixels. That’s not counting his awesome jet pack flames and the sand he’s kicking up. By Alex …

Oct 2, 2013: Chief Mountain, Montana by loraineltai on Flickr.

Oct 2, 2013: tiefighters: Slave 1 in Pixels Created by Alex Griendling Artist comment: “After making Boba Fett earlier this week, I had a few requests to take a …

Oct 1, 2013: [gallery] Icebergs in August by Laura Travels on Flickr.

Sep 30, 2013: P1280090 Chief Mountain, Montana by AlbertaScrambler on Flickr.

Sep 29, 2013: [gallery] Road Trip - Day #10 - MT by numero B on Flickr.

Sep 28, 2013: Avalanche Lake by Marko Stavric on Flickr.

Sep 27, 2013: Many Glacier Sunrise by Jeff Pang on Flickr. “Sunrise from the Many Glacier Hotel on Swiftcurrent Lake. Glacier National Park, September 2013.”

Sep 26, 2013: Bridge explosion sequence by rarvesen on Flickr. “Bridge demolished with explosives in Marble Falls, Texas.”

Sep 26, 2013: Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from …

Sep 25, 2013: Lightning from the Wedge by Summit42 on Flickr. “This is a 10 min stack taken a few nights ago at the Wedge Overlook in the San Rafael Swell … at one …

Sep 24, 2013: [gallery] Guiding Light To The Stars by markg<< on Flickr.

Sep 23, 2013: Serenity by Bergen64 on Flickr.

Sep 23, 2013: Pitigliano by Guido Barberis on Flickr.

Sep 23, 2013: [gallery] PALINURO by ovidioguariglia on Flickr.

Sep 22, 2013: Taipei 101 by gregg_chen on Flickr. The Discovery Channel program I saw on the construction of this tower was fascinating, especially how they dug …

Sep 21, 2013: Milky Way over Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau by PhiiiiiiiL on Flickr.

Sep 21, 2013: Bay Lights [Explore 07/16/13] by Joe Parks on Flickr.

Sep 21, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: erictrautmann: More Lego picspam. LEGO! Totally digging the Plissken.

Sep 21, 2013: ruckawriter: erictrautmann: I sure do love LEGO.  MORE LEGO!!!

Sep 20, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Anton Sulsky

Sep 20, 2013: [gallery] Milky Way Over Crater Lake [Explore 07/09/13] by Joe Parks on Flickr.

Sep 20, 2013: [gallery] unsplash: Download / By Gabe Rodriguez

Sep 19, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: Prayer flags. Unknown credit.

Sep 19, 2013: [gallery] Frog Photobombs NASA’s LADEE Launch by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

Sep 19, 2013: To Val Ferret by ccr_358 on Flickr.

Sep 19, 2013: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch “Enter Sandman”, bluegrass-style. By Iron Horse, of course. [via Jim Dalyrmple] (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Sep 19, 2013: [youtube …

Sep 18, 2013: The Tatra mountains by Dariusz Wieclawski on Flickr.

Sep 17, 2013: Atardecer en el Puente de “El Vigía”, Mazagón, Huelva (2) by jmmorahu on Flickr.

Sep 16, 2013: Architecture by oilyragg on Flickr.

Sep 15, 2013: Pacifica Lightning by Konvolinka Photography on Flickr.

Sep 15, 2013: untitled on Flickr. A goal, an assist, two other shots on goal, lots of grinding it out on shifts = team hard hat award. Proud of this kiddo and his …

Sep 14, 2013: [gallery] Ny-Alesund (Svalbard) by daniele1357 on Flickr. Kongsfjord and Kongsbreen Glacier

Sep 13, 2013: [gallery] untitled by ndimensi on Flickr. A view of the Aegean Sea from the Dodecanese Islands.

Sep 12, 2013: 72/365 {I’m ready for my closeup} by hsstanley - www.hollystanley.com on Flickr. If it’s not becoming obvious, I also like owls. In one of those …

Sep 11, 2013: Siberian Eagle Owl (Explore 2nd February 2013) by Susanna Chan on Flickr.

Sep 11, 2013: As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And …

Sep 10, 2013: [gallery] Screw new iPhones. My optometrist has built his own Fix-It Felix, Jr. Cabinet game. on Flickr.

Sep 10, 2013: Portrait of a Royal Bengal tiger by anekphoto on Flickr. Given my love of tigers began well before attending the local university which used the big …

Sep 10, 2013: The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a …

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Sep 9, 2013: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Bowling For Soup - “Real” (by bowlingforsouptv) The official video for “Real” off Bowling For Soup’s new album “Lunch. …

Sep 9, 2013: A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired. –Alexander Hamilton Seemed appropriate, given all we’ve …

Sep 7, 2013: Lightning Strike by Cat Connor on Flickr.

Sep 6, 2013: Lightning Valley by Dan Newcomb Photography on Flickr.

Sep 5, 2013: Canyonlands Lightning by Summit42 on Flickr.

Sep 5, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Another busy day, another shot of the ol’ macbook.

Sep 4, 2013: Oh, I want to learn how to make these…

Sep 4, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: Uh. WOW. Karl the Fog captured for posterity!

Sep 4, 2013: [gallery] tbridge: hulu: Clooney. Damon. Blanchett. Goodman. Dujardin. Murray. And Bob em-effin’ Balaban. Hey, The Monuments Men! Like A-List talent …

Sep 4, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: CFBG’s.

Sep 3, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: An amazing photo of the center of the Orion Nebula, from Wired’s Space Photo of the Day.

Sep 3, 2013: [gallery] tastefullyoffensive: Star Wars vs. Game of Thrones [via]

Aug 30, 2013: [gallery] itscarororo: buzzfeed: These maps will change how you see the world.  I LOVE SHIT LIKE THIS These are awesome.

Aug 30, 2013: [youtube …

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Aug 29, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse: A tiger and his boomer ball.

Aug 29, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: cinemagorgeous: “It ain’t the years honey… it’s the mileage.” RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Still one of my all time …

Aug 29, 2013: [gallery] minimalmac: Via Unsplash

Aug 29, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: The original sail plans for the USS Constitution. 

Aug 28, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: Growing up, my Dad always used Rosie Grier as an example of not giving one goddamn about gender roles. I think I knew who Rosie …

Aug 28, 2013: [youtube …

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Aug 27, 2013: Chemical warfare in Syria Chemical warfare in Syria ruckawriter: Reporters for “Le Monde” spent two months clandestinely in the Damascus area alongside Syrian rebels. On the …

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Aug 24, 2013: [gallery] Please understand I’m not advocating flag burning of any kind. I honestly don’t see the need. And whether or not protesting …

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Aug 21, 2013: A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without …

Jul 20, 2013: [gallery] Now where can I get me one of these?

Jul 20, 2013: Boba Fett by Omar + kamitera on Flickr.

Jul 19, 2013: [gallery] Bounty Sketcher by powerpig on Flickr.

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Jul 18, 2013: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch How the Tesla Model S is Made – Behind The Scenes – The Window - Wired (by wired) I love videos/shows like this. Just …

Jul 17, 2013: [gallery]

Jul 16, 2013: [vimeo 68099450 w=250 h=141] Why Duck Duck Go doesn’t track its users: Gabriel Weinberg at Gel 2013 (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

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Jul 11, 2013: [gallery] Predator, unfiltered on Flickr.

Jul 8, 2013: [youtube …

Jul 7, 2013: [gallery] Ever wonder what @Rangers Ballpark looks like with the lights out? on Flickr. Just before the post-game fireworks display the night of July …

Jul 6, 2013: Former orphanage roommates meet again. on Flickr. Tonight we met some Facebook friends for dinner. They were in town and wanted to meet up. Their …

Jul 6, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Ambience.

Jul 6, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Slow days, slower words. I learned to type on a non-electric typewriter, in the days before Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing …

Jul 6, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse-blog: Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most fun people around the NBA to spend any time around, mainly because with Shaq, the …

Jul 6, 2013: [gallery] tiffanyb: dialogueinmyhead: Let’s take a moment of reflection and embrace this truth… I want to hang this in my cube. Any questions?

Jul 6, 2013: [gallery] lsuverse: Mike Richard, left, and his wife, Dawn, watch a Fourth of July fireworks display over the Mississippi River in downtown Baton …

May 31, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Don’t forget. 3:00

May 29, 2013: [gallery] tbridge: dorkitude: djlegz: I don’t like sports, but the Bearcats are my new favorite team. Oooohhhhhhhhh Oooohhhhhhhhh Oooohhhhhhhhh UC! …

May 23, 2013: [gallery] tiffanyb: lukecastellan: westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real) “I eat the hate of nonbelievers for breakfast” is …

May 23, 2013: [youtube …

May 23, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: I have three of these cameras, this is one of the dead ones so I took it apart to discover the mechanical watch like …

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May 22, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Catwalk.

May 8, 2013: [America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield …

May 5, 2013: Boba Fett on Bespin by Majoza77 on Flickr. “Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.”

May 4, 2013: [gallery] starwarschroniclebooks: Vader’s Little Princess: In this irresistibly funny follow-up to the breakout bestseller Darth Vader™ and Son, …

May 3, 2013: [gallery] brucesterling: 1993 A.D. 

May 3, 2013: But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the …

May 2, 2013: lulubonanza: Solo and the Wookie by *CartoonCaveman

May 2, 2013: [youtube …

May 2, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: From Io9, three new panoramas of Mars, courtesy of NASA and Curiosity.

May 1, 2013: Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state. …

Apr 30, 2013: [gallery] nachomendezt: Boba Fett by Ruben Martinez

Apr 26, 2013: [vimeo 55073825 w=250 h=106] OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo. Check out the trailer for our feature film CONTINUUM: vimeo.com/60234866 If …

Apr 24, 2013: [gallery] tbridge: inaromanticalway: Harrison Ford Won’t Answer Star Wars Questions [x] Jesus, Kimmel. That’s awesome. See, this is what happens …

Apr 24, 2013: [gallery] space-race-mental-case: Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Apr 23, 2013: [gallery] rorret: Kann es einer erklären? http://www.jedipedia.net/wiki/Jawa So, fans of The Walking Dead and Star Wars: here’s your mashup.

Apr 12, 2013: There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of …

Apr 12, 2013: [gallery] tiffanyb: Phil, this wasn’t fucking amateur hour. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF SUPERVISION. THERE WERE RAPTORS ALL UP IN THE KITCHEN …

Apr 12, 2013: [gallery] chroniclebooks: Helpful tips from 1989! #ThrowbackThursday

Apr 8, 2013: Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, …

Apr 8, 2013: [gallery] tiffanyb: colchrishadfield: Kauai, Hawaii, shooing away the clouds. lushly beautiful Nā Pali Coast clearly visible from orbit, Swoon.

Apr 5, 2013: A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. –Thomas Jefferson, Rights …

Apr 3, 2013: [gallery] An app - from 1978. :) #football by msitarzewski on Flickr. For everyone born after 1995.

Apr 3, 2013: It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression … that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is …

Apr 2, 2013: Access to the makers | 52 Tiger Access to the makers | 52 Tiger minimalmac: minimalmac: Understand: I’m a fan. That way a person is a fan of a rock band. Yep. Me too. Having …

Apr 2, 2013: [gallery] Chris Muir, Day by Day

Apr 1, 2013: [gallery] Happy birthday, Nathaniel! on Flickr. Our “little” guy turns two today. Why is “little” in quotes? Because …

Mar 28, 2013: Vought A-7 Corsair II on Flickr. The A-7 was based on Vought’s successful supersonic fighter, the F-8 Crusader. It’s airframe was shorter and lighter …

Mar 28, 2013: I was shushed from the other room. Again. [Comic is Day by Day by Chris Muir.]

Mar 26, 2013: There is one big truth that used to hold from sea to shining sea and is now most keenly apprehended here: an argument against the individual right to …

Mar 25, 2013: [gallery] untitled by Shannon Ocean on Flickr. For a change of pace from my normal scifi love, here’s a Spock.

Mar 21, 2013: [gallery] Brotherly love on Flickr.

Mar 20, 2013: We’re learning more about the dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. It seems he amassed about $2 billion in personal fortune while president – and he …

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Mar 20, 2013: tiffanyb: hussyclutch: motivatedslacker: “iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud” we need more of these, who …

Mar 17, 2013: [gallery] Two #9s meet at post-game skate. on Flickr.

Mar 17, 2013: [gallery] You can totally sleep like this, right? on Flickr.

Mar 16, 2013: [gallery] edwardspoonhands: When all the nerds in the movie theater go “WOOOO!” during the next Star Wars at a time when it doesn’t make any sense to …

Mar 15, 2013: [gallery] n-a-s-a: 370-million-pixel starscape of the Lagoon Nebula Credit: ESO 

Mar 14, 2013: [vimeo 61854439 w=250 h=141] Apparently slamming on the brakes makes my son laugh hysterically. from Chris Turner on Vimeo. Filmed in the very safe …

Mar 13, 2013: [gallery] (Image credit: Billboard Magazine) Yes, Richard Nixon really did meet Robocop. This is not a Photoshop job. Mental Floss has the skinny.

Mar 13, 2013: [gallery] I laughed so loud and so long, I was shushed from the other room.

Mar 12, 2013: [gallery] durnesque-esque: fuckyeah-nerdery: sigfodr: A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would …

Mar 12, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: mattfractionblog: eli perez That’s wow.

Mar 12, 2013: Barack Obama knows how to do one thing: elect Barack Obama to public office. … Obama certainly doesn’t know how to govern effectively; …

Mar 11, 2013: [gallery] subatomiconsciousness: and then he kills palpatine ; perfect moment  This is great.

Mar 11, 2013: [gallery] jxpx777: beefranck: Colored Pencils #001 by Pixel Seeker on Flickr. I think you mean Chromato-American pencils…

Mar 11, 2013: [gallery] n-a-s-a: The Moon shining over the Chilean Andes. Credit: ESO/H.H. Heyer 

Mar 11, 2013: [gallery] An Obama-Seinfeld mashup? Too fun to pass up.

Mar 11, 2013: [gallery] miriamparker: Click on this Google Doodle and fun things will happen. There will be robots and babelfish and noises and joy. (via Google)

Mar 9, 2013: [gallery] 2012-13 DSYTHL Squirt Green Champions on Flickr. I’m so proud of these kids and the hard work they put in this season. It was humbling …

Mar 8, 2013: [gallery] ruckawriter: archiemcphee: “I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I could …

Mar 7, 2013: [gallery] I bow down before your Tolkien nerdery, sir.

Mar 7, 2013: [gallery] chroniclebooks: It’s World Read Aloud Day! Pledge to read a book to a child today, because… Reading, it’s our only hope. Download and print …

Mar 3, 2013: [gallery] explore-blog: For Dr. Seuss’s 99th birthday today, his lovely 1971 letter encouraging children to read.

Feb 27, 2013: [gallery]

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Feb 26, 2013: [gallery] yesterdaywasonly: Back to basics while my 15” MacBook Retina screen is replaced.

Feb 25, 2013: [gallery] Many is the day I think this. Many is the day.

Feb 25, 2013:

Feb 25, 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orepJAO9S7E tbridge: Redi Lataj Harlem Shake (by Red1Lataj) This made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe. (Source: …

Feb 25, 2013: leebennett: Yosemite - Startrails by Moonlight by SpreadTheMagic on Flickr. Seems I get more and more jealous of Jeff’s photographs with each passing …

Feb 15, 2013: [www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wweujqGL1Xo) tbridge: Barbasol :: Shave Like a Man - War Hero (by BarbasolShaveCream) This made …

Feb 14, 2013: [vimeo 57130400 w=250 h=141] Namibian Nights, by Squiver (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Feb 13, 2013: [gallery] Personally, I’d go with a bacon-wrapped filet and single-malt scotch, but to each his own.

Feb 12, 2013: We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816

Feb 11, 2013: “And the Force? Well that’s just midichlorians in your bloodstream.” by Shannon Ocean on Flickr. I love this one for the dialogue. (The LEGO set work …

Feb 10, 2013: [gallery] “Yeee-HAAAWW!” by Shannon Ocean on Flickr. Complete with the Millennium Falcon coming in to help out.

Feb 9, 2013: SR-71 Blackbird by David Low by Shannon Ocean on Flickr. Sharing the pad with an A-10, F/A-18, and in the back, a Harrier.

Feb 9, 2013: A-10 Warthog by David Low by Shannon Ocean on Flickr. Not sure why the cockpit/nose are slanted down, but this is pretty impressive.

Feb 8, 2013: tbridge: Chris Thile - Bach, G Minor Sonata, “Presto” (by megaphono79) This is not exactly what I saw last night, but goddamn is it close. I’ve heard …

Feb 8, 2013: [gallery] chroniclebooks: Vintage Typography Notecards from Princeton Architectural Press, featured on designworklife Get yours here! These look …

Feb 8, 2013: [gallery] The sights of Sherwood forest by Linda Pesudovs by Shannon Ocean on Flickr. “We’re men, MANLY MEN!, we’re men in …

Feb 7, 2013: [gallery] Smith and Wesson A80 by Shannon Ocean on Flickr.

Feb 7, 2013: [gallery] I have the best friends. on Flickr.

Feb 7, 2013: untitled by sosidesc on Flickr. A dolphin breaching from a wave used by surfers.

Feb 7, 2013: [gallery] Fuji Twilight by lestaylorphoto on Flickr. Stunning and beautiful.

Feb 6, 2013: To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose …

Feb 6, 2013: If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, …

Feb 6, 2013: Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to …

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Jan 31, 2013: I don’t mean to be dismissive of Blackberry’s efforts as a company but I know where my loyalties are, and it’s not with android or …

Jan 30, 2013: [gallery] tbridge: pocketcontents: flummery: bikeliving: The Growler Bike: Pedal Power For Beer Snobs I think I’m in love Relevant to some of …

Jan 30, 2013: yourstarwars: YES YES YES #woolie #monster #star #wars #starwars #elmo #sesame #street by bro_jiggly http://instagr.am/p/VGKjfkBoQ9/ I WOULD SO BUY …

Jan 30, 2013: [gallery] yourstarwars: Bounty Hunter Boba Fett x Kaws @kawsstudio #kaws #orignalfake #starwars #art #radyo #dopeshits by oneradco …

Jan 30, 2013: [gallery] yourstarwars: #C3PO. #starwars. #cigarettebreak. by panpawlak http://instagr.am/p/U6AIT7MzBd/

Jan 30, 2013: For anyone under the age of 18, a stamp was used to send real paper letters from one place to another. They are not required for e-mail. Postal Rates …

Jan 22, 2013: A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves … and include… all men capable of bearing arms. … The mind that …

Jan 21, 2013: PEBKAC: Protecting the Memory Hub This column originally appeared in the April 2012 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. Beginning in 2004, I’ve made a calendar for the coming …

Jan 17, 2013: [gallery] In Memoriam: Clancy Turner, 2000-2013 aka Clancypants, Clancifer, Clance, C Yesterday, we had to make that most difficult of decisions pet …

Jan 14, 2013: [vimeo 57401908 w=250 h=141] Tonight, we’ll spotlight the maraca. from Chris Turner on Vimeo. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Jan 10, 2013: [vimeo 56298775 w=250 h=141] Moonwalk from Bryan Smith on Vimeo. The ultimate full moon shot. Dean Potter walks a highline at Cathedral Peak as the …

Jan 3, 2013: [gallery] Driving home the day after Christmas, through an east Texas winter wonderland. on Flickr.

Dec 14, 2012: [vimeo 54624733 w=250 h=141] Flatfoot 56 - I Believe It from Anchor Guitars on Vimeo. The boys in Flatfoot 56 are no strangers to touring. They have …

Dec 5, 2012: [gallery] tbridge: I feel like this has won the internet today. Um…..yeah.

Dec 5, 2012: Books as physical objects matter to me, because they evoke the past. A Métro ticket falls out of a book I bought 40 years ago, and I am transported …

Dec 5, 2012: PEBKAC: More Than Just the Mac This column originally appeared in the March 2012 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. Recently, a friend and I were chatting about how …

Dec 4, 2012: Happy happy joy joy.

Dec 3, 2012: I post photos, he has practice.

Dec 1, 2012: Learning what his weight is on Earth, the moon, and Mars.

Dec 1, 2012: [gallery] Lonely and forlorn: Mission Control (at Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center)

Dec 1, 2012: [gallery] Morning adventure! (at Space Center Houston)

Dec 1, 2012: Lonely and forlorn: Mission Control

Dec 1, 2012: Morning adventure!

Nov 25, 2012: Happy happy nerd time.

Nov 25, 2012: Came home to this on a portion of Boy1’s school assignment. Excuse me, something in my eye.

Nov 25, 2012: [gallery] Love my parents. Get home from vacation, they’ve painted an accent wall and hung the boys’ portraits.

Nov 25, 2012: Love my parents. Get home from vacation, they’ve painted an accent wall and hung the boys' portraits.

Nov 24, 2012: Pray tell, what is this strange encumbrance which has not graced my feet in days?

Nov 22, 2012: Gobble gobble.

Nov 22, 2012: [gallery] Thanksgiving lunch: fish tacos! (at Bouchons Hanalei Grill & Sushi Bar)

Nov 22, 2012: Happy Thanksgiving from ‘Anini Beach on the Garden Isle!

Nov 22, 2012: Thanksgiving lunch: fish tacos!

Nov 22, 2012: Happy Thanksgiving from ‘Anini Beach on the Garden Isle!

Nov 22, 2012: Kauaisgiving breakfast: scrambled eggs, bagel crisps with guava jelly, chocolate macadamia nut Kauai coffee.

Nov 21, 2012: [gallery] Straight from Fantasy Island: Wailua Falls. (at Wailua Falls)

Nov 21, 2012: [gallery] Opaeka'a Falls (at Opaekaa Falls)

Nov 21, 2012: “Hello?!?”

Nov 21, 2012: Straight from Fantasy Island: Wailua Falls.

Nov 21, 2012: Opaeka’a Falls

Nov 21, 2012: [gallery] View from the restaurant/clubhouse, 10:45 am local. (at Kauai Coast Resort at the Beachboy)

Nov 21, 2012: View from the restaurant/clubhouse, 10:45 am local.

Nov 21, 2012: [gallery] On this day last year, we were in Rwanda, meeting this guy for the first time.

Nov 21, 2012: On this day last year, we were in Rwanda, meeting this guy for the first time.

Nov 21, 2012: On this day last year, we were in Rwanda, meeting this guy for the first time.

Nov 20, 2012: [gallery] The view at Duke’s? You guessed it. Does not suck. (at Duke’s Kauai)

Nov 20, 2012: The view at Duke’s? You guessed it. Does not suck.

Nov 20, 2012: More research. (at Pau Hana Bar & Grill)

Nov 19, 2012: [gallery] Our friendly neighborhood monk seal, tanning her belly. (at Poipu Beach Park)

Nov 19, 2012: More research.

Nov 19, 2012: My sweetie relaxin' on the beach.

Nov 19, 2012: Our friendly neighborhood monk seal, tanning her belly.

Nov 19, 2012: The view from Bubba’s does not suck. (at Bubba’s Burgers)

Nov 19, 2012: The view from Bubba’s does not suck.

Nov 19, 2012: Chocolate Tasting Notes. Yep.

Nov 18, 2012: [gallery] Spouting Horn, ladies and gentlemen. (at Spouting Horn State Park)

Nov 18, 2012: Spouting Horn, ladies and gentlemen.

Nov 18, 2012: [gallery] Conducting research. (at Kauai Island Brewery & Restaurant)

Nov 18, 2012: [gallery] tiffanyb: Yep.

Nov 18, 2012: Who comes to a brewery & orders effing Budweiser?!? These women, that’s who.

Nov 18, 2012: Kelly’s sampler, left to right: same ale I’m having, pale ale, porter, and a brown.

Nov 18, 2012: My sampler, from right to left: an ale, two IPAs, and a wheat.

Nov 18, 2012: Conducting research.

Nov 18, 2012: [gallery] Kilauea Lighthouse. One of my favorite spots on Kauai. (at Kilauea Point Lighthouse)

Nov 18, 2012: Kilauea Lighthouse. One of my favorite spots on Kauai.

Nov 15, 2012: Someone’s getting a Hobbes.

Nov 14, 2012: Of course the best way to keep the rink’s server rack cool is next to the ice.

Nov 12, 2012: Training on the RapidShot.

Nov 10, 2012: There’s a new karate kid in town, and his name is Samuel-san!

Nov 10, 2012: There's a new karate kid in town, and his name is Samuel-san!

Nov 9, 2012: Someone found the clown nose from the circus.

Nov 8, 2012: Bond. Craig. Sons of Anarchy. Only the 2d issue of my free Rolling Stone subscription I’ve cared about.

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Nov 1, 2012: A rare treat: our kids get to practice on the “big ice” in the main arena today.

Oct 30, 2012: If I wrote a story about an apprentice-wizard farmboy, an old wizard, a princess, a pirate, a dark knight and a talking bear, and there’s a dark …

Oct 29, 2012: Their red unis look so sharp.

Oct 29, 2012: Walking in to team portraits night before practice.

Oct 28, 2012: Game 7 of the season underway.

Oct 27, 2012: Water rocket “Dark Dragon” is ready. Launching to commence shortly.

Oct 26, 2012: Night falls, The day is done. God bless us, Every one.

Oct 26, 2012: Tent’s ready for us to freeze our butts off tonight.

Oct 23, 2012: Good things come to those who manage to pry @tapbot_paul from his hermit cave.

Oct 23, 2012: Proof that @tapbot_paul (left) does leave his hermit hole. @agiletortoise checking live blog of iPad mini announcement.

Oct 22, 2012: Now if I only had something to plug this into…

Oct 21, 2012: Away he goes; warmups before game four.

Oct 21, 2012: Off to game four of the season.

Oct 20, 2012: Barely both of us in the frame this time. My buddy Drew to the right of me.

Oct 20, 2012: Three seconds of fame! (Hint: gold cap.)

Oct 20, 2012: Our seats earlier today did not suck. #lsutamu

Oct 19, 2012: Cutest Frankenstein EVER.

Oct 19, 2012: Costume is called “Debonair Vampire”. My son makes a striking member of the undead.

Oct 16, 2012: Not the thing to wear for an unplanned Apple Store visit..

Oct 13, 2012: Game 2 of league play under way.

Oct 11, 2012: Practice winding down.

Oct 11, 2012: [youtube …

Oct 9, 2012: Indoor rainbow.

Oct 7, 2012: Waiting their turn.

Oct 6, 2012: The @LSUfball game on the iPad at the rink. Isn’t technology grand?

Oct 5, 2012: Missing this cuteness! Let’s go, @Rangers!

Oct 5, 2012: The ice for our first game of the Oktoberfest tournament.

Oct 3, 2012: My understanding is that at some point these will be on their way to @killianrudd.

Oct 3, 2012: Beer and baseball. Let’s go @Rangers!

Oct 3, 2012: The @LewisvilleTexas PD officer also left a note.

Oct 1, 2012: “She eats her peas one at a time!” –@JerrySeinfeld

Oct 1, 2012: [gallery] A certain walking-maniac of a boy is 18 months old today! (Taken with Instagram)

Oct 1, 2012: A certain walking-maniac of a boy is 18 months old today!

Sep 30, 2012: Second goal of the game, his first as a Squirt: #9, @davisturner!!! (Taken with Instagram at Allen Community Ice Rink)

Sep 30, 2012: Second goal of the game, his first as a Squirt: #9, @davisturner!!!

Sep 30, 2012: Awaiting a face off.

Sep 30, 2012: Hitting the ice for first game of league play.

Sep 29, 2012: [gallery] I’ve lived with my iPhone 4 like this for over a year. Think I’m concerned about a few nicks on my eventual iPhone 5? (Taken …

Sep 29, 2012: It’s not a Scouting function if you don’t cook your own food.

Sep 29, 2012: I’ve lived with my iPhone 4 like this for over a year. Think I’m concerned about a few nicks on my eventual iPhone 5?

Sep 27, 2012: Stay-at-home Dad #ProTip: any time is potentially beer o’clock. #stillsummer #baseball

Sep 24, 2012: [vimeo 43955139 w=250 h=106] Discovering the Kimberley. A taster of the forthcoming documentary. from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. Edit originally created …

Sep 24, 2012: [vimeo 46187877 w=250 h=141] Star Wars Helmetia! from Pedro Cyrne on Vimeo. A few days ago I came across with Keith Bogan’s amazing Star Wars …

Sep 21, 2012: http://vimeo.com/49937959 This is happening now in our home. Chris Turner on Vimeo. (Source: http://vimeo.com/)

Sep 21, 2012: [gallery] Today’s shirt. (Taken with Instagram)

Sep 21, 2012: Today’s shirt.

Sep 20, 2012: And suddenly we’re planning to roll our own. I love my friends. #LSUTAMU

Sep 20, 2012: Say, #LSU fans: any tailgaters in College Station on 10/20 willing to welcome a pair of Tigers? #LSUTAMU

Sep 15, 2012: Will have to talk with my wife on why our child is Auburn’ed up on game day. #wrongtigers

Sep 11, 2012: [gallery] instagram: One World Trade Center A reflective 104-story skyscraper known as One World Trade Center is rising amid New York City’s skyline …

Sep 11, 2012: [gallery] I wish I could say my online silence today was out of deference to my fellow Americans who lost their lives on this date eleven years ago, …

Sep 7, 2012: What do say, Mac old-timers, remember this?

Sep 6, 2012: Amazing and disconcerting.

Sep 5, 2012: Another @Rangers game & start of @DallasCowboys season. Hot Dog Night seemed appropriate.

Sep 5, 2012: Grilling onions for Hot Dog Night.

Sep 3, 2012: Def Leppard stage prep.

Sep 3, 2012: It was every bit of cheesy 80s hair metal awesomeness that I was hoping for.

Sep 3, 2012: We await Poison!!

Sep 3, 2012: Outside the restaurant we just ate at.

Sep 3, 2012: Hair Metal Double Date Night with @klttx, @brentmckinney, & @tracymckinney!

Sep 2, 2012: Smuggler’s Views (for 2013).

Sep 2, 2012: The boy loves tortilla chips.

Sep 2, 2012: Final game of the weekend.

Sep 1, 2012: [gallery] Ready to go! (Taken with Instagram at Dr. Pepper Star Center)

Sep 1, 2012: Team breakfast.

Sep 1, 2012: Ready to go!

Sep 1, 2012: Getting ready to hit the ice.

Aug 31, 2012: [vimeo.com/47372888](http://vimeo.com/47372888) Guns N'Roses’ “Paradise City” and @LSUfball. This was a no-brainer. Geaux Tigers!!! …

Aug 30, 2012: Best job I ever had until Bell Atlantic swooped in and mucked it all up.

Aug 30, 2012: For all the pre-Mac OS Xers out there.

Aug 30, 2012: For @cabel and @stevenf.

Aug 30, 2012: @msitarzewski Here’s the quote!

Aug 30, 2012: I’d love to tell you what this was about 11 years ago, but…

Aug 30, 2012: Haha! RAM Doubler!

Aug 30, 2012: And this one.

Aug 30, 2012: This one I’m keeping for posterity.

Aug 30, 2012: MacHack CD invoice!

Aug 30, 2012: I’m certain this is completely unbiased and factual…

Aug 30, 2012: Now I’m ready for this weekend, & @davisturner’s first hockey games of the season.

Aug 29, 2012: A blast from my past. (Taken with Instagram)

Aug 29, 2012: A blast from my past.

Aug 28, 2012: Even with no ice, hockey practice never stops.

Aug 25, 2012: There was the traditional Dousing of the Cubmaster. (It was COLD!)

Aug 25, 2012: Our Cub Scout Waterfest was a rousing success.

Aug 25, 2012: [gallery] A whole lotta cute in a small space. (Taken with Instagram)

Aug 25, 2012: A whole lotta cute in a small space.

Aug 25, 2012: Just before we sang, then sliced this bad boy open.

Aug 24, 2012: [gallery] Our newly-minted four year-old enjoys his new workbench. (Taken with Instagram)

Aug 24, 2012: Our newly-minted four year-old enjoys his new workbench.

Aug 23, 2012: [gallery] explore-blog: “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Wisdom from Oscar Wilde, hand-lettered by Lisa Congdon …

Aug 21, 2012: [gallery] Fan of the game? RangerTrooper is Fan of the YEAR. (Taken with Instagram)

Aug 21, 2012: Fan of the game? RangerTrooper is Fan of the YEAR.

Aug 21, 2012: I had a drooly helper earlier tonight for kitchen project chair assembly.

Aug 21, 2012: [gallery] lsuverse: The Daily Reveille’s Photo of the Day: The sun sets over the LSU Memorial Tower. The Daily Reveille on Twitter

Aug 21, 2012: Way to go, Staples. This is a great assemble-yourself experience.

Aug 20, 2012: The Neapolitan.

Aug 20, 2012: Back at it.

Aug 19, 2012: Tonight’s project.

Aug 18, 2012: [gallery] Suiting up. (Taken with Instagram at Allen Community Ice Rink)

Aug 18, 2012: Suiting up.

Aug 12, 2012: [youtube …

Aug 12, 2012: “What?”

Aug 4, 2012: Doin' a little bubble poppin' before bed.

Aug 4, 2012: Cool clouds from earlier today, between Clarendon and Amarillo.

Aug 2, 2012: lsuverse: ROAR!!! http://www.lsusports.net/roar

Aug 2, 2012: [gallery] lsuverse: A view of Tiger Stadium from the roof of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Aug 1, 2012: Sam meets a clown!

Jul 30, 2012: [gallery] fistraisedhigh: Good Advice

Jul 26, 2012: [gallery] The very funny and very gracious @MrTonyHale. (Taken with Instagram)

Jul 26, 2012: The very funny and very gracious @MrTonyHale.

Jul 26, 2012: I wasn’t kidding about the ice cream trucks.

Jul 25, 2012: [gallery] You have your comfort music. I have mine. (Taken with Instagram)

Jul 25, 2012: You have your comfort music. I have mine.

Jul 24, 2012: Gotta love minor league ball. Right behind the dugout for twelve bucks. (Taken with Instagram)

Jul 24, 2012: Gotta love minor league ball. Right behind the dugout for twelve bucks.

Jul 24, 2012: dodlive: The United States Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team competes during the Joint Service Drill Team Exhibition at the Jefferson Memorial in …

Jul 23, 2012: Twenty or so years after I should have seen them, finally getting the chance.

Jul 20, 2012: 646 miles later. She couldn’t even wait for him to get out of the car.

Jul 19, 2012: Booyah.

Jul 16, 2012: [gallery] wehadfacesthen: Marilyn Monroe chats with a lucky sailor, 1953

Jul 15, 2012: These planes hung in my room from the time I was in first grade until my parents moved out in 1995. on Flickr. They now hang in our son Samuel’s room. …

Jul 14, 2012: [gallery] So I picked up a care package from @rackspace today. Thanks, Shaggy! (cc: @gapingvoid) (Taken with Instagram)

Jul 14, 2012: So I picked up a care package from @rackspace today. Thanks, Shaggy! (cc: @gapingvoid)

Jul 14, 2012: iamonealone: My father’s WWII USMC uniform by Astaken on Flickr.

Jul 14, 2012: [gallery] It pays to have a sense of humor in the service.

Jul 14, 2012: [gallery] futuresailorcaruso: we-be-like-oorah: This is what freedom looks like thank you.

Jul 10, 2012: Loving Longmire tbridge replied to your photo: Some books just demand to be read in print. on… BTW - have you been watching the show Longmire? Anxious for …

Jul 10, 2012: [gallery] militaryheroes: U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Joshua Turner.

Jul 9, 2012: [gallery] Some books just demand to be read in print. on Flickr. While I have wholeheartedly bought into e-book reading, there are still many times …

Jul 8, 2012: I’ve managed to get to more than one game this season!

Jul 7, 2012: Ronald Reagan Riding a Velociraptor by *SharpWriter on deviantART Ronald Reagan Riding a Velociraptor by *SharpWriter on deviantART tbridge: The Velociraptor is carrying an American flag. And Reagan is firing an …

Jul 7, 2012: [vimeo 45375440 w=250 h=141] “I’m fixing our food!” After having lunch at a hibachi place with Mom, at dinner Samuel decided he wanted to take after …

Jul 7, 2012: Mom loving on Sam.

Jul 7, 2012: How windy is it? Part of our fence is now in our neighbor’s yard.

Jul 6, 2012: My parents found what passed for a handheld game in our house. Still works.

Jul 6, 2012: Partial mission accomplished, thanks to Cracker Barrel.

Jul 6, 2012: My mother was right. I am a genius.

Jul 5, 2012: tiffanyb: nevver: Batman at IKEA Hey look, even the Dark Knight needs a POANG and a BESTA or two. The Bat Cave doesn’t furnish itself, you know.

Jul 5, 2012: minimalmac: WTHR is a pretty nice simple weather app for iPhone that was inspired by Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design. I’ve been using WTHR, …

Jul 4, 2012: [gallery] lsuverse: Patriotic parade ground.

Jul 4, 2012: minimalmac: The BioLite Camp Stove looks really neat. It is a portable, packable, high-effeciency, camp stove that generates electricity from the heat …

Jul 2, 2012: This one should be easy: song, artist, year. No cheating.

Jul 2, 2012: Can you name the song, artist and year without Wikipedia?

Jun 29, 2012: [gallery] My wife won a blog contest for a free family portrait session a couple of months ago, so toward the end of May we set off for Stone Creek …

Jun 29, 2012: I know, I know. You all want to pinch those cheeks.

Jun 28, 2012: I have the best friends. Thanks again, @crridenour! (Taken with Instagram)

Jun 28, 2012: I have the best friends. Thanks again, @crridenour!

Jun 28, 2012: LSUverse: The Origin of LSU's Mascot LSUverse: The Origin of LSU's Mascot lsuverse: Way back in the fall of 1896, coach A.W. Jeardeau’s LSU football team posted a perfect 6-0 record, and …

Jun 27, 2012: Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make …

Jun 25, 2012: [gallery] I am loving this book. (Taken with Instagram)

Jun 25, 2012: I am loving this book.

Jun 24, 2012: Uniform fitting in the @allenamericans locker room.

Jun 24, 2012: [gallery] A couple of hams on Flickr. At the Texas Rangers game today.

Jun 23, 2012: When you’re a Tiger, challenges aren’t trouble. They’re hors d’oeuvres. (via lsuverse)

Jun 21, 2012: [gallery] Had to pull over & get a shot of a milestone. (Taken with Instagram)

Jun 21, 2012: Had to pull over & get a shot of a milestone.

Jun 20, 2012: lsuverse: What’s Up Doc? The Animated Art of Chuck Jones is on display in the LSU Student Union Art Gallery through July 29th. The exhibit is on loan …

Jun 18, 2012: Rock of Ages: The Retrophisch Review In the interests of full disclosure: the soundtrack for this film was the soundtrack of my life in the 1980s. I was a closet metalhead–closet …

Jun 18, 2012: Make Beer, Not War on Flickr. Today’s shirt, by Armadillo Ale Works of Denton, Texas.

Jun 18, 2012: klg19: May 21st Lightning Storm No 4 by frank3.0 on Flickr. A lightning storm in Baton Rouge.

Jun 18, 2012: “How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like today?”

Jun 18, 2012: .@davisturner, feeding ducks and fish

Jun 16, 2012: I made sure the static sticker, “bruised” and all, made the transition.

Jun 16, 2012: In with the new. That’s a happy @klttx with her new ride.

Jun 16, 2012: Our with the old. Farewell, Kioko! You’ve been a faithful girl.

Jun 16, 2012: patrickrhone / journal » Blog Archive » Remembering Rodney patrickrhone / journal » Blog Archive » Remembering Rodney minimalmac: Every year, on this day, I take some time out to remember my friend Rodney. …

Jun 15, 2012: Recent Bounciness And When It Will Stop (Pinboard Blog) Recent Bounciness And When It Will Stop (Pinboard Blog) Openness like this is why I’m pleased to support Maciej.

Jun 15, 2012: Voices of Reconciliation | Jeremy Cowart Voices of Reconciliation | Jeremy Cowart Jeremy traveled to Rwanda in August 2011 with filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson to document survivors and …

Jun 14, 2012: PEBKAC: The Normals' View of Apple and the iPhone This column originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. The last Macworld Expo I attended was in January 2009. …

Jun 8, 2012: [gallery] tbridge: bronwen: ladimcbeth: evangotlib: This. Changes. Everything. What he said. wait, what? GENIUS. The more you know…

Jun 6, 2012: A long-time wish fulfilled.

Jun 6, 2012: A slice of the Fort Pierce Marina.

Jun 5, 2012: [gallery] Three generations at the 18th tee. (Taken with instagram)

Jun 5, 2012: Three generations at the 18th tee.

Jun 5, 2012: My dad, about to tee off on Ryder 18.

Jun 5, 2012: 18th Tee marker, Ryder Course, PGA Golf Club, Port St. Lucie, FL

Jun 4, 2012: First time in the ocean on Flickr. First time the boys have been in an ocean (even if it was only their feet this time). This was something of a …

May 30, 2012: If you’ve already reached your Utterly Adorable quota for the day, don’t look.

May 28, 2012: [gallery] lsuverse: Memorial Day, an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May, honors men and women who died while serving in the U.S. …

May 28, 2012: [gallery] In Remembrance of Those Who Have Given All. [photo courtesy of The Patriot Post]

May 27, 2012: Newsarama.com : Star Wars 35th Anniversary: Timeline (Infographic) Newsarama.com : Star Wars 35th Anniversary: Timeline (Infographic) “More than a mere blockbuster, the Star Wars franchise became a …

May 27, 2012: Amen.

May 27, 2012: Deep Ellum IPA

May 27, 2012: Some hooligan who sat down next to me on the train.

May 27, 2012: They love each other. Some times.

May 26, 2012: A preview of our efforts this morning…

May 26, 2012: [gallery] lsuverse: The LSU Aircraft Memorial, a T-33 “T-Bird” jet, stands as a memorial to all LSU graduates who have lost their lives while …

May 25, 2012: There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current, that the …

May 24, 2012: City Skyline by United States Marine Corps Official Page on Flickr.

May 22, 2012: Gobi looking VERY comfy in @samuel_turner’s car seat. cc @mckinneyshelby

May 21, 2012: In honor of a conversation @brentmckinney & I had yesterday

May 20, 2012: Dr Pepper Ballpark

May 19, 2012: Undisputed. #LSU #GeauxTigers

May 19, 2012: The Spring 2012 FMYSA 8U Blue Town Champions, the RoughRiders!

May 19, 2012: Davis receiving his championship trophy!

May 19, 2012: PEBKAC: On Being Locked In, And Getting What I Want Out This column originally appeared in the January 2012 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. While I own a Kindle e-reader, I find I still do most of …

May 17, 2012: NateLee’s first In-N-Out burger bite.

May 17, 2012: “Soldiers Under Command”

May 17, 2012: “To Hell with the Devil”

May 17, 2012: “He’s the Rock That Makes Me Roll”

May 17, 2012: “All For One "

May 17, 2012: Covering Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law”

May 15, 2012: tiffanyb: kayakingupstream: The Grilled Cheese Toaster Bag. I feel like this took longer for us (as humans) to figure out than it should have. Dave …

May 14, 2012: [gallery] First time he’s pulled himself all the way up! (Taken with instagram)

May 14, 2012: First time he’s pulled himself all the way up!

May 12, 2012: Finally, my free Rolling Stones subscription has a story I actually want to read.

May 10, 2012: [gallery]

May 8, 2012: Tonight’s ultra-healthy dinner courtesy of @klttx’s imagination & fresh ingredients from @Greenling.

May 8, 2012: [gallery] For Maurice. Rest in peace, and thank you. (Taken with instagram)

May 8, 2012: For Maurice. Rest in peace, and thank you.

May 5, 2012: Chris, Jaret, & Erik performing encore “Belgium”.

May 5, 2012: .@bfsrocks closes the regular set with “1985”

May 4, 2012: PEBKAC: Staying Connected in Africa This column originally appeared in the December 2011 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. Greetings from Rwanda! As this issue goes to press, my …

May 4, 2012: Big thanks to Howard Kinsler, Ian’s dad, for coming out to talk to our team.

May 2, 2012: Show closer “Ring of Fire”.

May 2, 2012: “Let the Jukebox Keep on Playin'”, complete with accordion and upright bass.

May 2, 2012: “Ball and Chain”. This is a damn good set list tonight.

May 2, 2012: “Cold Feelings”, baby.

May 2, 2012: Kickin' it off with “Bad Luck”.

May 2, 2012: We await.

May 2, 2012: The Riverboat Gamblers

May 2, 2012: Yes, that would be me and @lindiortega.

May 2, 2012: Lindi Ortega (Lindi was the second great artist we discovered via opening for Social Distortion. The first was Frank Turner.)

May 2, 2012: Front row in the middle section of the balcony? These will do.

May 2, 2012: This band: I goes see them tonight.

May 2, 2012: Fine. You people win. I’m on Instagram now. (I imported my Instagram photos into my Micro blog, and this was the first one. This lamp, along …

Apr 30, 2012: lsuverse: From @si_vault: Pete Maravich makes a sweet no-look pass during a 1968 LSU-Tulane game. Check out Tulane’s socks.

Mar 27, 2012: [vimeo 39302068 w=250 h=141] A quick, 1.4-second test video using the Frameographer app and the Glif, both from Studio Neat. (Source: …

Mar 26, 2012: Jen Hatmaker - Dear Trayvon's Mom Jen Hatmaker - Dear Trayvon's Mom tiffanyb: I kept looking for a quote to pull for Tumblr, but every paragraph was better than the last, and just… …

Mar 26, 2012: Secret door inside this wardrobe leads to a Narnia-themed playroom Secret door inside this wardrobe leads to a Narnia-themed playroom tiffanyb: *swoon* Suddenly wishing I knew where the load-bearing walls were …

Mar 26, 2012: Japanese TRON Lightsuit Dance. Okay, this is pretty cool.

Mar 23, 2012: PEBKAC: On the passing of Steve Jobs This column originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. In 1996, I was working for The Computer Shoppe, in …

Mar 12, 2012: The other option is to forget about creating rules and lists and instead get an effective anti-spam utility. And when I say effective I do mean …

Mar 12, 2012: [youtube …

Mar 6, 2012: [gallery] This is the way a parent always wants to be greeted. on Flickr.

Mar 6, 2012: [gallery] “One miiiillllion dollars!” on Flickr. The boy cracks me up.

Mar 5, 2012: Just make sure, if you’re going to get on your high horse, that you’re calling it on both sides.

Mar 5, 2012: I wanted to personally thank Baton Rouge, LSU, Coach Paul Mainieri and the amazing LSU fans for the tremendous support they showed the cadets and fans …

Mar 2, 2012: PEBKAC: Readers, Readers Everywhere, and Not A Library To Spare This column originally appeared in the October issue of About This Particular Macintosh. I have a problem. I love to read. (No, that’s not the …

Feb 25, 2012: [gallery] chronically-awesome: YESSSSSSSS The time is close at hand.

Feb 23, 2012: [gallery] In honor of Washington’s birthday today, our eldest’s portrayal of America’s first president. on Flickr. I confess, …

Feb 15, 2012: [gallery] Children of the ‘80s, you may have to explain this one to the younger generations.

Feb 7, 2012: The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. … It is time for us to realize that we …

Feb 6, 2012: [vimeo 36256906 w=250 h=141] -- This is the journey we took almost every day for a week, some times more than once a day, to the Home of Hope …

Feb 2, 2012: Geeks vs Nerds Geeks vs Nerds Looking this over, I fall into the Geek camp, though I do have Nerdish tendencies.

Jan 31, 2012: [gallery] Slavery.

Jan 30, 2012: [gallery] How long until pitchers and catchers report? on Flickr.

Jan 30, 2012: [gallery] lsunews: The Japanese magnolias are in bloom! LSU is now on Instagram. Our username is ViewLSU. I’ve never been one much for flower …

Jan 24, 2012: [vimeo 35495672 w=250 h=141] My Flickr photos, in Pummelvision! (Unfortunately, Pummelvision closes up shop today.) (Source: …

Jan 17, 2012: lsunews: Paedophryne amauensis, the smallest vertebrate in the world. The frog was recently discovered on New Guinea by Chris Austin, the curator of …

Jan 14, 2012: [gallery] “…just make you leaner.” How’d that work out, exactly, for us in the ‘90s?

Jan 13, 2012: [gallery] Cuts.

Jan 12, 2012: [vimeo 34960363 w=250 h=141] Getting some real laughs. Of course, his giggles here aren’t nearly as hearty as they were just seconds before, …

Jan 12, 2012: [gallery] Obstructionist.

Jan 11, 2012: [gallery] (via This Is Microsoft’s Best Product Of CES, Hands Down! [CES 2012] | Cult of Mac)

Jan 11, 2012: [youtube …

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Jan 9, 2012: [youtube …

Jan 9, 2012: lsunews: Kevin Huff “Western Afghanistan is Purple and Gold.”

Jan 9, 2012: lsunews: “Representing even in Afghanistan… GEAUX LSU BEAT BAMA!” Stefan J. Cormier Lord, but the Apache remains a badass piece of hardware.

Jan 6, 2012: [gallery] lsunews: Love purple…Live gold Purple and gold skies over Louisiana. Some times, I really miss the state I grew up in.

Jan 6, 2012: Move Like Badger

Jan 3, 2012: [vimeo 34493051 w=250 h=141] She’s got this thing figured out. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Jan 1, 2012: PEBKAC: Never Forget This column originally appeared in the September 2011 issue of About This Particular Macintosh. September 11th this year marks a decade since the …

Dec 31, 2011: Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair Bruce Schneier’s exasperation is informed by his job-related need to spend a lot …

Dec 30, 2011: lsunews: Our kind of landscaping.

Dec 30, 2011: [gallery] My original iPod has returned to me! on Flickr.

Dec 28, 2011: [gallery] lsunews: Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana

Dec 25, 2011: What I’m doing with my Christmas present. on Flickr. Pretty much the best Christmas ever.

Dec 24, 2011: Beautiful Feet: Let's Be Real. Really. Beautiful Feet: Let's Be Real. Really. “Abby and I sat back and marveled, recounting how Jesus also went through lots of difficult moments in …

Dec 24, 2011: [gallery] This is pretty much how I feel whenever someone wants to talk about how dangerous firearms are.

Dec 23, 2011: [A] wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of …

Dec 23, 2011: [gallery] lsunews: This half-page ad runs Friday, 12/23/11, in the Shreveport Times.

Dec 22, 2011: tbridge: Studio 60 O Holy Night (by Oceandreams313) Look, I get it, not everyone liked Studio 60. It wasn’t as even or as steady as West Wing, and for …

Dec 21, 2011: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these …

Dec 18, 2011: [gallery] American anti-smoking campaigns are too tame. on Flickr. Shot in the duty-free shop of Kigali International Airport.

Dec 15, 2011: I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if …

Dec 13, 2011: May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own …

Dec 5, 2011: Quality of LSU wins unprecedented - SEC Blog - ESPN Quality of LSU wins unprecedented - SEC Blog - ESPN “If the Tigers win the BCS Championship, it might not be fair to call this the best team of …

Nov 29, 2011: Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com “According to the F.A.A., 712 million passengers flew within the United …

Nov 27, 2011: [gallery] Introducing Nathaniel Pierre Turner on Flickr. So I’m a few days late in posting this here, but here’s the new addition to our …

Nov 17, 2011: Hunting With SEALs | Karl Rove Hunting With SEALs | Karl Rove “Some warn that America’s freedom, like all things human, may crumble into dust. The reason it …

Nov 17, 2011: Season ticket holders unfurl the flag on Flickr. This is my favorite photo of the entire 2011 ALCS Game 1 set. I just love how the sky looks, the way …

Nov 10, 2011: Musab al-Zarqawi, Osama bin Laden’s handpicked deputy in Iraq, had killed thousands of people in an attempt to send the world back to the sixth …

Nov 8, 2011: [gallery] Perspective

Nov 7, 2011: [gallery] Alabama State Champs 2011 While I love a good game day shirt, I’ve never been in the habit of acquiring “victory” shirts. …

Nov 5, 2011: “Victory is waiting for you.” Go claim it, boys! Geaux Tigers!!!

Nov 2, 2011: The More I Believe The life that I’ve been living From the day I first drew breath Has been my way of forgetting I’m on the journey to my death You make my soul rise up …

Oct 25, 2011: [gallery] Food truck lunch (@GennarinosUSA) with @klttx. (Taken with picplz.)

Oct 22, 2011: Stone Brewing Co.’s giveaway sticker. I wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment. (Taken with picplz.)

Oct 21, 2011: [gallery] Date night with @klttx. Food truck smackdown! (Taken with picplz.)

Oct 21, 2011: I love Twitter timeline serendipity. (Taken with picplz.)

Oct 19, 2011: lsunews: The PMAC lights up the night. Eddy Perez/LSU University Relations Gorgeous shot of a place I know well.

Oct 19, 2011: Michael Winslow (sound effects guy from the Police Academy movies) blows your mind with Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”. How the hell does he do …

Oct 17, 2011: [gallery] lsunews: The Parade Ground under purple and gold skies. Jim Zietz/LSU University Relations

Oct 16, 2011: And thanks to @brentmckinney, this has already happened. (Taken with picplz.)

Oct 14, 2011: [vimeo 29950141 w=250 h=141] -- Landscapes: Volume Two By Dustin Farrell. Stunningly gorgeous. Captivating. There are not enough words to describe the …

Oct 8, 2011: Nothing like a little mid-season hype video using part of the “Inception” soundtrack.

Oct 7, 2011: [vimeo 30113757 w=250 h=141] On October 4, 2011, I went with some friends to see Frank Turner at The Loft in Dallas. We’d discovered Frank the year …

Oct 7, 2011: Steve Jobs narrates The Crazy Ones - The Loop Steve Jobs narrates The Crazy Ones - The Loop tbridge: And I’m crying again. I have to say, with Jobs’ voice, it’s a bit moving right now.

Oct 7, 2011: tbridge: thenextweb: Jobs&Woz with Apple1 (by MischaSprecher) I sorta want the belt that Woz is wearing. Somewhere, in a box, I have the signature …

Oct 4, 2011: After LSU played Kentucky on Saturday at 11 a.m., a second consecutive day game at Tiger Stadium should be against SEC rules. It goes against …

Sep 30, 2011: [gallery] Today’s going to be a great day. (Taken with picplz.)

Sep 29, 2011: [gallery] Goonies never say die. Taken with Camera+ app, processed using Drama filter in Snapseed app.

Sep 29, 2011: PEBKAC: Moving, and Moving On This column originally appeared in the August issue of About This Particular Macintosh. The past few weeks in our home have encapsulated the Great …

Sep 28, 2011: I was told by each of my parents, and my wife, that this describes me perfectly. I don’t know…

Sep 16, 2011: Knocking down the Towers is something the terrorists did to us, but leaving that hole in the ground for ten years is something we did to ourselves. …

Sep 15, 2011: [gallery] “To infinity, and the Claw!” (Taken with picplz.)

Sep 14, 2011: [gallery] What happens after Dad takes a towel to wet hockey head. (Taken with picplz.)

Sep 13, 2011: LSU: Nike Pro Combat System of Dress

Sep 11, 2011: Thought I felt my phone buzz in church, checked it, this was the screen. (Taken with picplz.)

Sep 7, 2011: Whispers in my ear Whispers in my ear

Sep 7, 2011: Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be …

Sep 3, 2011: [gallery] Our view. We are amongst the Ducks. (Taken with picplz.)

Sep 3, 2011: [gallery] Tailgating with the Cajuns. The duck sausage is exquisite. (Taken with picplz.)

Sep 3, 2011: Saturday night’s alright!

Sep 1, 2011: [gallery] I swore I’d never have a sticker family on my vehicle, but… (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 31, 2011: [gallery] I am now officially ready for Saturday night. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 31, 2011: [gallery] There is so much awesomeness here, I’m parentally giddy. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 30, 2011: parislemon: Apple’s vision for the future of computing versus Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing. Any questions? Looks about right to me.

Aug 29, 2011: [gallery] Three generations. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 29, 2011: [gallery] Sun setting behind the Ballpark. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 22, 2011: [gallery]

Aug 19, 2011: [gallery] New shirt arrived today. Fifteen days to kickoff. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 19, 2011: Selling PCs is not the business to be in, the margins are thin and the competition is abundant. Unless you are Apple there is no real way to …

Aug 16, 2011: [gallery] Another by-himself haircut going well! (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 16, 2011: [gallery] Got @davisturner’s new map hung, with pushpins noting where family lives. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 15, 2011: [gallery] 19 days to kickoff. Still no word on our tickets.

Aug 14, 2011: [gallery] Handsome devil. (Grunged up with Snapseed app.)

Aug 12, 2011: [gallery] Keep Calm and Fear Les 22 days to kickoff

Aug 11, 2011: [gallery] Hire Fett by Connive on Flickr.

Aug 3, 2011: PEBKAC: Lions, and Airs, and iPads, oh my! This column originally appeared in the July issue of About This Particular Macintosh. In what may be a sign of an impending midlife crisis, I find …

Aug 3, 2011: [gallery] Seems just as applicable now as it did nine months ago.

Aug 3, 2011: [gallery] It’s A Lap!!!…Dance.. by Pedro Vezini on Flickr. I have no words. Only laughter. Much, much laughter.

Aug 2, 2011: [gallery] Media guide arrived today. 31 days until kick-off! (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 2, 2011: [gallery] Not sure I could feel more elitist at this moment. (Taken with picplz.)

Aug 2, 2011: [vimeo 27177622 w=250 h=141] You may not be able to hear it, but there was music they were dancing to. Alas, seconds later Davis would accidentally …

Aug 1, 2011: Frank Turner - “I Still Believe”

Jul 28, 2011: [gallery] Checking out a graphic novel at the library. (Taken with picplz.)

Jul 25, 2011: [gallery] Minor Ikea hack: two Trofast storage units bolted together. (Taken with picplz.) Used three flat brackets in the rear to bind the two units …

Jul 23, 2011: [gallery] Mile 529: Having breakfast for dinner, like his old man. (Taken with picplz.)

Jul 20, 2011: Brother Jim was a biker who’d done time. He was in charge of Savio cabin, which meant scaring the shit out of any Magone kids who tried to pick …

Jul 20, 2011: [vimeo 23237102 w=250 h=141] “Timelapse - The City Limits” by Dominic Boudrealt Good musical choice by Dominic. “Time” by Hans …

Jul 19, 2011: Resisting the tide Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon thriller, Portrait of a Spy, dropped today. As always, Silva is tuned in to the real goings-on of the world, …

Jul 14, 2011: [gallery]

Jul 10, 2011: [gallery] About those good friends who take care of me…Thanks, @pbur! (Taken with picplz.)

Jul 8, 2011: [gallery] Mile #212: “The Keeeeeeyyyyyyy!!!!” (Taken with picplz.)

Jul 8, 2011: These are big times. The expansion of freedom in the digital world will lead to the expansion of freedom in the real world. The people of the United …

Jul 7, 2011: Make no mistake: America is in a media war. It is an extension of the Cold War that never ended but shifted to an electronic front. The war between …

Jul 6, 2011: Yet there has never been any nation even remotely similar to America. Here’s why. Most revolutions seek to destroy the existing class order and use …

Jul 6, 2011: [gallery] Davis, and his friend Jacob, with LEGO Dirk. (Taken with picplz.)

Jul 4, 2011: Happy Independence Day, America!

Jul 3, 2011: [gallery] “The Good” Toy Story’s Woody gets the Sergio Leone treatment by Deviant Art user kizer180.

Jul 2, 2011: Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Journal - Boarding Pass / Fail Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Journal - Boarding Pass / Fail After becoming thoroughly disgusted, visually speaking, with the design of his Delta …

Jun 22, 2011: [gallery] They are obsessed with Hungry Hungry Hippos. Obsessed, I tell you. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 22, 2011: I love getting mail from Zurich. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 22, 2011: [gallery] Pretty much sums it all up.

Jun 19, 2011: The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken …

Jun 17, 2011: [gallery] Beer before ice cream or….okay, I got nothin’. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 14, 2011: [gallery] Where’s the adult version?!? (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 14, 2011: [gallery] New Tom Clancy dropped today. Wheeee… (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 13, 2011: Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any …

Jun 13, 2011: [vimeo 25008894 w=250 h=188] Used the Super 8 app on my iPhone to shoot video of Kelly and Samuel singing “The Wheels on the Bus” while we …

Jun 12, 2011: I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little …

Jun 7, 2011: [gallery] More fun with taxidermy! (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 7, 2011: [gallery] Homemade donuts with chocolate, strawberry, & Bavarian cream dipping sauces. Oh. My. God. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 7, 2011: Buffalo pot roast in a red wine sauce. Oh. My. God. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 4, 2011: “Let our river run through your liver.” (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 3, 2011: [gallery] Yep, we had waffles at the top of the mountain. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 3, 2011: [gallery] From atop Rendezvous Mountain (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 3, 2011: [gallery] Outside our front door. (Taken with picplz.)

Jun 3, 2011: [gallery] Sunset over the Grand Tetons (Taken with picplz.)

May 26, 2011: [gallery] In-N-Out, Frisco, TX (Taken with picplz.)

May 26, 2011: [gallery] Because Tom’s already mad at me. (Taken with picplz.)

May 26, 2011: [gallery] Today’s order (Taken with picplz.)

May 24, 2011: [gallery] My reading queue keeps getting deeper with interesting tomes. (Taken with picplz.)

May 23, 2011: [gallery] Bedtime story (Taken with picplz.)

May 21, 2011: IMG_0913a by GiZmoes on Flickr. Time for a caption contest. Get those comments going.

May 20, 2011: [gallery] Kitty Leia by Official Star Wars Blog on Flickr. While plotting the demise of his human, Jack had to admit, he *did* look fabulous…

May 20, 2011: [gallery] Cruising the cul-de-sac (Taken with picplz.)

May 17, 2011: Endeavor Lifts Off on Its Last Mission [vimeo 23806841 w=580 h=326] Courtesy of spacevideo, in case, like yours truly, you missed watching it live.

May 12, 2011: [gallery] On the dugout on Flickr.

May 12, 2011: Sitting Is Killing You Via: Medical Billing And Coding

May 6, 2011: [gallery] tbridge: nightline: SEAL’s best friend. abcworldnews: Turns out just when we thought there was nothing cooler than a Navy SEAL we were …

May 6, 2011: Ideal Sans | Hoefler &amp; Frere-Jones Ideal Sans | Hoefler & Frere-Jones Yet another gorgeous typeface that makes me wish I had a reason to buy more fonts and use them. (Via my pal …

May 5, 2011: [gallery] New goodies on Flickr. For the new 11-inch MacBook Air: backup drive, and the latest from Gary and the gang at Waterfield.

May 4, 2011: [gallery] May the Fourth be with you on Flickr.

May 4, 2011: Everything Facebook Will Tell The Police About You Everything Facebook Will Tell The Police About You Well, it’s pretty much everything.

May 4, 2011: "Greetings, people. Greetings." To quote one George Constanza: “Greetings, people. Greetings. Greetings and salutations. What a beautiful day for a ball game. Let’s play …

May 4, 2011: Retrophisch is dead. Long live Retrophisch. For more than a year I've been thinking about redesigning the blog. I know, I know, I haven't really blogged that much of late, but still, I've been …

Apr 18, 2011: links for 2011-04-18 Pilotmoon Blog - Scroll Reverser - get in practice for Lion A simple application that reverses the usual scrolling practices on Mac OS X 10.5 and …

Apr 5, 2011: links for 2011-04-05 Here's The Only Chart You Need To See To Understand Why The US Is Screwed "[T]he US cannot grow its way out of this problem. It needs to …

Apr 4, 2011: Takers, Not Makers Stephen Moore, WSJ: If you want to understand better why so many states--from New York to Wisconsin to California--are teetering on the brink of …

Mar 25, 2011: links for 2011-03-25 Dreaming of the Dark Side "The story is about a girl dreaming of the Darth Vader. You can see what happens when he doesn’t like a …

Mar 21, 2011: links for 2011-03-21 Dropkick - To Do List App, Task Manager for iPhone and Mac "A simple, elegant to do list app for iPhone and Mac" Love the clean, minimalist …

Mar 10, 2011: links for 2011-03-10 Periodic Table of Terrorist Organizations | Navanti Group An infographic "using groups designated by the United States Department of State. …

Mar 1, 2011: links for 2011-03-01 Secret Stash on Vimeo "This project is about concealing valuables, secrets, bad habits and personal information in our workplaces. Here, hidden …

Feb 10, 2011: links for 2011-02-10 Capacitive iPad Stylus - Draw, write, and capture your ideas naturally on your iPad, with the detail and accuracy like that of a pen "While …

Feb 8, 2011: links for 2011-02-08 The 7 Germiest Places | MH News | MensHealth.com Don't use the supermarket's self-checkout, wipe down your iPhone daily, and use the …

Feb 5, 2011: links for 2011-02-05 Men's accessories - necessary luxuries - Timex® vintage field army watch - J.Crew J. Crew teamed up with Timex to offer this exclusive out …

Feb 4, 2011: Boy, I bet Madison would be <em>mad</em> if he were here today. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the …

Feb 4, 2011: Radical Islam is the Ultimate Issue David Dolan is a Jersalem-based author and journalist who has lived and worked in Israel since 1980. The following is reposted with permission. …

Feb 3, 2011: links for 2011-02-03 Top 10 Etiquette Blunders : Lifestyle :: American Express OPEN Forum So sad that we have to be reminded of these common sense rules for behavior in …

Feb 3, 2011: Freedom vs shackles Kenneth Spence: One president freed the American people to drive their economy forward and make up for lost ground. The other has shackled them with …

Feb 2, 2011: Best car commercial ever. EVER. Mucho gracias to friend Joshua for posting this on Facebook.

Jan 27, 2011: Jesus loves dinner time Tonight at the dinner table, Samuel decided it was time to do a little singing. Jesus loves dinner time from Chris Turner on Vimeo.

Jan 27, 2011: "Obama does not seem like a leader anymore" Ben Stein: There were two glimpses of the old Obama -- when he slammed "subsidies" for oil companies, which of course do not get any subsidies, but …

Jan 25, 2011: links for 2011-01-25 SEC reigns supreme once again - SEC Blog - ESPN "Here’s a big surprise: The ESPN Stats & Information folks have run the numbers one …

Jan 20, 2011: links for 2011-01-20 Imperial Marching Band "Everyone wants to join Lord Vader's Imperial Marching Band! Now you can march along with the Empire's Stormtroopers …

Jan 16, 2011: links for 2011-01-16 Clamcase iPad keyboard case hands-on -- Engadget "The folks from Clamcase stopped by our trailer this afternoon with some of the first finished …

Jan 15, 2011: We're in trouble. Real trouble. "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited …

Jan 12, 2011: links for 2011-01-12 Not only, but also.: Dr. Seuss does Star Wars Great art by Adam Watson. The Chewbacca is the best. (tags: art fun seuss starwars)

Jan 7, 2011: It's Almost Game Time, Tigers! We're off to the 75th Cotton Bowl today. GEAUX TIGERS!!!

Jan 3, 2011: links for 2011-01-03 Five Reasons the Zombie Apocalypse Will Never Come to Pass | Primer "[B]ecoming a zombie would be embarrassing more than anything, as it is a …

Jan 1, 2011: Books 2010: The Year of the Movie Tie-In Below follows the list of books I read in 2010. Links go to the dead-tree edition (for the most part) on Amazon. You can see this list, as well as …

Dec 29, 2010: links for 2010-12-29 Meerkat 1.5 automatically reconnects your SSH Tunnels "Meerkat turns SSH tunnels -- a fairly obscure and complicated concept -- into a feature …

Dec 29, 2010: Now whom might we apply this to today? "It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick …

Dec 13, 2010: If I could only bottle the innate cuteness... I would be richer than Gates or Buffett.

Dec 7, 2010: links for 2010-12-07 Sessions "Sessions keeps track of your open windows and tabs for you, with automatic periodic backups for easy and robust session restoration …

Nov 26, 2010: links for 2010-11-26 - TSA Edition, Ep. 5: The Em-Tyner Strikes Back <Insert title here>: TSA encounter at SAN John Tyner's now-famous encounter with the TSA in San Diego over the body scanning machines and …

Nov 25, 2010: links for 2010-11-25 - TSA Edition, Ep. 4: A New Grope Rocky Flats Gear protect your heath, privacy and dignity. Jeff Buske's special underwear features a strategically placed fig leaf design and uses …

Nov 24, 2010: LEGO Star Wars: Bombad Bounty Makes me laugh every time I watch it. My boys and I love it. (Make sure you choose the 720 HD version.) Davis: "That's funny." Samuel: "Again!" (And …

Nov 24, 2010: Ben Kenobi: Private Jedeye Yeah, it's been floating around the Interwebs for a while now, but it's still great.

Nov 24, 2010: Congressman Burgess responds on TSA's new policies Michael C. Burgess, the Congressional representative for our little sliver of Texas, has responded to the letter I sent him a week and a half ago …

Nov 21, 2010: links for 2010-11-21 - TSA Edition, Ep. 3: Revenge of the Screeners For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic Goldberg's account of his first encounter with the new, …

Nov 20, 2010: links for 2010-11-20 - TSA Edition, Ep. 2: Attack of the Backscatter Get your hands off me, TSA! | Jennifer Abel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Jennifer Abel tees off in this editorial on TSA apologetics. (tags: …

Nov 18, 2010: links for 2010-11-18 - The TSA Edition The TSA Blog and 1984 - GovLoop - Social Network for Government Joe Flood contends the TSA's "Blogger Bob" is engaging in Orwellian …

Nov 15, 2010: For writers, a good use for all that e-mail spam A tip for fellow writers: I use Michael Tsai's outstanding SpamSieve on my Mac to control e-mail spam. Based on the training I give the program, it …

Nov 14, 2010: Too bad we don't pay attention to history "History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other …

Nov 14, 2010: A boarding pass is not probable cause Below is the letter I sent to our Congressional representative, Michael C. Burgess. I totally ripped it off from my friend Tom, tweaking it slightly. …

Nov 10, 2010: links for 2010-11-10 A Refined Desktop Collection | Created by @dizzyup Simple wood, dark, and light wallpapers for your 27-, 24-, or 15-inch screen, as well as your …

Nov 6, 2010: links for 2010-11-06 StarWars.com | Digital Downloads Free wallpapers for computer desktops and mobile devices, free PDF books, free PDFs of masks, coloring pages, and …

Nov 3, 2010: links for 2010-11-03 ThinkGeek :: Star Trek Retro Propaganda Poster Set While I'm not nearly the level of Star Trek fan as I am with Star Wars, these are intriguing. …

Oct 31, 2010: Running out of the tunnel at Tiger Stadium Since LSU had a bye week this weekend, here's a sight not many get to see: The video was shot with a HD helmet cam attached to Seth Mannon, at the …

Oct 26, 2010: Life - The Type As a closet typography nerd, it's always fun to learn about a new typeface. Or, in this case, a new-to-me typeface. I'm enjoying the trend that's …

Oct 21, 2010: links for 2010-10-21 One letter that changes everything. « Stuff Christians Like -- Jon Acuff "In God's hands, your mistakes are not open cuts, they are healed …

Oct 3, 2010: links for 2010-10-03 Learning Management System (LMS) Software by Prfessor "Start your own online academy, completely free." Interesting... (tags: education …

Sep 29, 2010: links for 2010-09-29 How I Did It: Alden Mills of Perfect Fitness Inc. Magazine interviews Alden Mills, whose main product, Perfect Pushup, you may have seen on …

Sep 29, 2010: No worse tyranny "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." --American writer …

Sep 17, 2010: links for 2010-09-17 Batman Is My Mr. Miyagi | Mulholland Books But they're *just* comic books, right? (tags: books comics writing)

Sep 16, 2010: links for 2010-09-16 Theo-tainment versus Discipleship The universal Church is pretty good at conversion, but lousy at discipleship. (tags: Bible church discipleship …

Sep 15, 2010: An evil evil Andrew Klavan: It was JFK who signed an executive order giving public sector unions the right to collective bargaining. We need a president with the …

Sep 8, 2010: Willfully doing damage, or completely incompetent? Investor's Business Daily: It's not as bad as it could've been. That, as the Labor Day weekend began, was the cold comfort that many in the media …

Sep 5, 2010: True then, true now "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson, …

Sep 4, 2010: Callin' Baton Rouge I know the Tigers aren't opening the season at home, but this time of year is when I miss the city I grew up in the most.

Sep 2, 2010: ATPM 16.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Shhhhhhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. Mark is hunting …

Aug 31, 2010: 5 days to kickoff Geaux Tigers!!!

Aug 27, 2010: American youth, never forget "Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and …

Aug 26, 2010: Less than 10 days to kickoff! Geaux Tigers!!!

Aug 21, 2010: links for 2010-08-21 R.E.S.P.E.C.T… What does it mean to you? | John Maxwell on Leadership Ten rules for respect, desperately needed in our culture today. (tags: …

Aug 19, 2010: links for 2010-08-19 Yoon's Blur: Why adoption hurts (Part I) "Adoptees must attempt to make sense of a complex, deep matrix of circumstances, emotions and …

Aug 17, 2010: Failing to learn from history "But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, …

Aug 16, 2010: links for 2010-08-16 Mischief in Manhattan "The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our …

Aug 15, 2010: links for 2010-08-15 Twibbon.com - Start Something! "Twibbon is the easiest and most powerful way to promote awareness of your cause on Twitter and Facebook, …

Aug 4, 2010: Talking openly about our doubts Jason Boyett: [D]oubt is a necessary part of faith. We tend to think that faith and doubt are opposites, but they're not. The opposite of faith isn't …

Aug 3, 2010: links for 2010-08-03 SimpleTask : no-frills to-do list for Mac and iPhone Mac version's free, iPhone version costs $2, and yes, they sync. I'm pretty well …

Aug 2, 2010: links for 2010-08-02 Five Things That Can Surprisingly Make You Smarter | Primer Exercise, music, naps, and, yes-video games and Facebook. (tags: brain health) How Not …

Aug 2, 2010: ATPM 16.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Rob gets us going with a recap of Apple's latest …

Aug 2, 2010: Federal, not national "Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary …

Jul 30, 2010: Hope Max Lucado: We are not much different than burdened travelers, are we? We roll in the mud of self-pity in the very shadow of the cross. We piously …

Jul 28, 2010: links for 2010-07-28 Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens - Well Blog - NYTimes.com The gist: don't sit down all day. (tags: health)

Jul 27, 2010: links for 2010-07-27 LaCie - USB Keys I like LaCie's line of USB keys as the sort of flash drive I'd always have on my person. (tags: flashdrive gear hardware …

Jul 26, 2010: Dancing in the Minefields Andrew Peterson's latest single. Great song.

Jul 20, 2010: links for 2010-07-20 I Had Friends On That Death Star T-Shirt "This shirt is a tribute to the thousands of patriots serving the Empire that died on the Death …

Jul 11, 2010: Siena votes FDR #1 Burt Folsom: The Siena College presidential poll–a ranking of 44 presidents by 200 historians–put Franklin Roosevelt in first place. In …

Jul 9, 2010: 57 Days to Kickoff Geaux Tigers!!!

Jul 4, 2010: links for 2010-07-04 2TTF:Onkelvetica My friend Dave created a fun typeface on his iPad. (tags: font typeface typography) Gunkanjima: Ruins of a Forbidden Island – …

Jul 4, 2010: Independence Forever! Mark Alexander: "The Declaration of Independence [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson The …

Jul 1, 2010: Knowing who we are Andrew Farley, The Naked Gospel: Sometimes we see ourselves as sinners in the loving arms of a God who is pretending not to see us as we really are. …

Jun 30, 2010: links for 2010-06-30 15 Great iPhone Apps for Men | The Art of Manliness There's quite a few in this list I can see as being very, very useful... (tags: apps iphone …

Jun 30, 2010: Misunderstanding the role of the Court Ann Coulter: [L]iberals are raving about Kagan's "skill at building a consensus ... reaching out and building coalitions" -- as Sen. Dick Durbin, …

Jun 17, 2010: Knowledge of their characters and conduct "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their …

Jun 16, 2010: links for 2010-06-16 JavaScript Blacklist "JavaScript Blacklist is a simple extension for Safari 5 which blacklists scripts from a configurable list of domains. If a …

Jun 13, 2010: links for 2010-06-13 Safari Extensions "This extension adds an Amazon Search item to the context menu. To use it, just select some text on the page, right-click (or …

Jun 12, 2010: links for 2010-06-12 bdougherty's tynt-blocker at master - GitHub "This Safari extension blocks the stupid annoying Tynt copy/paste junk." (tags: extension …

Jun 11, 2010: links for 2010-06-11 Project: AK-47 "Project: AK-47 has only been operating in the United States for a year and a half, but it promotes and funds projects that have …

Jun 9, 2010: links for 2010-06-09 Free Downloadable Guide: A Photographer's Guide to Depth of Field "A Photographer's Guide to Depth of Field is our first photography …

Jun 8, 2010: links for 2010-06-08 Camera+ ...the ultimate photo app What makes Camera+ different is the Lightbox function. Photos taken through Camera+ are saved within the app first. …

Jun 8, 2010: Thank you, Lord, for books Randy Alcorn: No offense to ebooks and Kindle, which have their place, but there's no substitute for a book that has an actual history, that takes up …

Jun 6, 2010: links for 2010-06-06 Screw Key Key Ring Screwdriver Pretty self-explanatory (tags: design gadgets tools)

May 31, 2010: links for 2010-05-31 Memorial Day: What Gold Star families want you to know - BostonHerald.com Kirk Morris, father of Marine Pfc. Geoffrey Morris, 19 [...] "I don't …

May 31, 2010: Every day a memorial day Tony Woodlief: It's a good thing, I believe, to remember the dead -- especially in a culture that trivializes death. We shunt it aside to the …

May 26, 2010: links for 2010-05-26 LLM Clothing: Buy a shirt. Change the world.  "A portion of the profit from our shirts will go to changing your world: "Globally: …

May 26, 2010: Our ballplayer This spring, Davis started playing baseball. At the six and under level (6U), it's coach-pitch. He did pretty well, and we saw improvements in his …

May 26, 2010: Hanging out From back in March. While I was getting myself ready, the boys watched Sesame Street in Mom and Dad's room.

May 17, 2010: On God's grace Andrew Farley, The Naked Gospel: Grace is the system that the Holy Spirit uses to counsel and teach us on a daily basis. Grace is in place, whether …

May 3, 2010: George Brilliant.

May 2, 2010: Mission Trip 2010 Each year our church sponsors a mission trip for the high schoolers. It's an opportunity for them to experience, if only for a week, some of the …

Apr 30, 2010: links for 2010-04-30 My Disney Cruise from Hell - Page 1 - The Daily Beast "Here’s one thing you should know about the Disney Cruise: The culture of Disney is …

Apr 27, 2010: links for 2010-04-27 Beware the Rip-Off Sticker - Edmunds.com Refuse to pay for those add-ons dealerships force on you. At the very least, do some basic research and …

Apr 26, 2010: links for 2010-04-26 Why Crime Novelists Don't Get Women - Page 1 - The Daily Beast Good advice from Christopher Rice. Still hard to believe I gave him a test drive …

Apr 12, 2010: links for 2010-04-12 Shark Fin Ice Cube Mold Oh, if only we entertained more... (tags: fun)

Apr 9, 2010: Jesus vs JESUS&trade; Unreasonable Faith: Matthew Paul Turner: Today, America's Jesus is more of a brand name than anything else, a money-making commodity that churches …

Apr 6, 2010: links for 2010-04-06 YouTube - TRON 1982 Trailer Fan-edited movie trailer for the original Tron movie, giving it a more modern feel and soundtrack. Very well done. (tags: …

Mar 30, 2010: links for 2010-03-30 Mysterious Softballs Found Hidden throughout Texas Stadium Fascinating. (tags: history Texas) Beyond HandBrake's defaults | Entertainment & …

Mar 30, 2010: Hope and change hit the Constitution Larry Elder: Once a nation under a Constitution that restricted government intrusion, we now want government to provide for our "needs" by calling …

Mar 30, 2010: Well, too late for that "If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for …

Mar 30, 2010: On the iPad Robert Leitao: The iPad is to the handheld device market what the home theatre concept was to the marketers of TVs and related products. The Apple …

Mar 27, 2010: Bind him down "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas …

Mar 26, 2010: links for 2010-03-26 Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender » DamienG You can download the typefaces for use on your desktop or laptop. I really like …

Mar 25, 2010: James Cameron, secret conservative? Leigh Scott: And about the Na'Vi. Like most fifth graders, Cameron endows them with a nobility and honor that he thinks the Native Americans …

Mar 24, 2010: Redress the injury "If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people ... must appeal to …

Mar 22, 2010: links for 2010-03-22 The Tax Foundation - Timeline of Tax Provisions in the House Health Care Bill "In order to finance $940 billion in new health care spending over …

Mar 21, 2010: links for 2010-03-21 True Dimensions - Discovery The Discovery, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, in LEGO. Took over a year to make, measures just over 6 feet in length. (tags: …

Mar 19, 2010: Does conservatism give Christianity a bad name? This has been sitting in my NetNewsWire sidebar for two and a half years. So better late than never, I suppose. Tony Woodlief: The best inoculation, …

Mar 19, 2010: Clearly unconstitutional Mark Alexander: Does our Constitution allow the Executive and Legislative branches to collaborate to confer authority upon the federal government …

Mar 18, 2010: Empower, not impoverish "There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that …

Mar 14, 2010: links for 2010-03-14 Josh Kaufman » Blog Archive » On Government The quote by Milton Friedman on spending money is why I bookmarked this. (tags: economics …

Mar 13, 2010: links for 2010-03-13 dougist.com » Blog Archive » WriteRoom and Notational Velocity Writeup on using Notational Velocity as Mac desktop app and syncing across …

Mar 10, 2010: Unbridled Jon Acuff: God doesn’t give us solutions, he gives us a savior. A lot of the time, I wish it was the other way around. To be honest with you, …

Mar 9, 2010: links for 2010-03-09 Super High Resolution Photos: TRON Legacy and Toy Story 3 | /Film Three really nice high-res shots. Love the lightcycle one. (tags: desktops movies …

Mar 9, 2010: Waste of time Donald Miller: So my question to you is, are you a slave to a jury of your peers? Do you always have to explain why you are right? How much do you …

Mar 8, 2010: More satisfying "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." --G.K. Chesterton

Mar 1, 2010: links for 2010-03-01 Microsoft's Global Criminal Compliance Handbook Leaked | addybaddy | Fast Company "The guide does exactly what it says: outlines the …

Feb 25, 2010: links for 2010-02-25 Welfare recipients now eligible to receive cell phones | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. Welcome to...the Twilight Zone. (tags: government …

Feb 23, 2010: links for 2010-02-23 gapingvoid gallery - Love begets love One of Hugh MacLeod's works of art I really like. (tags: art love wishlist)

Feb 17, 2010: Hurtling Down the Road to Serfdom John Stossel: Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn't just mean that more of us must work for the government. It …

Feb 15, 2010: Washington's Birthday Surely it is a sign of Providence that my best friend shares a birthday celebration with our first President. The Patriot Post: As friend of The …

Feb 15, 2010: Hey, everyone, it's Brent's birthday... ...so let's all celebrate by: + jamming out to Social Distortion, Pennywise, Son Volt, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana + having a good laugh while watching …

Feb 2, 2010: ATPM 16.02 The February issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Mark laments how the technology of his employer …

Jan 31, 2010: Thanksgiving 2009, part 1 So I'm finally getting around to doing some photo processing. For Thanksgiving this past year, we spent the week with my parents at their home in the …

Jan 31, 2010: Shootout at the Allen Corral Shootout at the Allen Corral from Chris Turner on Vimeo. Our son Davis' hockey team was invited to hold a shootout during intermission between the …

Jan 26, 2010: links for 2010-01-26 Worst International Travel Hassles (and How to Prevent Them) - SmarterTravel.com Filing for future reference. (tags: travel) Free downloadable …

Jan 26, 2010: It's the Enemy, Stupid Andrew C. McCarthy: The laws of war are the rule of law. They are not a suspension of the Constitution. They are the Constitution operating in …

Jan 26, 2010: Silent encroachments "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and …

Jan 22, 2010: Obama Loses It Dennis Kneale, CNBC Media & Technology Editor: In so doing, the President has shed his usual, becalmed visage of judicious intelligence and …

Jan 21, 2010: Get well soon, Charlie. Because: "That's how you do it, son." (I love the little point with the breadstick at the end. My favorite part.)

Jan 18, 2010: links for 2010-01-18 Square iPhone Payment System [video] - Kevin Rose Okay, this is pretty cool. (tags: business creditcard finance iphone money payment video) Martin …

Jan 17, 2010: links for 2010-01-17 YouTube - Judge Napolitano's "The Constitution and Freedom," Part 1: The Constitution Worth watching. (tags: constitution freedom …

Jan 15, 2010: links for 2010-01-15 Republicans Should Talk About Race. Here's How. - HUMAN EVENTS "If Republicans continue to be intimidated into not engaging minorities out of …

Jan 11, 2010: links for 2010-01-11 Home based Businesses You Can Start In Your Pajamas in 2010 | Inc.com Proud to say, "I know him!" Congratulations on the mention, Michael! …

Jan 11, 2010: "Lipstick."

Jan 11, 2010: Setting brushfires "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." …

Jan 8, 2010: IMG_0769 Big rain collector behind the WinKids building in Flower Mound, Texas. I liked the typography.

Jan 7, 2010: links for 2010-01-07 Tactical-Life.com » Smith & Wesson M&P Pro 9mm Tuned by the Smith & Wesson Performance Center, aimed at the competition market, but …

Jan 7, 2010: Yep, too late. "[A] rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest …

Jan 6, 2010: Too late? "The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the …

Jan 3, 2010: ATPM 16.01 The January issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. The staff of ATPM is pleased to note with this issue …

Dec 31, 2009: links for 2009-12-31 rentzsch.tumblr.com: BusyCal 1.1 Review For future reference, if, once the missus is on a Mac, we find we need this as a family. (tags: calendar Mac …

Dec 29, 2009: links for 2009-12-29 If 'Star Wars' Was On Facebook - This is the awesome. (tags: Facebook fun humor StarWars) 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The …

Dec 29, 2009: Sinking gradually "[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, -- who was governor of …

Dec 29, 2009: A dangerous fairy tale Ed Morrissey: The idea that anti-Americanism exists or increased just because of Bush springs from an immature, self-centered view of the universe …

Dec 23, 2009: links for 2009-12-23 For Internet Invitations, a New Generation of Web Sites - NYTimes.com Handy list of alternatives to Evite.com. You're still not using Evite, are …

Dec 23, 2009: Experience Mobile Mobile Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

Dec 23, 2009: On the narrow path Tony Woodlief: I remind him to watch the cars, to look the drivers in the eye and make sure they see him. His brothers and I sit in the minivan while …

Dec 18, 2009: links for 2009-12-18 Howstuffworks "How to Play Craps: Tips and Guidelines" For future reference. (tags: craps gambling howto tips)

Dec 16, 2009: "Let your gun ... be your constant companion" "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives …

Dec 13, 2009: links for 2009-12-13 r232591_930817.jpg 1280×960 pixels The most honest fortune cookie fortune ever. (tags: fun humor photo)

Dec 10, 2009: The sheer arrogance Robert Tracinski, RealClearPolitics: When you understand what this bill does, you can see why the Democrats would be happy to compromise and drop the …

Dec 9, 2009: links for 2009-12-09 RELEVANT Magazine - Why We Don't Pray "Prayer--which is simply talking with God--is considered a critical aspect of faith. One prophet …

Dec 9, 2009: A wise and frugal government "[A] wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of …

Dec 8, 2009: links for 2009-12-08 How to Shut Down the 'Net: A Guide for Repressive Regimes - Inventions | Patents | New Inventions | Innovation - FOXNews.com "The Internet …

Dec 1, 2009: links for 2009-12-01 The Escapist : News : Battle of the Brick: LEGO and Halo , Together at Last Is it odd that I'm a fan of Halo, even though I've never played …

Dec 1, 2009: Partners in crime Davis and Samuel having fun on the backyard play set.

Nov 30, 2009: links for 2009-11-30 Evotional.com - Pure Wisdom Ten life and leadership lessons from Chuck Swindoll. (tags: God leadership tips) No Country for Old Typewriters - A …

Nov 30, 2009: Oh. Yeah. Can't wait.

Nov 29, 2009: links for 2009-11-29 The Day the Dollar Died | Shenandoah "The following story [...] is a potential fictional time line for the day the dollar died. I hope not to …

Nov 29, 2009: "Mama!" Featuring my all-time favorite Muppet: Via Brent, who gave me a very appreciated laugh by telling me about it last night.

Nov 28, 2009: links for 2009-11-28 Free2Work, Corporate Responsibility, Slave Labor, Watch List - Free2Work "This newly-updated site helps holiday shoppers find great gifts which …

Nov 26, 2009: Thanksgiving Proclamation Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to …

Nov 25, 2009: links for 2009-11-25 11 iPhone Apps for Stress Free Family Travel Not endorsing any of these apps, since I haven't tried any, but felt the article was worth passing …

Nov 25, 2009: A Sickening Story Power Line: Our armed forces have become exquisitely sensitive--toward Nidal Malik Hasan and Ahmed Hashim Abed, and one wonders who else. Such …

Nov 20, 2009: links for 2009-11-20 Writer's Digest - Inside the Mind of Cory Doctorow Though I disagree vehemently with Doctorow on a lot of political points, I have enjoyed most of his …

Nov 20, 2009: Dangerous wine Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC: Unfermented grape juice is a bland and pleasant drink, especially on a warm afternoon mixed …

Nov 18, 2009: Justice Denied Investors Business Daily: Eric Holder's move to try the 9/11 masterminds in Manhattan makes it official: This administration has reverted to pre-9/11 …

Nov 18, 2009: The Year of Revolution Matt Welch: November 1989 was the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history, yet two decades later the country that …

Nov 15, 2009: links for 2009-11-15 What happens to your email when you die? | News | News.com.au From an Aussie perspective, but still relevant. Offers a summary of the policies of …

Nov 13, 2009: links for 2009-11-13 The Healthy Way To Work | Men's Journal "Five relatively minor adjustments to prevent big chronic problems later." (tags: ergonomics …

Nov 9, 2009: Economic Myths and Irrelevancy Walter E. Williams: There is no more reliable rule than the 95 percent rule: 95 percent of what you read about economics and finance is either wrong …

Nov 4, 2009: Obama and the Liberal Paradigm John Steele Gordon: Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, …

Oct 27, 2009: links for 2009-10-27 How Red Cross Delivers Messages To Hostages : NPR In case you've ever wondered, as I have. (tags: hostage redcross terrorism)

Oct 24, 2009: Too bad we haven't abided by this in decades "[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all …

Oct 21, 2009: links for 2009-10-21 Voting Present Is Not an Option - Victor Davis Hanson - The Corner on National Review Online Not surprisingly, more common sense from VDH on what our …

Oct 15, 2009: links for 2009-10-15 The cast of Seinfeld on Twitter. - By Frank Ferri - Slate Magazine If Twitter had been a subject of conversation during an episode of Seinfeld. …

Oct 12, 2009: links for 2009-10-12 It Was The Best Night Ever And how many of you, hitting this site after seeing tonight's How I Met Your Mother, suddenly had some late …

Oct 12, 2009: The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran Jamie Glazov interviews Robert Spencer for FrontPage Magazine, on Spencer's new book, The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran (Amazon link). Money …

Oct 11, 2009: links for 2009-10-11 The Weekly Standard - Meet the People Who Were Passed Over for Obama The Nobel Committee could have given the Peace Prize to: an Afghan women's …

Oct 11, 2009: Seven Wow. Seven years as of yesterday. Seven years ago, I had a great job. A career in IT. Seven years ago, we hadn't been in our new house even a full …

Oct 9, 2009: Disastrously bad, ridicule-inviting choices Tony Woodlief: It seems to me that if you’re going to be in the business of making disastrously bad, ridicule-inviting choices, you need to …

Oct 8, 2009: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... from Chris Turner on Vimeo. So back on the first of September, a mere week after the boy started …

Oct 6, 2009: We need a bigger House? Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online : Beyond principle, there are practical reasons to expand Congress. For decades, presidential candidates have …

Oct 4, 2009: links for 2009-10-04 First Look: 2011 McLaren MP4-12C It hasn't displaced Aston Martin on my fantasy super cars-to-own list, but it did knock the Porsche GT3 down a …

Sep 30, 2009: links for 2009-09-30 Stormschach on Flickr - Photo Sharing! "...save us, they will scream, and I'll whisper, 'No...I'm a bad guy'." …

Sep 30, 2009: Left-footed Last evening, after arriving home from dinner, our family decided to take a walk. Our neighborhood has a small green belt with a walking/biking trail …

Sep 16, 2009: Appreciating our own "[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other …

Sep 12, 2009: links for 2009-09-12 On Monuments - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online "I always liked the reader suggestion to name the new towers …

Sep 4, 2009: What we're lacking "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their …

Sep 3, 2009: It's Time To See Religion Die Brian "Head" Welch, Save Me From Myself: All of the man-made religion crap in this world has to die. Whether it's Christian man-made religion crap or …

Sep 3, 2009: Because it'll make you smile

Sep 2, 2009: ATPM 15.09 After a couple-month hiatus from my usual blog posting announcing publication, I'm pleased to note the September issue of About This Particular …

Aug 25, 2009: links for 2009-08-25 xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet "Dear various parents, grandparents, co-workers, and other 'not computer people.' We …

Aug 25, 2009: "I am on a mission" The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Will you write on a tablet, or just read from it? Or will you just buy it and put it on your desk and look at it a …

Aug 24, 2009: links for 2009-08-24 10 Ways To Avoid Being Sued On Twitter Common-sense advice from attorney Adrianos Facchetti for our increasingly no-common sense world. Pretty sure …

Aug 23, 2009: links for 2009-08-23 49% Say Workers Should Be Able To Opt Out of Social Security - Rasmussen Reports™ "Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters say working …

Aug 19, 2009: Let the ocean come to you Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo. To pass along Jon's …

Aug 17, 2009: links for 2009-08-17 John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare - WSJ.com "Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is …

Aug 11, 2009: links for 2009-08-11 Hit & Run > If Health-Care Reform Passes, Will Protests Increase? - Reason Magazine "Making government a bigger player in the health-care …

Aug 6, 2009: Requiem For A Day Off

Aug 6, 2009: links for 2009-08-06 How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so fast -- chicagotribune.com A somewhat insider's look at the Netflix warehouse that serves the …

Aug 4, 2009: Fundamental "We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of …

Jul 29, 2009: links for 2009-07-29 Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn't that a problem? | csmonitor.com All I could think of while reading this was "This is news? …

Jul 28, 2009: But, but...they're the <em>elites!</em> "The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of …

Jul 24, 2009: links for 2009-07-24 7 'Secret' Ways To Use Twitter Search Thomas Baekdal with some tips on keeping up with the latest buzz, or keeping up with what people are saying …

Jul 23, 2009: MC Vader This is about a dozen kinds of awesome: [Via Brent, who's still ticked off about the Nirvana/Rick Astley mash-up. ;-)]

Jul 22, 2009: links for 2009-07-22 Head in the Clouds | Open The Future | Fast Company "Centralization is in many ways the worst part. It's the core of the cloud computing …

Jul 21, 2009: links for 2009-07-21 Continental, Delta Hike Bag Fees, Match United, US Airways - SmarterTravel.com "In the same breath that it used to announce a $213 million …

Jul 20, 2009: Because I know it will drive Brent bonkers Brilliant mash-up.

Jul 17, 2009: links for 2009-07-17 Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com "[W]e’ve been taught to believe that e-books are, you …

Jul 17, 2009: How to figure out if health care is being rationed Michael Kinsley: Here is a handy-dandy way to determine whether the failure to order some exam or treatment constitutes rationing: If the patient …

Jul 15, 2009: links for 2009-07-15 I don't recall Major League Baseball doing this for Bush - RedState "But one thing George Bush did not get that Barack Obama is getting from …

Jul 14, 2009: links for 2009-07-14 Hidden airline fees to avoid - dealnews.com A collection of fees beyond your ticket for each airline, from checked bags to snacks to onboard wifi. As …

Jul 13, 2009: links for 2009-07-13 Andy Chung - Neighbourhood Andy Chung's typeface Neighbourhood is "an ultra simple sans serif text(ish) face with a large set of alternates …

Jul 11, 2009: links for 2009-07-11 Official Google Blog: Google accounts on Twitter A complete list of all the Twitter accounts the Borg operate. Looks like there's one for each …

Jul 10, 2009: links for 2009-07-10 The Official Star Wars Blog » No Joke! Tauntaun Sleeping Bag For Reals? The key words in this article are "adult size". (If you listen …

Jul 5, 2009: links for 2009-07-05 Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers "[P]eople who talk about their intentions are less …

Jul 4, 2009: links for 2009-07-04 First Look: Olympus E-P1 digital camera | Cameras | Macworld Derrick Story: "At first glance, the recently announced Olympus E-P1 digital camera …

Jul 3, 2009: links for 2009-07-03 MSN Careers - Playing Games at Work - Career Advice Article They're not talking about fun games. Rather, "how office politics sabotage the …

Jul 2, 2009: links for 2009-07-02 Flexibits | Cameras This is a handy app which allows you to specify what you want your Mac to do when you attach photo-capable devices. For instance, …

Jun 30, 2009: The Suspicious Science Behind Man-Made Global Warming James Anderson: I'd like to take a look at the evidence for global warming resulting from increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere: The argument is …

Jun 29, 2009: Burning them up The Prodigal Jon: Forgiveness is the thing I ask for the most. In my head maybe I know that God’s forgiveness is eternal and inexhaustible but …

Jun 29, 2009: A Founding Father on cap and trade (Yes, really) "Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new …

Jun 28, 2009: links for 2009-06-28 Old Map App "Old Map App allows an iPhone user to explore the effects of time on geography and urban development. "The application displays …

Jun 27, 2009: links for 2009-06-27 Major League Baseball's outdated, misleading offset camera angle. - By Greg Hanlon - Slate Magazine "In recent years, at least three …

Jun 20, 2009: links for 2009-06-20 The League of Moveable Type "We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't …

Jun 16, 2009: links for 2009-06-16 Three Gorges Dam, China : Image of the Day "A new reservoir is filling in central China. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River—the …

Jun 16, 2009: Han Solo, P.I. Love it. But WAIT! YouTuber TheCBVee provides us with a sequence comparison of Magnum, P.I. and his creation: This is all doubly awesome since I …

Jun 15, 2009: Which man should we seek to learn from? Leslie Carbone: When Ronald Reagan took office, America's top income tax rate was 70 percent; when he left, it was 28 percent. Reagan's tax cuts were …

Jun 12, 2009: links for 2009-06-12 Bourne Again: Finishing a Series Started by Another - Borders - Books, Music and Movies Eric Van Lustbader on continuing the Jason Bourne book series …

Jun 11, 2009: links for 2009-06-11 Schneier on Security: An Expectation of Online Privacy "If your data is online, it is not private. Oh, maybe it seems private. Certainly, only …

Jun 9, 2009: Does It Take Two to Engage? Jennifer Rubin, in Commentary: [I]t suggests that Obama is in his own make-believe world in which dialogue, "respect," and smart diplomacy are met …

Jun 8, 2009: links for 2009-06-08 Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers Pretty self-explanatory. A blog of photos of hot chicks with stormtroopers. A sure sign of the apocalypse. (tags: blog …

Jun 7, 2009: links for 2009-06-07 Passport Visas Express - Passport and Visa Expediting Services "We are a professional expediting company officially recognized and registered …

Jun 4, 2009: links for 2009-06-04 PicoPlay - small music player "[L]isten to your iTunes library but only use a part of the resources. This player was designed with one purpose …

Jun 2, 2009: links for 2009-06-02 Why I'm Blocking Bing.com on my School's Network Remember when Microsoft knew what it was doing? (tags: Bing Microsoft search) As an atheist, I truly …

May 21, 2009: links for 2009-05-21 The Escapist : News : Boston Police Promise to Report Zombie Attacks Well, *I* feel better. (tags: police zombie)

May 18, 2009: Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" Except you haven't heard it like this:

May 18, 2009: links for 2009-05-18 Exploded 128 "Artist Garry Booth takes us back 25 years to 1984, with this exploded design of the first Mac, the computer that changed …

May 17, 2009: links for 2009-05-17 Long Exposure Illuminates the Mind (and Cleaning Path) of a Roomba Nifty. (tags: photo photography roomba) Chop Shop / Tee Shirts / Mens / Helbotica …

May 16, 2009: links for 2009-05-16 Steven Paul Jobs by ~dylanroscover on deviantART "This is a typeface-driven design based on the 'Here's to the crazy ones' ad …

May 15, 2009: links for 2009-05-15 The Official Star Wars Blog » Best AT-AT Cake Ever My wife likes the Cake Wrecks blog, and we've seen some pretty impressive cakes thanks …

May 13, 2009: links for 2009-05-13 Power Line - Iraq begins to pay the price of U.S. disengagement "With the U.S. disengaging militarily, Iraqi militias, insurgents, etc. have …

May 8, 2009: links for 2009-05-08 Death Star Destroys Enterprise // Current I always knew the Empire would take care of that pesky Federation. (tags: fun humor parody startrek …

May 3, 2009: The facts of life are conservative Mark Steyn: In its boundless ambition, the Left understands that the character of a people can be transformed: British, Canadian and European …

May 3, 2009: ATPM 15.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Reading about Mark's travails in obtaining faster …

May 2, 2009: links for 2009-05-02 Reader's Version of Greek and Hebrew Bible A free online Greek & Hebrew Reader's Bible, for my theologically-inclined friends who can …

Apr 30, 2009: Today's Shuffle 10 I haven't done this in a while, so here are the first ten songs from the iPod's shuffle mode today: "Remedy" - David Crowder Band "Already" - Rush of …

Apr 29, 2009: links for 2009-04-29 Hawaiian Cheesesteak Spike TV's Food Dude shows us how to make a Hawaiian Cheesesteak. I'm thinking this might be a good entree for a pool …

Apr 28, 2009: links for 2009-04-28 On Hallowed Ground, a Place of Painful Beauty - New York Times From just before Veterans Day 2007, a look at the nearly-forgotten-by-their-countrymen …

Apr 23, 2009: links for 2009-04-23 snopes.com: Chief Seattle Speech You may have encountered the famous "The earth is out mother" speech attributed to Chief Seattle. Maybe you …

Apr 21, 2009: links for 2009-04-21 Nixon's Undelivered Moon Disaster Speech [1969] Nixon speech writer William Safire had prepared text in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin died …

Apr 19, 2009: Those who don't learn from history... "Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new …

Apr 18, 2009: links for 2009-04-18 Tactical Defense Pens - TDP-1 I know what you're going to say. Eighty-nine bucks for a pen?!? Yes, but not just any pen. The Mil-Tac Tactical …

Apr 17, 2009: links for 2009-04-17 The Official Star Wars Blog » Star Wars as Airwolf This gets me right where two childhood loves meet. I do think the Rebels version works …

Apr 15, 2009: I guess we haven't hit our limit yet "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear …

Apr 14, 2009: links for 2009-04-14 Keith Starky Explains Twitter "The central conceit of the 'tweet' in this case is the idea that Ninjas, which are black-clad martial …

Apr 13, 2009: links for 2009-04-13 How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You I think we may be in trouble. (tags: animals cat fun humor pet) Nice Translator - The fast, easy to …

Apr 13, 2009: Legalized larceny "The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species …

Apr 10, 2009: links for 2009-04-10 TheNova Love this blueprint-style shirt of a famous starship from a recently finished television series. (tags: battlestargalactica bsg tshirt …

Apr 9, 2009: links for 2009-04-09 breadpig: the geek gear - world-saving t-shirts - dreaming of androids shirt Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick fans will get it. If you're …

Apr 8, 2009: links for 2009-04-08 Q & A: Rick Warren | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction "The megachurch pastor who faced backlash for praying at the …

Apr 6, 2009: links for 2009-04-06 Almost Perfect by W. E. Peterson The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation "The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima …

Apr 3, 2009: His conscience made him do it Tony Woodlief: Maybe I'm overly cynical, but trusting a politician's conscience seems a bit like trusting a prostitute's sense of propriety.

Apr 2, 2009: ATPM 15.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Mark discovers an unexpected benefit of the iPod nano …

Apr 2, 2009: Under any mode or form of government "It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for …

Mar 31, 2009: links for 2009-03-31 Earth, observed - The Big Picture - Boston.com "The Earth Observatory is a website run by NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science …

Mar 31, 2009: Dallas Wars? Star Dallas? Love it.

Mar 29, 2009: links for 2009-03-29 periodic_table_of_typefaces_large.jpg 3150x2100 pixels Typophiles, rejoice. (tags: design fonts typeface typography)

Mar 26, 2009: Huh? John Farnam, "Huh?" Who are these people? The VCA who murdered four police officers in Oakland, CA last Saturday had been incarcerated since 2002, …

Mar 25, 2009: links for 2009-03-25 Walk it off, it's only a heart attack - Baltimore News, Weather, Breaking News | WMAR-TV "An Italian doctor completed a brain operation …

Mar 24, 2009: If only "Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent …

Mar 23, 2009: links for 2009-03-23 TwitPic - Share photos on twitter A gem my friend Tom found while out and about. (tags: bumpersticker obama politics socialism)

Mar 21, 2009: links for 2009-03-21 The American Culture: 'Battlestar Galactica' Crosses the Red Line—Honorably Joshua Trevino accurately sums up most of my feelings …

Mar 19, 2009: links for 2009-03-19 Jihad Watch: Obama secretly ends program allowing pilots to carry guns "Why not? What could happen?" (tags: nationalsecurity politics …

Mar 18, 2009: Quite possibly the best LOLcat EVER. I have the LOLcat web site's RSS feed in my feed reader. I don't read it every day, but there are days when I'll get caught up on the past week or …

Mar 17, 2009: links for 2009-03-17 Don Miller Blog » What Makes This Paragraph so Great? "Instead of adjectives, great writers often use verbs. Their characters do, and they …

Mar 17, 2009: The boy hearts books. Tony Woodlief (yes, again): Isaiah loves books. He loves to read them, loves it when people read them to him, loves to hit his brother Isaac upside …

Mar 17, 2009: Past the words Tony Woodlief: I spent a good portion of my time in a small chapel, learning prayers that preceded the Roman Catholic Church. I came with a great …

Mar 16, 2009: links for 2009-03-16 EU bans use of 'Miss' and 'Mrs' (and sportsmen and statesmen) because it claims they are sexist | Mail Online If the world …

Mar 13, 2009: links for 2009-03-13 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse | Geekdad from Wired.com I'm guilty of six of the ten. (Maybe seven if you count the pun one, but I'm …

Mar 11, 2009: links for 2009-03-11 Vet Help Direct - Interactive Qualified Vet Advice "Designed and run by vets, Vet Help Direct's interactive questions direct you to …

Mar 8, 2009: Unjust, oppressive and impolitic "[C]ommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic. ...[I]f industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will …

Mar 7, 2009: links for 2009-03-07 » The Liturgical Bob Dylan ::: Subversive Influence Brother Maynard shares a story of St. Ben's use of nothing but Bob Dylan songs for the …

Mar 6, 2009: links for 2009-03-06 The Savvy Networker - 10 Ways To Ruin A Job Interview It's a rather sad state of affairs that a list like this has to even exist. (tags: business …

Mar 5, 2009: All of us need to be reminded... (because how soon we forget) "The economic ills we suffer ... will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have …

Mar 4, 2009: links for 2009-03-04 Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment A customizable bookmarklet, "Readability is a simple tool that makes reading in the Web more enjoyable by …

Mar 4, 2009: Losing that first tooth "Mind the gap." Davis has lost his first tooth! It came from the middle bottom, and was kind of a surprise, especially for Mom! Thankfully, the tooth …

Mar 3, 2009: Calling it what it is "What [Obama calls] tax reductions in this bill are really transfer payments, particularly redistribution of income from the rich to the poor. The …

Mar 3, 2009: Splitting the difference Jeff Jacoby: WINTER DOESN'T OFFICIALLY END for another three weeks, but Daylight Savings Time arrives next Sunday, and with it the semiannual …

Mar 3, 2009: links for 2009-03-03 Nelson Makes Books Available in All Formats for One Price - 3/3/2009 8:44:00 AM - Publishers Weekly Major kudos to CEO Michael Hyatt and the Thomas …

Mar 2, 2009: links for 2009-03-02 Write or Die : Dr Wicked's Writing Lab This web app is intended to keep one's focus on the writing, with negative consequences if one stops. …

Mar 2, 2009: ATPM 15.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Mike ponders a Jobs-less Apple future, especially in …

Mar 2, 2009: You can still buy XP If Windows Vista is giving you fits, you can still buy Windows XP from Amazon. (And put a little coin in my pocket if you use these links.) Windows XP …

Mar 1, 2009: links for 2009-03-01 Top Twitter Friends "Who do you talk to most often on Twitter? Who are your closest friends? What does your social network look like?" …

Mar 1, 2009: Charles Platt, long-time journalist and former senior writer at Wired, went undercover as a Walmart employee, and discovered the company is not as bad …

Mar 1, 2009: Strange, isn't it? Jeff Jacoby: SUPPORTERS OF ABORTION RIGHTS bristle at the term "partial-birth abortion," and sympathetic journalists often make a point of setting it …

Feb 28, 2009: links for 2009-02-28 add-to-taskpaper-script - Google Code "This script provides a fast way of adding new tasks to a Taskpaper document without leaving the current …

Feb 27, 2009: links for 2009-02-27 AT-AT Boom Box Where do I plunk down my money? (tags: design fun music art StarWars)

Feb 26, 2009: Brothers at War This looks good. "Brothers at War is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the …

Feb 26, 2009: links for 2009-02-26 iPhoto Book Themes - Main - iPhoto '09 Book Themes "I've never found it very easy to choose which theme to use when constructing a book …

Feb 25, 2009: Today's Genius function result We've all had that song that gets stuck in our head. That happened to me today. Not sure how it happened, since I didn't hear the song in a commercial …

Feb 25, 2009: links for 2009-02-25 Michael Kobold's Everest Challenge 2009 "My name is Mike Kobold, I'm a watchmaker and an armchair explorer. Unlike some of the …

Feb 25, 2009: This is the issue "This is the issue: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little …

Feb 24, 2009: links for 2009-02-24 TOM BIHN Blog - Repost: How to Care for Your TOM BIHN Bag Just in case you've ever wondered what the corporate line is on this matter. (I'm …

Feb 22, 2009: links for 2009-02-22 More of London from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com "[Photographer] Jason [Hawkes] shot these images with a camera attached to …

Feb 19, 2009: If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse …

Feb 19, 2009: links for 2009-02-19 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know "I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your …

Feb 18, 2009: Now where might this be relevant today...? "The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson

Feb 16, 2009: "Do not lean on your own understanding" Andrée Seu, "Alice's battle": You have never seen a struggle like Alice's struggle against joy. The doubting Narnian dwarfs were preemptively …

Feb 12, 2009: links for 2009-02-11 7 medical myths that can kill you - Health - TODAYshow.com "When it comes to your health, you can't believe everything you hear. And if you …

Feb 11, 2009: An evening with a living legend Thanks to the best wife in the world, my Valentine’s Day gift arrived three days early. Last night I was privileged, along with a couple hundred …

Feb 10, 2009: "A republic, if you can keep it." "Many Americans would be surprised to learn that the word 'democracy' does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, or the U.S. Constitution. …

Feb 7, 2009: The Keene Act and You Remember: together, we can forge a better America.

Feb 2, 2009: ATPM 15.02 The February issue is now available for your reading pleasure. If you've gotten over Wes' analogy to high-altitude, fiber-producing, spitting camelids …

Feb 2, 2009: It has never been, and is not, about hunting "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a …

Feb 2, 2009: links for 2009-02-02 the iconmaster » Shortening URLs from NetNewsWire An AppleScript which will take the selected headline in NetNewsWire and fetch an …

Feb 1, 2009: Obama demands 10-percent cut from Pentagon Ed Morrissey: Obama’s busy expanding all of the rest of the government except for its primary, Constitutional mission: defending the nation. …

Jan 26, 2009: Puppet show Puppet Show from Chris Turner on Vimeo. Davis threw an impromptu puppet show from Samuel, and as you can see from the latter's reaction, the show got …

Jan 25, 2009: Why did it take me so long to come across <em>this</em>? Brilliant. [Via Funs Size Bytes.]

Jan 23, 2009: Today's phischbits Digital Natives » Fine-Tuning Facebook: A Field Trip through Privacy Controls This may be old news for some, but if you haven't tip-toed through …

Jan 22, 2009: Today's phischbits The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com Excellent photos from Inauguration Day 2009. I found the last one, of the …

Jan 18, 2009: Today's phischbits NASA - NASA Kids' Club Fun games and other activities for kids from our nation's space agency. Tags: child, children, fun, game, learning, nasa, space …

Jan 18, 2009: Questions for Obama's science guy Jeff Jacoby: IN NOMINATING John Holdren to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy -- the position known informally as White House …

Jan 16, 2009: 2009 Index of Economic Freedom From The Patriot Post, Friday Digest, Vol. 09 No. 02: In alarming conjunction with recent headlines reporting that the global influence of the United …

Jan 15, 2009: "The current economic strategy is right out of <em>Atlas Shrugged</em>." Stephen Moore, 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years: For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably …

Jan 15, 2009: This is for Brent I laughed so hard at some parts I was crying. Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Jan 14, 2009: Today's phischbits Ries Robb Maker Of Fine Mission Style Furniture "Ries Robb ownes and operates Ries Robb Woodworking, making reproduction and custom arts and crafts …

Jan 3, 2009: Today's phischbits Clashing Civilizations by Mark Steyn on National Review Online "In Gaza, they don’t vote for Hamas because they want access to university …

Jan 3, 2009: Movies 2008 Last year set a new record in terms of movie-viewing. I saw 28 movies in the theater, with 10 more viewed on DVD. Theater: The Pirates Who Don't Do …

Jan 2, 2009: Reading 2008 Taking a cue from my good friend Brent, I've been tracking what I read, and here's the list of 19 books from 2008 (in reverse chronological order): …

Jan 1, 2009: Today's phischbits Walter E. Williams : Teaching Economics - Townhall.com "Learning how to think straight, as opposed to what values and opinions to hold, is the crucial …

Jan 1, 2009: ATPM 15.01 About This Particular Macintosh enters its fifteenth year of publishing with the release of our January issue. Angus found himself doing some iPhone …

Dec 31, 2008: Today's phischbits aubreyturner.org: Dallas/Ft. Worth Gun Shows "This site is a compilation of gun show dates around the Dallas and Fort Worth area. I originally created …

Dec 28, 2008: Today's phischbits Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com Professor Keshav said that once a carrier invests in the …

Dec 22, 2008: Don't keep it in the closet Glenn Beck, in the epilogue of The Christmas Sweater: My mom gave me the sweater, but the greatest gift was given to all of us by a loving Father in …

Dec 20, 2008: Today's phischbits Northrop Grumman Unveils X-47B Navy UAV - Fighter Plane-Size UAV from Northrop Grumman Unveiled - Popular Mechanics "Northrop Grumman unveiled its …

Dec 18, 2008: Um, yeah MacJournals News: Expert Macintosh users who see "MacWorld" in an article know you don't know what you're talking about, just as most …

Dec 16, 2008: Today's phischbits Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components "Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many …

Dec 15, 2008: Today's phischbits Do I look like the blue bird of happiness? I wish I could explain why I love this captioned picture so much. It never fails to make me smile. Tags: …

Dec 13, 2008: Today's phischbits The Tax Foundation - Property Tax Map Not surprisingly, Texas has the highest property tax as a percentage of median income. What this map does not …

Dec 10, 2008: Today's phischbits Ursula And Olive: Geek of the Year Interview - Chris Hicks - Sole Artist and Designer of the Mighty Muggs Chris Hicks is the designer of Hasbro's line …

Dec 9, 2008: The awkward kid Jamie Phelps: If any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, Windows is that awkward kid that can't remember how the trick …

Dec 6, 2008: Wow I had read somewhere a brief bit of Brian Welch's acceptance of Christ, but his testimony for I Am Second is powerful stuff. [Wave of the phin to …

Dec 4, 2008: Today's phischbits Sichuan's earthquake, six months later - The Big Picture - Boston.com Powerful images. Tags: china, disaster, nature, photo TidBITS Home Macs: …

Dec 3, 2008: Today's phischbits Bookcase: Infinity Bookcase Stores Finite Amount of Books, Is Infinitely Cool Anyway Oh, I so wish I had a room big enough for this... Tags: books, …

Dec 1, 2008: ATPM 14.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. We wrap up our fourteenth year of publishing beginning with some fantastic …

Nov 30, 2008: Today's phischbits ET Had It Right: Phone Home! | Dad-o-Matic "Phone Home! In this age of email, text and instant messages, it is easy to forget the power of your …

Nov 30, 2008: The future Mark Hall: "Praying about the future? Take heart! God is already there. He's standing at the end of our lives looking back on all our days."

Nov 29, 2008: Today's phischbits Redeemer Sermon Store: The Reason for God Free sermons related to Tim Keller's book "The Reason for God" from the series "The Trouble with …

Nov 29, 2008: A message from God "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." --Rabindranath Tagore [Via A Child Chosen.]

Nov 28, 2008: Today's phischbits The 50,000 Pairs in 50 Days Challenge • Soles4Souls "Soles4Souls is a charity dedicated to donating shoes to the poor via shoe drive, shoe drop, …

Nov 27, 2008: Today's phischbits Panel of Experts: Now dig this Indiana Jones DVD review | Film | Arts & Entertainment - Times Online "Each week experts assess the authenticity of a …

Nov 23, 2008: The most popular ringtone in Japan

Nov 21, 2008: Today's phischbits Apple Notebooks Take Huge Performance Hit without Battery - Gearlog "Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro systems saw up to a 37-percent performance drop …

Nov 21, 2008: The Scorpions + The Berlin Philharmonic = Awesome.

Nov 20, 2008: Today's phischbits American Thinker: Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio Nope, not the Fairness Doctrine. Rather, through a little-known (to the general …

Nov 20, 2008: An acappella tribute to John Williams You can follow along with the lyrics. [From my sweetie via e-mail.]

Nov 18, 2008: Today's phischbits JPG Magazine: Stories: Photo Essay: Photo Essay - The Wolf Scott Bourne shares my love of the wolf, only he's gotten to photograph them in the wild, …

Nov 17, 2008: Today's phischbits Text to Send a Bible! You can donate a Bible via text message. Just send "Bible" to 20222, and your wireless bill will be charged $5. You can donate …

Nov 16, 2008: Today's phischbits Leslie Carbone: Writing Well: Organization "The most important factor in the successful organization of any piece of writing is knowing what you're …

Nov 12, 2008: Today's phischbits The Official Blog of Nectar » Blog Archive » 5 Tips For Dealing With Workplace Stress Stretch, breath, tea, tunes, and vitamins. Simple, …

Nov 10, 2008: Differences Michael Gartenberg: Every time there's a new OS release from MSFT they talk about the shortfalls of the current OS & how the new version will fix …

Nov 9, 2008: Today's phischbits The Official Mac Pro Website "Welcome to Mac Pro Systems & Software, Everything Macintosh... Everything!" Recommended by my friend Tom as a good …

Nov 6, 2008: Today's phischbits Findings - Study Shows Conservatives May Enjoy Humor More - NYTimes.com "Do conservatives have more fun? Should liberals start describing themselves …

Nov 5, 2008: Today's phischbits Invisible Children » Buy Kilometers, Build a School "It really is as simple as the subject says. Yannick Daoudi will be bicycling around Uganda …

Nov 4, 2008: Today's phischbits Nectar: A fresh look at you Nectar is all about delivering a online presence that doesn't sell a product or service, but rather sells you. The team …

Nov 4, 2008: In praise of single-issue voting Tony Woodlief: Those other issues certainly affect a country's safety, prosperity, and greatness. But I've come to believe that a nation that …

Nov 3, 2008: ATPM 14.11 The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Charles returns with another Filemaking column, …

Nov 3, 2008: What does it mean to be a Christian voter? Tony Woodlief, with words I need to take heed of: Cast aside what you think you know is right, the church marquee urges, and consider the …

Nov 2, 2008: Today's phischbits TidBITS Safe Computing: iPhone Security Tips Rich Mogull's article from earlier this year is still wonderful advice. Tags: iphone, security, tips Five …

Oct 31, 2008: Today's phischbits Kayak.com - Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets, Cheap Airfare & Discount Travel Deals "Find and book cheap airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacations and …

Oct 30, 2008: Today's phischbits Finishing Well: What does activist Christianity look like? My friend Mike has an excellent post on what Christianity should look like. I routinely …

Oct 29, 2008: Today's phischbits Little Green Footballs - Obama Ridicules 'Socialist' Charge, But He Admitted Seeking Out Marxist Professors and Socialist Conferences Complete with …

Oct 29, 2008: "I chose my friends carefully." Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. …

Oct 29, 2008: Replacing water fountains with soda fountains Chris Carter: Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC was touching. It was a brilliant speech. [...] Don’t get me wrong, it all sounded …

Oct 28, 2008: Today's phischbits iPhone Search My friend Michael Tsai has created a simple search page for iPhone users. You can search Amazon, IMDB, Netflix, and Wikipedia all from a …

Oct 28, 2008: Businesses don't pay taxes Ronald Reagan: "The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. …

Oct 26, 2008: Today's phischbits Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard Todd Ditchendorf, the developer of Fluid, has entered the web browsing space with Cruz. Featuring an open …

Oct 24, 2008: I'm hanging my hat on this one "Who is in the White House is not as important as Who is on the White Throne." --Stewart Briscoe [Via Mike.]

Oct 23, 2008: Today's phischbits Macworld | Mac 911 | Etiquette and the BCC field "An email message's To field is not a plaything. Be respectful of others' addresses by putting the …

Oct 22, 2008: Today's phischbits Pro-abortion - The Curt Jester "Either dismembering a child in the womb is an acceptable moral act or it isn't. If you think it is then you are …

Oct 22, 2008: Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? Orson Scott Card: Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting …

Oct 19, 2008: Today's phischbits Domainr "There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond—Domainr helps you explore them …

Oct 19, 2008: Healthcare shouldn't be linked to employment Jeff Jacoby: An end to employer-based health insurance is exactly what the American healthcare market needs. Far from being a calamity, it would …

Oct 15, 2008: Today's phischbits Not Art. Gospel. at The Plow "Not Art. Gospel. is an artistic view of each topic on the Sermon on the Mount. Some amazing doors have been opened, and …

Oct 12, 2008: Today's phischbits Umbrella Today? Simple way to find out whether you'll need to carry an umbrella with you for the day or not. Type in your zip code, get a simple …

Oct 11, 2008: You never know Dr. Wess Stafford, President and CEO of Compassion: "The cure to cancer might be in the slums of Kenya or Indonesia." In other words, you don't know …

Oct 11, 2008: The only constant is change Philip Terzian: When asked what the market would do, J. Pierpont Morgan is supposed to have replied, "It will fluctuate." And so it has always done. …

Oct 10, 2008: Six Today marks the conclusion of six years of blogging at Retrophisch. Two thousand, two hundred, sixty-three entries. Two thousand, two hundred, …

Oct 9, 2008: A prayer Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes from Brandon Heath on Vimeo.

Oct 7, 2008: Fire in the Night John M. Murtagh: During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up "a gentleman named …

Oct 7, 2008: Dark Knight Toy Story [Via Lee on IM.]

Oct 5, 2008: Today's phischbits iPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle - Forbes.com "Free app Stanza has more people reading books on iPhones than on Amazon's Kindle e-reader." Tags: amazon, …

Oct 5, 2008: Attachments we don't want James Madison: "For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national …

Oct 4, 2008: The Endgame in Iraq General Jack Keane (USA, Ret.), Frederick W. Kagan, and Kimberly Kagan: Reducing our troop strength solely on the basis of trends in violence also …

Oct 3, 2008: Today's phischbits SmartSleep "[A] preference pane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your machine. It’s a successor to Hibernate.prefPane." Tags: hibernate, …

Sep 29, 2008: Raiding our piggy bank Steve Chapman: "Sometimes bipartisanship is grounds for celebration, but more often it is cause for tears. Last week, congressional leaders from both …

Sep 28, 2008: Today's phischbits Brunton Vapor™ AF All Fuel Expedition Stove Runs on pretty much any liquid fuel there is: butane, diesel #1, kerosene, auto gasoline, aviation …

Sep 28, 2008: Unfair Joshua Trevino: "I can think of nothing more unfair to an unborn child than to come into this world unwanted," declares the Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith, …

Sep 26, 2008: Today's phischbits Fly tshirt Tshirt - PleaseDressMe I can think of several teenagers who would wear this shirt... Tags: fun, t-shirt The New York Times Opinion Image …

Sep 25, 2008: The last thing Jesus needs... Neal Campbell: "The last thing Jesus needs is the State. Stupid Christians like James Dobson and Pat Roberton like D.C. more than grace ... sad."

Sep 23, 2008: Today's phischbits Canon Digital Learning Center - Sample Video: EOS 5D Mark II "REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. This …

Sep 22, 2008: Be awesome Kathy Sierra: "[I] [w]ish more startups focused on what can we be AWESOME at rather than what can we be FIRST at. "First-mover advantage" can be a …

Sep 20, 2008: Today's phischbits Subterranean Press » Blog Archive » A Brand New Short Story by John Scalzi What might it look like if super heroes really existed in our …

Sep 19, 2008: Test drive Our son, Samuel, tries out his crib and mobile for the first time. Test drive from Chris Turner on Vimeo.

Sep 18, 2008: Today's phischbits BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Hitchhiker's author announced "Children's author Eoin Colfer is commissioned to write a sixth installment of the …

Sep 17, 2008: Happy Constitution Day "[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all …

Sep 14, 2008: Today's phischbits Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » 1933-2008 Mac pundit Andy Ihnatko eulogies his mother on her recent passing after a nearly …

Sep 12, 2008: Today's phischbits Ironic Sans: In a political campaign far, far away... Love the "A New Hope" poster. I would've already bought one if not for the fact that Lucasfilm …

Sep 10, 2008: Today's phischbits Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? Um....yeah. Like we'd ever see any other answer. Tags: fun, science .- THE CHANGERING Obama …

Sep 10, 2008: Worth repeating From my good friend, Brent: "[T]he only people who bring up the supposed value of IBM/Windows over Mac are people whose livelihoods depend on it. …

Sep 5, 2008: Today's phischbits Diamond Insider: A Mervis Blog » Tell Us Your Stories » We Interview Tom Bridge of WeLoveDC. Because We Also Love DC. My friend Tom is …

Sep 3, 2008: Today's phischbits (New) HD TiVo Coming to DirecTV! Pretty excited, technology-wise. I believe this answers our question of whether to stay with DirecTV or move to …

Sep 3, 2008: ATPM 14.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Mark informs us that more ISP chicanery is afoot …

Sep 2, 2008: Today's phischbits Finishing Well: Strange responses to "pain" Great piece from my friend Mike. "We will do whatever is needed to keep from feeling pain in the moment. …

Sep 1, 2008: Today's phischbits D90 | D-MOVIE "Special site for Nikon's next-generation D-SLR, the D90. This features detailed product information and a variety of sample images, as …

Aug 24, 2008: Today's phischbits China's totalitarian games - The Boston Globe Jeff Jacoby sums up why I did my best to boycott watching this year's Olympic Games. (I confess I failed …

Aug 21, 2008: Today's phischbits The Eternal Value of Privacy "Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying. …

Aug 20, 2008: Today's phischbits Doc Searls Weblog · Is Yahoo a better search engine than Google? Doc Searls runs some search tests on his old blog, and learns that Yahoo's …

Aug 16, 2008: Today's phischbits Death Star over San Francisco // Current "Imperial Fleet Week SF." Pretty nifty video splicing, especially of the scenes with the Death Star just …

Aug 7, 2008: Today's phischbits Tweet Scan Real-time search of the Twitter public timeline.Tags: search, twitter TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder...fast-forwarded to Mac OS …

Aug 7, 2008: "You can call me Al" Like a lot of kids who came of age in the '80s, I was not, and to this day am really not, a fan of Paul Simon. But every kid who came of age in the …

Aug 5, 2008: Today's phischbits BustedTees - Schematics of the Death Star Poster Made me laugh out loud. I'm open to someone gifting this to me... Tags: poster, star wars, wishlist …

Aug 4, 2008: Today's phischbits iChat's contact list goes on an iChat Pro diet A just-in-case link, should I decide to switch from Adium back to iChat. (Easy, built-in chat …

Aug 1, 2008: ATPM 14.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Angus gets us started this month with a look at …

Aug 1, 2008: Eight So today marks the eighth year I've done the blogging thing. I won't go in to any great recap, as I did two years ago. (And I completely failed to …

Jul 30, 2008: Today's phischbits MyFox Atlanta | 'Cheesus?': Woman Finds Jesus In Bag of Cheetos Two things I found telling from the article: "The pastor of Kirkwood United Methodist …

Jul 30, 2008: The End Times Tony Woodlief never fails to amuse me in some fashion: [T]his is what we have come to: a grown man, grooming his eyebrows in traffic, using his …

Jul 25, 2008: Today's phischbits Number of Men In the United States Who Will Die In 2008 As A Result Of... Interesting graphic. Tags: death, graphic, men View all my bookmarks on …

Jul 20, 2008: Today's phischbits Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera - Telegraph Wow. Tags: animal, crocodile, leopard, photo, photography Tor.com / After the Coup by John …

Jul 18, 2008: Habanera Animal is my favorite Muppet. Just for the record.

Jul 17, 2008: Today's phischbits Audiko "audiko is a simple service which helps you to make a ringtone of your favorite song!" Plus there's quite the selection of ringtones there …

Jul 17, 2008: Ode to Joy With thanks to my frient Tom, who lifted my spirits with this earlier today.

Jul 16, 2008: Today's phischbits Billy Graham on technology, faith and suffering | Video on TED.com "Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to …

Jul 16, 2008: Some day...

Jul 16, 2008: "It is at least excellent." Jeff Jacoby, in "The brilliance of the Electoral College", on the latest attempts to abolish or skirt the Electoral College: Actually, in no more …

Jul 13, 2008: Today's phischbits Hey Raena » Dear journalists Gal pal Raena A., from Down Under, offers some helpful tips to journalists covering the goings-on of the Internet. …

Jul 10, 2008: Today's phischbits On The Edge 2-Stroke Gas-Powered Party Blender, Model# 900108 | Party Blenders | Northern Tool + Equipment "The On The Edge 2-Stroke Gas-Powered Party …

Jul 9, 2008: "Sorry about the mess." Sorry about the mess. from Spencer Brinkerhoff III on Vimeo.

Jul 8, 2008: Today's phischbits Zombie Outbreak What might a zombie outbreak look like via Twitter? Perhaps something like this... Tags: twitter, zombie Metro-Rednexual Results | …

Jul 6, 2008: Today's phischbits List of Online Archives for Free Unabridged Books Online "Want to go to the library without stepping out of your house? Here's where you can go to get …

Jul 5, 2008: Today's phischbits Web Worker Daily » Archive Who Owns Your Online Documents? « "One thing that's clearly missing is any sort of backup guarantee. While you …

Jul 4, 2008: When in the course of human events The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to …

Jul 2, 2008: Today's phischbits Heads-up: IRS Spam Now in the Wild -- MiPro Unfiltered Spam e-mail purportedly from the Internal Revenue Service may actually contain a trojan horse …

Jul 2, 2008: Start your day with a smile Matt's Dancing 2008 footage. My favorites: the DMZ in Korea, the two from Tonga, and Nellis Airspace. [Wave of the phin to my sweet for passing it …

Jul 1, 2008: ATPM 14.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Kicking things off, Mark gets in touch with his inner …

Jun 30, 2008: Today's phischbits Quantum of Solace Trailer - Mahalo The first trailer for the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace was released on Monday, June 30, 2008. The movie …

Jun 28, 2008: Today's phischbits WORLD Magazine | WALL•E world Megan Basham interviews Andrew Stanton about his new movie, WALL•E. Tags: movie, pixar shaycam.com » …

Jun 28, 2008: In The Back Yard The dogs needed to go out. No matter how much had changed, their routine was still the same. Before they ate their breakfast or dinner--they were only …

Jun 27, 2008: Today's phischbits Fun Size Bytes - Tattoo Brilliantly funny. Tags: humor, soldier, tattoo, war The Stalled Server Room - The Daily WTF "I always knew womens restrooms …

Jun 12, 2008: links for 2008-06-12 Tweet Clouds - retrophisch My "tweet cloud"; it shows the most commonly used words from my posts on Twitter. Kinda neat. (tags: tools Twitter)

Jun 10, 2008: No can talk. In time-out. My buddy Tom pinged me with this via IM just a bit ago:

Jun 9, 2008: links for 2008-06-09 What Really Killed Aloha? - Hawaii Business - June 2008 - Hawaii Great article on the symbiotic relationship a community has with business. Great …

Jun 8, 2008: New hat In preparation for the mission trip I'm going on next week to build houses in Juarez, Mexico, I picked up a Panama Jack cowboy hat at Wal-Mart earlier …

May 31, 2008: links for 2008-05-31 Healing Waters International "[W]orks to reduce water-related illness & death in developing countries by building self-sustaining projects that make …

May 30, 2008: links for 2008-05-30 Obamerica - The Corner on National Review Online Excellent piece by Jim Manzi on how Obama, and to a lesser extent, McCain, don't quite get that …

May 29, 2008: "Lola"? No, "Yoda" Weird Al. Who else?

May 28, 2008: links for 2008-05-28 Alex Castellanos on Conservatism on National Review Online A great article by Alex Castellanos on the future of conservatism in the Republican Party. …

May 27, 2008: What really matters Rebecca Walker is the daughter of founding feminist, and The Color Purple author, Alice Walker. Rebecca recently reflected on her life, and her …

May 27, 2008: There must have been a <em>lot</em> of holes An Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers: Browsers have always been viewed as crucial on-ramps to the Web. Nevertheless, after vanquishing …

May 26, 2008: Let us remember "[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our …

May 22, 2008: links for 2008-05-22 American, Cutting Back, Plans $15 Bag Fee - New York Times "We're bleeding cash. What can we do to make up the shortfall?" "Reduce our number of …

May 21, 2008: links for 2008-05-21 Elect John McClane If you're really unhappy with the current crop of presidential contenders, there are alternatives. "Yippie Kay Yay, America!" …

May 20, 2008: links for 2008-05-20 Busted! What Should I Do Now? "We ask state troopers what they most want drivers to do during a traffic stop." Am I the only one who thinks it a …

May 18, 2008: links for 2008-05-18 Firehose - Realtime Twitter Timeline Want to get an idea of the traffic pumping through Twitter? Check this proof-of-concept monitoring of the public …

May 14, 2008: "High Tech Noon" Pretty good: [Wave of the phin to Bruce Webster.]

May 13, 2008: links for 2008-05-13 twictionary / FrontPage A dictionary for Twitter. I've seen most of these, but a couple, like "twitterluia", brought a smile. (tags: dictionary geek …

May 11, 2008: links for 2008-05-11 How to Rip a Movie for your iPod with HandBrake v0.9.0 Some nice little tweaks in here I hadn't considered. Good to have as a reference. (tags: DVD …

May 10, 2008: links for 2008-05-10 McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has …

May 9, 2008: links for 2008-05-09 AmericanPress.com - Soldier stands at attention for hours to watch LSU championship (5/2) Talk about commitment. Talk about school spirit. Wow. (tags: …

May 7, 2008: links for 2008-05-07 What Toyota Can Teach Us About Personal Finances | Personal Finance Corner It's all about baby steps, the Japanese concept of kaizen, or "continuous …

May 6, 2008: Matrix Guy What do you get when you mash up Family Guy with The Matrix? Fun fact: Both of these pop culture dynasties debuted in 1999. [Wave of the phin to …

May 6, 2008: "No. I like it in here." This is my all-time favorite movie trailer. Brilliant.

May 6, 2008: links for 2008-05-06 Crowdhacking: 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com For all the other writers out there. (tags: author books writing) …

May 5, 2008: Remembrance

May 5, 2008: What's the goal? Josh Harris: Moments like this are reminders for me that the songs and trappings of Christian culture are not the hope of the world--Jesus is! We …

May 2, 2008: The theme yesterday was "fire" I mean to post this yesterday, but totally forgot... Jonathan Wight asked how many covers of "Ring of Fire" one had in one's iTunes library. For me, …

May 1, 2008: ATPM 14.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Wes has a great round-up of the Mac blogosphere's …

May 1, 2008: links for 2008-05-01 Jig-A-Loo - an invisible silicone-based lubricant and water-repellent ! Read about it in Guns & Ammo, but looks like it could come in handy for lots …

Apr 30, 2008: Today's First 10 Shuffled Songs "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" - Def Leppard, Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection "The Big Chair" - Tears For Fears, Songs From The Big …

Apr 30, 2008: links for 2008-04-30 Men's Health - Eat This, Not That! - Best & Worst - What's are the worst foods? The 20 Worst Foods in America. To quote my wife: "No wonder everyone …

Apr 29, 2008: Today's First 10 Shuffled Songs From earlier this morning, when I was in a music-listening mode: 1. "The Steward of Gondor (Featuring Billy Boyd)" -- The Lord of the Rings: The …

Apr 29, 2008: links for 2008-04-29 Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files An easy way to download YouTube videos as MP4 files: throw this bookmarklet up in your browser's bookmark bar, …

Apr 28, 2008: At least there was no "Ebony and Ivory"

Apr 28, 2008: Today's proud parenting moment Me: Let's get your Crocs on so you can go play on your swingset while I scoop the dogs' poop. Him: No, thank you. (This from the child who hasn't met …

Apr 28, 2008: links for 2008-04-28 WheelSurf Cool design. Uses a 4-stroke, 31 cc Honda engine that runs on unleaded. Top speed's about 25 mph. It'll cost you US $7,000. Plus another …

Apr 25, 2008: links for 2008-04-25 The End Of The Rainbow At last: photographic evidence of what lies at the end of a rainbow. (tags: fun humor photo)

Apr 24, 2008: links for 2008-04-24 Hebrew Phrases A handy list (alphabetically) of popular Hebrew words and phrases you might run across if you have Jewish friends or are studying the …

Apr 23, 2008: Phischmix I've had this playlist since, well, since before there were playlists. It started as a mix CD I put together in the very early aughts, before the iPod …

Apr 23, 2008: One Gallon Axe This is fairly awesome. Doesn't that make you want to drink milk?

Apr 20, 2008: I don't want to be at war a hundred years from now, either, but... Clifford D. May, A Hundred Years of War?: A hundred years from now, Americans might still be fighting militant Islamists in Iraq and other places. …

Apr 19, 2008: links for 2008-04-19 Back N' Time Barber Shop If you live in Flower Mound, Colleyville, or Watauga, Texas, and you want to get your hair cut at a real barber shop, you'll …

Apr 16, 2008: Taking commercialization to the grave Remember Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Yes, yes, it's still the best Trek film. But do you recall the end, when Spock is "buried" by being shot …

Apr 16, 2008: The Empire Strikes Back. In 60 seconds. To quote Geekdad, where I first saw this: "Sheer brilliance."

Apr 15, 2008: links for 2008-04-15 Macsimum News - Stan Flack, a pioneer of online Mac journalism, has died Dennis Sellers reports on the death of Stan Flack, co-founder of MacCentral …

Apr 14, 2008: "Insight" Dyspeptic Mutterings: I don't know about you, but I prefer my candidates to come equipped without the "High Octane Marxist Cant" option. Indeed. …

Apr 14, 2008: Taken Taken is an upcoming film written by Luc Besson and starring Liam Neeson as the dad you don't want to make mad by hurting his little girl: …

Apr 13, 2008: "Let's 'Surge' Some More" Michael Yon: It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators -- on both sides of the aisle …

Apr 13, 2008: links for 2008-04-13 Obama Misfires On Concealed Carry -- IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily I was going to write …

Apr 12, 2008: AirHogs Press Conference The Grand Prairie AirHogs are a new minor league team in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, and we have some footage from a recent press conference: …

Apr 11, 2008: links for 2008-04-11 What would you do if you knew you *would* fail? "[I]t seems to me that it isn't failure we're afraid of, it's uncertainty. So I tried asking, 'What …

Apr 10, 2008: links for 2008-04-10 Fly Through Airport Security - Wired How-To Wiki Mostly common-sense tips, but then there's little common sense to modern airport security in the …

Apr 9, 2008: Do you know what you're seeking? Tony Woodlief, "The City Where Nobody Smiles": Millions of people visit every year, and I wonder, does a one of them find what he is looking for? Do …

Apr 8, 2008: Regarding those nasty unintended consequences... Thomas Sowell: One of the biggest problems with government intervention in the economy is that politicians usually have neither the knowledge nor the …

Apr 8, 2008: Ride'em, cowboy! This past weekend, we spent a few days visiting my parents in the suburbs of Birmingham. (That would be Alabama, not England. Just in case it wasn't …

Apr 7, 2008: links for 2008-04-07 Annotated Mythbusters: Episode 16: Ancient Death Ray, Skunks, What is Bulletproof? Been sprayed by a skunk? Hydrogen peroxide + baking soda + liquid …

Apr 5, 2008: links for 2008-04-05 Twitter / Daniel Sandler: What the? Holding Ctrl-Shif... No, Daniel, I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip! (tags: Mac tips)

Apr 4, 2008: links for 2008-04-04 Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US Of course. Just as I'm using Amazon MP3 for as much online music as I do iTunes. (tags: Apple …

Apr 3, 2008: ATPM 14.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Wes kicks things off with a look at what's been popular …

Apr 3, 2008: links for 2008-04-03 johnmayer.com - From The Heart.... "[B]ecause every one of us were told since birth that we were special. ... And really? Really? It turns out we're …

Apr 1, 2008: Life from the Phisch Bowl Oh, did I forget to mention my wife's become a blogger? And that she did so last year? Whoops. Well, that takes me out of the running for Husband of …

Mar 31, 2008: Texas Rangers 2008 Calendar I was a little miffed to learn the Rangers offer a downloadable calendar for the season, only as a comma-separated .csv file. This is fine and dandy …

Mar 31, 2008: Whom do you think he might be referring to today? Booker T. Washington: "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro …

Mar 31, 2008: Just a thought [Wave of the phin to Jack on the World_SIG list.]

Mar 31, 2008: links for 2008-03-31 Doc Searls Weblog • Getting airports and hotels out of the pay toilet business Doc points how some businesses need to stop treating Internet …

Mar 30, 2008: Two immature little kids Thomas Brand: "Engadget & Gizmodo are just two immature little kids attempting to reap the benefits of a journalistic profession neither truly …

Mar 30, 2008: Men don't go to salons... I don't think we have enough metrosexuals in the Flowerplex to keep a "salon for men" open. Click on the photo to see a slightly larger size. Then …

Mar 25, 2008: links for 2008-03-25 News & Politics: The Snitch - iPhone Users Are Obnoxious Know-It-Alls What makes this so funny is this past Saturday night, at our minichurch meeting, …

Mar 23, 2008: Mixed Messages What is ZDNet trying to tell us, I wonder? Click to see a larger size

Mar 20, 2008: Dog's Best Friend This is fairly awesome.

Mar 19, 2008: I'm starting to think they had crystal balls Once again, one of the Founding Fathers sounds rather prescient: "[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man …

Mar 18, 2008: links for 2008-03-18 Field Notes — "I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it down to remember it now." "Three 48-page memo books. 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" …

Mar 17, 2008: REM + Muppets = Furry, Happy Monsters How can you go wrong when you mix REM and The Muppets?

Mar 17, 2008: links for 2008-03-17 the Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight "Have you ever received a link from a friend, but weren't sure why? The Awesome Highlighter allows you to …

Mar 15, 2008: links for 2008-03-15 Hacking WiFi for Fun & Profit - Desktop Security - Dark Reading Think about protecting yourself when you're sitting in Starbucks, working on your …

Mar 12, 2008: links for 2008-03-12 BBC NEWS | Technology | How Twitter makes it real Bill Thompson on the connectedness of Twitter: "After a certain point Twitter becomes part of the …

Mar 11, 2008: Retrophisch v4.0. Or something. So I got off my duff and finally got around to putting in to place the redesign (realignment?) of the blog that I've sat on for the better part of two …

Mar 11, 2008: links for 2008-03-11 Simplicity Apple's product. Google's product. Your company's product. (tags: Apple art comics design fun Google humor interface usability) Frank151 …

Mar 10, 2008: links for 2008-03-10 What, Exactly, Is An Evangelical? | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow "Every election period the media mention, usually in ominous terms, …

Mar 8, 2008: links for 2008-03-08 How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) Jason Calacanis, Mahalo's CEO, with some bootstrapping tips. My favorites: Buy Macs …

Mar 6, 2008: Twitter in Plain English Whenever I bring up Twitter, I always get asked what it is. The best description I've mustered to date is "It's a microblog", which doesn't fully do …

Mar 3, 2008: The Snows of March On Sunday, March 2d, here in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, one would have been able to wear shorts, if one were so inclined, due to the warm …

Mar 3, 2008: Re: Your Brains This is for my pal Nathan: [Wave of the phin to Grant.]

Mar 3, 2008: If George had hired Saul Opening credits of Star Wars, Saul Bass-style: [Wave of the phin to Laughing Squid.]

Mar 3, 2008: links for 2008-03-03 ESV Bible RSS Feeds Great ways to utilize your RSS feed reader to increase your Bible knowledge. There are verse of the day feeds, a weekly …

Mar 2, 2008: ATPM 14.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Wes has analysis and the roundup from the blogosphere …

Mar 2, 2008: links for 2008-03-02 Secrets: index Nice collection of all user defaults for Mac OS X. Mac geeks only need apply. (tags: Apple geek hack Mac reference software tools …

Mar 1, 2008: links for 2008-03-01 MacThemes / [Growl] Smokestack - now with 100% less copyright infringement! My new favorite style for Growl. (tags: design interface Mac software) …

Feb 29, 2008: links for 2008-02-29 Patrick Ruffini :: The Marketing of the President 2008 "Obama literalists may read back chapter and verse on his policy initiatives, but let's be real …

Feb 27, 2008: links for 2008-02-27 Life of Hope Ministries A ministry devoted to "rescuing the street children of Latin America", operating centrally in Guatemala. (tags: charity …

Feb 26, 2008: links for 2008-02-26 Working At Google Various perspectives on working for the search-engine giant. (tags: business career communication Google Internet search …

Feb 25, 2008: links for 2008-02-25 A friend's granddaughter who works for NASA sent us these pictures Some amazing photos, courtesy of NASA, of a recent mission by the Space Shuttle …

Feb 22, 2008: links for 2008-02-22 'Lego Universe,' a brick MMO, is in development | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com Still 2 years from release, a massively …

Feb 20, 2008: links for 2008-02-20 7" Dread Pirate Roberts Figure - The Princess Bride Figures at BigBadToyStore "Truly you have a dizzying intellect." (tags: fun movie toys wishlist) …

Feb 19, 2008: links for 2008-02-19 Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » Sun-Times - "Drobo and DroboShare" Andy's review of the Drobo backup mechanism is the kind …

Feb 18, 2008: links for 2008-02-18 Daily Lego: Lego Machine Gun "This little beauty fires 12 rounds of 10 mm steel balls in under 2 seconds..." (tags: fun geek LEGO) The Official Star …

Feb 17, 2008: He exists and loves us Maury McCown: [A]nother way I'm convinced He exists and loves us -- on the most base of levels -- is that He hasn't simply wiped us off the face of …

Feb 17, 2008: links for 2008-02-17 Lego Candy Blocks "Construct a building, then eat the bricks!" (tags: food LEGO)

Feb 16, 2008: links for 2008-02-16 LEGO.com Indiana Jones Games Flash-based game featuring the LEGO version of Indiana Jones. (tags: fun game IndianaJones LEGO) [GUIDE]: Making your …

Feb 15, 2008: Swedish Sushi My pal Heather sent me a great recipe for sushi that nearly anyone will eat. I know what you might be thinking: Not me, I'll never eat raw fish. I've …

Feb 15, 2008: New hat The Disney Store online outlet was blowing out these green knit hats for three bucks each. They happened to have both boy and adult sizes, and I …

Feb 15, 2008: Extreme Close-up!!! A couple of weeks ago, I got in close on the little phisch for some camera shots. Click on the photo to see the entire set.

Feb 15, 2008: Hey Jude At least his version doesn't go on forever.

Feb 15, 2008: links for 2008-02-15 Ampersand EP After eight years of marriage, the first collaboration between singer-songwriters Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken. Great stuff. (tags: …

Feb 14, 2008: links for 2008-02-14 1991 Finally the Year for LSU Baseball - LSUsports.net--The Official Web Site of LSU Tigers Athletics A recap of LSU's first baseball national …

Feb 13, 2008: links for 2008-02-13 Macworld | Sing along with your iPod Tips from Kirk McElhearn on getting song lyrics in to iTunes and on to your iPod. (tags: iPod iTunes music tips) …

Feb 12, 2008: links for 2008-02-12 Luckow Design Studios - Fix for iPhone Camera Bug If your iPhone camera is going wonky, and shooting blank squares, this is a possible fix. (tags: …

Feb 11, 2008: links for 2008-02-11 Playpumps International and the PlayPump water system. Kids play. Water Pumps! :: PlayPumps International A water pump is hooked up to a …

Feb 9, 2008: links for 2008-02-09 Communication Nation: The amazing sticky-note trick Never pull a Post-It™ note from the bottom. Always pull from the side. (tags: geek gtd …

Feb 8, 2008: When is a recession not a recession? The Patriot Post, 08-06 Digest: Traditionally, however, Wall Street defines a recession as two consecutive quarters of falling Gross Domestic …

Feb 8, 2008: links for 2008-02-08 Random Ruminations: Wall-Wart Tip My friend David with a simple tip on keeping track of what those AC adapters under your desk are plugged in to on …

Feb 7, 2008: The 2008 Presidential Candidates Muppet style. Awesome. Just awesome.

Feb 6, 2008: Eight things you probably didn't know about me Raena tagged me. Normally, I'd politely ignore it, but I must give her props for the way she linked to me. The rules: 1. Link to your tagger and post …

Feb 6, 2008: links for 2008-02-06 NASA-GPN-2000-001877-looking-directly-down-at-STS-79-Space-Shuttle-Atlantis.jpg Here's a view of the Space Shuttle you won't usually see. (tags: photo …

Feb 3, 2008: Little green men I love the little aliens from the Pizza Planet vending machine in Toy Story. Thanks to my friend Heather, and a long ago giveaway of some kind, I have …

Feb 2, 2008: Computer literacy is very important One day last month, the little phisch wanted to play his Cars computer game, so Dad set it up for him on Mom's computer (a Dell running Windows Vista! …

Feb 2, 2008: Third skating lesson Two weeks later, some more skating fun! The little phisch got better moving around the house without help, but seemed to regress when it came to …

Feb 2, 2008: First skating lesson Whenever he's been asked what sports he wants to play, our son has been consistent: "Baseball and hockey!" The first skill required in hockey is the …

Feb 2, 2008: links for 2008-02-02 Sigma announces DP1 to be available spring 2008: Digital Photography Review Best known for their lenses, Sigma has already released dSLRs on the …

Feb 1, 2008: ATPM 14.02 The February issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Yes, he's a month late for such reminiscing, but Wes …

Jan 30, 2008: links for 2008-01-30 Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs Love him or hate him, Jobs does know how to knock'em out, and make the trivial seem exciting, and the exciting …

Jan 29, 2008: Things you won't see in Star Tours at Disneyworld As a Star Wars geek, I love one-offs and mashups of Star Wars-related stuff. Ceth Stifel, aka "Thumper-001" on deviantART, inspired by a recent trip …

Jan 29, 2008: A timely reminder "It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick …

Jan 28, 2008: links for 2008-01-28 Dwarves zipped in suitcases steal from Swedes - Telegraph Yeah, I think that headline is pretty self-explanatory of why you should go read it. (tags: …

Jan 27, 2008: links for 2008-01-27 Veronica Belmont » Face texting What happens when the proximity sensor on your iPhone flakes out. (tags: geek iPhone mobile technology) AMC …

Jan 26, 2008: Guess which way we're going to go Bruce Henderson: One of the reasons that house prices got so high here is that people could get crazy financing for huge amounts without adequate …

Jan 26, 2008: "Ouch" is right Tony Woodlief: I never thought I would have to hold a package of frozen peas on my son's penis. They don't tell you this may be a possibility in …

Jan 26, 2008: links for 2008-01-26 YouTube - Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen Someone took Eddie Izzard's bit on Star Wars and set it to LEGO figures. Incredibly funny. (Though not safe …

Jan 25, 2008: links for 2008-01-25 YouTube - How camera lenses are made In a little over nine minutes, you, too, can learn how they make lenses for cameras. Pretty fascinating. (tags: …

Jan 24, 2008: links for 2008-01-24 Hello Kitty Darth Vader Tattoo - Hello Kitty Hell Desecration! Sacrilege! Blasphemy, I tell you! (tags: fun humor StarWars tattoo) World's only …

Jan 23, 2008: With or Without You My pal Dan turned me on to this fantastic cover of U2's "With or Without You" by Japanese pop star Hikaru Utada: Don't fear: she may be speaking …

Jan 23, 2008: links for 2008-01-23 I can't believe I'm becoming an Apple Fanboy - Blog Maverick Of possible interest to my readers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Dallas Mavericks fans, …

Jan 20, 2008: links for 2008-01-20 Justice League Minifigs - Quorum on Flickr Custom LEGO mini figures, assembled and painted as members of the Justice League. I really like Flash, …

Jan 19, 2008: All in a day's double standard Joel C. Rosenberg: [T]he world seems to have all but forgotten an Israeli town situated on the border with Gaza that has been under withering and …

Jan 18, 2008: It's true: bacon makes everything better Everything.

Jan 18, 2008: links for 2008-01-18 Free LAX shuttle to In-N-Out Burgers - Gadling I still long to try In-N-Out, and I swear on the grave of Ray Kroc that I will do so the next time I …

Jan 15, 2008: Macworld Keynote impressions So the big news in the tech world yesterday was what Steve Jobs talked about during his keynote address at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The annual …

Jan 15, 2008: links for 2008-01-15 USB Heating Gloves From the "You've Got To Be Kidding Me" Department... (tags: clothing gadgets gear geek) bad banana blog: Vintage Comic Book Ads …

Jan 14, 2008: Proud geek dad moment This past Saturday, the missus and I took the little phisch to see The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. The film was released by Universal, and had the …

Jan 14, 2008: links for 2008-01-14 oobject "...like Billboard Charts for gadgets!" Pretty interesting site, easy to waste a lot of time on it. (tags: design gadgets history reference …

Jan 13, 2008: links for 2008-01-13 National Champion LSU Retires At The Top Of Its Game | The Onion - America's Finest News Source Some times, the hard decisions just have to be made. …

Jan 12, 2008: links for 2008-01-12 No Golden Globes Show, Just a News Conference - New York Times "'We are all very disappointed' ... 'and that millions of viewers worldwide will be …

Jan 11, 2008: Who they are and what they're about Brent McKinney, A Few Thoughts On Jeremiah: I think absolutes exist. In other words, if we "miss the mark," there's an implication that there's a …

Jan 11, 2008: links for 2008-01-11 Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88 - New York Times Hillary was a hero of mine, even though I am in no way a climber. …

Jan 10, 2008: Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence. Example #4,219 The TSA detained and searched a five year-old boy. Read that again. It was a case of mistaken identity; a five year-old boy has the same name as …

Jan 10, 2008: links for 2008-01-10 inessential.com: 'NetNewsWire 3.1 is free' The best RSS reader on the planet is now available for free. Mac users the world over now have no excuse. …

Jan 8, 2008: I figured Vader as more of a chopper guy Photo by Andreas Matern At least it's not one of those girly-looking Vespas.

Jan 7, 2008: Three times is charming "Enjoy It Again! LSU Wins 2007 National Championship, 38-24" Photo courtesy of Associated Press It was certainly a great night for the Tiger fans …

Jan 7, 2008: links for 2008-01-07 LSU Players Use Video Games to Prepare Let's hope this game prep pays off the night of January 7th. (tags: football game learning LSU sports)

Jan 6, 2008: A reality show I'd actually watch I make no bones about my disdain for the reality shows which litter network television. The only one I'd consider watching on a regular basis would be …

Jan 5, 2008: links for 2008-01-05 FOXNews.com - Boy, 11, Uses Toy Lightsaber to Defend Mom From Attacker - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News …

Jan 4, 2008: Gifts that keep on giving Yesterday, I put to good use the Barnes & Noble gift cards I received for Christmas and my birthday. (I get at least a couple every year.) The …

Jan 3, 2008: links for 2008-01-03 It's behind you: Great White stalks ocean canoeist | the Daily Mail As if Jaws didn't scar enough people, like my wife, for life... (tags: animals …

Jan 1, 2008: ATPM 14.01 The January 2008 issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available to help you ring in the new Mac year. Mike Chamberlain looks back at the …

Jan 1, 2008: Movies 2007 A friend from college got me in the habit of saving my movie ticket stubs, and I have a glass mug stuffed with them, going back to the very early …

Dec 26, 2007: links for 2007-12-26 The Walker A great Star Wars t-shirt done in 8-bit style. Love it. Want it. (tags: fun geek humor StarWars tshirt wishlist) Que Lastima Clothing - …

Dec 24, 2007: The Awaited One The following is excerpted from Max Lucado's An Angel's Story*, and was the 12/23/07 e-mail from MaxLucado.com, which anyone can sign up to receive. …

Dec 24, 2007: links for 2007-12-24 The Islamist war on Muslim women - The Boston Globe Jeff Jacoby on the (ahem) exceptional treatment women can expect from the "Religion of Peace". …

Dec 23, 2007: links for 2007-12-23 TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, discusses how our …

Dec 22, 2007: links for 2007-12-22 How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 For those of you who wish to create ringtones to put on your iPhone. (tags: Apple GarageBand howto …

Dec 21, 2007: The Spirit of Christmas The following landed in ye olde e-mail inbox earlier today, penned by talk radio host Laura Ingraham: Megan pulled a three-ring binder out of her bag …

Dec 21, 2007: links for 2007-12-21 How To Spot a Cylon "Never get caught off guard again! Cylon Safety Information Sheet #8, issued by QMx on behalf of the Colonial Ministry of …

Dec 20, 2007: Immanuel The following is excerpted from Max Lucado's An Angel's Story*, and was the 12/20/07 e-mail from MaxLucado.com, which anyone can sign up to receive. …

Dec 20, 2007: links for 2007-12-20 Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr For those who may be using Adobe Lightroom for their photo organizing, and light …

Dec 14, 2007: links for 2007-12-14 FOX Sports on MSN - NFL - Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all Jason Whitlock says something that really needs to be said. (tags: football …

Dec 13, 2007: links for 2007-12-13 FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Bowl games we'd like to see To answer Jeff Gordon's question, "Would you take this bowl slate over the one you …

Dec 11, 2007: links for 2007-12-11 214 - The Blonde Map of Europe « strange maps For our European friends with a fetish for the lighter-haired. (tags: fun history humor maps)

Dec 10, 2007: Christmas fun I received this e-mail from a neighbor. It's one of those things where you read their answers, then fill in your own and pass it on to the people …

Dec 9, 2007: links for 2007-12-09 Hands and Feet Project // Exclusive Audio A Download! Audio Adrenaline offers a never-before-released song, "Blood Brothers", for $1 to raise money …

Dec 8, 2007: links for 2007-12-08 yuletidezeppelin.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) A MP3 mashup of classic Led Zeppelin tunes mixed with traditional Christmas fare. Music only, no vocals. Good …

Dec 7, 2007: links for 2007-12-07 CD Baby: GEOFF SMITH: Christmas Tunes Geoff Smith has a new Christmas EP out, 5 original Christmas songs for $4.99, as a MP3 download. Great piano …

Dec 5, 2007: Born to it Monday night, my folks made the requisite birthday phone call, and while chatting with my dad, I was informed that thirty-seven years ago today, I …

Dec 5, 2007: links for 2007-12-05 R2D2 Translator Type in the word of phrase you want to hear in R2's distinctive chirps and whistles, and you're delivered the corresponding audio. …

Dec 2, 2007: 2007 College Football Bowl Schedule In some cultures, it is customary for the one having a birthday, instead of receiving gifts, to give them to loved ones and friends. Since I'm …

Dec 1, 2007: The operative part of the acronym is "No" The third time was not the charm for me, at least as it it pertains to National Novel Writing Month. I started out pretty good, keeping my word count …

Dec 1, 2007: I was wrong. It's worse than I thought. Some chatter by the sports media talking heads got me to wondering, so I did some research. I was wrong when I stated that a team had to win their …

Dec 1, 2007: links for 2007-12-01 Ken Lunde's Pistol Wallpaper Pages Adobe's Dr. Ken Lunde has some great, high-resolution wallpapers of many different types of pistols. Really nice …

Nov 30, 2007: links for 2007-11-30 Michael Salamon » Procedurally Enforcing Workflow This is just awesome. (Thanks, Lee!) (tags: blog design humor photo security) The Book …

Nov 29, 2007: American Veteran Removes US Flag from Beneath Mexican Flag

Nov 29, 2007: links for 2007-11-29 definr - incredibly fast dictionary As it says: an incredibly fast dictionary, though I think I still prefer Ninjawords, which has a permanent place …

Nov 27, 2007: Wave of Sorrow Originally slated for inclusion on the Joshua Tree album twenty years ago, this song remained unfinished until just recently: It can now be found on …

Nov 27, 2007: I Am Confusion Last night (this morning?), I finished reading I Am Legend. Well, re-reading would be more of an accurate statement. And yet... This is the I Am …

Nov 27, 2007: I would love to witness a conversation like this Another nugget from Sheriff Bell: Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference in Corpus Christi and I got set next to this woman, she …

Nov 26, 2007: So it's okay to name your sons Muhammad, but... From the Religion of Peace™ Department: A fifty-four year-old English woman, a teacher at a school in Sudan, has been arrested for allowing her …

Nov 25, 2007: The thoroughly unlikely, but hopeful, scenario So the Tigers really blew it on Friday. Looking ahead to the SEC championship? Thinking of playing for the national title game? Distracted by the …

Nov 24, 2007: Food for thought for my believing friends Craig Groeschel: Non-believers should feel more loved by the church than by any institution in the world. Boy, but do I blow this one on a consistent …

Nov 24, 2007: "If it aint too late." Some keen cultural insight, courtesy of Sheriff Bell in Cormac McCarthry's No Country For Old Men (complete with McCarthy's trademark …

Nov 23, 2007: Recent additions to the library Earlier this evening, in an attempt to drown our sorrows over the Tigers blowing their national title shot, the family dined at Rockfish, then did a …

Nov 23, 2007: links for 2007-11-23 Metamark - Free Short URL redirection - Make long URLs short Another URL shortening service (makes it easier to email/IM/twitter long links) you …

Nov 22, 2007: Giving thanks So, what am I thankful for this year....? My wife. Those who know me know that she has to put up with a lot on a regular basis. However, when I …

Nov 22, 2007: links for 2007-11-22 My Mile Marker Online mileage tracker. You can also report to it via your mobile device, or Twitter. (tags: automobiles consumer finance mobile tools …

Nov 21, 2007: links for 2007-11-21 Amazon.com: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store Kindle is Amazon's new ebook reader. In addition to reading books on it, you …

Nov 20, 2007: The Gods Aren't Angry Thanks to our friends Brent and Tracy, I was able to go with Brent this past Friday to see Rob Bell on his The Gods Aren't Angry Tour. I'd never heard …

Nov 17, 2007: Yet another update on my injured foot This past Thursday marked another check-up with my orthopedist. More poking and prodding. More x-rays were taken. (Still kind of cool to see the screw …

Nov 15, 2007: links for 2007-11-15 BookSurge, part of the Amazon group of companies For future self-reference: "BookSurge offers complete publishing, inventory-free fulfillment and …

Nov 14, 2007: links for 2007-11-14 The Complete Must Have Star Wars Poster! - Cinematical Lucasfilm needs to pay this artist some moolah, throw Jake Lloyd and Alec Guinness in to the …

Nov 13, 2007: links for 2007-11-13 DLO | Power Bug Cheaper and more compact than Apple's charger for the iPod. (tags: gadgets hardware iPod)

Nov 12, 2007: links for 2007-11-12 Always-On Unique Camera Accessories - Home The Always-On Wrap-Up is a camera case with attaches to your point-and-shoot's tripod mount, and wraps …

Nov 10, 2007: links for 2007-11-10 Star-Telegram.com: | 11/09/2007 | Book it: this league is still SEC-ond to none "The best league in college football this season is not the Big 12, …

Nov 9, 2007: links for 2007-11-09 My Jigsaw Have a custom jigsaw puzzle made from the front page of The New York Times, or from a U.S. Geological Survey map, centered on whatever you …

Nov 7, 2007: links for 2007-11-07 netTrekker | America's #1 Educational Search Engine $50-per-year kid-friendly search engine, supposed to help children avoid adult-oriented content …

Nov 5, 2007: links for 2007-11-05 Hugh does Twitter Hugh MacLeod, of Gaping Void, interprets the Twitter mascot. (tags: art Twitter)

Nov 4, 2007: "But you can't have a one-loss team ranked ahead of an unbeaten." Yeah? Why not? Here's the rub, looking at the latest AP poll and BCS rankings: Ohio State may be unbeaten, but they haven't exactly had a tough time …

Nov 3, 2007: ATPM 13.11 The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Wes kicks off the month by covering--what else?--the …

Nov 1, 2007: links for 2007-11-01 Macworld: First Look: Trojan Horse warning: What you need to know New Trojan Horse malware. (Not a virus, but still really nasty.) Just keep your …

Oct 31, 2007: links for 2007-10-31 The Right Coast: Tacitus and Political Correctness in the Roman Empire - Gail Heriot Interesting read. (tags: conservative history politics) …

Oct 30, 2007: links for 2007-10-30 PC World - In Pictures: The Most Notable Notebooks of 2007 "The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The …

Oct 29, 2007: links for 2007-10-29 iPhone - a photoset on Flickr Phil Carrizzi's great photos from July 2007 of the new iPhone, along with a couple of its cousins in the Apple family. …

Oct 28, 2007: links for 2007-10-28 Truemors :: Hottest Chile Pepper Named Indian chili pepper scored a million on the Scoville heat unit scale, which measures the spiciness of peppers. …

Oct 26, 2007: links for 2007-10-26 Meadville mishap defines wrecking ball This was probably a fun conversation to have with one's insurance agent. (tags: automobiles news)

Oct 24, 2007: Isn't that what we all want? People who understand us? This makes me smile and laugh every time I see it.

Oct 24, 2007: links for 2007-10-24 Blogger In A Strange Land » Blog Archive » Socialized Medicine Brian on his experiences with socialized medicine in Sweden. Sounds …

Oct 23, 2007: Dude Bud Light Dude I love this commercial. (Can't stand the product.)

Oct 21, 2007: links for 2007-10-21 blognation China » Blog Archive » Mind the Gap Saturday: IM the Chinese Way (Part Two) Interesting look at the technological and cultural …

Oct 20, 2007: Feeling a little schizo today Today is a historic day in the life of our little family: the little phisch is going to his first-ever live, in-person football game. My wife's boss …

Oct 20, 2007: And I thought it was going to be Oscar The little phisch has always enjoyed Sesame Street, and I've started getting him in to The Muppet Show, so when I saw Michelle's results for the …

Oct 20, 2007: links for 2007-10-20 OpinionJournal - What Happened at Haditha "The massacre that wasn't, and its political exploitation." Why does the Left insist on comparing the war in …

Oct 19, 2007: links for 2007-10-19 Steve Ballmer on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Steve Ballmer: Psycho (tags: Flickr Microsoft photo photography) film music | mobygratis.com Free music …

Oct 18, 2007: links for 2007-10-18 BBC NEWS | Wales | Stepfather tortured two-year-old 12 Years? 12?!?!? That's all he gets? Guy should thank his lucky stars this didn't happen in …

Oct 17, 2007: I knew there was something familiar about those Potter books [From Lee, via IM]

Oct 17, 2007: links for 2007-10-17 More secret iPhone codes - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Three months later, I'm still trying to figure out why I'd ever need to use most of …

Oct 15, 2007: links for 2007-10-15 Critics slam Nobel winner | Herald Sun Noteworthy is the observation that Gore was awarded the Peace Prize when he hasn't really done anything …

Oct 14, 2007: Another for my typophile homies (And for those of you who, like me, may still have a celebrity crush on Vanna White left over from the `80s.) I have to agree with Scott Simpson: …

Oct 14, 2007: links for 2007-10-14 Twitter / NaNoWriMo Those of you participating in National Novel Writing Month, which kicks off at midnight, November 1, may want to take note of …

Oct 13, 2007: links for 2007-10-13 Threadless T-Shirts - Runnin' Rhino by Allan Faustino We all have to have dreams. (tags: tshirt wishlist) Presto Agitato: An Inconvenient Ruling In …

Oct 11, 2007: links for 2007-10-11 Wikipedia Search for iPhone Fraser Speirs has put together a simple Wikipedia search page for iPhone users, since, in his words, "you don't want to …

Oct 10, 2007: links for 2007-10-10 Peachpit: How to Use Photoshop Elements to Remove Glare from Glasses Method 1: Handling Overall Glare (tags: howto photo photography Photoshop tips) …

Oct 9, 2007: links for 2007-10-09 Using Quicksilver's Clipboard | Macinstruct I severely underutilize Quicksilver, so this is just one more way for me to get more out of this great …

Oct 8, 2007: links for 2007-10-08 Ethos Water: Helping Children Get Clean Water "The mission of Ethos Water is to help children around the world get clean water and to raise awareness …

Oct 5, 2007: "The Star Spangled Banner", in Baritone Mark Lowry performs our national anthem as a baritone, with some "surprise" accompaniment: (Via Lee via IM.)

Oct 5, 2007: Where is God? Tony Woodlief: So where is God found? He finds us, of course, as he always has, from the beginning, and will to the end, because a parent seeks his …

Oct 4, 2007: The latest news on the injured hoof Today I had another visit with my orthopedist. New x-rays were taken, and my foot was poked and prodded. The bad news: not yet time for surgery to …

Oct 4, 2007: links for 2007-10-04 "Great Military Blunders of the Galactic Empire" by Patrick Cassels on CollegeHumor "Darth Vader's tyrannical Empire struck fear into an entire …

Oct 2, 2007: ATPM 13.10 The October issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading enjoyment. If you haven't gotten enough iPhone news in the past …

Oct 2, 2007: links for 2007-10-02 Inconsolata A new monospace font, "designed for code listings and the like, in print". I think it looks just great on the screen, too. (tags: font …

Oct 1, 2007: The joys of getting older Jim Lindberg, lead singer of Pennywise, in Punk Rock Dad: This is all part of the game of being a parent. When I signed up to be a dad I had to leave …

Oct 1, 2007: links for 2007-10-01 Angry Retail - Boys Alphabet T Shirt (Asphalt) A handy reference you can wear. (tags: tshirt wishlist) Go Ape Shirts - 022 - Guitar Solo by Tom …

Sep 30, 2007: links for 2007-09-30 SciFi Ship Size Chart : My Confined Space Nifty size comparison of space ship sizes from science fiction shows and movies, with real Earth vehicles …

Sep 29, 2007: links for 2007-09-29 InDeath.net - List of J.D. Robb Titles in Order of Release This series of futuristic mysteries sounds really intriguing, and this is for my reference …

Sep 28, 2007: No liberty without virtue Laura Ingraham, Power To The People: Our Declaration of Independence reminds us of the "unalienable rights" that are ours to enjoy: "life, liberty, …

Sep 27, 2007: links for 2007-09-27 Grid Layout Quick and easy grid layouts for web developers. My "normal" friends can ignore this link. (tags: CSS design reference tools WebDesign) …

Sep 25, 2007: My last five songs Tom tagged me, asking I note the last five songs I've purchased. Since I don't often purchase individual songs, my list will mostly contain my …

Sep 25, 2007: links for 2007-09-25 10 Best Facebook Applications For Business Professionals -- Facebook Observer (tags: business career communication community Facebook phone social) …

Sep 24, 2007: links for 2007-09-24 Digital Photography School -- Digital Photography Tips for You (tags: blog howto learning photo photography reference tips) How to Photograph a …

Sep 19, 2007: Civics Quiz How well do you know your history and civics? Find out with this Civics Quiz, courtesy of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Leave your results in …

Sep 18, 2007: So here I am, vocalizing Jeff Ventura: What’s interesting about Windows - Mac switchers is that they typically feel a need to vocalize their experience in one way or …

Sep 17, 2007: links for 2007-09-17 Phone Different Store Looking through their inventory, I'm starting to believe Phone Different really might be, as they claim, "The One-Stop Show for …

Sep 16, 2007: For my typophile homies [Via Lee on IM.]

Sep 16, 2007: Apple: The not-so-premium brand after all Wherein I shamelessly plug my favorite computing platform. DealMac has a post where they put three systems in a head-to-head-to-head competition for …

Sep 16, 2007: links for 2007-09-16 MacThemes / [widget] Calculator Widget Mod Now running in my Dashboard. I love the look of this calculator widget much better than the Mac OS X …

Sep 15, 2007: The death of common sense American Digest: 3. Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students. 1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by …

Sep 15, 2007: There are reasons it's called "faith" My friend Brandon has a great post today that got me to thinking, and in thinking, smiling. The walk of faith is not a stroll but a journey. And each …

Sep 15, 2007: links for 2007-09-15 Star Wars: Community | "Family Guy: Blue Harvest" Concept Art "Peter Griffin is Han Solo, Lois is Princess Leia, Stewie becomes Darth Vader, Brian …

Sep 14, 2007: An excerpt TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE FOR TIMECORP'S VH3928-MODEL TIME MACHINE: Problem: You are stranded in the past without plutonium to provide the 1.21 …

Sep 14, 2007: What American accent do you have? What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." …

Sep 14, 2007: Life now has meaning According to the rules laid out in Punk Rock Dad, my punk rock name is: (Are you ready for this?) (Are you sure?) (Really?) (Okay, you've been …

Sep 13, 2007: links for 2007-09-13 Amp Up Your Brain / Wired How To's Improve your memory. Read better, faster. Think out loud. (tags: brain health lifehack reference tips) Flickr …

Sep 12, 2007: links for 2007-09-12 JetPens - Japanese Pens and Stationery Finally, a source for the world's finest-tipped pen, the Uniball Signo 0.18mm! Also a source for the 0.38mm …

Sep 11, 2007: Patriot Day Day of Terror: A September 11 Retrospective "September 11, 2001, was a defining moment in American history. On that terrible day, our nation saw the …

Sep 11, 2007: links for 2007-09-11 Apple - Trailers - Iron Man I am way impressed. (tags: comics fun movie video) Tactical Duostocks The odd-looking but operator-approved Duostock is …

Sep 10, 2007: Currently reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling (hardcover) Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've only read the first Potter book once before, way back …

Sep 10, 2007: links for 2007-09-10 Build your own underwater ROV for $250 - Engadget Since I cannot make use of our pool right now, thanks to the busted foot, perhaps this would be a …

Sep 8, 2007: Don't Suffer the Little Children Tony Woodlief: The constrained vision indicates that world harmony and universal satisfaction are mirages. People are innately selfish, and they'll …

Sep 7, 2007: "That word. I do not think it means what you think it means." In between the yummy dinner of homemade chicken fajitas, and the Jello-provided chocolate pudding for dessert, I perused the front page of today's …

Sep 5, 2007: We all have our burdens Love you, Amy and John! Oh, and I love you, sweetheart!

Sep 4, 2007: MarsEdit 2 My favorite blogging client has now been revved to version 2. I've been using MarsEdit ever since original developer Brent Simmons rolled out the 1.0 …

Sep 4, 2007: links for 2007-09-04 Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word Author Steven Poole gives up on Microsoft Word, which I continue to maintain is overkill for 90 percent of the word …

Sep 2, 2007: ATPM 13.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Former staffer, and still good friend, Raena …

Sep 2, 2007: On being a wall [Tony Woodlief](a href="http://www.tonywoodlief.com/archives/001260.html), author of the great Raising Wild Boys Into Men: Sometimes as a parent you …

Sep 1, 2007: links for 2007-09-01 Ambrosia Software, Inc. -- iToner Until Apple decides to give us this obvious, brain-dead feature for free, you can get whatever ringtones you want …

Aug 31, 2007: My awesome opinion There is more of me in this cartoon than I care to admit.

Aug 31, 2007: "Is the N in NFL for Nancy?" The Dallas Stars have gone on the offensive, and hockey season hasn't even started yet. As part of a new ticket sales campaign, several billboards …

Aug 31, 2007: links for 2007-08-31 How to get video onto your iPhone (and iPod) | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com (tags: iPhone video)

Aug 29, 2007: links for 2007-08-29 Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen - Instructables Somewhere in this house is the Mont Blanc pen my wife received as a law …

Aug 28, 2007: links for 2007-08-28 Some changing table tricks on Flickr - Photo Sharing! For soon-to-be moms and dads. Wish I would've thought out something like this when the little …

Aug 26, 2007: Yet another reason I love Twitter (And why you should be following my Twitter feed, if you're not already.) Daniel Jalkut: The best thing about using Twitter for chat is you're never …

Aug 26, 2007: links for 2007-08-26 Star Wars: Kids | Star Wars Art Book Covers Print these out and cover those new textbooks. I wish we would have had cool art like these when I was a …

Aug 25, 2007: links for 2007-08-25 Guns and Hunting.com The web companion to the monthly magazine Shooting Illustrated. (tags: firearms magazine publication)

Aug 24, 2007: links for 2007-08-24 ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek Chain Mail T-Shirt Even I am not that big of a nerd to wear this... (When they sell the full suit of mail, with gloves, …

Aug 22, 2007: links for 2007-08-22 Welcome : GoodSearch : Search the Internet with GoodSearch and support your favorite charity or school. "Give to charity just by searching the …

Aug 21, 2007: links for 2007-08-21 Terraminds micro search A search engine for Twitter, letting you search in updates, or for users. (tags: search tools Twitter) The Making of "Sgt. …

Aug 20, 2007: links for 2007-08-20 Hausschrift-Liste Unternehmen-zu-Schrift - Typografie.info TypoWiki It's in German, but it's pretty easy to figure the table out. You can see what …

Aug 19, 2007: links for 2007-08-19 Civilization Watch - March 4, 2007 - All in a Good Cause - The Ornery American Orson Scott Card on Michael Mann (not the director/producer) cooking …

Aug 14, 2007: links for 2007-08-14 Lewisville Lizards Professional Baseball Club, Lewisville, Texas Of course I find out I've had pro baseball within five miles of my house for the past …

Aug 13, 2007: Freedom rap

Aug 12, 2007: links for 2007-08-12 Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta: Why the geeks were wrong about .Mac.... 1.78 million .Mac subscribers?!? As Frank Barone would say, "Holy crap!" If only the old …

Aug 11, 2007: links for 2007-08-11 Learning Japanese with Akira Kurosawa - Mahalo I've always wanted to throw myself in to a Kurosawa film fest. (tags: education howto japanese language …

Aug 10, 2007: links for 2007-08-10 Iraq: On the Ground With an Anti-IED Unit - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com Joe Cochrane spent time embedded with the U.S. Navy's Explosive …

Aug 8, 2007: Frisco RoughRiders, 28 July 2007 So my "last hurrah" before foot surgery was an outing to the ballpark in Frisco, home of the AA RoughRiders. It's a nice park, and there's not really …

Aug 7, 2007: links for 2007-08-07 Last Exit to Nowhere "[H]ome to a collection of unique shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, …

Aug 6, 2007: Victims of tyranny? John Farnam had this quote in a recent post on his mailing list, and I thought it significant. In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our …

Aug 5, 2007: links for 2007-08-05 Must-Have Music Recommendation List - Prison Fellowship A collection of classical music, with a litlte jazz, put together by BreakPoint senior writer, …

Aug 4, 2007: Today's head-smacker Overheard by Jeff Harrell earlier today: Wouldn't it be great if the people who made the iPhone also made a computer? Really? Really?!?

Aug 4, 2007: links for 2007-08-04 SPLITREASON.COM :: Bad Motivator t-shirt "I'm not lazy...I just have a bad motivator." Thank the Force for that, too, or else R2 would've never …

Aug 3, 2007: links for 2007-08-03 Star Wars Social Networking Card I guess if you're going to call yourself a real Star Wars fanboy, you better get yourself some Yoda or Vader business …

Aug 2, 2007: ATPM 13.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. In this month's Bloggable, Wes makes sure to avoid coverage of "the largest …

Jul 31, 2007: links for 2007-07-31 Faceball: your face, our balls The demo video is a riot. Something tells me this game is ripe for tournament status in the Dungeon, Nathan. (tags: …

Jul 30, 2007: Even more thankful Remember when a few hours ago I said I was really thankful about living in America, and I wasn't going to get in to some diatribe regarding socialized …

Jul 30, 2007: A moment of thanks My friends, as I go about my business on the eve of foot surgery, I thought I would take a moment to offer thanks. Thanks be to God that I was born in …

Jul 28, 2007: links for 2007-07-28 Punakea | nudge:nudge "Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement …

Jul 27, 2007: links for 2007-07-27 YouTube - Team Hoyt - Dick and Rick Hoyt I don't recall where I first heard of Dick & Rick Hoyt's amazing story, but I think it was two years ago, …

Jul 26, 2007: So, yeah, this is gonna pretty much suck So the follow-up with the orthopedic surgeon was today, and we went over the results of yesterday's CT scan. Of course, we got the worst possible …

Jul 26, 2007: links for 2007-07-26 Reader Article on PowerBook G4 12in Hard Drive Upgrade I just replaced the hard drive in my PowerBook, and this is the set of instructions I used. …

Jul 24, 2007: Start preparing your lies now, Ivan Eric Blair: If the iPhone continues to rewrite sales records even in the face of Verizon’s new handsets, executives at Verizon may have nowhere …

Jul 24, 2007: links for 2007-07-24 Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0 You can take the green line from Digg over to Facebook, or the red from …

Jul 23, 2007: An update on the foot So I had an appointment with an orthopedist today (technically, the doc's an orthopedic surgeon), as a follow-up to the emergency clinic visit last …

Jul 22, 2007: links for 2007-07-22 The Scotchcast "All single malt, all the time." Jeff, Chip, and Michael explore the world of scotch, including what goes in to making this wonderful …

Jul 21, 2007: This about sums it up

Jul 19, 2007: links for 2007-07-19 The Complete Guide to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone Video Formats | iLounge (tags: AppleTV entertainment geek iPhone iPod iTunes Mac mobile movies …

Jul 18, 2007: Social proprioception Because I haven't blogged about Twitter in a couple of weeks, here's Clive Thompson on how Twitter's creating a social sixth sense: When I see that …

Jul 17, 2007: I seem to have a knack for these things Earlier this evening, I set about installing a ceiling fan and light kit in one of the bedrooms. It's the room the little phisch is going to be moving …

Jul 14, 2007: Hide-a-Pod If you have an iPod, or a new iPhone, and you're worried that the mere sight of the device may prompt a ne'er-do-well to attempt a snatch, consider …

Jul 14, 2007: links for 2007-07-14 iPhone Wallpapers - Airbag Industries LLC Some great wallpapers for your iPhone from Greg Storey. (tags: art desktops iPhone mobile phone photo …

Jul 12, 2007: links for 2007-07-12 TeleMoose - Easy iPhone Shopper "TeleMoose is a free iPhone application that enables you to browse and shop Amazon, without needing to double tap …

Jul 11, 2007: links for 2007-07-11 The Muppet Show in "Ham's Deep" The Battle of Helm's Deep, from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings, recreated by Silver Snail with the Muppets. …

Jul 10, 2007: iSmoke Oh, yes, he did.

Jul 10, 2007: links for 2007-07-10 AutoPairs A must-have utility for me, AutoPairs has been updated to version 3, a universal binary so we finally have a version that runs on Intel …

Jul 9, 2007: links for 2007-07-09 Free iPhone Wallpaper — 320by480 (tags: iPhone wallpaper)

Jul 7, 2007: iphoneflashlite.com Over on the Ranchero-sponsored iPhone email list, Kevin C. mentioned using his iPhone as a flashlight in a pinch. I'm sure many, if not all, iPhone …

Jul 7, 2007: Why the iPhone Doesn't Include Flash (The obvious answer is "Flash sucks, that's why".) Brent Simmons: We all know that the iPhone doesn’t include Flash. Various theories have been …

Jul 4, 2007: links for 2007-07-04 XtremeMac iPod Chargers :: MicroPack for all iPod models :: Battery Pack and Multimedia Dock for iPod (tags: hardware gear iPod) Twitter Facts …

Jul 2, 2007: A customer service tale Once upon a time...okay, so, every week, we go out to our local Mi Cocina after the little phisch's swim lesson. By the time the lesson is over and …

Jul 1, 2007: ATPM 13.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn kicks things off by noting how the Internet's managed to let us support our …

Jun 30, 2007: Not really helping A good friend is trying to decide whether or not to buy an iPhone, and I was attempting to help him reason it out.

Jun 29, 2007: "Steve Jobs officially owns June 29." So sayeth Jeff Harrell, upon the realization that Ratatouille opens nationwide today as well.

Jun 29, 2007: How do you know you have iPhone fever? When, while watching a show recorded on your TiVo, and fast-forwarding through the commercials, you stop and back up to watch the iPhone commercial …

Jun 29, 2007: links for 2007-06-29 The Talk Show with John Gruber and Dan Benjamin (tags: Apple Mac podcast technology) The Vader Project An art project of galactic proportions, as …

Jun 28, 2007: LEGO Millenium Falcon Stop Motion What do LEGO masters Paul Romein and Greg Radzimowski do with 38 hours of their time? This:

Jun 28, 2007: links for 2007-06-28 Scoville scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Just how hot is that pepper on your plate? (tags: food reference science) Threadless T-Shirts - …

Jun 23, 2007: links for 2007-06-23 Threadless T-Shirts - Electric Jellyfish by Adam Wilson (tags: tshirts wishlist) Threadless T-Shirts - Swiss Army by Glenn Jones (tags: tshirts …

Jun 18, 2007: links for 2007-06-18 Charlie's Diary SF author Charles Stross's blog. (tags: author blog books reading writing)

Jun 16, 2007: links for 2007-06-16 Figamajigs: Healthy chocolate covered candy drops and bars Seen in Business 2.0, all-natural chocolate candy bar, with only 130-150 calories per bar. …

Jun 15, 2007: links for 2007-06-15 MacDesktops - Something Wicked Cool A blast from the past. A desktop picture I threw together using a high-resolution PR image from Apple. The …

Jun 14, 2007: links for 2007-06-14 Keyword Selector Tool Free tool from Yahoo will tell you how often a word or term is searched for. (tags: reference search tools) How to Save a Wet …

Jun 13, 2007: I weep for the future Nanny statism run amok: No running on playgrounds. (The second paragraph of the article is the one which will fill you with utter disbelief.) No …

Jun 13, 2007: Sweetheart, if you still need an idea for a Father's Day gift for me... The greatest, gutsiest Father’s Day gift set I have ever seen: Stop and think: what does it say when you give your father a Darth Vader/Luke …

Jun 13, 2007: links for 2007-06-13 Canon creates 50 megapixel monster - Pocket-lint.co.uk Guuuhhhhh......urrrrrrr......ffffffff.....ffffiiiiiffffff..... (slap!) Did they really say …

Jun 12, 2007: links for 2007-06-12 BBC NEWS | Health | Bear robot rescues wounded troops This is definitely not your average teddy bear. (tags: hardware military soldier technology war …

Jun 1, 2007: Hasta la semana proxima Well, dear readers, after being gone for a week on a family vacation, I'm now leaving in the wee morning hours--in six hours, to be precise--on a …

Jun 1, 2007: links for 2007-06-01 Mahalo The latest brainchild of Jason Calacanis, it's a human-optimized search engine. This means it will supposedly return more relevant results …

May 28, 2007: "<em>Happy</em>" Memorial Day? Today we stopped by a local mall. The missus needed to make a return of some merchandise to Nordstrom, and we took in lunch as well. While waiting for …

May 28, 2007: links for 2007-05-28 Choose-a-thon Pick the way you want to raise funds. No selling products. No door-to-door if you don't want to. Walk-a-thons, read-a-thons, you name …

May 22, 2007: links for 2007-05-22 Rhinos Hunt In Packs One of the latest tees from Threadless. I have a soft spot for rhinos, so this goes on the t-shirt wish list. (tags: clothing …

May 17, 2007: links for 2007-05-17 Codswallop The Freelancer's Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need I suppose I'm a neo-Luddite, because I find very few web apps …

May 16, 2007: links for 2007-05-16 TUAW Tip: An easier way to email your logs - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) If you play around with a lot of beta software, this may be an easier …

May 14, 2007: Dear American Soldier in Iraq Dennis Prager: Dear American Soldier in Iraq: There are a few things you should know about how tens of millions of us back home feel about you and …

May 11, 2007: On innovation "I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If so, then Microsoft would have great products." --Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc. …

May 10, 2007: I've been all a-Twitter lately Yeah, I know I've been pretty quiet on ye olde blog the past week. But I haven't been exactly quiet in general. It's just that I've been yakking it …

May 3, 2007: Happy to have been wrong I am pleased to report that my fears yesterday were reassuringly calmed today, as both the battery grip and flash were delivered. Both have been …

May 3, 2007: links for 2007-05-03 Business 2.0 Doesn't Do Backups, Lost Entire June Edition Whoops!! (tags: Business magazine news publication)

May 2, 2007: For the waffle-loving geek who has everything Ladies and gentlemen, do you ever find yourself worrying over what to buy the geek in your life for their birthday, or your anniversary, or Christmas? …

May 2, 2007: I wonder if I should take bets So the new flash and battery grip I ordered are both sitting in Mesquite tonight. For those of you unaware of Dallas metroplex geography, the center …

May 1, 2007: ATPM 13.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. April showers certainly brought May flowers for Apple, …

Apr 29, 2007: links for 2007-04-29 FON router used in DIY wireless network printer - Engadget (tags: diy network wifi howto) Turn your OS X and Linux-based machine into a FON Spot - …

Apr 26, 2007: Jeff Foxworthy on country music [Wave of the phin to Dean Barnett for the pointer on HotAir.]

Apr 25, 2007: Suburban hippie A few moments ago, I was watching Seinfeld, folding some clothes, and I looked down at my attire for the day: hemp-dyed Kauai t-shirt, khaki cargo …

Apr 25, 2007: The more things change... "Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." --Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD Translation: "A sword is never a killer, it is a …

Apr 25, 2007: Headline you never thought you'd see "Arctic Monkeys see slower sales for new album" I guess they gave up trying to come up with Shakespeare.

Apr 24, 2007: Oh, but to love... I'm not sure if there's anything to the fact that as George Thorogood's "Who Do You Love?" was playing, I came across Steve's great poem, "my …

Apr 24, 2007: links for 2007-04-24 ExpoImaging Home of the ExpoDisc white balance solution. (tags: photography gear) What are people 'twittering' about? / Oddly addictive technology …

Apr 23, 2007: links for 2007-04-23 Corner.js Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to webpage images. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the …

Apr 22, 2007: Twitter time I found Annalee Newitz's article on Twitter fascinating, including this breakdown of time: + Twitter time: every minute + Blog time: every few hours + …

Apr 20, 2007: Words that should chill the heart of any comic fan "Spider-Man set to swing to Broadway."

Apr 20, 2007: And you thought you were a real Star Wars fan... Have you ever built your own Darth Vader hot air balloon? [Via Boing Boing via Twitter Vader.]

Apr 19, 2007: links for 2007-04-19 Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optimize and Format your CSS (tags: CSS tools utility WebDesign WebDevelopment) HKPRO.COM--The Unofficial …

Apr 17, 2007: <em>Blades of Glory</em>: The Ninja Interview For my Blades of Glory homies, the Ninja interviews Jon Heder and Will Ferrell. Boom!

Apr 17, 2007: links for 2007-04-17 Welcome to the new Kramer Studios web site Dick Kramer is well known in the law enforcement and military communities for his outstanding artwork. …

Apr 16, 2007: Not quite in the cellar, but on the steps Unlike the Texas Rangers, our softball team isn't at the bottom of our division, but we're close, being in third place out of four teams. We dropped …

Apr 13, 2007: Patrik Stenberg Earlier today Brian twittered about Patrik Stenberg's "curious covers", and I listened to them all. My favorites are "Break-up" and the "Rock Medley".

Apr 13, 2007: First words Nearly three months since it was ordered, I received my Valentine's Day gift today. (Thanks again, sweetheart!) The original Star Wars trilogy on DVD; …

Apr 13, 2007: Professional, interesting and well-written and edited No, the title doesn't refer to this blog. (Though I'm trying.) It refers to the publication I'm proud to be a part of, About This Particular …

Apr 13, 2007: The Big Push Okay, campers, we're in the home stretch, and I'm way behind. As we all know, my wife has the high-earning friends, so with just a few people, she can …

Apr 13, 2007: <em>Bad Luck and Trouble</em> Late last night, I learned that Lee Child's next Jack Reacher novel by will be released on May 15th. Bad Luck and Trouble is the 11th novel featuring …

Apr 11, 2007: I wish Dallas would hurry up and score The third overtime just began in Vancouver, and at 1:25 in the morning, I'm ready for bed. I bleed green, white, gold, and black, though. Go Stars!! …

Apr 8, 2007: He's Alive! You can listen to the song. The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened down I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every …

Apr 8, 2007: links for 2007-04-08 Microsoft is Dead Alright, so not really dead, but certainly not the threat they once were. Now that's Google's territory. (tags: Business Google …

Apr 5, 2007: Quote of the day Stef: In fact, if the weather gets better, Jeff and I were thinking of breaking in our new picnic basket tomorrow. Jeff: Yeah. We have a secret spot, …

Apr 3, 2007: Quote of the day "I've got the attention span of a 2 year old on crack today." --Eric Blair

Apr 2, 2007: The Compassion Store Compassion now has a store where you can purchase Compassion-branded merchandise, as well as music and books from artists who support Compassion. This …

Apr 1, 2007: ATPM 13.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Chris Dudar, the staff's resident 3D artist, provides us with some great cover …

Mar 29, 2007: links for 2007-03-29 Slide - slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing, image hosting, widgets, MySpace codes, web publishing - Slide Make your own custom photo slide shows, …

Mar 28, 2007: BLT I didn't used to be one for custom ringtones on my mobile phone. When I got my Sony Ericsson T616 a few years back, the only additional ringtone I …

Mar 28, 2007: links for 2007-03-28 ChaCha - People Powered Search "ChaCha combines the best of the web's search engines with the human intelligence made possible by a vast community of …

Mar 27, 2007: 38 Pitches Red Sox ace Curt Schilling is blogging. (And for all the geeks, he's using WordPress.)

Mar 27, 2007: Time to switch to Yahoo! Mail? TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo! has announced unlimited storage for all email accounts, beginning May 2007. Gosh, just in time to be ready for all …

Mar 27, 2007: Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades...and thermonuclear weapons So dropping game four this past Sunday was a little frustrating. I can't speak for the rest of the team, but that's how I felt. Our opponent played a …

Mar 27, 2007: links for 2007-03-27 I Miss Iraq. I Miss My Gun. I Miss My War. Brian Mockenhaupt's account of adjusting to non-combat-zone life at home. (tags: Iraq soldier war) Pray …

Mar 22, 2007: links for 2007-03-22 Canon Digital Learning Center (tags: howto photo photography reference tips) bLaugh "The (Un)Official Comic of the Blogosphere" (tags: blog comedy …

Mar 21, 2007: The duel Monday evening a promise was kept and shopping commenced for a lightsaber for the little phisch. We charted a course toward the Toys R Us system, …

Mar 21, 2007: Kottke on Twitter Picked up Jason Kottke's thoughts on Twitter from Gruber, but for me, I thought the interesting part of Jason's remarks came after the bit John …

Mar 20, 2007: Quote of the day From Amy Gruber, on Twitter: What's worse than going to a bachelorette party at a male strip club? Going with your mom.

Mar 20, 2007: links for 2007-03-20 JAJAH - web-activated telephony Cheap and free international phone calls, though there are limitations regarding landlines vs mobiles, etc. Still …

Mar 19, 2007: Happy days are here again Ameriquest Field is no more. Long live Rangers Ballpark in Arlington! Personally, I could have done without the addition of "Rangers" to the original …

Mar 19, 2007: Real faith Mike Messerli: There's a lot of discussion about faith these days. I hear many on Television telling me it's a force. They tell me that I can "use" …

Mar 18, 2007: Dropping number three So yesterday was the third game of the spring softball season, and we faced for the first time--this season--the good folks from Flower Mound United …

Mar 18, 2007: Suddenly I'm thinking... ...that it might be time to do a little shopping.

Mar 15, 2007: The newbie's guide to Twitter It's been difficult trying to explain Twitter to some of my friends and family. (My wife just doesn't get it.) Thanks to Twitter's "unpaid …

Mar 15, 2007: links for 2007-03-15 Ninjawords - a really fast dictionary "A really fast dictionary... fast like a ninja." (tags: dictionary education fun language reference search)

Mar 14, 2007: links for 2007-03-14 Rock River Arms Quality firearms, but the current (March 2007) web site is waaaaay too busy. (tags: firearms) Vista Final (32-bit) Boot Camp …

Mar 13, 2007: It happened Last night, the missus had a work-related dinner to attend, so it was a guy night in the phisch bowl. The little phisch consumed mixed veggies and …

Mar 12, 2007: The new shirt arrived today

Mar 12, 2007: How much has actually changed Mark Steyn, in the introduction to America Alone: 1970 doesn't seem that long ago. If you're in you fifties or sixties, as many of the chaps running …

Mar 12, 2007: Today's observations of the humans The first observation took place as I was nearing the end of my lunch. I was still masticating the remnants of fried corn tortillas, the rest of the …

Mar 11, 2007: 1-1 I totally forgot to blog about the spring softball season opener last week, so for those of you who could really care less, here's all there is to …

Mar 11, 2007: Quite the memory The memory capacity of three year-olds is amazing. As we were wrapping up dinner, my wife put forth the possibility of our going out for some ice …

Mar 11, 2007: Tough but worth it Now see, the hamburger was his idea. There was a discussion about going to grab a bite to eat, then drop by the shoe store to pick the little phisch …

Mar 10, 2007: I love how Dewey thinks If the comic is too small to read, click on it to go to the Unshelved page.

Mar 10, 2007: First photos with the 400D My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix, the model number of which I cannot recall, but it was one of those swivel-body jobs, purchased in 2000 …

Mar 8, 2007: links for 2007-03-08 Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com Cheat sheets for HTML, microformats, regular expressions, Ruby on Rails, HTML character entities, CSS, …

Mar 7, 2007: Recently added New additions to my ever-increasing Amazon wish list: + The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our …

Mar 7, 2007: links for 2007-03-07 Quik Pod an extendable monopod that allows you to take a photo of yourself and anyone who happens to be with you, without having to ask a stranger to …

Mar 5, 2007: Jobs using iPhone in the wild Flickr user Thane Plambeck captured a shot of Steve Jobs using a test iPhone in the wild: According to Thane, "Yes, the photo is for real, and yes it …

Mar 5, 2007: Hoo goes there? Taking the garbage to the curb tonight, my eye caught winged movement to my right. I looked up to see a bird alighting on one my neighbor's gables. …

Mar 5, 2007: Yeah, what he said Tom's thoughts on the National Anthem mirror my own. The missus can regale you with many a tale of Super Bowl, college bowl, NASCAR, baseball, hockey, …

Mar 4, 2007: links for 2007-03-04 TheReligionofPeace.com - Islam: Making a True Difference in the World (believe it or else) (tags: blog history Islam news politics reference …

Mar 3, 2007: Clanston My wife has coined a new term for certain members of our household. Last night, as she was scolding Clancy and Winston for some typical doggie …

Mar 2, 2007: Yeah, I'll be heading back next week So, with the spring softball season upon us, I went to the batting cages this afternoon. After a four-month-plus layoff. Oy. The experience started …

Mar 2, 2007: ATPM 13.03 Oh, right. The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. You'd think someone on the editorial staff would be more aware... …

Feb 26, 2007: A signature problem So I have this email signature. Actually, I have about three. One is the somewhat standard signature I use for all ATPM-related correspondence. The …

Feb 26, 2007: That didn't take long This post is coming to you from MarsEdit 1.1.3, the first release of my blogging app of choice since Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software acquired it …

Feb 25, 2007: Don't Ban Incandescents From the 02.26.07 edition of Red Herring magazine: California's proposed incandescent bulb ban (see "Could California Ban the Bulb?" RedHerring.com, …

Feb 24, 2007: Welcome home, Winston! For those of you who don't know the phisch family pet history, the missus and I both grew up cat people. Our first dog was a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, our …

Feb 21, 2007: Don't Try This At Home Will It Blend? has to be one of the more brilliant ad campaigns to come along, especially for something as unexciting as a kitchen appliance. Tom …

Feb 20, 2007: Marcus Varsity Baseball Home Schedule The missus and I have been talking about taking the little phisch to some baseball games this season over at our local high school. It's within …

Feb 20, 2007: Fat Tuesday "Fat Tuesday" by The Friendly Indians is most apropos today. Check out some of their other songs on their music page.

Feb 20, 2007: Jumping on the Bandwagon Bandwagon, going live in two days, is an iTunes backup for Mac users. They're offering free one-year subscriptions if you blog about them, and like …

Feb 20, 2007: Frenzic Tired of Tetris™? No good at first-person shooter games? Want something quicker than world-building or war strategy games? Frenzic may be the …

Feb 19, 2007: links for 2007-02-19 AuthSight "AuthSight uses your Mac's iSight camera to take snapshots of the nut behind the keyboard whenever an invalid password is entered, either at …

Feb 18, 2007: links for 2007-02-18 The Manga Bible Currently just the New Testament, but work on the Old Testament is underway. (tags: Bible Christianity Comics God literature)

Feb 17, 2007: links for 2007-02-17 Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics (tags: education howto Kids learning reading)

Feb 16, 2007: A pair of fatherhood quotes "The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man." --Frank …

Feb 15, 2007: "Shameless Mac OS X imitator" Julio Ojeda-Zapata, for the St. Paul Pioneer Press: I praise Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, and I also curse it. [...] But after …

Feb 15, 2007: She knows! Well, well, well. The cat is out of the bag. I told you it might not be long. So the missus calls me while Brent and I are still at lunch, and in the …

Feb 15, 2007: A thought while driving So. Returning from lunch, as I drove by the KFC/Taco Bell our burg is privileged to have, I noticed the three US Postal Service delivery trucks parked …

Feb 15, 2007: Happy Birthday, Brent! Wishing a joyous and loving birthday for you, my friend. As I stated in my comment to your post, I shall celebrate with some Lost And Found and by …

Feb 15, 2007: Job posting of the day "Paris Hilton Magazine - Resourceful Customer Service Representative" Here's a couple of amusing bits (beyond the fact that Paris is using daddy's …

Feb 14, 2007: WalkAmerica 2007 Well, I suppose this is as good a time as any... Fundraising for the March of Dimes' WalkAmerica has begun, and once again, the missus and I will be …

Feb 14, 2007: Beyond the Ultimate I missed this when it went out a couple of weeks ago, prior to the Super Bowl, but better late than never, right? Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith: On …

Feb 12, 2007: Genealogy meets social networking I believe genealogy fascinates a lot of people. We've all thought about "Where did I come from?" Most of us have no memories of family beyond our …

Feb 6, 2007: links for 2007-02-07 RubyURL.com - adding a little Zen to your URLs Shorten up those incredibly long Amazon, Google Video, or Flickr URLs. Great for sending emails to …

Feb 6, 2007: I confess I really like it "What's this?" "Viewer mail." "It's been opened." "I pay Suzanne an extra five dollars a week to check our mail for anthrax." Dialogue like this is …

Feb 5, 2007: Some food for thought Mike Banta: No political slogan or hand-held sign has ever changed someone's convictions. Protests, shouting, and political battle will only polarize …

Feb 5, 2007: links for 2007-02-06 Neatorama » Blog Archive » 13 Photographs That Changed the World. I'm not sure I would agree that all 13 of these photographs "changed the world", …

Feb 4, 2007: Rex Defeatus Maximus Well, the Rex Grossman Chicago fans have grown to fear and Colts fans have grown to love was the Rex Grossman that showed up for the Super …

Feb 4, 2007: Beating the odds I opened the drawer of the desk in the kitchen. I lifted out the sheet of peel-and-stick stamps. I carefully pulled a single stamp off. As I replaced …

Feb 2, 2007: links for 2007-02-03 Oakley AP SANDBAG Backpack (tags: backpack bags)

Feb 2, 2007: "It's...<em>Groundhog Daaaaay!</em>" And wouldn't you know Comedy Central's got it running on and off throughout the day. It's one of those movies I can watch any time, so why not on the …

Feb 1, 2007: ATPM 13.02 The February issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Kudos to Lee for this month's cover art. He ran the …

Jan 30, 2007: Well, there's something you don't see every day Raise your hand if you've ever seen an entire church moving down the road. Put your hands down; I don't mean the whole congregation cruising …

Jan 29, 2007: links for 2007-01-30 Print Free Graph Paper Just what it says: print yourself out some graph paper without having to make a trip to the office supply store. Different …

Jan 26, 2007: links for 2007-01-27 Humanized Headed up by Aza, Jef Raskin's son, Humanized has a cool product in Enso. I wish they would bring it to the Mac. (tags: accessibility …

Jan 26, 2007: Yes, but could he tame T.O.? An observation I've made repeatedly to my spouse is that given the temperaments and egos of the engines of the Sodor Railway, I believe Sir Topham …

Jan 26, 2007: Recent additions to ye olde iTunes library "If Everyone Cared" - Nickelback "The Funeral" - Band of Horses - due to Buzz's mix "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (Demo) - Greg Laswell "On the Third …

Jan 25, 2007: My first car Kathy notes her first car, so I thought I'd share the story behind my first car, too. It was a grayish-blue, 1983 Ford Escort hatchback (aka, …

Jan 25, 2007: Only in America As Chris said when he pinged me via IM, "Someone's going to get a PhD out of this."

Jan 24, 2007: links for 2007-01-25 ThisNext - Recommend, Share and Discover Great Products! Shopping meets social networking. (tags: community social shopping)

Jan 24, 2007: "Can you go celebrate some place else?" Brilliant decision by Versus to mike Marty Turco for the NHL All-Star Game tonight. Marty's humor shined as the Dallas Stars goalie traded one-liners …

Jan 24, 2007: You'll almost forget it was a Cyndi Lauper song I am mesmerized by Greg Laswell's version of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (iTunes Store link). (And my thanks to my wife for the iTunes gift card!)

Jan 23, 2007: links for 2007-01-24 The "You Are A Douche" Card 25 cards for 5 bucks. I can think of so many times I would have liked one of these, but something tells me the Lord would …

Jan 23, 2007: FinderPop Universal has landed Turly's brought out a universal version of the venerable FinderPop, now a preference pane. I found with earlier builds of the OS X version of …

Jan 23, 2007: Rearranging the furniture I won't go in to the whole spiel, because why say what's already been said? Suffice to say, postings of a certain nature will increase in frequency …

Jan 23, 2007: Traveling through stats ain't like dusting crops, boy! Kudos to the gang at Feedburner for the gratuitous usage of Star Wars references in their Hackathon post. My favorite: Traveling through stats ain't …

Jan 23, 2007: As if they don't talk about the Cowboys enough in this town I'd really hoped that Bill Parcells would stick around for another year as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, if for no other reason than to …

Jan 22, 2007: links for 2007-01-23 ErgScores.com free online indoor rowing management application (tags: rowing tools fitness training)

Jan 22, 2007: iRebecca iRebecca Originally uploaded by paul beefs. I don't recall Steve Jobs talking about this new product during the Macworld Expo keynote.

Jan 22, 2007: Isn't technology sometimes pretty awesome? [youtube id="tH4qiBW02I0"] I'd say 4D ultrasound has to be the coolest in pre-birth baby tech. I would have loved to have seen our little phisch this …

Jan 21, 2007: links for 2007-01-22 Literature and Latte - Scrivener Project management for writers. You can focus on just writing, but also have access to research notes, an outliner, a …

Jan 21, 2007: The new Master Race Steven Berven: The Global War on Terror is not about revenge for 9/11. It's not about an eye for an eye. It's not even about eradicating the Taliban. …

Jan 20, 2007: links for 2007-01-21 Whatever: How Much You Should Write Each Day Author John Scalzi on how much a writer should produce each day, quality, etc. (tags: writing)

Jan 19, 2007: Twittering just got easier with Tweet Scott McNulty noted Tweet in his Twitter feed as well as on TUAW. I downloaded Ted Leung's Growl-modified version of Coda Hale's script. Coda has good …

Jan 19, 2007: My sister's responsible for a big ball of learning? The McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama, is getting a cool new invention, courtesy of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. …

Jan 18, 2007: Once again, we learn why they're called analysts So let me get this straight: Apple sets new company records for revenue and profit, beats the Street's estimates, and ships 28 percent more Macs and …

Jan 18, 2007: Tell me again why I should upgrade Walt Mossberg reviews Windows Vista for the Wall Street Journal: Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in …

Jan 17, 2007: <em>Night at the Museum</em> I was going to blog about this yesterday, until I got slammed with the norovirus, aka, the stomach flu. My beautiful bride had Monday off (if the …

Jan 16, 2007: Today's rowing Thirty minutes, 4,995 meters. A lousy five meters away from five thousand. Two strokes. Two strokes were all I needed before the machine cut off. At …

Jan 14, 2007: It's Twitterrific! I confess I've been sucked in to the world of Twitter. It's kind of addictive, watching what folks like John Gruber, the Iconfactory boys, Maury …

Jan 12, 2007: links for 2007-01-13 Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog David Pogue's write-up on the one-on-one time he got behind closed doors …

Jan 12, 2007: Stevenote on iTunes Apple has posted Steve Jobs's keynote address for the 2007 Macworld Expo on the iTunes Store. It's a 1.21 GB download, so make sure you've got the …

Jan 12, 2007: DiskWarrior 4 now shipping I just received my shipment notification from Alsoft that DiskWarrior 4 is on its way.

Jan 11, 2007: The countdown has begun For those of us who are such fanboys we can hardly wait: the iPhone Countdown. (This post prompted the creation of a new category/tag.)

Jan 11, 2007: links for 2007-01-12 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines (tags: blog howto tips tools)

Jan 11, 2007: Today's Shuffle I haven't done this in a while, so here are the first ten songs played in shuffle mode today. 1. "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley, Elvis 30 #1 Hits …

Jan 10, 2007: Riddle me this Why does my artificial tree shed? Does that not defeat the point--or at least one of the points--of the artificial tree? (Yes, I'm just now putting …

Jan 10, 2007: Scarier words There are few words I can think of at the moment which are scarier than "First Officer Chris Lawson". Except, of course, "Captain Chris Lawson". …

Jan 8, 2007: SEC: Best conference in the land Congratulations to the Florida Gators, who have secured their second national championship in 100 years of playing football. The Gators not only …

Jan 7, 2007: links for 2007-01-08 AllMovieWalls.com - Movie wallpapers - free! Quite an extensive collection. (tags: desktops entertainment wallpaper) Carwalls.com - Car wallpapers …

Jan 6, 2007: Question for Cowboys fans How do you like Romo now? :D Sorry, I'm a little giddy at the moment. I wonder what Drew Bledsoe is thinking.

Jan 5, 2007: links for 2007-01-06 Videntity.org: The last web registration form you'll ever fill out. Another OpenID registrar. It's very cool seeing more folks getting in to this …

Jan 5, 2007: This rowing, I like Normally on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I take a workout class at the gym. I had been going with my wife to the 7 PM class, but, for reasons we …

Jan 4, 2007: links for 2007-01-05 claimID.com - Manage your online identity "claimID lets you track, verify, classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about you …

Jan 4, 2007: Speaking of overrated Notre Dame... Mark Schlabach perfectly sums up my feelings regarding the constantly overrated Fighting Irish. Those pollsters who had them at #2 in the rankings at …

Jan 4, 2007: Sick <em>of</em> Saban Dear ESPN, I realize that it's a pretty big deal that Nick Saban deserted the Miami Dolphins to become the highest paid college football coach in the …

Jan 3, 2007: links for 2007-01-04 GTD wallpaper! | Anabubula.com * Are you an acolyte of GTD? Do you find yourself muttering under your breath, "Is this actionable?" Then this is the …

Jan 3, 2007: Sick about Saban Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick. How could you do this to us? How could you do this to the team you already had a commitment to? I think I can speak for …

Jan 2, 2007: links for 2007-01-03 Duluth Trading Company (tags: clothing shopping gear) Wired 15.01: How To: Disable Your Passport's RFID Chip I'm so glad I renewed my passport last …

Jan 2, 2007: ATPM 13.01 Welcome to 2007! The January issue issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. With this issue, ATPM enters its thirteenth year of …

Dec 31, 2006: links for 2007-01-01 OpenID: an actually distributed identity system "[A]n open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." (tags: community …

Dec 31, 2006: Doomed by the dish

So it's the biggest college football weekend of the year. And I'm missing all of it. I am not doing so willingly. Friday, we had some thunderstorms in …

Dec 29, 2006: A buggy musical If you've ever wondered what Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser sounds like when he's singing, you can find out from viewing the hilarious Buggy Saints …

Dec 28, 2006: O Holy Night A little while ago, I finished watching "The Christmas Show" episode of Studio 60. The show closes with an awesome performance by New Orleans …

Dec 26, 2006: links for 2006-12-27 New tattoo ink means "4ever" needn't be permanent - Engadget for future reference (tags: fun)

Dec 26, 2006: My favorite Christmas moment Yesterday, my wife awoke to find our son still in his bed. Granted, he was awake, but he's only three and still hasn't quite figured out the whole …

Dec 21, 2006: Visited States So while browsing on Flickr, I came across a link to Douwe Osinga's Visited States. It's pretty simple: you click on the name of the state you've …

Dec 19, 2006: links for 2006-12-20 PhishTank | Join the fight against phishing Verify a link isn't from a phisher, or submit a phishing link for inclusion in the database (aka, the …

Dec 18, 2006: MacSanta How would you like 20% off the best spam-killing app for the Mac? Or maybe 20% off the easiest disk image creator? Perhaps 20% off a professional text …

Dec 15, 2006: links for 2006-12-16 Linotype Libraries - Generis A "generic" font available in different styles. (tags: font typography)

Dec 10, 2006: Derek Webb On September 25th this year, our church hosted a concert by Derek Webb, of Caedmon's Call fame, along with his wife, Sandra McCracken. Derek Webb, …

Dec 9, 2006: More baseball in December Three days after seeing Michael Young get his 200th hit of the 2006 season, Brent and I were back at the Ballpark in Arlington. This time, we were …

Dec 9, 2006: Baseball in December Well, baseball photos, any way. I've let myself get way too far behind on processing and uploading photos, so I'm making a concerted effort over the …

Dec 8, 2006: OSC gets a dig in on Bill and Ballmer From Orson Scott Card's Empire: "I'm not surprised," said Cole. "What do you think it takes to build one of those? Two million? Six?" "Real costs or …

Dec 7, 2006: links for 2006-12-08 Yahoo! News - You Witness Yahoo's experiment in citizen journalism. (tags: community news photography social)

Dec 7, 2006: There should be a law I came away from my wife's company's Christmas "holiday" party Thursday night with this thought: There should be a law against skinny blonde white …

Dec 7, 2006: Never forget "In the annals of American history, only a few events are so well-known and so deeply rooted in national remembrance that the mere mention of their …

Dec 4, 2006: links for 2006-12-05 outside.in Your neighborhood on the Web. (tags: community local social reference search)

Dec 4, 2006: The latest fortune Cleaning out my wallet, I discovered the fortune from the last fortune cookie I had: "You add an aesthetic quality to everything you do." Alright, …

Dec 4, 2006: Further proof duct tape can be used for anything You've all heard the adage (wrongly attributed lately, online, to Oprah): "Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it …

Dec 4, 2006: This is pretty much how I feel (or at least, how I <em>should</em> feel) Walter E. Williams: [T]he founders of our nation were suspicious, if not contemptuous, of government. [...] Today's Americans hold a different vision …

Dec 3, 2006: XP or Vista? So I purchased a copy of Parallels Desktop a few months back, when they were offering it at a reduced price while still in beta. I haven't gotten …

Dec 3, 2006: Good bowl viewing appears to be on the horizon There are times when it's nice to be wrong, and I'm glad I was wrong regarding the poll voters living in yesteryear. They did the right thing, and put …

Dec 2, 2006: This year's BCMess Say, worshipers of the University of Spoiled Children: for there to be a dynasty, don't you need to actually make it to the title game? Pardon me …

Dec 2, 2006: How the mighty art fallen We've known for quite a while now that the BCS was rife with flaws, but there is something seriously wrong with college football when Wake Forest is …

Dec 1, 2006: ATPM 12.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. We debut a new column this month, with Lee's …

Nov 30, 2006: I'm thinking of starting a new charity for the troops Silly String for the Troops. Apparently, there's a great need. Seriously, if you give to any of our deployed service personnel who regularly find …

Nov 30, 2006: It's the little things that matter In the Starkist Lunch To-Go "meals", or as I refer to them, "snack packs", you have six crackers (when you really need seven to eight), a sealed pouch …

Nov 28, 2006: Compassion's AIDS Initiative As we enter the holiday season, please consider a donation to Compassion International's AIDS Initiative. More than 12 million kids have been left …

Nov 27, 2006: links for 2006-11-28 kuler A color theme web app from Adobe Labs. You can create your own color themes, see what others have created, and download the themes for use in …

Nov 27, 2006: More Get a Mac There are three new "Get a Mac" commercials: "Gift Exchange", "Sales Pitch", and "Meant for Work". The worst of the three, and probably the worst of …

Nov 27, 2006: The News Right Now I'd say something pithy like, "All the news you can use in one spot", but for quite a few folks, it may not, in fact, be all the news they could use, …

Nov 23, 2006: links for 2006-11-24 No-Contact Jacket A jacket for women that's a real shocker. That porcupine jacket shown in the Sci-Fi Channel commercial isn't looking quite so …

Nov 16, 2006: links for 2006-11-17 Smitty's Blog - Michael W. Smith Smitty doesn't do feeds. :-( (tags: blog Christianity music)

Nov 15, 2006: links for 2006-11-16 Joby - Home of the Gorillapod The Gorillapod is a wrappable mini tripod for your camera. There are different sizes of Gorillapods for different sizes …

Nov 13, 2006: links for 2006-11-14 Welcome to Confabb: The Conference Community Conference database with social networking tools. (tags: convention)

Nov 11, 2006: links for 2006-11-12 Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Cover Story 08 24 04 A lot of why I love having grown up in Baton Rouge and raised on LSU football is explained …

Nov 11, 2006: We give thanks Today is Veteran's Day, and we offer our heartiest and most humble thanks for those who have served, and those who are currently serving, in our …

Nov 10, 2006: links for 2006-11-11 pixelspread: 12 Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts (tags: Mac Macintosh tips) Apple Matters | 20 Useful OS X Tips I especially like the …

Nov 9, 2006: When keyboard shortcuts collide I just tried to mark as read all messages in a Mailsmith mailbox by hitting the K key, which is what you use to mark all messages as read in …

Nov 8, 2006: links for 2006-11-09 The Apple Files YouTube videos on your iPod or in iTunes (FREE) I finally found a video on YouTube I wanted to save, and this is the easiest free …

Nov 8, 2006: March of Dimes + MasterCard November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and the March of Dimes has teamed up with MasterCard to raise awareness and double fund-raising efforts. If …

Nov 7, 2006: One of many things I love about our town I bet you didn't get offered homemade carrot cake by the workers at your voting precinct today. You did vote, didn't you?

Nov 3, 2006: Don't Change I'm not sure what external or internal stimuli prompted it, but "Don't Change" (iTunes Store link) by INXS popped in to my head about an hour ago. …

Nov 1, 2006: Yesterday's shuffle first ten Kicked on ye olde iTunes in shuffle mode yesterday morning, to give myself some background music while I commenced writing this year's novel. What's …

Nov 1, 2006: ATPM 12.11 The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Mike Chamberlain notes some of the odds and ends one …

Oct 31, 2006: Round Two: So it begins Those of you who read my musings via this site's RSS feed (you are using the Feedburner one, aren't you?) will not see the new graphic at the top of …

Oct 30, 2006: links for 2006-10-31 RetailMeNot.com - never pay full price again with these coupon and promotion codes for online stores (tags: consumer shopping)

Oct 29, 2006: All good things must come to an end With St. Louis's victory in the World Series Friday night, the perfect sports month comes to a close, even with three days left on the calendar. This …

Oct 28, 2006: Winning hearts and minds From Jack on the World_SIG list, who said, "You'll never see this in the MSM." The text accompanying the photo reads: "Air Force Chief Master Sgt. …

Oct 27, 2006: Today's shuffle first ten Hit the shuffle button in iTunes this morning, and here are the first ten songs to play. Podcasts and audiobook chapters were ignored with help from …

Oct 24, 2006: links for 2006-10-25 Elf | Your Personal Email Library Reminder Service I severely underutilize our local library; okay, my usage is non-existent, but at least I have a …

Oct 19, 2006: links for 2006-10-20 Hyphens, En-Dashes, and Em-Dashes Linotype Type Director Akira Kobayashi explains the proper usage of a hyphen verus that of an en-dash or em-dash. …

Oct 17, 2006: links for 2006-10-18 Give me back my GOOGLE "Google results without the annoying affiliate links." (tags: Google search tools)

Oct 14, 2006: Introducing EagleFiler Once again, I've had the pleasure of being "present at the creation" of one of Michael's software endeavors. EagleFiler is an information collection …

Oct 10, 2006: links for 2006-10-11 ThinkingRock Free cross-platform application which fully embraces David Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy. (tags: gtd lifehack Mac Macintosh …

Oct 10, 2006: "And Elmo is His prophet." It's not really important how we got to this point of the discussion, just that we got to it.

Oct 10, 2006: "Just let me lie here and depreciate." Maury notes that Apple has posted three new "Get a Mac" ads: "Counselor"; "Better Results"--which will likely get a lot of buzz; and "Self Pity", my …

Oct 9, 2006: Retrophisch turns phour Four years ago today, the first post appeared, and a new blog was born. I moved my blogging efforts from my first site to this one, and I've been here …

Oct 9, 2006: links for 2006-10-10 Color Palette Generator A little different than your typical color palette generators, this one works with an online photo. You plug in the photo's …

Oct 6, 2006: The Friendly Indians I learned of The Friendly Indians earlier this year, after watching and becoming a fan of the USA show Psych. The Injuns, as they call themselves, are …

Oct 5, 2006: The Monsters and the Weak This was in my inbox this morning. The Monsters and the Weak by Michael Marks The sun beat like a hammer, not a cloud was in the sky. The mid-day air …

Oct 3, 2006: The MLB Postseason Division playoff series kick off today, and I thought I would post my totally-uneducated picks. The Oakland-Minnesota series looks, to me, to be the …

Oct 3, 2006: Disko goes Centerstage at Griffin Griffin Technology today announced two new iPod cases, the Disko and the Centerstage, for fifth-generation iPods. Both are made from clear …

Oct 3, 2006: Today's Gmail spam Today's Gmail phishing (as opposing to phisching, which is the attempt to hook a phisch) spam is more humorous than most. A lot of phishing emails one …

Oct 3, 2006: Frustration at the P.O. (With apologies to Eudora Welty.) Since I began unloading some CDs on Amazon Marketplace, I've been spending more time than usual at my local post …

Oct 1, 2006: ATPM 12.10 The October issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Wes runs down the blogosphere traffic on the is-it-or-isn't-it AirPort hack in …

Sep 28, 2006: Beautiful day It was a beautiful fall day here in DFW. The inside of the house was a pleasant 75 degrees Fahrenheit all day, the AC not running at all. We don't get …

Sep 28, 2006: Koyono iPod cases, by Orbino Koyono has announced some new iPod cases, hand-crafted by the leather goodsmen of Orbino. I especially like the brown, embossed crocodile skin Cambino …

Sep 28, 2006: Macbook Egg Frying Macbook Egg Frying Originally uploaded by Pieter Pieterse. You've heard the expression, "hot enough to fry an egg". Pieter Pieterse decided to do …

Sep 25, 2006: links for 2006-09-26 Nothing - I Want One Of Those Remember when your parents told you to behave or else you would find nothing in your stocking at Christmas? (tags: …

Sep 23, 2006: links for 2006-09-24 Aqua4iTunes Change iTunes 7 to look have more of the Aqua interface found in iTunes 6. (tags: iTunes Mac Macintosh software)

Sep 22, 2006: Shouldn't everyone have access to clean water? Jeff lays in to Richard Branson for donating billions to "blue-sky research" on alternative fuels, when for a fraction of that, he could be helping …

Sep 22, 2006: links for 2006-09-23 ISBNSPY.com - Is it cheaper on Amazon.com? Enter an item's ISBN to see how the price compares to Amazon's. Simple interface for those with web access …

Sep 19, 2006: links for 2006-09-20 Paper Invaders Space Invaders Wrapping Paper | Uncrate. Something tells me women will just roll their eyes because they don't get it, but if you give …

Sep 18, 2006: links for 2006-09-19 Mike-O-Matic » A CSS Crossfader Demo Rather than using an animated GIF or Flash, you can use JavaScript and some CSS to do crossfades. (tags: CSS …

Sep 18, 2006: Are you a Windows user? Windows has no users... Warning: adult language on page linked above. [Via the Fontosaurus.]

Sep 16, 2006: links for 2006-09-17 Desktops from dirtroadphotography.com Chris Pultz has released desktop pictures of some of his photography of rural America. Some gems here. (tags: …

Sep 15, 2006: No IMAP for Mailsmith Rich Siegel, CEO of Bare Bones, confirmed earlier this evening on the Mailsmith-Talk email list that Mailsmith will not be seeing IMAP support. In an …

Sep 15, 2006: links for 2006-09-16 DailyLit Have classic literature delivered to your email inbox, bit by bit. (tags: book email literature reading)

Sep 13, 2006: Go, Gary, go! Congratulations to Gary Matthews, Jr., who became only the third Texas Ranger to hit for the cycle, and the seventh American Leaguer to do so in …

Sep 11, 2006: Inviting the spies to the party Recall the various pokes of fun Jobs and company took at Microsoft last month during Apple's World Wide Developers Conference? They're fresh in my …

Sep 8, 2006: SEALs to receive Navy Cross posthumously Two members of the U.S. Navy SEALs, killed fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, will be posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, the service's …

Sep 8, 2006: You lost what?!?!? From the "You've Got To Be Kidding Me Department", Massachusetts State Police have lost eight ounces of Semtex being used in a drill for bomb-sniffing …

Sep 8, 2006: One Year Strong As of today, Paul Stamatiou has been blogging for a year. Congrats, Stammy!

Sep 6, 2006: Core 2 Duo 24-inch iMac The whole downside to Apple switching to Intel-based processors is that my brand-new-this-past-February 20-inch Core Duo iMac now becomes outdated …

Sep 1, 2006: Let this be a lesson to all of you regarding those pledge drives My status message read: Barney tomorrow: God help me

Sep 1, 2006: Fall season opener This past Sunday, the 27th, we had the first softball game of the 2006 fall season. I am continuously amazed how we can go three months without seeing …

Sep 1, 2006: Miscellany For you baseball aficionados, Tiff has a great story on what happened when she gave tickets to some coworkers, and how they thanked her. Microsoft's …

Sep 1, 2006: ATPM 12.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Wes examines the kerfluffle du jour in the Mac …

Aug 29, 2006: In case you thought optimism was dead The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser--in case you thought optimism was dead. --Robert Brault, software developer, …

Aug 28, 2006: What Your Freshmen Don't Know Every year, an updated list of things incoming college freshmen, or graduating high school seniors, know and don't know circulate the Internet. Hugh …

Aug 27, 2006: Miscellany The U.S. Army now has podcasts. Picture Framer is one of myriad non-productive widgets, but it's probably the first one of that category that I like. …

Aug 23, 2006: And Sony wonders why they're losing to Samsung and Apple We have a Sony DirecTV/Tivo unit my mother-in-law gave as a Christmas gift to us several years ago. In techno-age, it's ready to retire and move to …

Aug 21, 2006: Do you know what sucks? Having a quarter bottle of picante sauce in the fridge, plus an unopened bottle in the pantry, and not a single tortilla chip any where in the house.

Aug 21, 2006: Miscellany Thanks to the folks at Xerox, with help from Layer 8 Group, you can send a postcard, with original artwork by a child, to a member of the armed forces …

Aug 17, 2006: "I can feel it, coming in the air tonight..."

So with my spouse not all that interested in seeing it, I took in Miami Vice this afternoon. I went in with preconceived notions, thanks to hearing …

Aug 17, 2006: The Patriot Post at 10 One of my favorite online publications turns ten years old this month, The Patriot Post. (Formerly known as The Federalist Patriot, and for a long …

Aug 15, 2006: Thanks for the validation, compadre

Aug 13, 2006: "I love public transportation." 500 points to the member of the Stevenson family who can correctly identify the movie from which the above quote comes, and the character/actor who …

Aug 13, 2006: I'm just a hunk of, hunk of burning feed If you read this blog mainly through my news feed, please note that I'm now using FeedBurner to supply the site's RSS feed. The old feed is still …

Aug 13, 2006: A Talledega night and a real type-cast film Last evening, my bride and I had a date night, which included a viewing of Will Ferrell's Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Two …

Aug 13, 2006: Miscellany Michael has announced that C-Command now has forums for all of its products. I helped him do some testing with the forum boards--which means we spent …

Aug 6, 2006: The Anti-Semitism Story No One's Talking About Jeff Jacoby has a great piece on he disparity in reporting regarding Mel Gibson's drunken racial slurs, and Naveed Haq's murderous rampage at a Jewish …

Aug 4, 2006: Miscellany Photo mosaics have become popular; I have one of Darth Vader, made up of different scenes from Episodes 4-6. There are many tutorials online for …

Aug 2, 2006: ATPM 12.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Wes kicks things off by noting in this month's Bloggable that we still really …

Aug 1, 2006: Grieving There are some people in this world who have no concept of grieving over the death of a pet. "What's the big deal?" they ask. "It was just a …

Aug 1, 2006: Six years It wasn't much of a first post, just kind of a "Hello, world, this is me..." sort of thing. Really feeble, looking back on it now. But it's been six …

Jul 31, 2006: Miscellany The iPod cases from ifrogz look very nice. I like the customizable aspects of the design, but would love to be able to upload my own image for the …

Jul 27, 2006: Stuff a calendar into your Backpack So the calendar feature for Backpack launched today. I like how easy it is to add items to the calendar, and I realize this is a 1.0 release (Note to …

Jul 25, 2006: Where are the revolutionaries now, indeed Jeff Harrell has a great piece which essentially asks the oppressed of the world what are they waiting for: As long as amoral regimes wrap themselves …

Jul 24, 2006: Shilling for Hezbollah From the Toadpond: It does not require much observation to understand that there is a large faction on this planet that lives only to see Israel's …

Jul 24, 2006: Unity Bret Stephens: Tel Aviv may be the economic and cultural capital of Israel, Jerusalem its political and symbolic capital. But the Galilee is where …

Jul 24, 2006: And we're back Mucho gracias to sysadmin extraordinaire Jim, who was up late last night with the server transition. There is nothing like a fast server on a fast …

Jul 23, 2006: Sorry, Wes Couldn't resist.

Jul 23, 2006: Server migration We're moving servers, thanks to the efforts of Jim, our sysadmin extraordinaire, so this site and its related entities will be unavailable for a …

Jul 22, 2006: Miscellany This whole "Numa Numa" thing is out of control. * * * Tim Zimmerman: What swims at 20 miles per hour, can carve out hunks of human flesh, and will …

Jul 22, 2006: Israel Update If you'd like a first-person account of the Hezbollah attacks on Israel, and the Israeli response, head over to David Dolan's site and subscribe to …

Jul 20, 2006: Quote of the Day Tiffany: The Cheesecake Factory always looks like a mosque to me. Only, a mosque out of Willy Wonka or something. Sort of an Oompa-Loompa faith …

Jul 20, 2006: Chad Vader "Life is hard when you're Darth Vader's less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother and you manage a grocery store." I love the Imperial March on …

Jul 20, 2006: Miscellany If only I had room in any of my bathrooms for one of these. * * * Just when you think there might be some hope in this world that the tide of sexual …

Jul 18, 2006: A thought on taxes and wages There's a movement afoot by the Democrats to get the minimum wage raised again. Despite historical financial evidence to the contrary, raising the …

Jul 17, 2006: Happy Birthday, my love Yesterday was my wife's birthday, and I didn't get around to posting birthday wishes for her. One of the dilemmas for married guys--at least, I hope …

Jul 13, 2006: More miscellany Liechtenstein is 200. The total population of the nation is a little over half of that of my town. * * * In the market for a new mortgage? Be sure to …

Jul 12, 2006: Miscellany The federal government is apparently looking at creating a national SMS alert system. [Via MobileTracker.] * * * Congratulations to Kyle MacDonald, …

Jul 11, 2006: Happy Birthday, Lee! I'm so glad that forever shall I be five months younger than mi amigo, who apparently is already feeling the effects of age, having to recycle his …

Jul 10, 2006: Va l'Italia! In recognition of the nation with the better food, better skiing, and better people winning the World Cup, I thought I would share my favorite French …

Jul 10, 2006: Miscellany John points to a 94x magnification of Velcro being pulled apart. Wicked cool. You can also see Scotch tape being ripped, more Velcro, still more …

Jul 9, 2006: Tivoli's latest iPod accessory It's a shame that at the time I reviewed the Tivoli Audio iSongBook, there wasn't the black version. Such is life. Now, Tivoli has the unusually-named …

Jul 9, 2006: This is how you remind me I like iCal's alarm features, but there is one feature request I have: I'd like to have both an e-mail sent and have an alarm message pop up on …

Jul 8, 2006: Miscellany Oh, if true, a tabbed Finder would rock. (Yes, I am aware Path Finder has this functionality already.) * * * You may have seen Seurat's "Sunday …

Jul 7, 2006: Part of a conversation with a fellow parent

Jul 6, 2006: How do I love thee? Let me check the pitch count In an IM conversation earlier this evening, a friend was telling me of a conversation he had had with an acquaintance. The acquaintance could not …

Jul 5, 2006: A quick note on my past Marriage is where it's at. At least for me.

Jul 5, 2006: Mostly baseball miscellany Sometimes, it seems like the Starbucks growth pattern really is this bad, doesn't it? * * * Texas Rangers All-Star Michael Young became the …

Jul 5, 2006: Adium 1.0b1 I note with amusement my pal Damien's post on TUAW regarding the release of the 1.0b1 version of Adium, in which he writes, "Please note that this is …

Jul 5, 2006: Miscellany I would pay good money to see "The Running of the Congressmen." * * * You know the Oprahfication of America is out of control when Cookie Monster is …

Jul 5, 2006: Another Firefox benefit Blake Ross gives yet another reason to consider Firefox over Internet Explorer: People ask me, "Well, gee, if IE7 is starting to catch up to Firefox, …

Jul 3, 2006: Independence Day 2006 A Nation of Resolve Two-hundred-thirty remarkable years have passed since July 4th, 1776--but what lies ahead for our liberty-blessed land? Let us …

Jul 3, 2006: On flag burning I admit to having varied thoughts with regard to the free speech versus protecting our national emblem from being burnt aspects of the "protest" …

Jul 3, 2006: The always popular double standard It's nice to see anti-Semitism alive and well at the Guardian. Then again, at least it's nice to see a major media source wear its bias on its sleeve, …

Jul 2, 2006: A compliment from MDJ MacJournals recently released the third installment of its 2005-2006 MDJ Power 25. The Power 25 is a ranking of the twenty-five most influential …

Jul 1, 2006: Every day at the ballpark is a good day It's an even better day when your team wins. Last night I took in my second game of the season at the Ballpark in Arlington. (New readers should note …

Jul 1, 2006: ATPM 12.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Paper or plastic? Wes ponders the news of Mark Pilgrim's publicized switch from …

Jun 27, 2006: And I thought they wanted you to stay over on Saturday night Earlier this evening, I booked a round-trip flight, on American Airlines, from Baton Rouge to DFW for my grandmother. It's for the first weekend in …

Jun 27, 2006: Miscellany Photojojo has a review of the Lensbaby 2.0, a $149 retro novelty lens for digital SLRs. * * * From the "Things That Make You Go 'Huh?'" Department, …

Jun 27, 2006: Veto the line-item veto I'm sure, like Jeff and Mark Alexander, I fall in to a distinct minority of conservative-minded folks in that I do not approve of the line-item veto. …

Jun 27, 2006: Lee is going to hate me for sharing this... Just downloaded the 214 MB Mac OS X 10.4.7 Intel Combo updater at a rate of 1.6 MB per second. That's a big B. As in megabytes. Fiber optic rocks.

Jun 26, 2006: About those WMDs in Iraq Oh, by the way, there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. A lesser man might say something like, "Suck it, mouth-foamers", but I'll refrain from …

Jun 26, 2006: Doyle Redland If you're not listening to The Onion Radio News, you're missing a good chuckle.

Jun 25, 2006: No MySpace for me Lee perfectly sums up my feelings on MySpace.

Jun 25, 2006: Miscellany I love the build names for Ubuntu Linux: "Breezy Badger", "Dapper Drake". Are they all alliteral? [Via Paul.] * * * Though I don't do nearly enough of …

Jun 24, 2006: It's not my kid, so it must be okay Tony Blankley: At journalism conferences, the question is often brought up whether a journalist should see himself as an American first or a …

Jun 23, 2006: We're at war with whom, exactly? A majority of those who support the war on terror have long noted this war is with the fringe element of radical Islam, not the entire Muslim world. …

Jun 23, 2006: No, Virginia, we can't arrest illegal aliens From the You've-Got-To-Be-Kidding-Me Department, if you're an illegal alien, get thee to Virginia! Apparently, so long as you're not commiting a …

Jun 23, 2006: Reason #37 to Avoid Internet Explorer Per Paul Stamatio, as if you needed thirty-six other reasons.

Jun 23, 2006: Miscellany It's not a full-scale semi truck, or even a VW Beetle, but it is a real-life Transformer. [Via Firewheel Design.] * * * Brent informs us that …

Jun 23, 2006: World Cup wussies? So I'm sitting here watching Spain play Saudi Arabia in the World Cup, and we're having more and more of the pathetic overacting by the players when …

Jun 20, 2006: Miscellany I must have a Gnome-be-Gone. Must. [Via Uncrate.] * * * Why is it I'm learning about Pete's Famous from Brent, rather than my parents, who have lived …

Jun 18, 2006: Happy Father's Day So, fellow dads, how's your day going? A pretty quiet one for us here at the Phisch Bowl. It was nice to sleep in a little, then off to church, and Mi …

Jun 17, 2006: Killing .Mac, part 1 I renewed my .Mac subscription last year, though I did so with reservations. That was the last time I will renew, and come October, I will be …

Jun 15, 2006: Pong Vader My Ping Pong Vader shirt arrived today. Me so happy.

Jun 15, 2006: Jajah Guy mentions the web telephony service Jajah, which looks interesting, especially when compared to Skype. Unlike the latter, Jajah doesn't require you …

Jun 12, 2006: Miscellany You know, I find it quite amusing, given Al Gore's connection to Steve Jobs (Gore serves on Apple's board of directors, in case you didn't know), that …

Jun 10, 2006: Earthquake survivor assistance still needed Associated Press: Many of the nearly 650,000 displaced by Indonesia's earthquake are living with deteriorating sanitary conditions, forced to wash …

Jun 9, 2006: Miscellany If you ever see me wearing the Beer Holster, you have permission to slap me silly. * * * Headline of the Day: "Jon Lovitz Says Income From Subway …

Jun 8, 2006: Miscellany I so want a t-shirt of Vader playing ping pong, but the only guy size they have is small, and I'm a 2X. If you want a different size, be sure to clink …

Jun 8, 2006: "It's going to be a good day, Tater" "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed in Bombing Raid" I wonder if the F-16 pilot who dropped the Zarqawi-killing bombs gets to collect the $25 million bounty. …

Jun 7, 2006: We were content to kick your BLEEP, but now you've made us mad I love how my friends are able to succinctly sum up current events.

Jun 6, 2006: Fourteen About this time fourteen years ago, my beloved and I were dancing our first dance, or cutting the cake, or visiting with the numerous friends and …

Jun 6, 2006: Never forget I don't need anything else special to remember my wedding anniversary. Circumstances of life dictated that forever shall the day of our wedding be …

Jun 5, 2006: On the Horizon at Panera As if the free wifi at Panera Bread wasn't enough of a reason to frequent the joint--that is, beyond the yummy food--the little phisch and I learned …

Jun 5, 2006: On Corporate America's sad view of the family My father taught me to never raise my hand to a woman. But if I had been the one sitting across from the female HR person who told a mom she had …

Jun 4, 2006: Holy Smoke Resignation, Bertman! After taking over from the legendary Skip Bertman, LSU baseball coach Raymond "Smoke" Laval has resigned after five years at the head of the program. …

Jun 4, 2006: Miscellany O'Reilly has a web site devoted to Lightroom. [Via John.] * * * Though I do not speak, read, or write either, I still think it very cool that Gmail …

Jun 2, 2006: ATPM 12.06 The June issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Mirko von Berner celebrates the new MacBook in this month's cover art. Wes Meltzer …

May 29, 2006: Remember It says a lot about our nation in that too few of us think about those who have given their lives in military service, much less participate in events …

May 28, 2006: Earthquake relief World Vision is one of many non-government organizations (NGOs) providing emergency survival kits in Indonesia, as a result of the recent earthquake …

May 26, 2006: Miscellany Leave it to a bunch of Brits to play football with automobiles. In this case, a small fleet of Toyota's Aygos. There was plenty of rubbin' going on, …

May 23, 2006: The psychology of milk My bride and I have noticed a quirk of psychology regarding the consumption of milk in our abode. Based on the recommendation of friends a couple of …

May 21, 2006: Miscellany The iPatch. * * * This likely has made its rounds through the blogosphere already, but I just read in the latest dead-tree edition of Wired that …

May 18, 2006: Miscellany Good tip, courtesy of TUAW, on pairing your Apple Remote with its intended system. Very useful in a mutliple Apple-Remote-Mac home. I went ahead and …

May 16, 2006: Listening to 300 years of history A new auction record was set yesterday when a 300 year-old Stradivarius violin was sold for $3.54 million. The former owner loaned the instrument out …

May 16, 2006: More miscellany Lee's a bit hot under the collar over Skype's new, supposedly free, SkypeOut plan, and understandably so. I'm not sure I get Skype's argument; I …

May 16, 2006: Miscellany As is so often the case with video or film, the music totally makes the FedEx pilots drive around thunderstorm short film. * * * I sincerely hope …

May 16, 2006: MacBook So it's all over the Mac blogosphere and online news world: the iBook replacement has been released, and as many reckoned, it is simply called …

May 15, 2006: Miscellany Johnny Cash's Johnny Cash's American V: A Hundred Highways is scheduled for release in July. This album comprises the absolute last recordings Cash …

May 11, 2006: A pair of Apple miscellany "Apple simplifies .Mac Web access". So common sensical, I wonder why they didn't think of this sooner. * * * "Apple actively courting the Beatles". I …

May 9, 2006: Headliners "Spain Raids Stamp-Collecting Firms" Pursuing terrorists who murder our citizens, not that high a priority. But those stamp collectors have got to be …

May 9, 2006: Beleagured Dell Warns of Earnings Shortfall Dell Warns of Earnings Shortfall: "Dell warned it would miss its earnings and revenue forecasts, blaming pricing actions aimed at reviving sales …

May 9, 2006: <em>The Cat in the Hat</em> as business-lesson book Stanley Bing: This little tale, which appears to be a book for children, is actually a clever evocation of what happens to a corporation when a …

May 5, 2006: Weblogs, Pamphlets and Public Citizens: Changing Modern Media Speaking of Tom, he's authored a great paper as part of the Master's program he's enrolled in. Titled "Weblogs, Pamphlets and Public Citizens: …

May 5, 2006: But I like being a member of the Cingular Nation Consumerist: AT&T is torching their Cingular brand like a gang of boychiks igniting a hobo on their way home from the milk bar. From the ashes, …

May 4, 2006: What an adorable little girl James Taranto: The Stephen Colbert kerfuffle, intrinsically uninteresting though it is, leads Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen to an excellent …

May 4, 2006: Beleaguered Dell defends stock decline I just really wanted to use the words "beleaguered" and "Dell" in the same sentence. How do you like them apples, Mr. Dell?

May 1, 2006: Miscellany I know Lee will be interested in Anil's observations on web site comments. * * * Stop wandering aimlessly through that phone tree, and get a human on …

May 1, 2006: ATPM 12.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. We welcome Mark Tennent to the ATPM staff this month. Mark's been providing us …

Apr 30, 2006: Headliners "Exxon Profit Is Shy of New Record" Sounds like Exxon Profit needs to be more assertive, and not such a wallflower. "IBM to Offer Smaller Mainframe" …

Apr 28, 2006: Headliners "Microsoft Dings Stocks" Ballmer's insurance expired, has to get cash for repairs from Bill. "YMCA office under attack by Muslims in West Bank" No …

Apr 27, 2006: Good advice Terry Pratchett: Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Apr 27, 2006: Train the Brain I so want a Nintendo DS just so I can play Brain Age. This would be great when I hit writers' block or my ADD tendencies creep up, not to mention …

Apr 27, 2006: Sixteen About this time, sixteen years ago today, I was at an after-party with a girl. It was our first date, and she had accompanied me to the annual …

Apr 27, 2006: Parenting Hot Tip Mark D. Roberts: My hot tip for fathers (and mothers, too) is a simple one: Spend time one-on-one with your children, and if possible, for a few days …

Apr 27, 2006: Headliners "Prosecutors Get First Shot at Lay" Too easy. Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy... "Microsoft to Buy Chinese Hardware" This is news? Isn't it all Chinese …

Apr 26, 2006: Dvorak to Microsoft: Kill IE For once, John Dvorak rants on a company other than Apple: I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that Microsoft's entry into the browser …

Apr 23, 2006: The season thus far I haven't blogged yet about the spring softball season, and given how today's game was the best one this season for me personally, I thought an update …

Apr 22, 2006: Mountains out of molehills James Taranto: The elements of the "crisis" Mitchell describes are twofold: (1) Iraq isn't Vietnam--i.e., a war the press helps lose for America; and …

Apr 21, 2006: More Headliners "30,000 Elvis impersonators may be out of work" Please, God, please, God, please, God... "Rise in Revenue Helps Cingular Wireless to a Profit" In …

Apr 20, 2006: Headliners "Astros Replace Miller With Borkowski" Borkowski? Is that a Polish beer? "Biffle: Girlfriend's Spat No Big Deal" "Heck, you should see it when she …

Apr 18, 2006: Miscellany Dan Benjamin's cats have the best expressions. I need to take more photos of our pride. * * * Because white guys lip syncing rap is funny. [Via the …

Apr 15, 2006: Let's keep the phones off during flight Word is that Air France is going to experiment with the use of cell phones at 30,000 feet. Leave it to the stereotypically rude French to encourage …

Apr 15, 2006: Firefox Flicks While I think it's probably the third-best browser for Mac OS X, I would have to say Firefox is the best browser for those who insist on using …

Apr 13, 2006: Miscellany Dan Wade has too much time on his hands. * * * Gavin Shearer: If I were Sony, or Toshiba, or HP, I'd be freaking out right now. * * * I cannot begin …

Apr 13, 2006: There and back again Since leaving yesterday at 6:40 AM, and arriving back home today at 3:40 PM CST, I've driven 1,122 miles, spent 17 hours in a vehicle, and spent $106 …

Apr 11, 2006: Dressing for success I knew about Dress for Success, because my wife's donated some of her business clothing to them before. Now, for men, there is Career Gear. If you …

Apr 10, 2006: Miscellany It's too bad I have no design experience nor web programming skills. The guys at Firewheel Design sound fun to work with, and they're about fifteen …

Apr 10, 2006: You boys <em>are</em> kidding, right? Look, I'm just as much of a word nerd as Jim, Erik, or John, but gentlemen, with all due respect, this has to be the dumbest idea for a boycott I've …

Apr 8, 2006: On my birthday in history You know, if it weren’t Lee, and it wasn’t about history, I’d ignore this meme. For one, I don’t utilize Wikipedia, and two, I …

Apr 5, 2006: Boot Camp When I was in ROTC, our drill instructor told us... Sorry, wrong boot camp. And we didn't really have a drill instructor, since the drilling was done …

Apr 4, 2006: Miscellany Waterfield Designs has a padded carrying case for the iPod Hi-Fi that allows the use of the system while remaining in the case. * * * Lost your iPod? …

Apr 2, 2006: Miscellany To get back at phishers (as opposed to a phisch), use PhishFighting. It's certainly a much better use of CPU cycles than looking for aliens that don't …

Apr 2, 2006: ATPM 12.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. You'll notice (hopefully) a new look to the publication this month. Simon Griffee …

Apr 2, 2006: Put AutoPairs to work on your Intel Macs Late last night, I received an e-mail from AutoPairs developer James Walker. James and I had exchanged some messages previously regarding AutoPairs …

Mar 31, 2006: A gift from God Much happiness coursed through the phischbowl last night when we learned of the arrival of Brennan. Our sincerest congratulations to our friends Jim …

Mar 29, 2006: Common Name, Uncommon Valor There have been many acts of heroism in the Iraq War and continuing liberation that have gone under- or unreported by the media. One such …

Mar 27, 2006: Double down For the seventh time in the history of the two tournaments, one school will have a team in both the Men's and Women's NCAA Final Four: LSU. GEAUX …

Mar 27, 2006: Beatles, meet the Cluetrain Damien Barrett: Sesame Street taught me to understand the differences between similar things, but it also taught me that greed is bad and that …

Mar 25, 2006: 20 Twenty years ago, I was fifteen, and a high school sophomore in Baton Rouge. I had been going to LSU football games for the past five to six years, …

Mar 24, 2006: Apparently, some of my friends have never heard of "too much information"

Mar 24, 2006: Miscellany The National Next of Kin Registry. Thanks to Motorola, I cannot look at NOKR's acronym without thinking of mobile phones. * * * Apparently, today is …

Mar 24, 2006: They're still around? I'm sure some of you will respond to this revelation with a "Well, duh!", but CompuServe is still around. One of the ladies in our minichurch has a …

Mar 20, 2006: You want equal health care for all? You got it. The bad news, surprise, surprise, is that it's not as good as we think it is. Jeff Donn, for the AP: Startling research from the biggest study ever …

Mar 20, 2006: Thomas Jefferson: Porkbuster Stephen Moore, Political Diary: During last week's debate about the federal earmarking process -- which is used to distribute pork to congressional …

Mar 18, 2006: The dangers of multiculturalism I haven't started reading Robert Ferrigno's Prayers for the Assassin yet, though I need to soon. I have started reading his blog the past few days, …

Mar 17, 2006: Miscellany My favorite band contains big Apple fans apparently. Way cool. * * * I downloaded the new iChat icons for .Mac members, but I'm fairly certain I won't …

Mar 15, 2006: Wither the financial services windfall profits tax? So both Goldman and Lehman are reporting huge earnings. Obviously they did so on the backs of working-class Americans and Congressional hearings …

Mar 14, 2006: SIG History Here's a bit of trivia I didn't know: my favorite firearms company began life in the 19th century as a wagon factory. In 1853, Friedrich Peyer im …

Mar 10, 2006: No joining the Googleplex for me Got my "Thanks but no thanks" e-mail from Google today. Not that I'm really surprised. What was surprising was getting a response from them to begin …

Mar 9, 2006: Flickr finding whales "This is what Flickr has the power to do."

Mar 6, 2006: "But Macs are <em>still</em> more expensive..." Winn Schwartau, on conducting a total cost of ownership (TCO) breakdown comparing a Windows PC to an Intel Macintosh, what he refers to as a "MacTel": …

Mar 6, 2006: The greatest trick John Gruber: There's a line in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey's character Verbal Kint says, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was …

Mar 4, 2006: Still higher The goal of $300 for the March of Dimes' WalkAmerica has been breached. I've now bumped the goal to double of the original double: $440. Help me help …

Mar 3, 2006: Miscellany Earlier tonight at Costco, I happened upon the Samuel Adams Brewmaster's Collection Mix Pack. It's basically a sampler case of different Sam Adams …

Mar 3, 2006: Raising the bar...again! You people are awesome. In less than two hours last night, you blew through the goal of $110 for the March of Dimes' WalkAmerica. So I doubled the …

Mar 2, 2006: WalkAmerica 2006 Yes, folks, it's that time of year again. One of my favorite charities is having its annual fundraiser, and you--yes, you--can be a part of it. "How?" …

Mar 2, 2006: ATPM 12.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn ponders the notion of just because you can do something doesn't mean you …

Mar 1, 2006: How sweet: traitors of yesteryear working for the traitors of today Vietnam-era traitor Jeffry House, now a "prominent human-rights lawyer" in Toronto, is helping current-day traitors flee from the service they …

Feb 28, 2006: Gold streets, milk, honey, and cheap chicken Jeff Harrell, on his recent move to the DC area: They have Chick-fil-a here, which is good. But the sandwiches are like three bucks each or something …

Feb 28, 2006: The Twinkie is an affront to Life itself? Dan said it, not me.

Feb 27, 2006: Niceness Fraser Speirs: I have this theory that there is an ineffable quality to certain attractive consumer products, and I can only term it niceness. It's …

Feb 26, 2006: Note to self re: Command- and Option- commands Command-Tab switches between applications. Command-tick (`) switches between windows within an application. Option-Tab, via Witch, switches between …

Feb 23, 2006: Clocky go crashy Welch wants one, but I think if that thing was in my house, it would end up in pieces once I hunted it down.

Feb 23, 2006: SpamSieve 2.4.2 My favorite spam-killing application has been updated, and now kills spam better than ever. Michael has been rocking on SpamSieve's efficiency with …

Feb 19, 2006: Leap-A tutorials Rob Griffiths has an excellent piece on Macworld regarding the Leap-A malware which could infect your Tiger-based Mac, if, well, if you're either not …

Feb 19, 2006: Developers needed for Intel updates Mark Allan is seeking a Mac developer with an Intel Mac to help with an update to ClamXav so it will run on the the new Intel-based Macintosh systems. …

Feb 17, 2006: The Return of Lemonade Stand When I was in seventh grade, I began computer programming classes. First it was BASIC, on Radio Shack TRS-80 systems (affectionately known as …

Feb 17, 2006: Mr. Franklin, if you only knew One of things you have to love about Benjamin Franklin was his optimism with regard to those who hold public office. They are of the People, and …

Feb 14, 2006: It's Official Camino, which is fast becoming my favorite browser, has finally been officially released. The RSS auto-detect feature, a la Safari, is what is keeping …

Feb 14, 2006: I love the International Date Line I received an e-mail notification from the Apple Store just after midnight this morning. It told me they had transmitted the shipping info to FedEx …

Feb 13, 2006: Open Source Mac I was actually kind of surprised by the number of applications listed at Open Source Mac I use. I suppose on some level, they are elegant enough that …

Feb 12, 2006: My first deviantART "Khaos" has released a derivative piece of art, titled "Forsaken Soul", based on a landscape photo I took on the Big Island of an old lava flow.

Feb 6, 2006: Should I be worried? A conversation I had with my two year-old son, on our way down the stairs yesterday afternoon, post-nap. (His, not mine.) I'm the one asking the …

Feb 6, 2006: Happy Birthday, Mr. President Presidents' Day, this year on February 20th, has taken on an even more special meaning for me lately. Not only does it serve as the official holiday …

Feb 5, 2006: Super Bowl commercials

My observations on the commercials shown during the Super Bowl. My top five are at the bottom. I've moved the entire work below the break.

Feb 5, 2006: Super Bowl pre-game thoughts Three and a half hours of pre-game coverage wasn't enough time to get through all of the crap leading up to this game that you had to waste the first …

Feb 5, 2006: Does no one like the middle? Something struck me a few minutes ago: does anyone live in the middle of Missouri? The two most populous cities, St. Louis and Kansas City, are on the …

Feb 5, 2006: "We don't anticipate any management mistakes." Given my personal experience working for Verizon, and continuously hearing stories from my friends who are still employed there, this rings so true.

Feb 4, 2006: The NHL on NBC Could NBC not steal away better talent from ESPN for calling hockey games it chooses to nationally televise? Gary Thorne is apparently still locked in …

Feb 4, 2006: Dell can't compete with Apple Dell has discontinued its sale of hard drive-baesd MP3 players. John Gruber: Someone should make a list of all the pundits and tech columnists who, …

Feb 3, 2006: Calendar hosting If you find yourself wishing you could have your very own online calendar to sync with iCal, but 1. Have not the resources available to you, or 2. …

Feb 3, 2006: This "Striderweb", I like it Stephan Rider: Please note: You're not allowed to call yourselves followers of a "religion of peace" if you riot and make death threats over a …

Feb 3, 2006: Rise of the Core Duo The 17-inch iMac G5 has been removed from the online Apple Store, leaving only the 20-inch G5 version. If you're looking for a G5 iMac instead of the …

Feb 2, 2006: Printing the day's schedule in iCal Since MacHome doesn't post all of its magazine's monthly content to the web, I'm archiving for my own use this hint from Editor at Large Chris …

Feb 2, 2006: It's nice to know some people still get it William Blair was recently outed as the secret benefactor to a group of World War II Pacific Theater former POWs, who get together for a monthly …

Feb 2, 2006: Are you registered to vote? The Free Market Foundation reminds Texans the deadline for voter registration in time for the March primaries is this Monday, February 6th. If you …

Feb 1, 2006: ATPM 12.02 The February issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn examines Google's noncompliance of demands by the Justice Department, …

Jan 30, 2006: Congrats, Oz! The Ozabs saw Anna pop out in to the world from her warm, cozy womb, back on the 19th. What is it with ATPM staffers and early children? …

Jan 27, 2006: Rock me, Amadeus I missed blogging about the 300th anniversary of Ben Franklin's birthday, so I knew I couldn't miss today. What's today? Today is the 250th …

Jan 23, 2006: Deep Thinking Things to think about that you probably have never thought about: Can you cry under water? How important does a person have to be before they are …

Jan 22, 2006: Happy News HappyNews.com. Real News. Compelling Stories. Always Positive. As opposed to the typical "if it bleeds, it leads" attitude of the major news …

Jan 21, 2006: Shouldn't dynasties win more than one? Yes, they should. Above is the proposed billboard to be placed in a high-traffic area near the USC campus. LSU grads in the Dallas area, annoyed by …

Jan 19, 2006: The latest on mobile phone manners Tony Long: Look, the world is not your personal playground. Do not share with us your musical tastes; do not share with us your latest wheelings and …

Jan 19, 2006: Are you a kept man? Are you a kept man? Living off the fruits of the labor of your wife, girlfriend, significant other? Married a trust-fund cutie or a wealthy widow? …

Jan 18, 2006: The New Surgeon General's Warning Courtesy of Jeff Harrell.

Jan 17, 2006: Drive capacity envy Seagate is now shipping 160 GB laptop drives. These are in the Momentus line, and run at 5400 rpm, with an Ultra ATA/100 interface. The Serial ATA …

Jan 17, 2006: Every rose has its thorn If Tiff is feeling old, then I must be positively ancient. Speaking of depressing age news, I have noted that I am now in another, less desirable …

Jan 12, 2006: Hot Potato Is it not enough that as the father of a two year-old, I already hear "Hot Potato" by The Wiggles in my sleep, that now Special K has to use it for …

Jan 10, 2006: MacBook Pro MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro. How soon do you think it will take for a spoof ad to show up that shows the new Intel-powered …

Jan 9, 2006: Reckless with the truth and national security A Patriot Post reader: In their eagerness to inflict as much damage as possible to the Bush administration record, the Democrats once again are being …

Jan 9, 2006: Shocked--shocked!--we tell you Paul Greenberg: Dana Priest of The Washington Post sounds shocked - shocked! - to discover that George W. Bush ordered a complete remobilization and …

Jan 9, 2006: On truth being stranger than fiction Best of the Web: What do the senior senator from Massachusetts and quadruple murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams have in common? The Associated Press …

Jan 7, 2006: More miscellany I would be more excited about Google Pack if (a) the Google-specific apps worked with Mac OS; (b) I didn't already have some of these apps, or …

Jan 7, 2006: Today's miscellany Ron Moore, creator and executive producer of the best show on television, shares his favorite science-fiction tomes. --||-- From the "You've Got to Be …

Jan 6, 2006: Google Apple's best friend? Tim Beyers ruminates that if the rumors are true, and Google is set to introduce either a low-priced computer running the "Google OS", or roll out the …

Jan 6, 2006: Cleaning house Today's featured article on OpinionJournal, while highlighting the Abramoff ugliness, shows why many conservatives, this one included, are relatively …

Jan 5, 2006: Fighting on many fronts Not content to see the U.S. surrender in Iraq, the "peace" activists want us to lose in our own hemisphere as well. Notes Mary Anastasia O'Grady: …

Jan 5, 2006: What is it about people named Barbara and Dean? John Fund has a note on Barbara Boxer's Bush obsession in today's Political Diary. Some Democrats have become so obsessed with President Bush's …

Jan 5, 2006: I thought we were painting our faces for the Tiger game Have you seen the McDonald's commercial with the face-painting football fans? I just about lost it when Tiger Face licks the back of his hand at the …

Jan 5, 2006: Letterman's swing to the left This morning, while dropping the little phisch off at school and running an errand, I caught a bit of Laura Ingraham. She was discussing and taking …

Jan 5, 2006: Socialism: never a good idea Mary Katherine Ham: Socialism is a nice idea, in theory, they tell me. I won't be conceding that point anymore. Too many have conceded it for too …

Jan 5, 2006: Calendar fun In my pursuit to not renew my .Mac subscription this year, I decided to install PHP iCalendar. Since we use only SFTP on our box, and none of the the …

Jan 5, 2006: On those Wikipedia ills Given Ellyn's column this month on Wikipedia, I thought this Penny Arcade was apropos. [Wave of the phin to Dan.]

Jan 4, 2006: So much fun

Jan 3, 2006: Documenting bad grammar Lee and I share a pet peeve relating to grammar, and he has chosen to begin documenting finds in meatspace. One reason I don't slog through comments …

Jan 3, 2006: If Karl Rove Leaked the NSA Story, He'd Be a Media Hero John Fund: [T]he establishment media clearly leans toward the view that the NSA leak was in the public interest. Unlike the Plame probe, the Justice …

Jan 2, 2006: Another reason to love the Scots The Scottish accent--when it is comprehensible--is better for business than a regional English accent. If you want to get ahead in business and don't …

Jan 2, 2006: Why you should not use your mouth before engaging your brain Scene: my wife and I are sitting at our respective desks in the study, doing our respective things on our respective computing systems. Her: "Wow. …

Jan 2, 2006: No Dr. Phil hockey Apparently there is some whining going on regarding the fact that hockey is the only sport which actually has rules for fighting, and Razor explains, …

Jan 2, 2006: War has solved <i>plenty</i> John Hawkins: The last major war the United States was involved in was Vietnam. The modern Democratic Party leadership all came of age during that …

Jan 2, 2006: <i>The Broker</i> The last John Grisham book I read was The Summons, and it was a decent read. Before that, the last Grisham book I had tackled was The Chamber, but I …

Jan 2, 2006: Smooth Guy Do you want to know why Guy Kawasaki was made the head evangelist by Apple in the mid-1990s? Because Guy's so smooth: You should give your ten slides …

Jan 2, 2006: Let the Good Times Roll Guy Kawasaki has a new blog. [Via John.]

Jan 2, 2006: ATPM 12.01 About This Particular Macintosh begins its twelfth year of publishing with the release of the January 2006 issue. Ellyn starts things off by noting …

Jan 1, 2006: Happy New Year For New Year's Eve, my wife and I went out to dinner, toddler in tow. Over our meal we toasted the new year, praying it would be better than 2005, …

Dec 31, 2005: On knowing when to get the job done Jeff takes the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's ("Intelligencer"? Granted, I know it's a real word, but come one. Couldn't you have just said "Reporter"?) …

Dec 31, 2005: On the cookie idiocy From the level-headed responses I've read regarding the NSA's web cookie whoopsie, Captain Ed has to have the best analysis: In the great spectrum of …

Dec 31, 2005: Kelly's Dump Soup My wife found this dump soup recipe somewhere online, and neither of us can remember where nor find the bookmark for it. As the name implies, it's a …

Dec 31, 2005: Razor's New Year's words of wisdom Daryl Reaugh: The most common eye injury in France is damage done by flying champagne corks. (It's true.) Apparently they don't retreat fast enough …

Dec 31, 2005: Thanks for nothing, Coach Unlike the Tigers, the other SEC team that played yesterday apparently didn't show up to play the whole game. South Carolina put up 21 unanswered …

Dec 30, 2005: Domination A new head coach. A devastating hurricane. Opening season games rescheduled. A heartbreaking overtime loss in what became the home opener, played on a …

Dec 30, 2005: Sign your politically-motivated movie is tanking I find it amusing the producers of Syriana are touting the fact of their whopping two Golden Globe nominations. The movie cost $50 million, and has …

Dec 30, 2005: When you have nothing to offer... Mary Katharine Ham notes a Boston Globe piece on how, just under three years away from the next presidential election, the Democratic Party is already …

Dec 30, 2005: Bowls lock arms Speaking of college football, I have the Music City Bowl on in the background, and I noticed a few moments ago a commercial on behalf of the Football …

Dec 30, 2005: It's nice to know I'm not alone Jonathan Chait weighs in on why USC is overrated, noting how ESPN is leading the sports media in a frothing charge to bestow on the Trojans …

Dec 29, 2005: But we're just as bad as the terrorists, right? By now, most people have heard John Kerry's slanderous comments about our servicemen terrorizing women and children in Iraq. James Taranto turns the …

Dec 29, 2005: iCalFix Like Merlin, I have longed for the ability in iCal to have alarms automatically created for new events. Now, thanks to Robert Blum gives us iCalFix, …

Dec 21, 2005: What's in your Backpack? So the gang at 37signals have launched an affiliate program for Backpack, and, of course, I've signed up. You will note the link graphic in the side …

Dec 21, 2005: Note to self Do not leave your Gmail In box open in your browser window, as it inevitably will consume mass amounts of real and virtual memory. Get in, do what you …

Dec 19, 2005: Pulling the plug on Info-Mac Adam Engst details the plan for retiring the Info-Mac Network, noting that it has outlived its usefulness given the Internet's current climate. The …

Dec 18, 2005: So I Have a Blog You have to love the ode to Douglas Adams on Tim Berners-Lee's new blog. (Hint: bottom of the page.) [A wave of the phin to John.]

Dec 14, 2005: And the Macworld Eddy goes to... Given this news, John Gruber makes an excellent point: This puts Macworld in an awkward spot if they ever again want to review or compare RSS …

Dec 14, 2005: Not wanting it both ways Jeff does an outstanding job of showing the flip side of the coin the press doesn't want to admit: Yes, the President is responsible for making the …

Dec 14, 2005: We used to encourage communists to defect I am totally down with Tom's plan.

Dec 12, 2005: Who are the surrender monkeys now? New Hampshire Union-Leader: The Democratic Party's national leadership has plumbed a record depth in its search to score points against the …

Dec 9, 2005: del.icio.us joins y.ah.oo! Now that Yahoo! has absorbed another social-software site, maybe del.icio.us's import feature will get fixed. I'm hesitant to really dive in to the …

Dec 6, 2005: How you know you're a parent #1,487 While testing a new product for review, you set your iPod on shuffle, and hear Hootie & the Blowfish, dc Talk, King James (old Christian metal …

Dec 5, 2005: Donate to the Angel Tree During the Christmas season, one sees Angel Trees nearly everywhere: at work, in the malls, at church; you can hardly go anywhere without running in …

Dec 4, 2005: <i>Walk the Line</i> Last night, for my birthday, my wife and I went to see the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. Wow. In my opinion, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon …

Dec 4, 2005: Still no respect Apparently, all common sense has left NCAA Divison I-A football rankings. Like we didn't know that already. Let me see if I get this straight: LSU …

Dec 4, 2005: ATPM mentioned in NYT I don't often link to The New York Times, but when the publication I work on gets a mention, well, I have to throw the Times some link love. James …

Dec 3, 2005: I think Congress has better things to do Let's see: renewing the Patriot Act, the Senate needing to confirm Bush's judicial nominees, as well as a Supreme Court nominee, et cetera, et cetera. …

Dec 3, 2005: What a difference a couple of hours can make This morning, we took the little phisch to downtown Dallas for the annual Neiman Marcus Adolphus Christmas Parade. He had a gas, and I hope to have …

Dec 1, 2005: Killing them with kindness Hugh notes Kevin McCullough's campaign to send Christmas cards to the ACLU. Ever since the little phisch was born, the Christmas cards we've sent out …

Dec 1, 2005: ATPM 11.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading and downloading pleasure. Our continued thanks to Bare Bones …

Nov 30, 2005: Error and trust Jeff points to Lorie Byrd's recent column, and correctly notes how voters should want their elected officials to err: on the side of caution. What …

Nov 29, 2005: Retrophisch&trade; Read Redux So I decided the whole blog post thing regarding my book reading was taking up more of my time than I wanted to devote to it. I have a stack of books …

Nov 28, 2005: I've always said, "If you want to play games..." John Gruber: [N]ext-generation consoles seem set to surpass the PC as the premier platforms for gaming, which means anyone who’s resisted …

Nov 28, 2005: Don't mind us, we're just voting this way to get re-elected Hugh Hewitt: Apparently Brownstein and Vaughn could not find one elected Democrat willing to defend the 2002 vote as right at the time and right in …

Nov 27, 2005: Determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory Mark Steyn: Happily for Mr Zarqawi, no matter how desperate the head-hackers get, the Western defeatists can always top them. A Democrat Congressman, …

Nov 26, 2005: But there is no media bias, part 7 Mary Katharine Ham: You can always count on the press to put a gloomy tone on bright economic news. [...] Are four-year highs really modest? Here's …

Nov 26, 2005: This is what is known as "hitting the nail on the head" Jeff Harrell: It kind of amazes me what shortcomings the people who buy Windows computers are willing to live with. It used to be the case that Macs …

Nov 25, 2005: "I ain't missin' you at all..." Erik posits he really isn't missing windowshade functionality in OS X. Neither am I. I began using windowshade less and less in the waning days of OS …

Nov 24, 2005: Happy Thanksgiving Despite the financial hardships and the extended family dysfunctional, I have an incredible amount of things to be thankful for again this year. I …

Nov 23, 2005: Michael Hyatt: Judge, Jury, Executioner Relax, mouth-foamers, we're talking about software. I like Michael's system, sequestering apps for a specific amount of time to see if they're truly …

Nov 19, 2005: TMTOTH Today's "Too Much Time On Their Hands" installment is again brought to you by TUAW: Turn a classic Macintosh SE in to a 3 GHz PC. What a waste of a SE …

Nov 18, 2005: TMTOTH Today's "Too Much Time On Their Hands" episode is brought to by TUAW: Stick the guts of a modern optical mouse in to a classic Apple ADB mouse.

Nov 16, 2005: Dear Papa John's Normally, when we order out for fast-food pizza, we order from a Papa John's franchise. We usually order a thin-crust pizza of some type. Tonight, we …

Nov 16, 2005: Dear MacAddict Thank you so much for the magazines you keep sending, even though we're coming up on the fifth month since my subscription expired. I don't really …

Nov 15, 2005: Today's miscellany And thus Apple's plans at world domination were dashed. ... Regarding HTML in e-mail: what Tom said. I'm not even an admin like Tom that has to deal …

Nov 14, 2005: Today's miscellany Yeah, it's been up a few days, but I'm just getting to it, okay? John Gruber has come around, much as I have recently, to the notion of …

Nov 13, 2005: VZW needs a new ad agency Am I the only one that thinks the new "It's the network" series of commercials for Verizon Wireless are actually more annoying than the old "Can you …

Nov 13, 2005: Random note from the Retrophisch&trade; hPDA "Long-term pessimism is irrational. (Short-term is, too.)"

Nov 13, 2005: Yeah, some more about those oil company profits Jeff Jacoby: But profits can't be judged by dollar amounts alone. What counts is the percentage of revenues those profits represent. "Our numbers are …

Nov 13, 2005: The MRC needs to hire Jeff Jeff Harrell: The tin-foil-hat crowd got one thing right after all: The American people have been systematically lied to since 9/11. Not by the …

Nov 13, 2005: Our school district is leveraging current tech It's nice to know the school district my son will enter in about three years is fairly hip to current technology. The district's superintendent, Dr. …

Nov 13, 2005: Deeply irresponsible is an understatement As usual, Jeff says it better than I was thinking: It’s as if we’ve got a country full of people who are walking around under the …

Nov 11, 2005: Today's miscellany I've been trying to send some e-mails with attachments via Gmail, from within Safari. Frustrated, I launched the 1.0b1 version of Camino, and it …

Nov 11, 2005: A word of thanks Today we honor those who serve and served in our nation's armed forces. Though the original day of remembrance was Armistice Day, noting the end of …

Nov 9, 2005: But there is no media bias, part 6 Federalist Patriot 05-44 Digest: The Big Three nightly newscasts have become nothing more than anti-war activists with a national platform. The Media …

Nov 8, 2005: Go to vote, get a ticket Alternative title: My Moron Moment of the Day Of course, I have no one to blame but myself. Each election cycle, Denton County, in its infinite …

Nov 8, 2005: The more things change... ...the more they stay the same. [Via Dan.]

Nov 8, 2005: Inquiring minds want to know Craig Shirley: Please explain to me how our children have had no school yesterday and today so that the Teachers Unions can go out and organize for …

Nov 8, 2005: No such thing Memo to Brendan Miniter: Marines don't like being called "former Marines." "Once a Marine, always a Marine" is how they view it. Having known a few …

Nov 7, 2005: Project Valour-IT Soldiers' Angels has started Project Valour-IT, an endeavor to get voice-activated laptops to our wounded servicemen. To help with raising money for …

Nov 7, 2005: No more VW style for the Passat? I guess I didn't pay much attention to autoblog coverage of the new Volkswagen Passat, but I've seen a few of them on the road now, and I have to …

Nov 6, 2005: Always a bridesmaid... Today was the last game of the fall softball season. We went in to our game tied for first with our opponent, Trietsch Memorial UMC. It was a …

Nov 6, 2005: Speed Test! Erik links to the Speakeasy Speed Test, so I figured I would give the Verizon fiber connection a go. Using the Dallas server: Download Speed: 7400 …

Nov 4, 2005: Widgets smidgets So Leander posits Apple is prepping a WYSIWYG widget-creation app. TUAW's David Chartier whines "what took so long?" I can't help but think, "So …

Nov 3, 2005: Yeah, about those oil company profits New Hampshire Union Leader: So, Exxon Mobil broke corporate records last week, posting a $9 billion profit on $100 billion in revenue in the third …

Nov 3, 2005: Lying about the war non-lie OpinionJournal: Harry Reid pulled the Senate into closed session Tuesday, claiming that "The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is …

Nov 2, 2005: C-Command Blog Michael now has a dedicated blog for C-Command products. Since the illustrious Mr. Tsai has not yet posted feed links, allow me to help you out: RSS, …

Nov 2, 2005: ATPM 11.11 The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. I'm wondering if Charles Anthony's cover art will be …

Nov 1, 2005: Spam subject line of the moment "Get a bigger bugle!" Gosh, I don't even have a bugle, and they want me to get a bigger one? Isn't a large bugle called a trumpet?

Nov 1, 2005: Hamilton favors a national sales tax "It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their …

Oct 31, 2005: No, we're just hungry Lileks cracks me up: Women writing about men always seems like cats writing about dogs; they just can’t believe that sitting around and waiting …

Oct 31, 2005: Join the Axis of Alitists! Okay, so if I can't have Janice Rogers Brown, then Sam Alito is a fine choice. The son of an immigrant and a public school teacher is already under …

Oct 31, 2005: Don't forget your local charities I read an article in one of the local rags that donations to CCA are down in the wake of the massive outreach for hurricane victims. CCA is one of the …

Oct 31, 2005: War with Jihadistan update The Federalist Patriot, 05-43 Digest: Al-Qa'ida murdered almost 3,000 Americans on U.S. soil in about an hour back in 2001--almost all of them …

Oct 27, 2005: Windows: neurotic Jack Good, mathematician: "My Windows 98 computer tells lies and often forces me to shut down improperly. Such behaviour in a human would be called …

Oct 27, 2005: It's nominating time...again... Harriet's out. There will be speculation on whether she acted one hundred percent unilaterally, or if this is just the way the administration is …

Oct 25, 2005: The latest iBelieve Someone tell me when Snoop, 50 Cent, or some other rapper/hip-hopper sports the iBelieve on MTV. Not that I really care; that's just the first thing I …

Oct 25, 2005: It <i>is</i> about time... With thanks to John for the post title and link: Rich Siegel, of Bare Bones fame, is finally blogging. As if it weren't enough that Rich is …

Oct 23, 2005: The Palestinian descent in to barbarism Bret Stephens: Many explanations have been given to account for the almost matchless barbarism into which Palestinian society has descended in recent …

Oct 23, 2005: I hope we don't reap what we're sowing OpinionJournal: When one pharmaceutical company offered to sell a new pneumococcal vaccine to the government for $58 a dose, the Centers for Disease …

Oct 23, 2005: And you built it that way why? It rains nine months out of the year in Seattle. So why oh why would you replace an aging dome with an open-air stadium? Collective stupidity?

Oct 22, 2005: Coastal elitism in college football Or, The case against USC as #1. You can blame the following on my friend Francisco, who got me started earlier this evening during an instant …

Oct 22, 2005: Hective Parents can relate: My favorite portmanteau came from our two-year-old daughter, whose response to the question "How was your day [at daycare]?" was: …

Oct 21, 2005: MarsEdit lives! Brent Simmons announced tonight that development of MarsEdit will continue. w00t!

Oct 20, 2005: Get Retrophisch in your in box If you care to get Retrophisch posts via e-mail, now you can, thanks to Bloglet. Scroll down, and look for the Bloglet subscription box in the …

Oct 20, 2005: Blimp Captain's Blog Now if the Fujifilm blimp captains have a blog, what's your excuse for not having one? [Via Six Apart.]

Oct 20, 2005: Apple's new iron and bits So yesterday was the latest in a slew of product announcements from Apple. In just over a month, we've seen the iPod nano, the iPod with Video, the …

Oct 20, 2005: Founders' wisdom "Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new …

Oct 19, 2005: We'll accept help from everyone, except... Jeff Jacoby: [I]t was not until Oct. 14, six days after Israel had communicated its willingness to help the earthquake victims "in any way possible," …

Oct 19, 2005: Go Astros! Some time in the first year to year-and-a-half of my life, my parents moved to Houston. My dad had joined the Navy for a two-year stint, and would be …

Oct 19, 2005: I'm looking at you, ACLU "The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws." --Walt …

Oct 19, 2005: Joining the insanity So I've decided to give it a whirl this year, and join Danno and fifty thousand others at taking a crack at churning out 50,000 words in 30 days. …

Oct 17, 2005: Three-way tie for first The game before ours this past Sunday was important for us: we were tied with one of the teams playing for first in the league. They lost. Then, so …

Oct 17, 2005: "I have overactive sweat glands." AOL is still a crappy way to Internet, in my not-so-humble opinion, but their latest commercial ("Too much information") had me in stitches.

Oct 16, 2005: French military victories Go to Google. In the search box, type "French military victories." Click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. [Via Tommy.]

Oct 16, 2005: No more Hullitzer The third-leading goal scorer in NHL history has retired. Brett Hull made the announcement yesterday, two hours before he would have played with his …

Oct 15, 2005: Don't screw with the librarian Damien shared this gem with me via instant message. I had no words other than, "That is totally awesome."

Oct 15, 2005: The ultimate auto accessory? You can now add a flamethrower to your automobile--as a theft deterrent--for less than seven hundred dollars. In South Africa. [With a wave of the …

Oct 13, 2005: Keep your iCal window the same size King of Mac OS X Hints Rob Griffiths has a great tip for keeping your iCal window the same size no matter which view (Day, Week, Month) you're using. …

Oct 12, 2005: Less than half a season to go This past weekend marked game six of our fall season, so now we only have four to go. I missed game five, due to a shin injury I sustained in game …

Oct 12, 2005: Why stock analysts are worthless (Alternative title: There's an reason the word "anal" is in "analyst") Apple quadruples its profit, but the stock takes a ten percent-plus dive …

Oct 12, 2005: Those media b-st-rds Tony Blankley: If the president were to call for two plus two to equal four, the media would report that such a proposal had the support of only 42 …

Oct 12, 2005: Why the two-parent family is important John Leo: Two decades of research produced a consensus among social scientists of both left and right that family structure has a serious impact on …

Oct 11, 2005: Two football games, one day The Northwestern College Eagles, NCAA Division III, have done something no other college football team at any level has ever done: played two games in …

Oct 11, 2005: One Man My wife and Tom both told me about Charles Ross's One Man Star Wars. The video clip sealed it for me; if I find myself in NYC, I'll definitely have to …

Oct 9, 2005: Three Three years. One thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven posts. Yay.

Oct 9, 2005: SAVE earthquake victims World Vision has started a relief fund for those affected by the earthquake in southwest Asia, which has claimed at least 20,000 lives in Pakistan …

Oct 9, 2005: New meaning to the term "flipping off"? Need to send an e-mail to a loved one's or friend's mobile phone, but can't remember the confusing phonenumber@anameotherthanthecompany.something …

Oct 9, 2005: Zoorific! Our tyke had his first trip to a zoo yesterday. The weather was fabulous, so we trucked on down to the Fort Worth Zoo for a day with some friends and …

Oct 8, 2005: Happy Birthday, Tom Thanks to Tiff for noting Tom's birthday for the rest of us.

Oct 7, 2005: Markdown for Backpack & Writeboard Backpack and Writeboard, two excellent services by 37signals, both use Textile for text formatting. I have nothing against Textile; I used to use the …

Oct 7, 2005: 2007 Ford Explorer Sport Trac I may have a reason to make a trip to the State Fair. The new Sport Trac may tempt me away from the Ridgeline as my next vehicle of choice.

Oct 7, 2005: The American model "We live in circumstances our parents did not live in, or our grandparents. We live in a time in which there is no rival model to the American model …

Oct 7, 2005: Google Reader Google's version of Bloglines, Google Reader, is now available as a public beta. The first feed I put in was for Jon's GoogleRumors, since that's …

Oct 6, 2005: That smart FontExplorer So like a lot of the Macintosh-using world, I've been dinking around with Linotype's FontExplorer X, and I like it. I used Suitcase when I worked in …

Oct 6, 2005: Expanding rights? Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont, on the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court: Is this a nominee who will protect and expand our …

Oct 5, 2005: <i>Blog</i> If you're new to the world of weblogs, and looking to start a blog yourself, Hugh Hewitt's Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's …

Oct 4, 2005: DoD cracking down on milblogs No, the Defense Department isn't shuttering personal blogs of soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen, but it is asking them to be more careful. I can …

Oct 4, 2005: More on the NetNewsWire acquisition Tom's not happy with Brent and Sheila's sale of NetNewsWire to NewsGator. I'm going to chalk it up to the fact that he's literally on drugs. If you've …

Oct 4, 2005: Brent and Sheila sell out Gruber points out that Ranchero Software has sold NetNewsWire to NewsGator. Big, big news in the Macintosh community it is. It appears this is a good …

Oct 4, 2005: Why is it that the Left cannot let go of the Vietnam imagery? Mac Johnson: One of the many negative consequences of America's defeat in The Vietnam War has been the uncontrolled proliferation of Vietnams since …

Oct 4, 2005: The hysterical Left Dennis Prager: If you want to understand the Left, the best place to start is with an understanding of hysteria. Leading leftists either use hysteria …

Oct 3, 2005: Informative but not surprising Stephen Moore, in today's Political Diary: There's an old saying that the only Marxists left on the planet are found in the faculty lounges at …

Oct 3, 2005: Tony Blankley is freaking me out His latest book, The West's Last Chance, is coming true before our very lives. Don Feder: A committee appointed by the British government, composed …

Oct 3, 2005: ATPM 11.10 The October issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn ponders the day we watch movies on our mobile phones, while Wes covers …

Oct 3, 2005: Writeboard is live Writeboard, the latest web service from 37signals, is now live. Think of Writeboard as a web-based whiteboard that can save all of your edits as you …

Sep 27, 2005: Unhealthy hatred David Limbaugh: Their unhealthy hatred for Mr. Bush dates back to the 2000 election, which they -- irrationally again -- believe he stole from Mr. …

Sep 27, 2005: Stossel: Damnable pork John Stossel, on pork in the wake of Katrina: The government's responsibility, though, dwarfs anything done by criminals. To start, the federal …

Sep 27, 2005: It's about time Tom asked, and Tiff said yes. I confess to being one of those who knew of Tom's plan ahead of time, but that's mostly because I've been annoying him …

Sep 27, 2005: If only W would channel Grover No, mouth-foamers, I am not referring to the muppet. President Grover Cleveland: "I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, …

Sep 27, 2005: Four on the floor Our team had to do something in our fourth game of the fall season that it hadn't had to do in the first three games: come from behind to take the …

Sep 24, 2005: So we're even rewriting sports history right now Attention Steve Levy and the rest of ESPN's anchors: USC did not win the national championship in 2003. USC did not win the national championship in …

Sep 23, 2005: Professional protesters No, they don't have anything better to do. The Federalist Patriot, 05-38 Digest: To those in the know, this Saturday is "S24" (i.e., 24 September), …

Sep 23, 2005: Someone call the exterminator "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson

Sep 23, 2005: Bye-bye TrackBack I've disabled TrackBack on this blog and on Godblog. Two reasons have brought about this change. First, the TrackBack spammers have gotten out of …

Sep 21, 2005: Cute, but not that cute Something amusing I read in RD, courtesy of BizRate Research: 56% of women and 41% of men say their pets are more affectionate than their partners. …

Sep 21, 2005: A public service message There are a lot of people with overactive bladders, and let's face it, when you've got to go, you've got to go. Novartis Pharmaceuticals has teamed up …

Sep 21, 2005: Back in the booth Stars color man Daryl Reaugh felt a bit rusty covering the team's first pre-season game last night: So like a brown bear emerging from hibernation …

Sep 21, 2005: I'm thinking <i>Cluetrain</i> should be required reading for the Authors Guild Note to self: do not join the clueless Authors Guild. I echo Gruber's sentiments regarding the decision of the Authors Guild to sue Google over Google …

Sep 20, 2005: "Mac" is a no-no for Google AdWords users Sometimes, Apple can be so stupid.

Sep 20, 2005: It must be .Mac renewal time Matt Deatherage used the above line as the title for an e-mail on the MacJournals-Talk list, and he's right. You usually don't see updates and new …

Sep 18, 2005: Not so breezy threesey (Yes, I know "threesey" isn't a real word, but I was attempting a rhyme.) Today was game three of our fall season, and I must confess I have never …

Sep 18, 2005: Happy Birthday, ST Today, the SuperToad turns...well, another year older. We'll just leave it at that. Happy Birthday, Brian!

Sep 17, 2005: Tough Game Two I really didn't want to post anything this past Sunday other than the 9/11 remembrance, but then I forgot to follow up with a note on our second game …

Sep 16, 2005: The Standard "[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all …

Sep 15, 2005: Okay, I'm not <i>this</i> desperate for a job Men Wanted 18-45 ASAP. I'll let the job posting speak for itself.

Sep 15, 2005: And yet a part of me still misses corporate America My employed friends almost daily remind me of the travails of life in corporate America. I'd still like a job, thanks.

Sep 15, 2005: Yes, please stop Many of my friends, acquaintances, and former co-workers may be shocked by this, but I agree with Lee: let's stop talking about Windows.* If for …

Sep 14, 2005: Baseball beats blood and water For my guys in and from New England, as submitted to Reader's Digest by Gayla Bieksha, of Hubbardston, Mass: Blood may be thicker than water, but …

Sep 11, 2005: Have you forgotten? Jon asked the question. (It makes me feel old to realize he's talking about high school classes in his remarks.) I was getting ready for work. Kel and …

Sep 9, 2005: Do I look like a narcissistic metrosexual to you? An unsolicited copy of the premier issue of Men's Vogue arrived in the daily post. What. The. Hell. ???

Sep 9, 2005: Enough said, indeed The Oz has spoken.

Sep 8, 2005: Is there a name for this sort of illness? I use Safari Enhancer to kill the brushed metal look of Safari. I just used iTunes Unified to change iTunes 5's Unifed-Metal look to normal Unified. …

Sep 7, 2005: Remembering Mississippi A friend wondered via IM this evening why New Orleans is getting all the press, post-Katrina. My response was because it's New Orleans. Gulfport, …

Sep 6, 2005: iPod <i>Nano</i>? I realize with a new, slimmer design, Apple would want a new moniker to grace its smallest-iPod-with-a-screen, but who came up with Nano? That word …

Sep 6, 2005: Stein berates, well, everyone over Bush blame Ben Stein rips in to the media and Angry Left over the Katrina-is-Bush's-fault blame game. You know it must be bad if it's raising Ben's ire.

Sep 6, 2005: Mail to affected areas, post-Katrina The USPS has a page up showing the zip codes that are either closed for now, or are in limited operation, in the Katrina-affected areas of Louisiana, …

Sep 6, 2005: Passive-Agressive Liberalism James Taranto: Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman actually manages to take his rage over Katrina beyond the usual Angry Left argument of blaming the …

Sep 6, 2005: It's raining again, hallelujah, it's raining again... Since you won't hear about it any where else, Arthur Chrenkoff has the latest good news from Afghanistan. It is amazing how much is happening in this …

Sep 6, 2005: A unique opportunity in the Big Easy Brendan Miniter has a piece on OpinionJournal today on the opportunity New Orleans has with rebuilding its educational system, one of the worst in the …

Sep 5, 2005: The mattress scam The time has come. We made the decision to transition our two year-old to a "big boy bed." Not an actual bed with a frame and headboard, mind you; …

Sep 5, 2005: So where would those children ride, Sean? Jon notes a pathetic story of one Mr. Penn and his elitist attempt at "help."

Sep 5, 2005: Accepting the blame Apparently, it's all Rich Galen's fault. Oh, and some is Terry Ebbert's. (Sorry, couldn't resist the last. I'll go back to sorting baby clothes now.)

Sep 4, 2005: Further proof Alec Baldwin sucks George Carlin is a better narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine.

Sep 3, 2005: <i>Of course</i> they made <i>Jarhead</i> in to a movie Anthony Swofford's book Jarhead, which I will not link to, was a sad account of a mentally disturbed--which Swofford admits to--man's time in the …

Sep 3, 2005: William H. Rehnquist, 1924-2005 A beacon of conservatism and common sense has been dimmed, with the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist tonight. Further words fail me at this time.

Sep 1, 2005: How do you reply in e-mail? Erik and I are of like mind when it comes to e-mail replies. Unless my reply is one sentence or less, I never top-post. After all, it is common sense …

Sep 1, 2005: ATPM 11.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Wes had a great idea for the cover, and we like how the art turned out. We're …

Aug 31, 2005: The thrill is gone So it looks like a week is all it took. Looking at my Contacts list in Adium, only three people are still bothering with Google Talk. Everyone's back …

Aug 31, 2005: Iosis No, not oasis, Iosis. And it's from, of all companies, Ford. With the exception of the neo-retro Mustang, this is probably the best concept to come …

Aug 31, 2005: Esquivalience Via Gruber via Kottke, the low-down on a fake word.

Aug 30, 2005: My wife finds the positive My wife grew up in Kenner, in Jefferson Parish. For you geographical neophytes, Jefferson is due west of Orleans Parish. If you've ever driven in to …

Aug 30, 2005: Promotion Congratulations to Michael Hyatt, who is going to have to change the graphic on his blog after his promotion yesterday. (What Mr. Hyatt doesn't know, …

Aug 30, 2005: "All things bad are America's fault." So sayeth the Sheehan's professionally choreographed media frenzy, as reported by someone who was at Camp Casey. [Wave of the phin to my favorite …

Aug 30, 2005: Do you name your car? I read this and thought of Tom and Tiffany. For the record, I do not name my automobiles. Macs, firearms, yes. Autos, no.

Aug 29, 2005: Fall ball The fall softball season began yesterday for the co-ed church league I participate in. We opened against the sophomore contenders of First United …

Aug 29, 2005: About that Safari update Dear Apple, Is it really and truly necessary for a x.0.x upgrade of a web browser to force an full-blown system restart? Think of the minutes of …

Aug 26, 2005: Hi, we're from the government and we have nothing better to do Chicago Tribune: The Tennessee attorney general wants the country singer who made the song "Redneck Woman" a hit to stop "glamorizing" the use of …

Aug 24, 2005: I have had this fight Maybe not so much verbatim, but in spirit.

Aug 24, 2005: These are the conversations I have with my friends in the middle of the night

Aug 24, 2005: Quicksilver + Dictionary Tim Brayshaw has a great tip on combining the use of Quicksilver with Mac OS X 10.4's Dictionary. [Via TUAW.]

Aug 24, 2005: Old is new again Today, I've spent time listening to some old tunes that have recently found their way in to my iTunes library. In the course of cleaning up a small …

Aug 24, 2005: Giving Adium that iChat-fresh feeling As I've said before, I like the look of iChat. So when I made the switch yesterday to Adium, so I could use both the AIM and Google Talk (viz: Jabber) …

Aug 24, 2005: Accordance Seminar, Dallas If you're an Accordance user, and aren't on the OakTree Software e-mail list, there is a free seminar on getting the most out of the company's …

Aug 23, 2005: Gtalk Jon reports that Google Talk has gone live. The IM product builds on Gmail accounts and the open-source Jabber IM service. I'm already up and running …

Aug 23, 2005: Hagel Huh? Chuck Hagel, Senator, Nebraska-D: "We should start figuring out how we get out of there," Hagel said on "This Week" on ABC. "But with this …

Aug 23, 2005: Don't tread on me Lisa Fabrizio: At the time of its writing, many of the Founding Fathers opposed the Bill Of Rights being included in the Constitution because the …

Aug 22, 2005: Time to retool, Je$$e Walter E. Williams: Like the March of Dimes' victory against polio in the U.S., civil rights organizations can claim victory as well. At one time, …

Aug 22, 2005: Are you kidding? <i>Dracula</i>? Nothing proves more how the mainstream media has gone off their collective rocker than the fact that this week, ABC's 20/20 is devoted to the myth of …

Aug 21, 2005: We should stay in Iraq &mdash; for decades...

So sayeth the editors in this past Friday's Federalist Patriot (link is a PDF): The usual Demo-gogue suspects -- Kennedy, Kerry and company -- are …

Aug 20, 2005: This is science fiction? Since when does Liar, Liar qualify as science fiction? I just saw an advertisement on SciFi declaring they will be showing it next week. I didn't …

Aug 20, 2005: ClamXav MacDevCenter recently featured an article about ClamXav, a free virus scanner for Mac OS X. ClamXav is based on the open-source, antivirus engine …

Aug 20, 2005: In search of a good web whacker That's web whacker, not weed whacker. The latter is taken care of by our Black & Decker Grass Hog. A friend is looking for a Mac- or Java-based …

Aug 20, 2005: The NCAA Football Championship BS has already begun No, that is not a typo in the title. I mean "BS," not "BCS," though some would argue they have become one and the same. I mention this because a few …

Aug 19, 2005: You learn something new every day John Gruber, via GUIdebook: ...[Y]ou can use Command-Tab switching when you’re in the middle of a drag. So you can start dragging something in …

Aug 18, 2005: Strongspace&trade; Secure online storage and file sharing. Eight bucks a month gets you 4 gigs. No bandwidth charges, no contract. Nifty. [Via Todd Dominey.]

Aug 18, 2005: ChillyDog I have a soft spot for working dogs; I've always told my wife that if I were in law enforcement, I'd want to be a K-9 cop. It's important for working …

Aug 18, 2005: Buy your books like you buy your music At least that's what VitalSource is hoping you'll do: buy eBooks from them in the same way people buy music from the iTunes Music Store. James Duncan …

Aug 17, 2005: GoogleRumors Not content to rest on his laurels, Jon's decided to start GoogleRumors.com. I also can not believe there wasn't a site like this already.

Aug 17, 2005: Not exactly thinking this through OpinionJournal's Best of the Web today has one aspect of Sheehan's "protest" that I've found particularly amusing: There's One for You, Nineteen for …

Aug 17, 2005: Still getting it wrong on Social Security Helen Thomas: Social Security is not a handout. Workers and employers contribute jointly through payroll taxes. Social Security had become part of …

Aug 17, 2005: Still wanting it both ways David Limbaugh: Meanwhile, Democrat leaders want to have it both ways. Some say we should withdraw from Iraq. Others demand that we add many more …

Aug 17, 2005: EasyBusiness I have a hard time calling the son of a Greek shipping magnate "scrappy," but I guess Stelios Haji-Ioannou can afford to be: ...[I]n 1998, when …

Aug 17, 2005: On the spelling of "willies"

Aug 17, 2005: Pod Squad On my way to a doctor's appointment this morning, I was listening to WBAP; the morning news crew is hysterical. During a commercial break, the station …

Aug 17, 2005: What should they do with the company, Michael? The company Michael Dell said should be sold off and the money given to its shareholders is kicking his butt: Overall customer satisfaction with the …

Aug 17, 2005: Responsibilities of the states vs the federal government "[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see all offices transferred …

Aug 17, 2005: Bad day at the office

Aug 17, 2005: FedEx follies I am attempting to return a product to a manufacturer. I have reviewed the product for publication, and the company would like it back. The company in …

Aug 17, 2005: Debunking the "chickenhawk" argument Ben Shapiro takes aim at the anti-war mouth-foamers on the left.

Aug 16, 2005: Multiculturalism is still a bad idea Michael Barone: Tolerating intolerance, goodhearted people are beginning to see, does not necessarily produce tolerance in turn. [...] …

Aug 15, 2005: DropDMG 2.7 Michael has released a new version of his disk image creation utility, DropDMG. The big, new features are disc burning and improved progress windows. …

Aug 14, 2005: Rabbi Aryeh Spero is <i>mad</i> The good rabbi isn't afraid--like so many in our nation, including the President, I'm disappointed to say--to call a spade a spade: We were …

Aug 14, 2005: Fixing the tax code I will admit to a slight bias in favor of the flat tax, as proposed by Steve Forbes, though I haven't yet read his new book. In the above-linked …

Aug 13, 2005: Giving in/up This is why you cannot give in to terrorist demands. This is why it is pointless to "try to understand why" those who commit horrific acts of violence …

Aug 13, 2005: OS X on non-Apple Intel iron Jon notes the challenge to get the Intel version of OS X running on non-Apple, Intel-based hardware has been met. It will be interesting to see how …

Aug 13, 2005: Above all, be persistent "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; …

Aug 13, 2005: Emergency Kit for the Over Committed Jim Thomason offers good advice on how to focus on the problem(s) at hand when the deadlines loom.

Aug 13, 2005: In times of impending calamity and distress "In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by secret machinations and open assaults...it …

Aug 12, 2005: Furniture retailer demands Iranian nuclear freeze So sayeth the Fontosaurus.

Aug 12, 2005: The joys of air travel - The Report Yesterday morning, my lovely bride dropped me off at the C terminal of DFW International. I entered, and made my way to the seats by the door. I …

Aug 10, 2005: The joys of air travel This about says it all: I'll let everyone know the result when I return on Friday.

Aug 9, 2005: v551 highs and lows

As promised, what follows are my impressions after two weeks with the phone.

Pros

• The built-in camera has a resolution of 640 x 480, and is way …

Aug 9, 2005: I like the way Jon thinks Heather: Just ask Jon who tonight put a rubber tarantula underneath the bag of ravioli I was about to dump into a pot of boiling water. I BOUGHT THE …

Aug 5, 2005: Denigrating military service

I felt "The Patriot Perspective" from today's Federalist Patriot (PDF file) was worth reprinting.

Aug 5, 2005: Unreleased OS already has virus This must be one of those things that keeps Bill Gates up at night. Windows Vista, the next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, already …

Aug 5, 2005: Fundamentally Asinine Administration If you had any doubts that the FAA's (see post title for definition of acronym) flight regulations regarding anti-terrorism were completely insane, …

Aug 5, 2005: CBS, Race the Blogger Twins! Damien and his brother Cameron are attempting to get on The Amazing Race. They have a noble purpose for this endeavor, having nothing to do with fame …

Aug 3, 2005: Pinkie D's Anyone else out there annoyed by the pinkie commercials being run by McDonald's for their new "premium" chicken sandwiches? Does anyone actually eat …

Aug 3, 2005: Donations for Niger World Vision is seeking donations to aid folks in Niger who are victims of the recent drought and locust swarms which have devastated crops in the …

Aug 3, 2005: Ballpark tours If you're a huge baseball fan (Tom) with some time to kill, FranX points us to BallparkTour.com and Ballparks of Baseball. I'm sure it's due to being …

Aug 3, 2005: Gmail on Mailsmith I finally attempted, once again, to set up POP access to my Gmail account in Mailsmith. I used all of the settings found on the Configuring other mail …

Aug 2, 2005: A blogiversary This past Monday marked the 5th anniversary of my first-ever blog post. Egads.

Aug 1, 2005: ATPM 11.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Kudos to Lee on the cover art. We were in dire need of cover art, and he stepped …

Aug 1, 2005: Positively annoying I have a new reason to develop a more positive attitude. "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to …

Aug 1, 2005: Trident tradition While reading the moving story of SEALs laying to rest one of their own, I learned something new about the Navy's special operations unit. It has …

Aug 1, 2005: Good advice Don't mess with Texas. Now you can buy gear and support the anti-litter campaign with the awesome slogan.

Jul 31, 2005: Magic Pot of Jobs Tiffany has a new project. If I could only get a recruiter as good as her here in DFW...

Jul 31, 2005: Too many miles Have more frequent-flyer miles than you know what to do with? Well, transfer some to me! I've got to get back to the islands! Seriously, if you have …

Jul 31, 2005: He made a guy cry? Nick Saban, former head coach of the national champion LSU Tigers football team, has a reputation of being a tough coach. He's tough on his players …

Jul 31, 2005: Cable modem, anyone? For sale: Toshiba PCX1100U cable "modem," with one 10BaseT port, one USB port, one 12V DC port, and one co-axial, aka, cable, port. Item is 3.5 years …

Jul 31, 2005: War, what is it good for? Well, victory for one thing, as Mark Steyn points out. [via Hugh]

Jul 30, 2005: We call them like we see them Hugh Hewitt: If you didn't hear Nancy Pelosi's press conference yesterday, you missed the pure sound of a loser who will never be anything but a …

Jul 30, 2005: We'll do anonymity, but not transparency So a journalist from the Washington Post calls Hugh Hewitt, asking for an interview. Sure, replies Hugh. But it has to be on the air, live. Journalist …

Jul 30, 2005: Windows backup recommendations Dear readers, I am seeking a personal backup solution for Windows XP that will allow me to back up a user folder to CD. Preferably cheap, preferably …

Jul 29, 2005: Are you sleeping? Tony Blair, British Prime Minister: "September 11 for me was a wake up call. Do you know what I think the problem is? That a lot of the world woke up …

Jul 29, 2005: Which diet Coke is which Diet Coke Merlin’s del.icio.us page points to this explanation by Leslie on the different make-ups of the different diet sodas now available from …

Jul 29, 2005: Technorati Mobile For those among us who are Technorati fiends, they have announced a mobile verison. I love the succinct URI.

Jul 29, 2005: The Long War or the Short Surrender

This is the third and final part of a series on national security run in the pages of The Federalist Patriot. This part can be found in today's issue …

Jul 29, 2005: The new Phischphone So earlier this week, I decided I had had enough. The Sony Ericsson T616 was obviously having issues with its Bluetooth hardware, as it continued to …

Jul 28, 2005: Howard Dean is on drugs How can anyone, including the Kool-Aid drinkers on the Left, honestly take Howard Dean seriously when he says tripe like this? "The president and his …

Jul 28, 2005: Betting on Thomas Yes, parents, that Thomas. It went something like this: Mrs. Phisch: "Who are the blue engines? Thomas, Henry, and Edward?" Me: "No, Gordon's blue. …

Jul 28, 2005: You And Me The womenfolk certainly have a way of making us insane--in a good way--don't they, fellas? "You and Me" - Lifehouse What day is it, and in what month …

Jul 28, 2005: We're not allowed to have this why? So next year's Civic for the States is ho-hum, but the European version of the 2006 Honda Civic kills. The Euro-Civic has the Si-inspired …

Jul 27, 2005: When a serial number really isn't I'm installing a new hard drive in my wife's PC, to replace the 5+ year-old that has died. I dutifully noted the part number and serial number for …

Jul 27, 2005: Our modern hubris Senator Rick Santorum, (R-PA): A generation ago, liberals figured out something that most conservatives couldn't have dreamed of in their worst …

Jul 26, 2005: Jeff is bored Jeff Harrell: People from time zones west of here should iChat me immediately. Especially if they’re twentysomething women who like to tell …

Jul 26, 2005: Conservative vs liberal approach to law Star Parker: The characterizations we most commonly hear in contrasting liberal and conservative judges tend to use phrases such as "activism" vs. …

Jul 26, 2005: A terabyte for less than a grand OWC announced today it is now offering 1 Terabyte (TB) of RAID storage for $979.99. Wow.

Jul 25, 2005: Shreddin' ATPM staffers lead glamourous lives, let me tell you. When we're not unemployed (moi), running our own businesses (Michael and Evan), or working for …

Jul 24, 2005: Arlo's revenge What do you do when you perceive a major computer company has totally ripped off your software and tout their version as a major feature of their …

Jul 24, 2005: Still useful From Merlin's del.icio.us page comes a link to a Levenger 3x5 card How-To. The brief history of the index card is interesting, but I really enjoyed …

Jul 23, 2005: Providing the tools for homeland defense

Yesterday's Federalist Patriot (PDF file) contained part two of the series on U.S. National Security. Titled "Homeland Defense," it discusses the …

Jul 23, 2005: Why bother with CC? Unlike Jeff, I don't hate Creative Commons. I just don't see the point. I believe we're much better off working with our legislators to getting …

Jul 22, 2005: Punny stock Overheard on the Dow Jones Stock Report, on WRR, just a few moments ago: "Maidenform is getting some firm support from investors..."

Jul 22, 2005: No Danny Boy In an ADD moment late last night, I was flipping channels, and came across The Great White Hype. Having seen it on HBO or one of the other movie …

Jul 21, 2005: Who's really driving the wedge Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., in today's Political Diary: Based on scanty headlines, today's disruptions in London suggest somebody may be trying to …

Jul 21, 2005: Hipster, meet Zipster Inspired by Merlin's Hipster, Christian "Mekkaniak" Eriksson transforms a standard Zip disk case in to the Zipster.

Jul 21, 2005: Retro-chic RV The T@B. Teardrop-shaped, aluminum body. Too small for our family, and we're not in the market, anyway, but I thought it was nice looking.

Jul 21, 2005: Wherefore art thou, Bluetooth headset? Great. After multiple usage so far today, it would appear the aforementioned problems with my Akono headset were not the fault of the headset at all. …

Jul 21, 2005: There is no bikini-waxer/client privilege. Heather cracks me up.

Jul 21, 2005: Types of Windows users and I wish we'd bought a Mac Mini Wil Shipley, in a DrunkenBlog interview: The two types of Windows users I've identified at my café are: a. I use Windows to run Word and Excel …

Jul 20, 2005: Why we hate you Mark Yost, St. Paul Pioneer Press: I'm reminded of why I became a journalist by the horribly slanted reporting coming out of Iraq. Not much has …

Jul 19, 2005: Bringing or Taking? Because I know it is something Tiffany can relate to, here's Brian Hampton: This just in: bring and take are not synonyms. I shamefully confess I …

Jul 19, 2005: Throwing down the gauntlet Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrats and the rest of the Left, the President stuck to his guns and nominated John Roberts to …

Jul 18, 2005: Jeep CheroH3 I just saw a commercial for the new Hummer really-really-a-waste-of-money H3. Does anyone else think that, in profile, this looks like a GM knockoff …

Jul 18, 2005: Where's the ACLU when you need them? Reader Reply, The Federalist Patriot, Monday, 18 July 2005, No. 05-29 Brief: "Not only are we feeding these Jihadis well, but the U.S. is currently …

Jul 18, 2005: Teaching the Constitution Cal Thomas: The president and those who wish to see the Constitution restored to its "original intent" need to reteach it if they are to overcome the …

Jul 18, 2005: WallyPower 118 redux Back in April, I blogged the WallyPower 118, beating the boys from Uncrate by, well, by a lot. Granted, Uncrate's only been online since June 11th. …

Jul 18, 2005: iChatting

Jul 18, 2005: Sony Ericsson rocks More than a month ago, my Sony Ericsson Akono HBH-602 Bluetooth Headset stopped syncing with my T616. I could get it to connect to the phone via …

Jul 18, 2005: Cause and effect: Defining the enemy 2 Cal Thomas: It matters little that "the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists," to quote a familiar Western mantra. It matters a great …

Jul 17, 2005: Defining the enemy

The Federalist Patriot started a three-part series in this past Friday's Digest (PDF file) titled "U.S. National Security: Imminent Threats." I feel …

Jul 17, 2005: Channeling the Bear Every time Jack Nicklaus plays a tournament for the last time, Tiger wins the event.

Jul 17, 2005: Thoughts on a podcast I will confess: I have not only thought about putting together my own podcast, but fantasized about what I would say, the music I would play, etc., …

Jul 17, 2005: iCal Day Today is iCal Day. Like Erik, I use iCal for my scheduling needs, because right now anything else is overkill. Plus, it syncs easily with my iPod and …

Jul 17, 2005: Dear Moderate Muslims Doug Giles poses the questions to so-called moderate Muslims that so many of us, perhaps afraid of being politically incorrect, are afraid to ask: As …

Jul 16, 2005: Crap is crap "The idea is that crap is crap and we’re not going to distinguish between the degrees." --ATPM Publisher Michael Tsai, to one of our writers on …

Jul 15, 2005: XHTML templates to jump start design Kevin Hale of Particletree offers up some XHTML + CSS templates so you can get your next web design project quickly off the ground. Already in my …

Jul 15, 2005: Backpack widget Well, a widget I can actually get some use out of... Chipt Productions has released a widget for the Backpack service from 37signals. Darned if Gruber …

Jul 15, 2005: About those Club Gitmo detainees Christopher Orlet has a reminder on just who these detainees are, for the benefit of those in America with long-term memory issues. These are the …

Jul 15, 2005: Winning hearts and minds John Tabin: Support, among Muslims, for suicide bombing against civilians has also faded. (Only Muslims were asked this question.) The percentage …

Jul 14, 2005: Friendly neighborhood Copmaro Note to self: on the highways around the DFW metroplex, if you spot the Narco Camaro, it is not your friend...

Jul 13, 2005: Real-life zombie attack This has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. Update, 7/14: What do zombies do after a hard day of causing panic? They go to McDonald's, of …

Jul 13, 2005: A conversation I never thought I would have Actually, it's not about a Slurpee.

Jul 13, 2005: How, exactly, am I supposed to obtain experience if...? Earlier today, I applied for an IT&S Manager position with a local hospital. Late this afternoon, I received a reply: Christopher, I appreciate …

Jul 12, 2005: Eric rocks I have been lamenting the fact that I did not go with a Flickr Pro account a few months back, instead opting for another service. At the time, it was …

Jul 12, 2005: Someone is just asking for a lawsuit Spotted today on the Dallas Craigslist job boards: "Attractive Female Office Needed"

Jul 12, 2005: iSync 2.1 breaks T616 synchronization, sort of After reading Colin Robertson's report that his Sony Ericsson T616 would no longer sync with his PowerBook via iSync, I set out to test this myself, …

Jul 12, 2005: Reverse DNS Lookup Not sure where I found this, as it was jotted on a card in my Hipster. A free service, you can perform reverse DNS lookups. If you don't know what DNS …

Jul 11, 2005: Best wishes It really helps, when you have events set on a certain day, and you don't look at your calendar every day, to set reminders. So I missed Rick's …

Jul 11, 2005: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Only it's on the ukelele. Tom sent this to me via IM, and I see he's blogged it as well. It's really quite mesmerizing. This guy is good.

Jul 11, 2005: Retrophisch Road Rule No. 1 When making a right-hand turn at an intersection where you have a green light, it is not necessary to come to a full and complete stop before turning, …

Jul 10, 2005: The 100-post barrier I happened to look at my archives page a moment ago, and noticed that in any given month, I have never cracked triple digits with the number of …

Jul 10, 2005: FedEx clock is slow No, I'm not referring to a particular clock FedEx has. I'm referring to this amusing time diversion, the graphics of which fail to keep pace with …

Jul 10, 2005: Policies toward terrorism Rich Tucker: So what’s amazing isn’t the number of attacks we’ve lived through -- it’s the lack of attacks. September, 2001. …

Jul 10, 2005: The 2006 Civic Please understand that the following comment is coming from a Honda convert. My wife drives an Odyssey minivan. I drive the Pilot SUV. I plan on my …

Jul 9, 2005: Jihadists-R-Us Doug Giles: As eight of the most powerful world leaders were convening in Gleneagles, Scotland for the G8 Summit trying to figure out how to battle …

Jul 9, 2005: Nissan to take on Porsche? I read this story with some amusement. If Nissan is serious about competing with Porsche, maybe they can start with modding up their interiors so it …

Jul 9, 2005: The real extremists David Limbaugh reveals the Democrats' plan to paint constitutional originalists as "extremists": They are hoping to convince the people that any …

Jul 9, 2005: A majority is a majority is a majority There is an idiom in the sports world that "a win is a win is a win." In other words, it doesn't matter if you've beaten your opponent by 50 points or …

Jul 9, 2005: Tom turns two Actually, his blog is two years old. Happy Blogiversary, my friend!

Jul 8, 2005: Supreme consequences

There is no greater threat to American liberty and the future of the Republic than a central government not bound by the limits and constraints placed …

Jul 8, 2005: Fiber optic installation attempt: Day Two - Success! The installation technician arrived at approximately 10:45 AM, with, as promised, a co-worker in tow. An hour and fifteen minutes later, with still no …

Jul 8, 2005: The "We created al-Qaeda" myth Gerard Baker: The idea that al-Qaeda was no threat until we created it does not stand the slightest scrutiny of events in the 1990s — from the …

Jul 7, 2005: Yeah, here's a match made in Heaven Is it just me, or is this a marketing sponsorship that's a wee bit out of whack?

Jul 7, 2005: Fiber optic installation attempt: Day 1 Installation of our new Verizon FiOS service was to take place today (Thursday, the 7th) between the hours of 1 and 5 P.M. When the hour of three …

Jul 7, 2005: Standing stronger Jeff Harrell: On a day like today, when al-Qaida has struck a hammer blow against the West and hurt us badly, of course it seems tempting for us to …

Jul 7, 2005: Standing strong Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London: This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime …

Jul 6, 2005: Muslim tolerance If you want to track how tolerant the "Religion of Peace" is, I would suggest one way is to subscribe to the free e-mail updates from the Voice of the …

Jul 6, 2005: Herein lies the problem Nancy Pelosi, on the Kelo decision: It is a decision of the Supreme Court. If Congress wants to change it, it will require legislation of a level of …

Jul 6, 2005: Apparently, I'm a dangerous citizen "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very …

Jul 5, 2005: Geldof and friends miss the mark I am quite proud to say I did not watch a single second of the incredibly vapid, colossal waste of time and public airwaves that was Live 8. Rick …

Jul 5, 2005: We, the Democratic Party, want it both ways Senator Ted Kennedy, 1981: "It is offensive to suggest that a potential justice of the Supreme Court must pass some presumed test of judicial …

Jul 5, 2005: Staying the course Perhaps before she shows precisely how much she's gone off the deep end, Helen Thomas should actually talk with the families and loved ones of …

Jul 5, 2005: A Brit on Bush "In person Mr. Bush is so far removed from the caricature of the dim, war-mongering Texas cowboy of global popular repute that it shakes one's faith …

Jul 5, 2005: Grab a drop cloth and try not to get spattered Like Jeff, I would like to see the Democratic Party come back to the roots it showed during the days of Truman and Kennedy, with regard to national …

Jul 5, 2005: Librarian action figure Noting that Dan provides the main link to Archie McPhee, I can tell you I have seen, in person, the Librarian Action Figure. The toy store on the town …

Jul 5, 2005: Browsing this site I echo Jeff's sentiments. In Windows-world, I recommend Firefox; for the Mac, Safari or Camino.

Jul 5, 2005: About Lance I am pretty ambivalent with regard to Lance Armstrong. Like a majority of Americans, I'm not a gearhead, unlike my pal Dan (who needs a new blog …

Jul 4, 2005: TypeKey changes Six Apart announced an update to the TypeKey service, one of which is that you can now choose to remain logged in to TypeKey for up to 2 weeks. For …

Jul 4, 2005: Independence Day prayer Thank you, David.

Jul 4, 2005: What July Fourth Means to Me For one who was born and grew up in the small towns of the Midwest, there is a special kind of nostalgia about the Fourth of July. Somewhere in our …

Jul 4, 2005: Happy Independence Day Today is the fourth of July, not the Fourth of July. That is not the holiday we celebrate in the United States today. Today we celebrate our …

Jul 2, 2005: Fiber line laid This past Wednesday, a pair of Verizon FiOS line crews were at the house, physically laying the line from the switch at the street up to a new …

Jul 2, 2005: ATPM 11.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. The issue kicks off with some amusing, original artwork from former staffer Grant …

Jun 28, 2005: A Founding Father on property "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public …

Jun 28, 2005: Blinded with the Bush-hatred Jeff calls it: The conclusion is as heart-breaking as it is unavoidable: There are people out there —- reporters, pundits, Senators and …

Jun 28, 2005: Are they reading the same Constitution as the rest of us? Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm too simple-minded to get it. Perhaps because I didn't go to law school, spend years on a judicial bench, and have half a …

Jun 28, 2005: Tiger snuggles up to OfficeJet Thanks to a tip from a MacInTouch reader, my PowerBook, running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1, is successfully printing to my HP OfficeJet d145 again. It was …

Jun 25, 2005: <i>The Last Disciple</i> Hank Hanegraaff, of the "Bible Answer Man" radio show, and author Sigmund Brouwer have teamed up to write The Last Disciple, a novel about …

Jun 24, 2005: Mobile CD Lookup Jon has provided a great way to look up CD info on Amazon. I've already got it bookmarked in my mobile.

Jun 24, 2005: Netflix freaking The Phisch Bowl™ is now a Netflix-renting household. Friends of the Phisch should send us invitations to be added to their Friends lists. We …

Jun 23, 2005: Fiber + phone = July 7 It is confirmed: a Verizon technician will be out on the afternoon of Thursday, the 7th of July, to install the required components for high-speed, …

Jun 20, 2005: DropDMG 2.6.1 Michael announces the release of DropDMG 2.6.1. This update of the easy-to-use disk image creation tool adds support for bzip2-compressed disk images, …

Jun 19, 2005: When editing goes wrong One of the local semi-independent stations is showing Ronin this evening. Now, being one of my favorite action movies, because it is a thinking-man's …

Jun 19, 2005: Rumor sites still costing Apple money Matt D. and I don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things outside the realm of technology. But when it comes to an intense loathing of the rumor sites, …

Jun 19, 2005: Making health care more competitive, and cheaper Jeff Jacoby: Prices are advertised everywhere. From newspapers to billboards to websites, we are forever being told how much things cost. Want to buy …

Jun 19, 2005: Happy Fathers' Day To fellow dads out there, my best wishes for a happy Fathers' Day. There are two men I need to specifically mention: Bucky, thank you for raising the …

Jun 19, 2005: Mac hacking A dual reading selection today, mostly because both are sitting next to me, waiting to ship up New England way to my friend Rich, and both deal with …

Jun 18, 2005: Now I just need to find money to give to a broker There are many reasons why I read Jeff's blog as often as possible. Brother, I need to buy you a beer some time. Does that mean that Apple will never …

Jun 18, 2005: <i>State of the Union</i> Brad Thor delivers another Scot Harvath adventure in State of the Union, as the former Navy SEAL and ex-Secret Service agent is pitted against a Cold …

Jun 18, 2005: Retrophisch Read I started a static list of books I had read on my old blog. As the list grew, I thought about starting a separate blog just for the books, even going …

Jun 17, 2005: What laws should be Politicians of all stripes, take note: "Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of …

Jun 16, 2005: Rethinking the killing of public broadcasting Since my post on the subject, I've been thinking of Tom's comments, and watching as TiVo snags Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Clifford …

Jun 16, 2005: Priorities Lee has his first meal, first tv viewing, and first 'net access in his new place. Congrats on becoming a homeowner, compadre!

Jun 16, 2005: Return of the Wolf Throughout history, the wolf has often been the target of misguided hatred on the part of humans. Personally, I love wolves, the largest of the canine …

Jun 16, 2005: And the left wants government-managed health care? Part II Detailing the woes GM is facing in providing health care to only 160,000 current workers, but 1 million others, Jeff Jacoby provides a microcosm of …

Jun 15, 2005: And the left wants government-managed health care? John Stossel: But today, people expect insurance to cover everything, even routine things like eyeglasses and dental treatment. This is a terrible …

Jun 15, 2005: Shapiro's latest Ben Shapiro: Social liberalism seeks to promote a "live and let live" society wherein all types of deviant behavior is tolerated and accepted. Those …

Jun 14, 2005: Killing bureaucracy Senator Tom Coburn (OK-R): One of the greatest impediments to the president's vision of an ownership society is an inside-the-Beltway entitlement …

Jun 14, 2005: Do we really care? It is a sad, sad, sad indictment of our American culture when the trial verdict of a washed-up has-been, who hasn't put out a decent record in more …

Jun 12, 2005: On the brink Click on the image to see a short movie of the Lower Falls of Yellowstone in action. The hike down to the brink was only three-eighths of a mile, but …

Jun 12, 2005: Joys of parenthood Matthew Baldwin: That's right: fifteen months old and my son has already McGuyvered up a rocket launcher. finslippy: But why do we resist, you ask? …

Jun 12, 2005: Reason #3,147 to buy a summer home in Jackson Hole after we win the lottery Less than 16 hours after arriving back in DFW from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, both the missus and I had stuffy noses, no doubt driven by allergens. …

Jun 8, 2005: Tiger baseball ends 2005 season 40-22 The Rice Owls ended the LSU baseball team's season this past weekend, coming from behind to beat the Tigers 5-4. So, no trip to Omaha this year for …

Jun 8, 2005: On the Apple-to-use-Intel news Yeah, right. Like I care this week about the biggest news in the computing industry quite possibly ever. Click the picture to see a larger version. …

Jun 3, 2005: Tigers crush Marist LSU fell behind early, allowing four runs in the top of the first inning today against Marist. The twelfth-ranked Tigers would only allow one more run …

Jun 3, 2005: Tiger Sync does suck I wholeheartedly agree with Dave Golden that syncing in Tiger is a step back from what it once was in Panther. Before, if I wanted to sync my …

Jun 2, 2005: On school choice David Salisbury: Whenever school choice programs are proposed in the United States, they face fierce opposition from critics who claim that school …

Jun 1, 2005: Productivity's <i>Victoria's Secret</i>?

Jun 1, 2005: An Apple-Yahoo-Google future? Robert X. Cringely: So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to …

Jun 1, 2005: Survivor: Hoth Lawson and I agree that "Survivor: Hoth" would be one reality show we'd tune in to. Me: "Your challenge today, castaways, will be to drag the tauntaun …

Jun 1, 2005: Recommendations, allow me to introduce Wish List Why is it that any time I look at the recommendations Amazon puts forth for my viewing pleasure, half of them are already on my wish list? You would …

Jun 1, 2005: ATPM 11.06 The June issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available, and apparently Rob was in a rhyming mood when he wrote the Welcome. Ellyn looks at …

Jun 1, 2005: Tiger baseball in the post-season I haven't blogged much about the LSU baseball team this year, mainly because I've been focusing more on the local Texas Rangers when it comes to the …

May 31, 2005: Whither goes federalism? David Boaz, of the libertarian Cato Institute, notes that the current incarnation of the Republican Party has turned its back on federalism, …

May 31, 2005: Right investing I've been reading this fascinating essay by James, Piereson, "Investing in the Right Ideas." His account of how the Democratic Party, once led by …

May 30, 2005: Memorial Day Please take a moment today, amidst your cook-outs and shopping, to pause for a minute or so, to honestly and truly meditate on, and remember, those …

May 27, 2005: Give me a boost, will ya? It's so nice to know that when my cat came over minutes ago, rubbing up against my legs, purring, then pushing his head in to my hand when I dropped …

May 27, 2005: Judicial term limits Jeff Jacoby makes a good case for judicial term limits. Can we please do this for members of Congress while we're at it?

May 26, 2005: Foreign trespassers Ron Olliff: '[I]llegal immigration' is an oxymoron. If it's immigration, it is not illegal, and if they are here illegally they are not immigrants, …

May 25, 2005: What happens in Baghdad, stays in Baghdad Can Iraq be the next adult playground? I wonder if they'd ever be able to convince Celine to move... [Via Best of the Web.]

May 25, 2005: Can we find something other than [g]Nats? So I'm hearing that the shortened name for the Washington Nationals is "Nats." Does this not strike anyone else with negative connotations? It has …

May 25, 2005: Filibuster schmilibuster Jeff laments the fact that a compromise used to be a good thing. My response has always been, "It depends on the particular compromise." The …

May 24, 2005: About that filibuster agreement I think today's Cox & Forkum amply shows how worthless the fourteen-Senator filibuster agreement will ultimately prove to be.

May 24, 2005: Safari 2 window positioning I have noticed that Safari 2 likes to launch and not remember where its last window position was. I like my application windows to "stick" to the …

May 23, 2005: Great, so now whom do I vote for? I'll have to look in to the Constitution Party, or something, because it's official: the Republicans have no spine.

May 22, 2005: Killing "public" broadcasting Paul Jacob: There is bias in news reporting and there always will be. That's hardly the problem. The problem is forcing people to pay for the bias …

May 18, 2005: Baton? I don't see a baton Because that so-and-so Tom publicly foisted this meme upon me, and Michael tagged me, too, here goes: Total size of music files on my computer: …

May 17, 2005: Widget fun Two new Dashboard widgets in service tonight: Courtesy of Erik, the Gun Self Defense Counter, which uses a formula developed by Gary Kleck and Marc …

May 17, 2005: Absolutely brilliant Well, we might as well go for the trifecta: Yesterday we wondered what David French's "brilliant answer" was when a Cornell Law School job …

May 17, 2005: Reaction to offense: Muslim vs Christian I'm sorry for another post from Best of the Web, but Taranto and company are simply on today: Still, by way of comparison, recall that three years …

May 17, 2005: The crusading media Today's Best of the Web has what is quite possibly the best explanation of what has gone wrong with the mainstream media over the past forty years. …

May 17, 2005: About those pensions In yesterday's Political Diary, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. reminds us that the recent pension ills at United Airlines are, well, the fault of its employee …

May 12, 2005: Ann Coulter to move to Iraq Radical Left falls over itself volunteering packing help. Soros confirms he will cover all moving expenses. Bill Maher "despondent." News at 11.

May 12, 2005: PETA's Dirty Secret PETA kills animals. I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

May 12, 2005: On the working class Best of the Web Today: What we wonder is: How come it never occurs to liberals or Democrats that the very terms in which they phrase the question are …

May 11, 2005: Programming offshoring - literally The Monster Blog: ...[T]alk about treading in murky waters, here’s one from the reality-trumps-fiction workplace annals: Two entrepreneurs have …

May 10, 2005: Why we fight Guy Cannon: This pretty much says it all.

May 10, 2005: Hope it's just the beta I have to concur with John Gruber's comments regarding the Longhorn beta screenshots. I never thought I'd say this, but if I had to use a PC, at this …

May 5, 2005: Just enjoy the movie Jim Geraghty, via Tom: I’m being warned about the dangers of capitalism from a man who made perhaps more money from merchandising than any …

May 5, 2005: The Cat Rules When did Chuq visit my house? BEDTIME: Always sleep on the human at night so he/she cannot move around. LITTER BOX: When using the litter box, be …

May 4, 2005: How much are you spending on java? John Stossel ran an unscientific, blind taste test of six different brands of coffee, ranging from $12 a pound to $4 a pound. The result was, at least …

May 4, 2005: Let's stop the victimization of the poor Walter E. Williams: Here's my question for you: What are we to make of people who preach pessimism and doom to people -- telling them that they're …

May 4, 2005: Tiger is nirvana Michael Gartenberg: If you spend too much time organizing your stuff or just can't find it, you need to take a close look at Tiger. There's a real …

May 3, 2005: Gladiator to be a reality? Inside Line is reporting the possibility of a four-door, Gladiator-style, Jeep truck that may appear in 2008. My hope is that if Jeep brings a truck …

May 3, 2005: What's your name? Courtesy of Brother Spikey Mace of Loving Kindness, according to the Unitarian Jihad Name Assignment Committee, you may now refer to me as The Gatling …

May 3, 2005: Tied for first So at this past Sunday's game, we learned that Faith Lutheran--the team which handed us our only loss--lost their game earlier in the day. A win on …

May 3, 2005: Where's my copy of Tiger? So rather than futz around with having to mail in a rebate form by ordering from Amazon, I ordered my copy of Mac OS X Tiger from OWC. Having done …

May 3, 2005: Hitler was a leftist So I noticed Tom posted his score on a "Are you a Republican?" meme. With the knowledge that I do lean to the right of center, and have voted mostly …

May 3, 2005: How's that Honda soy? Apparently, the higher-ups at Honda in the mother country love soybeans. A lot.

May 3, 2005: Microsoft fonts still in Tiger John Gruber notes that the Microsoft fonts typically associated with and installed with Internet Explorer are still present in Mac OS X Tiger. Good …

May 2, 2005: ATPM 11.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Ellyn discusses generic vs brand-name, and though she …

Apr 29, 2005: WallyPower 118 Don't let the name fool you. This is the yacht to buy when you hit the jackpot. Just hope the jackpot's big enough for you to hire a crew as well.

Apr 28, 2005: BlackBerry 7100t no like SE Akono If anyone out there figures out how to pair a BlackBerry 7100t with a Sony Ericsson Akono Bluetooth headset, please [let me know …

Apr 28, 2005: Spotlight gotchas Jeff Harrell has a good article on things to keep in mind when using Mac OS X Tiger's new Spotlight.

Apr 28, 2005: North Pole Wi-Fi Intel is responsible for the northernmost wi-fi spot known, with placement approximately 130 kilometers from the North Pole.

Apr 28, 2005: Adobe's markets Gruber sums up quite well my feelings about Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia: Rather than expand into untapped creative markets, Adobe seems …

Apr 25, 2005: We have met the enemy, and he is us So the Toad directed my attention to a rant by Kim du Toit on how the ATF views law-abiding gun owners, in light of quotes from Gerald Nunziato, the …

Apr 24, 2005: Lawson on Locusts Lawson has a blow-by-blow review of CBS's made-for-television Locusts: 2135: Three commercial breaks already and not one Ortho commercial? Someone at …

Apr 24, 2005: Won but lost The team improved to 6-1 today, as we lost to our friends at Flower Mound UMC, 14-10. Yes, that's right, we won, but we lost. FM UMC didn't have …

Apr 24, 2005: Star Wars Aurora No, nothing to do with that wonderful phenomenon in northern night skies, but rather with Alienware's Star Wars special edition Aurora PCs. While no …

Apr 23, 2005: The two doors of the mosque Muslim activist groups like CAIR wonder why a lot of Americans don't trust Muslims. Maybe it's because if everyone knew what was really going on …

Apr 20, 2005: ACLU "observers" aiding illegals, smoking dope WorldNetDaily: Volunteers with the Minuteman Project in Arizona say "legal observers" sent by the ACLU to monitor the citizen border patrol have been …

Apr 18, 2005: What's in the Retrophisch&trade; Bag Recently, Michael Hyatt revealed what was in his business carry-on, and posed the question to others of what is in their's. So here's the official …

Apr 18, 2005: About that overvalued Euro... Bruce Bawer: ...[A] study by a Swedish research organization, Timbro, which compared the gross domestic products of the 15 European Union members …

Apr 18, 2005: Lorem Scriptsum Whenever I need to generate filler text, I've been using MacLorem. It's a handy little app, it's freeware, and it can generate text in Hawai'ian, …

Apr 18, 2005: WalkAmerica 2005 It's that time of the year again, when I pimp my readers for donations to a worthy cause. At the end of this month, my wife and I will be …

Apr 18, 2005: Does this look like a monopoly to anyone else? Adobe to acquire Macromedia. Whoa.

Apr 18, 2005: But there is no media bias 5 LGF exposes the truth behind the headline.

Apr 17, 2005: On note-taking Michael Hyatt has an excellent look at the art of note-taking. Like Merlin, Mr. Hyatt is a Moleskine aficionado. Maybe it's just me, but I can't see …

Apr 17, 2005: Who's going with me to the midnight show? Being the incredibly lame Star Wars geek that I am--I was six when Episode IV came out, and have been hooked ever since--I have made it a tradition to …

Apr 16, 2005: PATRIOT ACT Pop Quiz Link to a legitimate news story showcasing a civil acts violation in the United States as a result of the PATRIOT ACT. Good luck. To date, not one …

Apr 16, 2005: Did you have a happy Government Income Confiscation Day? Mark Alexander: In the late 19th century, Justice Stephen J. Field noted in an opinion: "If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an …

Apr 16, 2005: Closing the book on the metrosexual revolution Thank God. Doug Giles: Now, for all you Backstreet Boys who are wondering if, if, you are one of these metrosexual males from whom women, men and …

Apr 13, 2005: Reading your Gmail via Atom I've been using GmailStatus to alert me when I get new mail to my Gmail account (anyone [want an …

Apr 13, 2005: Seeking VNC help I've been futzing around with OSXvnc on my Cube and Chicken of the VNC on my PowerBook, and I cannot get the latter to connect to the former. Is …

Apr 13, 2005: What would we do without stock analysts? Today's MDJ provides good background information on Apple's quarterly financial conference call coming later this afternoon. Matt & Company's …

Apr 5, 2005: How to Get into Blogs 101 Stephen O’Grady has assembled a good introductory article for those who may not have gotten in to the blog-reading thing. For those of you …

Apr 5, 2005: Layers? In what yours truly believes is a huge branding mistake, Mac Design is changing it's name to Layers. Ick. Publisher Scott Kelby reasons: The magazine …

Apr 5, 2005: Jefferson on the judiciary "The Constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please." --Thomas …

Apr 4, 2005: Sacrosanct for me but not for thee Roy Jacobsen: How is it that some people can see the Constitution as a "living, breathing" document, that it must be adapted and interpreted in the …

Apr 4, 2005: Six Apart-GoLive intergration Adobe GoLive CS2 is going to have integrated tools from Six Apart for MovableType and TypePad users. Maybe this will be a way to speed up generation …

Apr 4, 2005: Hipster Dock For those of you with a Hipster PDA like mine, you can now have a docking station. [Via the 43 Folders del.icio.us page.]

Apr 4, 2005: Andrew Manzione, your father is looking for you John Manzione is trying to locate his son Andrew, with whom he has had no contact in 18 years. If you know Andrew, or if for some reason Andrew is …

Apr 4, 2005: Sergeant Paul Ray Smith, United States Army Today President Bush posthumous awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Paul Ray Smith of the U.S. Army. Sergeant Smith, in April of 2003, led a …

Apr 4, 2005: Micro editor for hire? So much for my idea of making a few bucks. This is one reason why he's my best online bud: he won't b.s. me. I guess my copy editing will continue to …

Apr 4, 2005: My infectious meme

Apr 4, 2005: Frank-ly speaking on the Treo 650 Steven Frank is going to have me lusting after the Treo 650 again.

Apr 4, 2005: Our Divine Tribunal Joseph Sobran: The Divine Tribunal -- excuse me, I mean the Supreme Court of the United States, as it's officially known -- has decided, by a 5-to-4 …

Apr 4, 2005: Quote of the day As seen on the Laura Ingraham web site this morning: "At this point I would rather have a right-wing Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member." …

Apr 3, 2005: Swift end to perfect season So the team suffered its first loss of the season today, dropping to 3-1. Against an old competitor, the team collectively couldn't get much going on …

Apr 3, 2005: How our constitutions are supposed to work James Atticus Bowden: Two Republican Florida Senators could have saved Terry Schiavo's life by voting 'yes' to a law. 'The death penalty is an …

Apr 1, 2005: ATPM 11.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn looks at the ongoing Apple trade secret lawsuits, which Wes covers as well. …

Apr 1, 2005: More on the Apple trade secret cases If you're not subscribing to MDJ or MWJ, you're missing out on what is the very best and most comprehensive coverage of the ongoing Apple trade secret …

Apr 1, 2005: The Politics of Silicon Valley Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard has an intriguing look at the politics of Silicon Valley. Hint: incumbents are despised, "disrupters" are loved.

Mar 31, 2005: Take her seriously, but don't panic Peggy Noonan, on Mrs. Clinton seeking the presidency: Republicans--I have been among many--are now in the stage of the Hillary Conversation in which …

Mar 31, 2005: Taking away their shovels Herman Cain: "Congress doesn't act unless there is a crisis," one member of Congress once told me. That axiom is growing more apparent every day. …

Mar 30, 2005: Guarding your privates on campus Mike S. Adams: One FAL member’s monologue follows: "Hello, my name is Mary Man-Hating-Is-Fun. I am 23 years old, and I am what a feminist looks …

Mar 24, 2005: Chris Who? Is there any doubt left that Chris Kattan is a third-rate hack whose career at Saturday Night Live only lasted as long as it did because he rode the …

Mar 24, 2005: Comcast 2005 Customer Survey Earlier in the week, we received a post card-based customer satisfaction survey from Comcast. We get ultra-basic cable and our high-speed Internet …

Mar 24, 2005: Loving death Peggy Noonan: Terri Schiavo may well die. No good will come of it. Those who are half in love with death will only become more red-fanged and …

Mar 23, 2005: Flickr-ed I have joined the Flickr bandwagon. You can see my first set, from February of last year, "Winter Wonderland 2004". I am in the process of looking for …

Mar 22, 2005: Installing BT module in G5 Going thru a backlog of RSS reading, I came across this post on installing the Bluetooth module in a Power Macintosh G5. One of my duties in the …

Mar 22, 2005: Free tech support Yes, really. Free tech support. [Via hackaday.]

Mar 22, 2005: If it's contraband, can we remove it from display? Further proof that (a) I don't know much about and don't care to know much about "modern" art, and (b) that some people have too much time on their …

Mar 22, 2005: Cylon on your desk Maybe I've just been watching too much Battlestar Galactica, but does anyone else think that VKB’s Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard looks like some …

Mar 22, 2005: Baby's first iPod This is giving me all sorts of ideas, should we have another tyke.

Mar 21, 2005: Pimp My Safari Jon Hicks has set up the definitive Safari extensibility site. I say that only because no one else has, so as the first, Jon gets the honor of …

Mar 21, 2005: Sit on a key This is exactly the sort of thing dot-coms would have been blowing venture capital on for their lobbies and any worker who wanted one.

Mar 21, 2005: You moved <i>Seinfeld</i> to when? So our local Fox station has been advertising that they're bringing back King of the Hill to its late-night comedy line-up, following Seinfeld. Great, …

Mar 21, 2005: Camino's new digs Mozilla offspring Camino has a new site. I like the new look, and downloaded the latest nightly build. Maybe it will be more stable on my system than …

Mar 21, 2005: Third-time charm The team went 3-0 this Sunday with a resounding 19-0 defeat of our opponent, another rookie outing by a new church. The bats were certainly mighty for …

Mar 20, 2005: Brainboost I've been dinking around with the Brainboost Answer Engine. Pretty nifty. You've got to love the big 'fro-spinning gears icon. [Via Make: Blog.]

Mar 17, 2005: The too-quiet motorcycle An interesting example of the law of unintended consequences: you design a hybrid motorcycle that results in zero emissions, but because it has no …

Mar 17, 2005: Do bikes grow on trees? They do in Geneva. Too cool.

Mar 17, 2005: Incredibles: 5 million on the first day It's nice to know I was able to contribute to the sales of five million DVD and video units of The Incredibles on the first day of its release.

Mar 17, 2005: The most color-accurate photographic system ever? Tom Watson and his business partner, Rob Howard, have devised a 144-megapixel camera system. Watson claims it is "the most color-accurate photographic …

Mar 16, 2005: Do we have allies or not? The AP editoralizes: Italy said Tuesday it will start drawing down its 3,000-strong contingent in Iraq in September, putting a fresh crack in …

Mar 16, 2005: Cat conversation This IM conversation, which I had very early this morning, has been edited for brevity and comedy.

Mar 16, 2005: What's at stake in Lebanon With the democracy domino wobbling and threatening to fall in Lebanon, there is a lot at stake for many in the region. The Wall Street Journal sums it …

Mar 16, 2005: Peerflix I can see the value in a service like Peerflix. I've got some DVDs that I'd like to get rid of, but don't feel like wasting time with eBay or …

Mar 16, 2005: Secret post An example of "practice what you preach"?

Mar 16, 2005: SSA makes case for reforming itself Brendan Miniter: Private accounts would pay workers based on the total amount they've paid into the system over their working lifetimes, not an …

Mar 15, 2005: Windows: The Bloated Cow Michael Hyatt: I understand that the code name for the next version of Windows is "Longhorn." Note: this is not an improvement over "Whistler." All I …

Mar 14, 2005: resurrection For those who may care, having been inspired by Hugh Hewitt's Blog, I have resumed blogging at Godblog, as of March 1st.

Mar 13, 2005: Spring training So as the boys of summer gear up for another season of America's game, we dreamers suited up for game two of our spring season. I only fielded 2 of …

Mar 11, 2005: On the Apple lawsuits I have refrained thus far from commenting on the lawsuits by Apple against Think Secret, PowerPage, and Apple Insider, none of whom I will dignify …

Mar 11, 2005: So what exactly are you protesting? Amir Taheri: I spent part of last week ringing up the organizers of the anti-war events with a couple of questions. The first: Would they allow …

Mar 11, 2005: Tiger RSS screensaver I'm sorry, but you just won't see something so insanely, wicked cool as this on Windows.

Mar 11, 2005: Oh, to be working again Though I don't drink coffee, I would have to have a chalk mug if I found myself in the workplace again. This would have come in so handy to send …

Mar 11, 2005: The real domestic issue Peggy Noonan points to civil defense, not Social Security or tax cuts, as the real number-one domestic issue. The one no one is talking about.

Mar 9, 2005: Hack hack Funny how differently colds affect folks. My son has been fighting one longer than I, and it manifests itself with a constantly running nose. Meds …

Mar 8, 2005: New PDA I have succumbed to the Hipster meme:

Mar 6, 2005: Opening Day Our softball league's spring season began today. Most of the old crew was back, with a couple of new faces. We faced a new opponent for this first …

Mar 2, 2005: Being hijacked I am not referring to an airline hijacking. Michael informed me this morning that our host for ATPM told him we went over our bandwidth limit for the …

Mar 1, 2005: ATPM 11.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your viewing pleasure. Ellyn opens with a look at a life in--or on, …

Feb 28, 2005: 2I is 1 This week is the week of site birthdays, I suppose. Lee's Second Initial turns one today. Congratulations, compadre!

Feb 28, 2005: Mickey Mouse Musical Toaster No, I'm not kidding. As if we needed another reason to lobby for copyright law overhaul.

Feb 28, 2005: Just Can't Get This Out Of My Head So while ripping CDs and loading up my wife's Shuffle, I decided to listen to a few tunes on it. I am still amazed that music comes out of this little …

Feb 28, 2005: MT turns two No, not that MT. My pal Jon's MobileTracker celebrated its second year of publication today. Congratulations, Mr. Gales!

Feb 28, 2005: Mapping the tax man Since Google Maps now works in Safari, and I had to get our property taxes paid today, I thought I would give the new service a whirl. I prefer it to …

Feb 26, 2005: Shotgun Rules No, not a shotgun as in firearm (though those do rule, especially when it comes to room-to-room clearing), but as in calling "Shotgun!" when you're …

Feb 26, 2005: Great moments in socialized medicine Dave Murphy, for the San Francisco Chronicle: From the time Tilly Merrell was a year old, doctors told her family she would never have a normal life …

Feb 25, 2005: About those unblocked pop-up/under ads In case you've ever wondered why you keep getting pop-up or pop-under ads, even though you have pop-up blocking enabled in Safari or Firefox, MDJ has …

Feb 24, 2005: New long distance record in Iraq A U.S. Marine, Staff Sgt. Steve Reichert, has scored a kill shot while engaging the enemy in Iraq, and the shot was over a mile away. For his actions, …

Feb 23, 2005: Identity thieves targeting medical patients Read this article now, as it will become subscriber-only after March 1st. The biggest vulnerability of hospital patients is that their Social …

Feb 23, 2005: Flying the American Flag I got a postcard in the mail from a local real estate agent, and on it was a helpful list of flag-flying days. Some of these will already be on iCal's …

Feb 23, 2005: Looking at you, bureaucrats "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson

Feb 22, 2005: And the winner of my almost twenty bucks is... Last night, my Movable Type installation decided it wanted to keep me from further posting on any of my blogs. This wasn't simply an authentication …

Feb 21, 2005: "But the police will protect you, you don't need a gun..." Tell that to Barbara Gesell and her daughter Theresa, who used her .45-caliber handgun to subdue the purse snatcher who attacked the elder Gesell, 83, …

Feb 21, 2005: Free speech, private versus public Ann Coulter: Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want …

Feb 21, 2005: "We are what we say we are not." George Neumayr: Whenever a Democrat tells the public what his party "is not" he's revealing to them what it is. John Kerry fell into this habit …

Feb 21, 2005: Who declared it President's Day? Today we celebrate Washington's Birthday. Yet on every calendar I own, today is noted as President's Day, where we supposedly honor both George …

Feb 17, 2005: Summer hockey? Should there ever be another NHL season, Darryl Reaugh, color man for the Dallas Stars, may have hit a motherload of an idea on moving the time of the …

Feb 17, 2005: The usurping judiciary It truly is quite amazing how prescient our Founding Fathers were: "It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its …

Feb 16, 2005: Congratulations to the NHL and NHLPA The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, a fact proudly touted in the sports world by the NHL. Now professional …

Feb 16, 2005: What's so del.icio.us about it? Am I the only one who doesn't get the whole del.icio.us craze?

Feb 16, 2005: iScrolling I just installed the temporary version of Daniel Becker's iScroll2 on my 12-inch PowerBook G4 1 GHz. I'm loving it. Provided it proves stable, I'll …

Feb 16, 2005: MT-TypeKey dual login? So I just left a comment, in reply to one left by Raena, and a thought occurred to me: If I'm logged in to my Movable Type installation already, why …

Feb 14, 2005: Pair of Harleys

So today I picked up the pair of Harley-Davidsons I ordered. To see a picture of these beauties, click below.

Feb 13, 2005: In my right mind So I've been thinking about Daniel Pink's article, "Revenge of the Right Brain", over the past couple of days, and it's amazing how much my own …

Feb 13, 2005: Cause a ruckus Are those Vespa scooters a tad too girly for you? Get a Big Ruckus, courtesy of Honda. [Via Wired.]

Feb 13, 2005: New archives Thanks to inspiration from Lee, and code from Chris, I have the master archive index page I've been wanting. You will note there is no longer a …

Feb 13, 2005: About your Social Security "account" Jeff Jacoby: You don't have to be a financial wizard to know that Social Security is a lousy investment. Unlike the money you deposit in a bank or …

Feb 12, 2005: On being the opposition Ted Van Dyk: Republican control of the White House, both houses of Congress, and state houses gives the GOP its strongest national position since the …

Feb 9, 2005: Long distance record in Iraq The Toad reports on a new long-distance sniping record in Iraq, by a U.S. Marine sniper. I like Brian's thought: I wonder what goes through the minds …

Feb 9, 2005: Bayesian Logic intro Computerworld has an article on "Bayesian Logic and Filters" in their QuickStudy section this week. This is the sort of logic behind many of the …

Feb 8, 2005: Secure your Mac the NSA way If you'd like to secure your Macintosh in the same manner as the National Security Agency, you can download a PDF explaining how here. [Via the March …

Feb 7, 2005: What a Crock Pot, that is. Over the past year, we have rediscovered the joys of cooking with a Crock-Pot. Today, I made a Weight Watchers Chili Mac recipe in ours, …

Feb 7, 2005: Napster needs to do the math again See Napster's Super Bowl ads? Think you'll remember them three weeks from now? Right. Ashlee Vance dissects Napster's supposed costs, which do not …

Feb 7, 2005: Jeep Gladiator While the Honda Ridgeline remains the practical object of my truck-lust, the concept Jeep Gladiator has vaulted to the top of my "if money and …

Feb 6, 2005: Longing for home

In his Daily Devotional for February 1st (free registration required), Pastor Greg Laurie talks about a homesickness for heaven.

You were created …

Feb 6, 2005: Wahhabists running amok From the "Religion of Peace" Department, Jeff Jacoby: In which country are Muslims being taught the following lessons? "Everyone who does not …

Feb 6, 2005: 94 Today would have been President Ronald Reagan's 94th birthday. Jeff Harrell: President Reagan meant a lot to me. I never met the man, nor did I ever …

Feb 4, 2005: On the Gonzales confirmation vote Hispanic-Americans, take note. The party which claims to have your interests at heart, the party which claims to be the tolerant one, the party which …

Feb 4, 2005: A Democrat who supports private accounts for Social Security John Fund, in today's Political Diary: Republican members of Congress have a ready response for Democrats crying foul over President Bush's constant …

Feb 4, 2005: Intelligent Design "new" James Taranto: In the Beginning "How did life, in its infinite complexity, come to be?" asks Newsweek in a subheadline. "A controversial new theory …

Feb 3, 2005: Ocean, pool, pool, ocean Based on this photo, should I ever get Down Under, I'm making a mental note to not go swimming in the Bondi Icebergs pool...

Feb 3, 2005: A thousand words, indeed Jeff Harrell sums up my feelings from the State of the Union. I cried, too, Jeff.

Feb 3, 2005: Looking for love in all the wrong places Apparently, the Democratic Party is ready to lose the next couple of election rounds as well. Jeff Jacoby: Speaking to a DNC forum in New York over …

Feb 3, 2005: Beatles-Monkees mash If this doesn't prove that the original, interchangeable bubble-gum pop didn't come from the UK, I'm not sure what will. [Via Eric Case, QuickTime …

Feb 2, 2005: About that PowerBook G5 So my previous rumination on the G5 in a PowerBook and the Mac Mini bears a little updating. On Monday, Apple announced new PowerBook G4s, showing the …

Feb 2, 2005: AutoPO Has the United States Postal Service installed one of the new automated postal machines in your local branch? They have in ours, and I wish they had …

Feb 2, 2005: Boingo for Mac In case you aren't a T-Mobile HotSpot subscriber, you can now use your Macintosh on the Boingo Wireless network. I can't get the word "Oingo" out of …

Feb 2, 2005: Microsoft overrun by the iPod MacMinute notes a Wired article showing how despite the best efforts of management, Microsoft employees know a clear winner when they see one. …

Feb 2, 2005: PulpFiction nabs 4.5 mice So the March issue of Macworld arrived today, and I was reading through it over lunch. One of the articles is a round-up of news reader apps, and …

Feb 2, 2005: How to fold a shirt Yes, really. I can see this will entail some practice. [Via The Sneeze.]

Feb 2, 2005: So, yeah, I was <i>stupid</i> Enormously, incredibly stupid. Michael was right. I was insane. I am man enough to admit such. No more blogging at Godblog or digitalpembroke. (I do …

Feb 2, 2005: Quiet bliss The little phisch is at school. The dog is at the cleaners. The cats are off napping some where, since that's what cats do, when they're not sitting …

Feb 2, 2005: Is Gmail reaching saturation? Tom notes logging in to his Gmail account this morning, and finding 50 invitations to offer to others. This prompted me to do the same, wondering if I …

Feb 1, 2005: Mac Mini to cannibalize older Mac sales Yeah, I know, there's a shocker of a realization, right? But it's true. Since the Mac Mini was announced, I've had many instant message conversations …

Feb 1, 2005: It's nice to know we're cool Christian Science Monitor: Paul Saffo, a director of the Menlo Park-based Institute for the Future, a technology forecasting firm, says Apple's two …

Feb 1, 2005: Fighting the link spammers Everyone seems to be linking to The Register's interview with a link spammer. This is what caught my attention: "The hardest form to spam is that …

Feb 1, 2005: ATPM 11.02 The February issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Ellyn notes the need for healthy skepticism on the …

Jan 25, 2005: The Mac introduction If you've followed every Macworld Expo keynote QuickTime stream since, well, since Apple's been offering them, and you wonder what it would have been …

Jan 24, 2005: MacInTouch on the Mac Mini Ric Ford, the original Macintosh blogger, has a review of the Mac Mini.

Jan 23, 2005: Looking ahead to the G5 Mini So looking around a bit at the Mac web this weekend, it appears the PowerBook G5 rumors are about to start gaining steam. Supposedly the current …

Jan 21, 2005: Introducing the rotary cell phone As you hearken back to yesteryear, longing for those good ol' Luddite days, please note that you too can build a rotary cell phone. [Via Lawson via …

Jan 20, 2005: LSU goes Xserve MacMinute reports that my alma mater has put online a 24-Xserve G5 cluster named Nemeaux. So I guess this proves that Tigers eat Apples...or …

Jan 19, 2005: SE T616 anyone? So my wife decided to take the plunge, switched her phone service to the new Crackberry her employer purchased for her, and we now have a SIM …

Jan 19, 2005: Thought shuffle So according to Apple, one of the big reasons for bringing out the iPod Shuffle is the shuffle "phenomenon with iPod users - the 'shuffle songs' …

Jan 17, 2005: The price of being a Mac user Michael opines on the increased software value of an iWork-loaded Mac Mini, when compared to purchasing iLife '05, iWork, and an OS upgrade …

Jan 16, 2005: Can corporate IT mirror the Navy? Frank Hayes: ...[T]he new Navy policy shows signs of being a remarkably sane model for what users should do with IT, at least the way it's described …

Jan 13, 2005: Another Mac master Michael Crichton: Q: Describe the perfect writing environment. A: Small room. Shades down. No daylight. No disturbances. Macintosh with a big screen. …

Jan 13, 2005: Chained notes I rediscovered a gem by former ATPM staffer Kirk McElhearn from the June 2004 issue of Macworld. In the Working Mac column, Kirk is discussing …

Jan 10, 2005: BBAutoComplete 1.4 Michael has released BBAutoComplete 1.4. BBAutoComplete gives you word auto-completion in scriptable applications like BBEdit, Mailsmith, Tex-Edit, …

Jan 7, 2005: Still no OmniWeb for this phisch Michael's analysis of OmniWeb's shortcomings, and Gruber's comment to the post, leave me wondering why I continue to download and install the thing, …

Jan 7, 2005: Combatting spam for Movable Type users His Gruberness has written, on behalf and with the input of, Six Apart, a comprehensive guide on weblog comment spam. This has given me some ideas for …

Jan 3, 2005: Next-gen camou So do you recall the sci-fi tales of the wearable, adaptable camouflage that reflects the wearer's environment back on to the environment, essentially …

Dec 31, 2004: ATPM 11.01 The January issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Ellyn resolves not to make resolutions, while Wes …

Dec 28, 2004: Google 2004 Zeitgeist Anyone else out there find the 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist to be a total yawner?

Dec 27, 2004: Which BT headset? Increasingly, I am finding that it would be easier to have a Bluetooth headset for use with my Sony Ericsson T616. I'm currently leaning toward either …

Dec 26, 2004: New toy Santa was very good to the Retrophisch™ this year. By way of Missus Phisch, the jolly old elf delivered a Canon PowerShot S500 Digital Elph, an …

Dec 20, 2004: Retrophisch&trade; on the Eddys Taking a cue from Michael, I'd thought I'd look at the 2004 Macworld Editors Choice Awards to see how they fit in my hardware and software toolbelt: + …

Dec 13, 2004: On Amazon's search engine I have come to the conclusion--and many of you may be wondering what took me so long--that Amazon's search engine could be vastly improved. Viz: I …

Dec 13, 2004: Mid-range Mac comparison Ric Ford found some surprising results in a mid-range Macintosh face-off with today's Performance Comparison: eMac G4, iBook G4 and iMac G5.

Dec 11, 2004: Having a blast with BlastApp Ever have one of those moments where something gives a swift kick to your memory box and you suddenly rediscover an old joy? Such it was this evening …

Dec 11, 2004: War hath been declared So some of you may have noticed the site was down earlier this evening for about an hour. My sysadmin pulled the plug, so to speak, because those scum …

Dec 7, 2004: iPod flash Engadget notes TheMacMind.com's report on the supposedly forthcoming iPod flash, a tiny, flash memory-based MP3 player that will round out Apple's …

Dec 2, 2004: Gear Lust and Loathing 2005 This time of year, everyone and their editor is churning out some sort of gadget list for their December issue. I have decided to share my comments on …

Nov 23, 2004: Pogue's Posts Macintosh author extraordinaire David Pogue now has a daily blog, courtesy of the New York Times.

Nov 15, 2004: Audion ends at 3 Yes, I'm a wee bit behind in my web reading, having been on vacation last week, and I'm still getting caught up. So Panic has retired Audion. …

Nov 4, 2004: ATPM 10.11 The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Lee's cover is inspired. Mondo thanks to Gruber for playing along. Ellyn explores the …

Nov 3, 2004: Want a Rolex? Everyone else out there seeing a huge load in Rolex-related spam? I swear, Rolex-related e-mail is between 1 in 7 to 1 in 10 of the spam I'm getting …

Oct 27, 2004: Turning Two The previous entry marked number 800 for this now two-year-old blog. Despite it being noted on my calendar, I completely missed the two-year …

Oct 25, 2004: Treo 650 official After months of leaked photos and specs, PalmOne has officially announced the Treo 650 smartphone, available some time in the coming months from …

Oct 24, 2004: The end of e-mail? I know it's ancient history as far as the Internet is concerned (19 July 2004), but I thought Mark Hall's "The End of E-mail" was worth noting. I'm …

Oct 22, 2004: Software Update before and after Dr. Mac has excellent advice for preparation and post-op procedures for working with Mac OS X's Software Update in his latest column for Mac Design …

Oct 21, 2004: Desktops by co2metal I discovered these desktops by co2metal, aka Andy, while cruising through ResExcellence last week. Now, I'm not nearly in to the whole GUI …

Oct 20, 2004: Our Mr. Gales in print Hearty congratulations go out to Friend of the Phisch™ Jon Gales, who is featured in the November issue of Business 2.0! (The issue in question …

Oct 20, 2004: Annoyance: CD security tape I can appreciate the little sticky security tape on the tops of CDs sold to consumers. I realize it is a preventive measure against the CDs being …

Oct 20, 2004: PowerBook goodies A couple of PowerBook-related goodies were announced yesterday that has the phisch bowl churning. MCE announced a new 100 GB internal drive for every …

Oct 16, 2004: Mr. Bennett Goes to Dallas Lee blogging from the phisch bowl. So Lee was in town for an annual conference, and spent Saturday afternoon hanging out with me, the missus, and the …

Oct 9, 2004: MacSurfShop returns! My favorite merchant of Mac-related apparel has re-opened for business. Mike Yraelbra, the Big Kahuna, has brought back the MacSurfShop, with a new …

Oct 6, 2004: Ballmer smackdown continuation As usual, Mr. Gruber does a better job than most at dissecting a topic, in this case Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's crude comments regarding Apple and …

Oct 6, 2004: Sticking with BBEdit, thanks Michael, who is much more knowledgeable of such things than I, has an overview of MacroMates' newly-released TextMate, which purports to be a BBEdit …

Oct 5, 2004: Categories no more So after deliberating over whether or not to eliminate categories--and thank you so much for all those comments with feedback--I have decided to can …

Oct 5, 2004: Soyuz PowerBook Laptop bag Dan rightly points out how wicked cool it would be to own a laptop bag made from parts of a parachute that has been in orbit around the Earth. Space …

Oct 5, 2004: Such maturity for a CEO Lee points to another Silicon.com article which reveals Steve Ballmer is even more of a childish imbecile than was previously thought.

Oct 5, 2004: Memo to Steve Ballmer Mr. Ballmer: Despite your reckless and libelous statements regarding Apple and the iPod, please note that your 12-year-old is likely hiding stolen …

Oct 5, 2004: Happy Tenth, Ric Yesterday, Ric Ford celebrated the 10th anniversary of MacInTouch. MacInTouch is, to my best recollection, the original Macintosh news blog, from …

Oct 3, 2004: A prettier Firefox? There seems to be a movement afoot to pretty-up the Mac version of Firefox. Jon Hicks came up with some native-looking widgets, and Kevin Gerich has …

Oct 1, 2004: Brain Bag trade? Anyone out there with a black Brain Bag willing to trade for a sapphire (blue) Brain Bag? Mine is in like-new condition, was originally sent to me as …

Oct 1, 2004: Fun with statistics 2 In the first 17 hours of October 2004, these are the Top 10 Search Phrases for retrophisch.com: 1. earthquakes in france 2. definition of a liberal 3. …

Sep 30, 2004: Tattoo residue Engadget is reporting that the iPod tattoos being provided by HP can leave an unpleasant aftertaste.

Sep 27, 2004: Virgin Galactic No, that's not a typo. Richard "I-have-more-money-than-I-know-what-to-do-with" Branson is going to cater to his peers with the new Virgin Galactic, …

Sep 21, 2004: Gmail for Newties I have some Gmail invitations to give away. All of my friends and online acquaintances already have accounts. It seems that Gmail4Troops has a surplus …

Sep 21, 2004: To categorize or not to categorize? That is the question. I have wondered, of late, if I should continue to bother. If I shouldn't just stop categorizing, and kill all current …

Sep 13, 2004: Register.com's radio nonsense Have you head the radio ad from Register.com with the two guys, "We lost the client because we didn't have a web site"? What utter tripe. Apparently, …

Sep 3, 2004: Fun with statistics Top 10 search phrases for retrophisch.com for the first three days of September: 1. powerbook skin 2. definition of a liberal 3. sweet 4. conservative …

Sep 2, 2004: ATPM 10.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. Ellyn sneaks in a word on integration, while Matt pontificates over the new …

Aug 27, 2004: Browse happy The Web Standards Project has started a new campaign, called Browse Happy, as an attempt to get people to switch from the unsafe, non-pop-up ad …

Aug 27, 2004: Wi-FiPods MacMinute notes a report by The Register on open positions within the iPod team for wireless networking engineers. Tony Smith proceeds to pontificate …

Aug 24, 2004: The Apple Table For the Apple Macintosh lover who has everything, there is now the Apple Table. It's actually kind of ergonomic, in the way that the cutouts allow the …

Aug 23, 2004: Microsoft patents <i>sudo</i> Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. (With a wave of the flipper to Lawson.)

Aug 23, 2004: About that halo effect USA Today: Apple's trendy iPod digital music player, which has revitalized the company, is giving laptop sales a boost during back-to-school season. …

Aug 18, 2004: Happy Birthday, MDJ! Belated birthday wishes to Matt Deatherage and the entire MDJ on their eighth anniversary of publication. The August 12th issue of MDJ marked the …

Aug 11, 2004: Bleex Could this Berkeley project be coming to a future-soldier project near you? (Wouldn't that just tick the lefties at Berkeley off...)

Aug 11, 2004: Auto theft reducer DataDots are reducing auto theft in Australia, but have yet to make it in to the U.S. other than on Nissan headlamps.

Aug 9, 2004: Apple shoulda woulda coulda It is analysis like this, on the "Apple should have licensed the Mac in the '80s" unconventional wisdom, which merited my support of Mr. Gruber.

Aug 5, 2004: Macintosh serial number fun If you absolutely must know the week of your Mac's manufacture, or where the factory is it came from, you can use Chipmunk International's handy Mac …

Aug 5, 2004: Pool tunes I have an Onkyo SE-U55 USB Digital Audio Processor hooked up to my Power Mac G4 Cube. This allows me to run all Cube audio through my Aiwa shelf …

Aug 3, 2004: Apple does batteries Just in case you've ever wondered.

Aug 2, 2004: Industry modeling The bulk of Paul Graham's essay Great Hackers is about dealing with and cultivating great hackers in the corporate environment. I found this very …

Aug 2, 2004: What's your chat preference? Totally unscientific, totally biased, comment-based poll: What is your favorite chat protocol and client? Here at Retrophisch™ Central, we …

Aug 2, 2004: Mobile round-up The coming months will bear fruit for those in the market for the latest and greatest in mobile phones, as evidenced by the n3rdling's look at …

Aug 2, 2004: ATPM 10.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Ellyn reminds us to take some time out, while Ted dives in to mindmappers in his latest …

Jul 21, 2004: Whip antenna for smallest PowerBook As a 12-inch PowerBook owner, the blurb on MacMinute about QuickerTek's new Whip Antenna for the smallest PowerBook piqued my interest. However, after …

Jul 17, 2004: New iPods Monday? Engadget has the Newsweek cover with Steve and the new iPod. It's still white, reportedly has an even slimmer case, and sports the iPod mini-style …

Jul 17, 2004: War of the worlds Last month's Wired has a short article with a lot of graphs and charts on the Free versus the Unfree worlds, as it relates to consumers and producers, …

Jul 13, 2004: On buying DVDs So today at Costco I picked up The Bourne Identity: Explosive Extended Edition, Widescreen, of course. I am seeing a trend in DVD releases lately. …

Jul 13, 2004: Times vs Times Jason Kottke points to an interesting backgrounder on Times Roman and Times New Roman.

Jul 13, 2004: Zimmermann online Cryptologists and cypherpunks will note Phil Zimmermann's home page. For the uninitiated, Zimmermann is responsible for the wildly popular PGP, or …

Jul 12, 2004: Scanner lust Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that the prices for superior-technology scanners continue to drop? Take, for instance, Canon's new CanoScan …

Jul 12, 2004: 100 Million Songs Apple's iTunes Music Store has broken the 100 million-song barrier.

Jul 12, 2004: A man's scooter Not that I'm in the market for a scooter, but if I were, the Scarabeo 500 would be it. In black and silver, please.

Jul 12, 2004: Font lust Hoefler & Frere-Jones have two great fonts out, Gotham and Whitney. Gotham is especially notable, as it is the font being used for the inscription …

Jul 11, 2004: Miscellany gCount: menu bar application for OS X that tells you when new mail arrives in your Gmail in box. So now you don't have to keep a browser window open …

Jul 10, 2004: Dropload If I didn't already have my own server space for such usage, Dropload would be quite useful. Don't ruin it for everyone else.

Jul 8, 2004: Tiger Support for Boy Bands? Wittiness like this is one reason why I decided to support our Mr. Gruber. (The latter of which won me an iLife '04 book + DVD from Jim Heid! Thanks, …

Jul 8, 2004: If you have to fly 14 hours If you have to fly 14 hours, it seems Jimmy Grewal has found a great way to do it. I simultaneously would love to experience such a flight, and would …

Jul 7, 2004: Blogger schwag I'm still shaking my head over this one. I suppose it's only a matter of time before someone comes up with Texas blogger schwag. (No, it won't be me.) …

Jul 5, 2004: A dashing konflagration So it seems that just about everyone has weighed in on the Dashboard vs Konfabulator issue. I happen to firmly echo the sentiments of John Gruber, …

Jul 1, 2004: ATPM 10.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Ted's amazing ATPO series continues with a look at the future of outlining, while Ellyn …

Jun 30, 2004: Yes, comments Comments are back, so Chris P., you can now comment on my GarageBand-created track. The solution? Turns out I had a blank line in my Movable Type …

Jun 30, 2004: No comments? For some reason, no one is able to post comments at the moment. Not even myself. "You do not have permission..." It is under investigation.

Jun 27, 2004: Taking the gloves off? Apple publicly acknowledges what Mac users have known all along.

Jun 27, 2004: Sweet Southern Summer So, yeah, I've been playing with GarageBand. Sweet Southern Summmer Yes, it is inspired by the southern rock, classic rock, rockabilly, and country …

Jun 24, 2004: Has the privatization of space begun? The big tech news of the week has to be the first step toward space privatization, with the successful launch of SpaceShipOne on Monday. Pilot Mike …

Jun 23, 2004: Joining the Cingular Nation So at the end of May, my wife and I made the switch. With number portability well in hand, and no loyalty to Verizon Wireless since the parent company …

Jun 23, 2004: Fun with Apple toys You can now have your iPod fully integrated in your over-priced German automobile. Apple product managers have an iChat AV video conference while one …

Jun 21, 2004: The meaning of iPod The Economist has a noteworthy article on how the iPod has changed and is changing the way we listen to music. Rumormongers of the video iPod should …

Jun 17, 2004: Tempting GigaDesigns announced today a 1.5 GHz G4 upgrade for the Power Mac Cube. However, at six hundred smackers, I believe I'd rather put that toward a new …

Jun 7, 2004: Dock? What Dock? From my days of working on 15-inch LCDs, I have long hidden Mac OS X's Dock. After all, I wanted to maximize my screen real estate. I still do this on …

Jun 3, 2004: ATPM 10.06 The June issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Matt Coates discusses online offers and gives us a glimpse of his personal network. Andrew …

May 27, 2004: Sterling at Microsoft Bruce Sterling spoke at Microsoft last week, and someone was nice enough to transcribe it for him, since by his own admission, Mr. Sterling had no …

May 21, 2004: LavaPad I'm not sure if it is really cool, or too geeky and too pricey.

May 17, 2004: iMac G5 No, Apple hasn't made any new product announcements, but Peter Kellner resurrected an old iMac in new clothing. (via MacInTouch)

May 14, 2004: Mac OS version builds This handy chart of Mac OS version builds that shipped with various systems since 1998 is incredibly valuable. (via MacInTouch)

May 13, 2004: World's Fastest Man Remembered The world's fastest man has left this earth for the last time. William J. "Pete" Knight became the world's fastest man on October 3, 1967, while …

May 12, 2004: Welcome to the 21st century, Mr. Gates Six years after Steve Jobs and Apple declared the floppy disk dead, with the release of the iMac, Bill Gates states the same: In some ways, I think …

May 5, 2004: Color Showcase My favorite iPod carrying case is going color on May 15th. The Contour Showcase will be available in six different colors, as well as black and the …

May 5, 2004: Next Windows OS requires non-existent PCs Microsoft Watch is reporting that the next verison of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, is going to require a PC that doesn't yet exist. That's okay, since …

May 3, 2004: Book return Thanks to the newly-introduced PowerBooks, and getting back some of our hard-earned dough from Uncle Sam, there is a new phischbook in the house. I …

May 3, 2004: ATPM 10.05 The May issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Ellyn makes a wonderful observation on social contacts on the Internet, which I know has been …

Apr 16, 2004: On wish lists and recommendations Why is it that Amazon.com's recommendation system isn't smart enough to figure out that it doesn't need to recommend something to me that's already in …

Apr 14, 2004: ElleBook My eyes! My eyes! Just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean you should do something. (via Kahney)

Apr 14, 2004: Gmail privacy concerns Declan McCullagh discusses his reservations about Google's in-private-beta Gmail system. His privacy concerns are well-founded, but I'm sure a lot of …

Apr 14, 2004: NASA Space Flight Patch icons Maury McCown of RAILhead Design has released a massive, 146-icon collection of NASA space flight patches. The patches range from the Freedom 7 flight …

Apr 13, 2004: VZW to carry Treo 600! w00t! So perhaps I won't switch wireless carriers after all. It's not like I can do anything right now anyway, being unemployed and all...

Apr 8, 2004: Buttoned up So looking at Lee's setup had me thinking that my blog could use a little more color, so I jumped on the button bandwagon. You can see my own …

Apr 8, 2004: You like your iPod a little too much when... This is just sad. What makes it even more sad is that this "impulse buy" wasn't at some flea market or craft store, or something along those lines. It …

Apr 1, 2004: Gateway closing all retail stores The beleagured computer maker announced today that it would be closing all 188 of its retail stores, putting 2,500 people out of work. Boo. Hoo. Maybe …

Apr 1, 2004: Who needs satellite radio? Lee linked to the Alpine iPod Ready in-dash receivers in a recent post. I must say I am very interested, though I will probably hold off on anything …

Mar 31, 2004: ATPM 10.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Yours truly contributed desktop pictures for this month's issue. Of note is Evan's …

Mar 25, 2004: Perfect PDAs Still leaning toward the Treo 600 myself, I wholeheartedly agree with Steven Frank's latest perfect PDA ponderings.

Mar 25, 2004: USB micro/mini drives It seems like more and more vendors are jumping in to the USB micro/mini-drive game these days. Iomega has a hip-looking USB 2.0 version, but for the …

Mar 13, 2004: Just say no to Internet taxes No taxes on Internet access (in the U.S.) is something I believe even the left-minded of my geek brethren would agree is a good thing. From the 04-10 …

Mar 10, 2004: Memory on your wrist Get your Dick Tracy on with the new LaCie Data Watch, which jams 128 MB of flash memory in to a decent-looking, black analog watch for 70 bucks. Works …

Mar 10, 2004: Marginalizing IE The Mac Marginalization report at MacInTouch has seen a spurt of activity in recent days, notably about certain web sites not working with Safari or …

Mar 6, 2004: On browser window size I wholeheartedly agree with Lee. And the n3rdling tells us in the comments that Firefox has a pref to prevent this occurrence from happening. I hope …

Mar 6, 2004: Clean RSS 2.0 from MT I don't think anyone's not going to cop to the fact that as great as Movable Type is, its RSS 2.0 templates fairly suck. I took up Steven Frank's …

Mar 5, 2004: 2004 March of Dimes WalkAmerica Next month, my wife will be leading her firm at the annual March of Dimes WalkAmerica in Dallas. She has registered to raise money for the event, and …

Mar 3, 2004: Second Initial Lee has suspended blogging at dtpbylee.com, and has opened Second Initial. He has a kick-butt layout thanks to our favorite code babe, Raena, and …

Mar 2, 2004: ATPM 10.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available, in leaded, unleaded, and diesel flavors.

Mar 2, 2004: Development halts on VLC Mac client ATPM staffer Chris Lawson informs us that the the former OS X maintainer, Derk-Jan Hartman, has stepped down from the VideoLAN Client project. So far, …

Mar 1, 2004: Archives updated So in the course of waiting on a myriad of things to happen at work today, I decided to get off my duff and fix up the main archives page the way I …

Mar 1, 2004: iPod mini thoughts I stopped by the Willow Bend Apple Store last week for two reasons. First, I needed to pick up a couple of extra FireWire-to-Dock cables for iPod use. …

Feb 26, 2004: ATPM Chicago outing The boys in and around the Windy City who volunteer on ATPM decided on a get-together last weekend. Wes Meltzer has the complete story, along with a …

Feb 23, 2004: Kirk's latest ATPM staffer Kirk McElhearn's latest book, How To Do Everything With Mac OS X Panther, has been released. Congrats, Kirk!

Feb 22, 2004: Your very own spy drone Sweetie, can I have one? I promise to use it and my other powers only for good...

Feb 16, 2004: Google your flight info Last month, Aaron Swartz noted some new features of Google, a few I was not aware of. Is it any wonder that Apple has a Google search field built …

Feb 16, 2004: Bye-bye, Palm So PalmSource has decided to discontinue Mac support in upcoming versions of the Palm OS, despite the fact that they have a larger market share …

Feb 10, 2004: ATPM 10.02 Whew. You know it's been a hectic month when you're ten days in and you're just now getting around to noting the release of the February issue of the …

Feb 10, 2004: Always have an eject button A lot of third-party keyboards for Macs don't have an eject key on them. This is an oldie but a goodie from the fine folks at OWC on how to always …

Jan 31, 2004: Too digital too fast? In the Feburary 2d issue of BusinessWeek, Robert D. Hof has a column on why the latest technology isn't always the best (paid registration required). …

Jan 30, 2004: It's about time Pixar dumps Disney. Pixar will be the better for it. Eisner is an idiot. I hope the Disney board roasts him on a spit. (Thanks, Michael.)

Jan 30, 2004: Pogue on Gateway plasmas If you're not subscribing to the NYT's Circuits e-mail list (free registration required), you're missing out on some classic Pogue, who this week …

Jan 29, 2004: SpamSieve 2.1.2 Well I hope no one out there is relying on me for up-to-date SpamSieve release information. I have been woefully remiss this week in my completely …

Jan 27, 2004: The FireWire Drive That Would Not Die!&trade;

So yesterday afternoon, my boss hooks up an external LaCie FireWire hard drive to one of our G5s. We're working on a project for the Apple retail …

Jan 19, 2004: GarageBand to also revolutionize the music biz? In an article for the New York Times (free registration required), David Pogue discusses iLife '04 and looks at the GarageBand component. He says: It …

Jan 12, 2004: More Microsoft "innovation" One of the features touted in the upcoming Office 2004 for Mac is the on-the-fly-editable Page Layout view in Excel. Too bad Gates' Macintosh Business …

Jan 12, 2004: Macquarium, Cube style One of the Cube listers pointed us to a friend's Macquarium, built in a G4 Cube shell. There's even a phischy Mac-head named Steve!

Jan 9, 2004: SpamSieve 2.1.1 Michael has updated SpamSieve. The latest update is faster at processing messages, even when there are many blocklist and whitelist rules. The speed …

Jan 9, 2004: ClearCube PowerLogix has followed up their PowerCube enclosure upgrade for Power Mac Cube owners with a new clear acrylic version. Robert, I'm still waiting for …

Jan 8, 2004: MacZealots If you haven't been by MacZealots lately, stop on by. This is not some lame, thrown-together-quickly teenage Mac lover site. The three brains behind …

Jan 8, 2004: MacCentral: The FoxTrot interview MacCentral interviewed Bill Amend, creator of the comic FoxTrot, last month. My favorite quote: Amend previously worked on a Blue & White Power …

Jan 8, 2004: Keynote coverage On the one hand, it's pretty amazing that Andy Ihnatko nails--in advance, mind you--what would go down at the Macworld Expo Keynote Steve Jobs …

Jan 5, 2004: Salkever on a stronger Apple MacMinute points to a BusinessWeek Online article by Alex Salkever wherein he lays out his wish list for a stronger Apple. I have to say that Salkever …

Jan 3, 2004: ATPM 10.01 The January issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available. ATPM has now entered its 10th calendar year of publishing! As a …

Jan 3, 2004: Overhauling the overhaul In an endeavor to fully separate the personal from the tech talk, per the rejection of my Google AdSense application, consider this the formal …

Dec 29, 2003: iPod Battery FAQ Dave Schroeder, an Apple Distinguished Educator, has posted the quite sensible and easy-to-follow iPod Battery FAQ. Hopefully this will go a long way …

Dec 27, 2003: Yes, more SpamSieve flattery Away from home, on the annual Christmas trek, for four days. Mailsmith is left humming along on the Cube, pulling mail every few hours. Upon the …

Dec 19, 2003: IT-Enquirer on Mailsmith The official Retrophisch™ email client has been reviewed at IT-Enquirer, and Michael's SpamSieve gets some more good press.

Dec 19, 2003: Wal-Mart music store Jeff Knapp writes in to MacInTouch with his experience with the new Windows-only Wal-Mart music store. It seems that one can use a Mac to view the …

Dec 16, 2003: Power Mac G4 Cube G5 Those Japanese Mac lovers sure have some copious spare time on their hands. One Cube owner decided he wanted an enclosure that mimicked the look of …

Dec 16, 2003: Yeah, a standard port would have been nice And now we have experienced the other druther of the 3G iPods: the non-standard dock connector. I get to work today, pull out the new iPod, and then …

Dec 16, 2003: New iPod So I had long ago outgrown my original 5 GB iPod, but I lived with moving music off and on to it from my Mac as my tastes dictated. An early Christmas …

Dec 15, 2003: Mac Fax Hivelogic has the low-down on setting up your Panther-ized Mac as a fax server. (via MacInTouch)

Dec 15, 2003: SpamSieve makes the MacInTouch poll Just as I mentioned that I would like to have voted for SpamSieve for the MacInTouch Reader Choice Poll for 2003, so does Ric Ford go and allow …

Dec 11, 2003: Microsoft's next monopoly MDJ has a dead-on assessment in today's issue of how Microsoft is seeking to co-op the online music market: Nonetheless, even more companies are …

Dec 11, 2003: MacInTouch Readers Choice Poll 2003 Ric Ford has posted the results of his totally informal poll on the best Apple products for 2003. The iPod/iTunes combo takes overall best product. …

Dec 10, 2003: You want to jack in to my what? Unlike Lee, I don't think I'd appreciate this new trend of non-verbal, can-I-listen-to-your-iPod-for-a-moment "communication" with perfect strangers. …

Dec 10, 2003: ProTouch PB The folks at iSkin have rolled out a new keyboard protector for current PowerBooks and iBooks. I reviewed an older version of the iSkin Keyboard …

Dec 10, 2003: Paying for iPod color? I have to wonder at the prospect of paying for a professional paint job for one's iPod or PowerBook. Granted, the iPod job only costs fifty bucks, but …

Dec 10, 2003: Jobs: Rolling Stone A good interview with Steve Jobs over on RollingStone.com. Having had discussions about the music biz with folks who have worked in it, including my …

Dec 9, 2003: Overhaul If you've actually been hitting the site over the past couple of days rather than reading posts via RSS feeds, you will have noticed the new look. To …

Dec 9, 2003: SpamSieve 2.1 Michael released version 2.1 of SpamSieve today. This version adds more support to Apple Mail that was begun in version 2.0.2, as well as numerous …

Dec 8, 2003: Least deserving of title shot Poll running right now on ESPN's College Football page: which team least deserves to play for the national championship? Oklahoma leads by a wide …

Dec 8, 2003: BCmess I've said it before, I'll say it again: the BCS is a bunch of hooey. It happens to be the best the NCAA can do right now, even if their best isn't …

Dec 6, 2003: The case for #2 LSU should play in the national championship game as the #2, maybe even the #1 team in the country. Here's why: 1. Oklahoma lost to Kansas State …

Dec 5, 2003: Back to space It will be interesting to see if the President issues a call to go back to space later this month, or next. This is very sobering: bq. Every American …

Dec 5, 2003: Xtremity XtremeMac has released their Xtremity iPod Case System. I like the ease of transition from being carried on the belt to popping it in to a car mount, …

Dec 4, 2003: Congrats, Michael Friend of the phisch Michael Tsai has been awarded an Eddy by Macworld magazine for his awesome spam-killing app, SpamSieve. I've been using SpamSieve …

Dec 4, 2003: All-nighter What happens when your client realizes they're running the wrong version of two commercials in all thirty-nine of their stores that have a theater …

Dec 3, 2003: ATPM 9.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Articles of interest include Ellyn's look at the changing face of research, part six of …

Dec 3, 2003: Change your iPod battery Thinking that my iPod's battery may be dying--it is an original 5 GB model--I've been looking around for replacements from third parties. The fine …

Dec 3, 2003: FrontPage coders, take note If you really want to get the most out of your web code, and don't have a Mac, please, please, please use this.

Dec 3, 2003: Beginning of VPC's end? Karl Dandenell reports to Ric Ford on MacInTouch that Virtual PC 6 is not supported on Power Mac G5s. There is potential hope in that Microsoft states …

Dec 3, 2003: 33 I think most people would agree, with the possible exceptions of decade birthdays (30, 40, 50), that year-to-year, they really don't feel that much …

Dec 3, 2003: The real reason behind IT purchasing In the most recent Macintosh Daily Journal, Matt Deatherage & Co. take Information Week to task over their recent PC Vendor poll and rankings. MDJ …

Dec 2, 2003: iPod as big as the Mac? It's certainly looking that way to Apple. The iPod is the highest-volume item the company moves right now, with 1.4 million sold. ''It's something …

Dec 1, 2003: Back to work Today was my first day at my new job. The company I'm working for is AMX, based in Richardson, Texas. In business since 1982, AMX specializes in …

Nov 29, 2003: C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963 Today's American Minute over at WND honors an Englishman, whose works, including Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Chronicles of …

Nov 27, 2003: Thanksgiving wishes Happy Thanksgiving to all of my family and friends! Major Thanksgiving wishes are extended to the forward-deployed men and women of our armed forces, …

Nov 22, 2003: Skin that Pod When I pick up a new 40 GB iPod, it will get sheathed in one of these.

Nov 19, 2003: Subway funny Have you seen the latest Subway commerical with the Airborne Ranger type talking about pulling the ripcord and nothing happening? I've seen this one …

Nov 19, 2003: CubeQuarium Joe Leblanc rescues a dead G4 Cube and builds Gil a new home.

Nov 11, 2003: R-E-S-P-E-C-T for LSU What a difference a week, and losses by perennial "contenders," makes. As Miami fell to Tennessee, Virginia Tech lost to Pittsburgh, and unranked …

Nov 5, 2003: Sim City without the pressure That's City Creator. Currently there are three different styles to choose from: Blankton, a modern metropolis, Snoland, your typical snowy village, …

Nov 4, 2003: Something Wicked Cool on MacDesktops Earlier this year, yours truly used an Apple PR hi-res product photo of the third-generation iPods to create a desktop picture. That picture was …

Nov 3, 2003: Ranked 4th, but no respect from the BCS Both the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll, and the AP sportswriters' poll have LSU at number 4, yet because of the "computer averages" used in their …

Oct 28, 2003: New Cube for Cube owners I love my Power Mac G4 Cube. Small. Elegant. Takes up little desk space, and you want it on your desk so it can be displayed as the work of art it is. …

Oct 28, 2003: Dell product "designers" Have you seen the commercial being plastered across the airwaves by Dell featuring the interns and Dell's product "designers"? The thought that …

Oct 25, 2003: Content Search on Amazon How do you know you're the father of a three month-old? When you don't have much time to read your favorite blogs, and note what you read. Lee posted …

Oct 25, 2003: Panther or Bust Lee relates his Mac OS X 10.3 Panther-buying experience from last night, where he also garnered an iSight. As for your humble host, our Panther hunt …

Oct 25, 2003: Jim and Lissa My friends Jim and Lissa have gone live with their new site, appropriately titled, Jim and Lissa. I'm going to miss seeing Jim at work each day, but …

Oct 25, 2003: More on the crock of the BCS Yes, once again this is where I ask the question: why is Miami in contention for the national championship? Why is Miami ranked #2 in the country by …

Oct 16, 2003: DropDMG 2.2 Michael has quietly updated his super-easy disk imaging utility to version 2.2.

Oct 9, 2003: J.S. who? The Dallas Stars crushed the Mighty Lucks of Anaheim and goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere in their season and home opener last night at American …

Oct 6, 2003: <strike>Nice article. Cool. Interesting</strike> So some yahoo is now comment spamming in random posts about discount life insurance. Congratulations, ingrate. Get a new IP, because you've been …

Oct 1, 2003: Innovation report good for a laugh In case you've been under a rock so far this week, some of the big news in the Mac/tech world is the new Cheskin report on the top innovative …

Sep 29, 2003: G5 intro movie Apple has posted the Power Mac G5 introduction movie online, for those who missed it from this year's WWDC.

Sep 29, 2003: Revolutions theatrical trailer The now-running theatrical trailer for The Matrix Revolutions is available online. QuickTime format only, as it should be.

Sep 26, 2003: ATPM hits Sweden ATPM contributing editor Matt Coates noted for the staff that the 'zine and his article on Xnippets made the Swedish edition of Macworld magazine. …

Sep 26, 2003: Comments spam I check my email this morning, and what do I find but some idiot has uploaded penis enlargement spam into the comments section of one of my posts …

Sep 26, 2003: RIFfed So the brilliant executive minds at Verizon Information Services finally decided on a plan for its IT personnel, and made said plan known to all of us …

Sep 24, 2003: Grayism I figured since so many people out there like to poke fun at George W.'s verbal blunders, turnabout was fair play: "My vision is to make the most …

Sep 19, 2003: In The Sun If you've been watching The Bourne Identity on Encore, or have the DVD, and you want to know the song that plays in the alternate ending, it's "In the …

Sep 19, 2003: Piro, Mac User Applelinks has a great interview with Fred Gallagher, the creator and meatspace alter ego of MegaTokyo's Piro. Fred discusses his relatively new …

Sep 19, 2003: On Conservative Democrats I realize that the above may seem like a misnomer in these days of the far Left hijacking of the Democratic Party, but such an animal does exist. In …

Sep 19, 2003: The Opinionated Amphibian Diatribes SuperToad has redesigned the Pond, giving up his home-baked PHP model for a site generated by PostNuke. At least this way, his PHP knowledge doesn't …

Sep 15, 2003: SpamSieve 2.0 Being the bad friend that I am, I failed to note Michael's release of SpamSieve 2.0 last week. At least I have the excuse of a new son. :D SpamSieve …

Sep 11, 2003: Infuriating So while the gloom of layoffs settled over the IT groups at VIS for the better part of a year, Chuck Lee, the former GTE CEO who sold us out to Bell …

Sep 7, 2003: Thoughts on War on Terror intelligence "If we do not have human-intelligence assets in the field, then it's hard for us to get any kind of warning, unless the bad guys are really loose on …

Sep 4, 2003: Texas Voter Guide 2003 If you are a Texas resident seeking more information on the proposed constitutional amendments we will be voting on come 13 September, point your …

Sep 3, 2003: ATPM 9.09 The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is fresh from the oven. Two new staffers join up this month; Mary Tyler begins a series of …

Sep 3, 2003: But where are the Bluetooth versions? So Microsoft announced six new wireless optical desktop components, but none of them utilize Bluetooth for connectivity. Rather, one of your USB ports …

Sep 2, 2003: Tigers on TBS LSU is ranked #13 in the nation after stomping UL-Monroe 49-7 in their gimme-game season opener in Baton Rouge. So now TBS is carrying college games …

Sep 2, 2003: Skin your PowerBook Speaking of the 12-inch PowerBook G4, the folks at MacSkinz now have skinz available for the smallest PowerBook. I first saw the MacSkinz guys at …

Sep 2, 2003: 12-inch PowerBook can go to a gig Thanks to the fine folks at Trans Intl., the PowerBook G4 12" can now have more than 1 GB of RAM. This clears up one of the few misgivings I have …

Aug 29, 2003: iStockphoto praise iStockphoto saves the day for Eric. Though I haven't had much use for it lately, I have been a registered member since late last year and think it's a …

Aug 29, 2003: FTP in Macworld Michael has a run down on his FTP app usage over the past few years. Transmit is what I use when I want visual feedback, or to do some things, like …

Aug 29, 2003: weblog, not web log Kottke has the 411 and an open letter to certain news entities.

Aug 27, 2003: Safari quits fix Thanks to Ric for pointing to the new Apple KB article on unexpected Safari quits. This has suddenly started happening for me within the past week on …

Aug 27, 2003: Font fights cancer Speaking of Dan, he has hooked up with one of my favorite cartoonists, and all-around nice guy (have met him twice now!), Michael Jantze, creator of …

Aug 26, 2003: The Man Comes Around...and then some Dan notes what we can expect from The Man in Black later this year. Very cool!

Aug 25, 2003: Regarding those intolerant, narrow-minded Christians... "Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their …

Aug 15, 2003: East, West, Texas "Now see here...you gotcher East power grid--you know, the one that danged near blew up yesterday--and you gotcher West power grid--you know, the one …

Aug 6, 2003: CVN 76 online Don't know why I didn't come across it sooner, but the official Navy web site for the USS Ronald Reagan is online. Very thorough, full of info, …

Aug 5, 2003: Hurricane, Himicane, Deshawnacane I know the Toad has to be ticked off at the latest antics of one of our beloved Congresscritters, People's Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. …

Aug 5, 2003: There, there, that's a good little multiculturalist commie... Impeachable Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was singing the praises of doing what the rest of the world thinks, rather than abiding by our …

Aug 5, 2003: Good riddance, Herr Fritz Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-South Carolina, has announced he will not seek re-election next year. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Herr Fritz has …

Aug 4, 2003: Animated Star Wars My gorgeous bride pointed me to this story about a series of two- to three-minute cartoon shorts that the Cartoon Network will be doing in the Star …

Aug 4, 2003: ATPM 9.08 The August issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out, and available online or in three dreamy flavors. Some good stuff here: Matt Coates …

Aug 4, 2003: Doing the browser shuffle? What is it about Safari all of a sudden? It's taking forever to pull up web pages. I've cleared the cache. I've quit and restarted Safari. The only …

Aug 4, 2003: Gee, who does this sound like? bq. "Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public …

Aug 4, 2003: Quote of the moment bq. "Life can be a do-it-yourself project, or life can be built by your Father in Heaven. The choice is yours to make freely. Personally, I rely on …

Aug 4, 2003: TypePad going live Ben and Mena's latest venture is in the growing pain of going live, with a "Preview Release Launch" later tonight. Jon's been a beta tester, as has …

Aug 1, 2003: Raena rocks! One of the great things about working on a publication like ATPM is that the diverse staff we have. Raena and I are on opposite sides of the political …

Jul 30, 2003: Remembering Bob Hope When I arrived at work today, the flags--American, Texas, Verizon--were all at half-staff, and I thought to myself, "What the...?" I totally missed …

Jul 30, 2003: Convert from Islam and die From the "Religion of Peace" department... The Barnabas Fund is reporting that a Palestinian Muslim who converted to Christianity was butchered and …

Jul 30, 2003: Nemo #1 In the ongoing smackdown of animated feature films, Pixar's Finding Nemo has moved past distributor Disney's The Lion King as the top-grossing …

Jul 30, 2003: Finder musings So I'm wondering... In the Finder found in the WWDC beta release of 10.3 Panther, will there be a way to take the iDisk out of the Places sidebar? …

Jul 29, 2003: Regarding the redistribution of your income... Amazing that our Founding Fathers had the foresight of government-funded social programs: bq. "...[T]he government of the United States is a definite …

Jul 29, 2003: The Newspaper of Rhetoric Bob Kohn writes on the New York Times' ongoing distortion of the news in how they present facts in stories, specifically those dealing with politics …

Jul 29, 2003: BuyMusic.com fall down, go boom USA Today reports that BuyMusic.com's first week in business has not been a bed of roses, as "early customers have found they can't transfer the tunes …

Jul 29, 2003: Truth in advertising? This is now posted outside my cubicle.

Jul 28, 2003: <i>Critical Space</i> This is the first of Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak novels I've read, even though it's the fifth in the series, but Critical Space had me hooked and …

Jul 28, 2003: Kill the album Steven offers Frank discussion on why some "artists" don't want to participate in the iTunes Music Store. Is the demise of the album format, if it …

Jul 28, 2003: One less key to push So you're using Safari. You've enabled tabbed browsing (who wouldn't?). You have a two-button, scroll-wheel, wireless Microsoft optical mouse. Using …

Jul 28, 2003: Stats, stats, stats! Jim has upgraded our server stat software to AWStats, and I am mightily impressed. I determined long ago that I would not become obsessed with …

Jul 28, 2003: Panther 32-bit MacMinute notes a Register report that Apple has confirmed Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will be a 32-bit OS, but with 64-bit libraries to support the new …

Jul 28, 2003: Us Wacky Cube owners Wired has a new article on the staying power of the Power Mac G4 Cube, and the lengths some Cube owners will go to keep their beloved system up to …

Jul 26, 2003: Billy copies Stevie again...? MacMinute reports on a CNET story that Bill Gates told analysts Microsoft is considering a music download service. Gee, wherever would he have gotten …

Jul 25, 2003: More BuyMusic.com madness Bob Levitus rips in to BuyMusic.com: bq. Simply put, while iTunes Music Store is the Rolls-Royce of online music, BuyMusic.com is a Yugo. Jon shows …

Jul 25, 2003: SuperDrive in any PowerBook G4 MacResQ is now offering a SuperDrive upgrade for any PowerBook G4. Too bad I know my employer would not pay for this for my TiBook/500. Eh, I'm …

Jul 25, 2003: The Panther honeymoon is over Having experienced my second kernel panic with the WWDC beta release of Mac OS X Panther 10.3, and the corruption of some of my emailboxes, I'll be …

Jul 24, 2003: Second-rate from the Windoze world once again... By now everyone has heard about buymusic.com, the Windows answer to Apple's iTunes Music Store. Don't be impressed; don't be worried. According to a …

Jul 22, 2003: Intelligence 101 Frank Gaffney, Jr. has an excellent summary of the intelligence side of the SOTU non-scandal.

Jul 22, 2003: Inventing scandals and conspiracies when there are none Yes, yes, a Demobrat favorite tactic: inventing a conspiracy, a scandal, when there is none. The Left has been attacking the President and his …

Jul 22, 2003: Two down... Iraqi citizens celebrated in Baghdad Tuesday evening as word spread that Saddam Hussein's feared and reviled sons, Odai and Qusai, were killed in a …

Jul 21, 2003: WebPhisch&trade; Yes, Virginia, you too can build a web browser without a single line of code. Thanks to Apple's WebKit SDK, available here (free registration), the …

Jul 21, 2003: Coulter talks <i>Treason</i> Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily interviewed Ann Coulter on his new radio show last week. A transcript is available here. Good stuff, including a quick …

Jul 18, 2003: Panther panic Just had my first kernel panic under the WWDC Panther beta on my PowerBook G4/500. This is the first kernel panic I've had with OS X on any Mac since …

Jul 17, 2003: Supremes, take note "[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere …

Jul 16, 2003: Happy Birthday, sweetheart! I love you, Kel.

Jul 14, 2003: Ongoing site maintenance: Killed the "Retrolook" tab in the tab navigation barSubsequently, killed the old style sheet and index2.html file; so now the look you see (if you're …

Jul 14, 2003: Treo 600 So forget the Kyocera 7135, and the upcoming Samsung SGH-i500 Palm OS smart phone. Jon has turned me on to Handspring/Palm's next beauty, the Treo …

Jul 11, 2003: Lee's Birthday Today marks the 8th anniversary of Lee's 25th birthday. He's being a bit of a curmudgeon about it, so be sure to stop by his blog and comment your …

Jul 10, 2003: Ronnie the bear The Santa Barbara Council of the Navy League of the United States, a civilian organization that supports Navy and Marine Corps families, has adopted …

Jul 10, 2003: ATPM milestones This month has seen a couple of milestones reached by yours truly, regarding my work with About This Particular Macintosh. First, the current issue, …

Jul 9, 2003: We're in trouble. Maybe. "Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young people, and I will tell you what the character of the next generation …

Jul 9, 2003: Useless baseball info FranX points me to Jayson Stark's latest Useless Baseball Information, a baseball statistician's treasure trove of interesting tidbits. I'm not really …

Jul 9, 2003: Crash caused Lynch's injuries Not to take anything away from Jessica Lynch and what she endured during Operation Iraqi Freedom, but a new Army report shows that her injuries were …

Jul 9, 2003: Time to turn off the Saudis Yet more and more proof that Saudi Arabia is no friend of the U.S. continues to surface. This time, it's in the form of billions given to Palestinian …

Jul 8, 2003: NetNewsWire fall down in Panther, go boom I have been running the WWDC preview release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther on my TiBook for over a week now, and I've noticed an odd problem with …

Jul 7, 2003: LXG Soundtrack only from Apple Apple has managed to nab exclusive rights to the soundtrack for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and will release it as a $9.99 download on the …

Jul 2, 2003: Libel protection for bloggers The 9th Circuit actually gets it right this time, with an extension of libel protection to online self-publishers, like moi, and those who participate …

Jul 2, 2003: Journalist war illogic Oh, this is rich: bq. "There was a disturbing attitude from the Pentagon toward unilaterals," said Campagna, Mideast program coordinator for the …

Jul 2, 2003: Left illogic California's population growth is almost exclusively because of foreign nationals. A goodly portion--some would say almost all--of those foreign …

Jul 2, 2003: ATPM 9.07 The July issue of About This Particular Macintosh has been released. I enjoyed Matt Coates' column on the Apple iTunes Music Store, new staff member …

Jul 1, 2003: Yeah, big coincidence... I guess when you're an ineffectual Old World power, this kind of trite, childish behavior is the best you can do. (Thanks, Ricky.)

Jul 1, 2003: The right to keep and arm roos Programmers like to be efficient, which is a good thing. If programmers are efficient with their code, there is less work for them and less overhead …

Jun 30, 2003: Farewell, C & G The big news in the Mac market today is that longtime software publisher Casady & Greene is closing its doors, with all software reverting back to …

Jun 30, 2003: Yellow Pages hot commodity Knowing the company I work for, the n3rdling thought I would be interested in this article. Yes, the Yellow Pages business is a cash cow. One of the …

Jun 29, 2003: Why Star Wars Is Better Than Titanic The Titanic is big, but it doesn't have hyperdrive. Yoda could've used the Force to lift Titanic out of the water. Leia is a princess, a senator, a …

Jun 29, 2003: Comcast woes So at some point yesterday morning, our broadband connection died. We both had been using it in the early morning, checking email, pulling up web …

Jun 27, 2003: Condemn it Awwwww. The po' wittle U.N. buildings are falling apart, and they don't have no one to pay to fix them up... Guess who they want to foot the bill? …

Jun 27, 2003: I am Dilbert Our workgroup maintains a central server for others in the company to access important information re: our projects, software to install, etc. As part …

Jun 27, 2003: Mac OS X 10.3 beta first impressions So yesterday I installed the WWDC release of 10.3 on a spare G4/933 at the office. It simply flew. It is fast. Wicked fast. Below are some of my …

Jun 26, 2003: How pathetic am I? So I've spent part of last night and this morning, off and on, installing Fink, FinkCommander, and X11. Why? Why, to play XGalaga, of course, the open …

Jun 25, 2003: Server moving The site will be going down for a bit this evening as we move the server. Should be back up some time after dinner time, CST. UPDATE, 7:30 PM CST: And …

Jun 25, 2003: Going out of business twice as fast I've got to start reading more from James Lileks. Like with the previously-noted pen comment, he cracks me up: bq. Today they announce the new …

Jun 25, 2003: Corporate Behavior for Dummies Verizon Wireless rants, raves, and whines about how the FCC regulation for wireless local number portability--letting you keep your same phone number, …

Jun 25, 2003: Isn't technology cool? Buy the Baby Einstein CD set. (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and Bach) Rip all 4 CDs to MP3 with iTunes. Copy all 4 sets of MP3s to your iPod. Now you …

Jun 23, 2003: Self-branding for the road So how far would you go to promote your own personal brand? Some people nab custom license plates to slap on their vehicles in their respective …

Jun 19, 2003: That pesky double standard John Trever, Alburquerque, New Mexico, 19 June 2003 (Thanks, Rick)

Jun 19, 2003: Microsoft comes full circle with IE Marc Marshall brings up the excellent point that Microsoft has come full circle with regard to Internet Explorer. His is the last post in Macintouch's …

Jun 18, 2003: Kerry mum on Cape wind farm Presidential hopeful John Kerry is running around the country talking about renewable energy, like wind and solar power, proposing we get 20% of all …

Jun 18, 2003: Mailsmith 2.0 arrives Bare Bones has released v2.0 of my favorite email client. Major kudos to Michael for getting SpamSieve bundled with all Mailsmith 2.0 purchases …

Jun 18, 2003: IE6 gives me hives Ok, not really, but it's really ticking me off. Why is it that my site validates as XHTML 1.0 Trans, validates as CSS2, looks perfectly fine in …

Jun 17, 2003: Good riddance, IE, part III Speaking of the dress-code-aware genius that is Dan Benjamin (is that enough, Dan?), he offers up some delectable food for thought on the …

Jun 17, 2003: DNS Primer If you've ever been interested in how your email gets from your computer to someone else's, or how your browser knows how to load up a web site, you …

Jun 17, 2003: New jobs for friends! It's been a good couple of weeks for friends of the 'phisch. Steve landed a programming job with DirecTV's billing company in Charlotte, NC, and …

Jun 16, 2003: Latest look for retrophisch.com As I mentioned previously, I've been working on a site redesign. I decided today to take it live. (You can ignore the links in the archived post; …

Jun 16, 2003: Good riddance, IE, part deux This morning, Microsoft released a slightly-updated version of IE for Mac OS X, version 5.2.3. While no future development is planned, Microsoft will …

Jun 16, 2003: Tigers first to leave Omaha The LSU baseball team is swept for only the second time in all of its College World Series appearances, and their season is over. The Tigers dropped …

Jun 16, 2003: More blogging coverage Business Week Online has a good article on the growing pervasiveness of weblogs, and what they mean to mass media and consumers. I like Nick Denton's …

Jun 15, 2003: Good riddance, IE No more Internet Explorer for Macintosh. No more standalone Internet Explorer on Windows. I cannot tell you how heart-broken I am to hear this.

Jun 15, 2003: Test driving So this weekend my bride and I took some big baby steps. Furniture was purchased. Items were registered. And strollers were test-driven through the …

Jun 13, 2003: Death of PNG? Ric notes a News.com story about the impending expiration of the patent that controls the GIF file format, and what that may mean for the PNG graphics …

Jun 13, 2003: Cursive is dead So sayeth the n3rdling. (And CBS.) I have to agree; the only thing I write in cursive any more is my signature. My handwritten print is much better, …

Jun 13, 2003: The Samsung Way The current Business Week's cover story is about Korean tech company Samsung, and its ascendance from third-rate copycat to bleeding-edge envelope …

Jun 13, 2003: Change of address DNS address, that is. In preparation for the move to our "new" server, we're changing out our DNS name servers some time late this …

Jun 13, 2003: Brain usage So, at Dan's urging, I took Mind Media's Brain Persuasion Test. My results: Your Brain Usage Profile Auditory: 60% Visual: 40% Left: 50% Right: 50% …

Jun 13, 2003: Speaking of "<del>Rewriting</del> Living History" As to the truths contained in Hillary's ghost-written tome, consider this: On April 29, 1997, Hillary told CNN's Larry King that she would never run …

Jun 13, 2003: Quote of the moment "I will not read it, I will not buy it, I will not subsidize Hillary Clinton's retirement... Obviously this is a fictional version of what happened …

Jun 11, 2003: 7135 first impression As I stated previously, I went on my lunch break to the nearby Verizon Wireless store to check out the Kyocera 7135 SmartPhone. I was suitably …

Jun 11, 2003: De-iApping So today I de-iApped a bit. Viz: I had moved all of my contact and calendar info out of Palm Desktop, into OS X's Address Book and iCal. Then I set up …

Jun 11, 2003: Defend your family, go to jail At least in New York, Brooklyn to be specific. Ronald Dixon discovers an intruder in his son's room, going through drawers. Intruder rushes Mr. Dixon, …

Jun 11, 2003: Icon War This seems to be an appropriate use for Windows XP technology... (Thanks, Jason.)

Jun 10, 2003: Rome's iman supports suicide bombings From the Religion-of-Peace department: the leader of Europe's largest mosque stated support for suicide bombings against Israel in a recent sermon, as …

Jun 10, 2003: More freedom of, not freedom from D. James Kennedy reports on recent U.S. Department of Education guidelines "that require the Secretary of Education to issue guidance on …

Jun 10, 2003: Incredible teaser Steve Jobs' other company has released a teaser for their next film, The Incredibles, due out in November next year. Consider this your splatter …

Jun 9, 2003: Cup Hat Trick I know, it's not three years in a row, but it is three in the last nine. The New Jersey Devils stomped the Mighty Lucks of Anaheim 3-0 in Game 7 of …

Jun 9, 2003: Notes on San Diego So my lovely bride and I have this relatively new tradition (3 years old now) of going for a 4-day weekend the week of our anniversary. This year, our …

Jun 8, 2003: Back to Omaha, baby! The LSU Tigers crushed Baylor 20-5 in game three of their NCAA super regional to earn their 12th trip to the College World Series since 1986. Yeah, …

Jun 5, 2003: Mars Mission Patches Dan notes NASA's sense of humor with regard to Mars rover naming conventions and mission patches. This is what happens when guys our age, who grew up …

Jun 3, 2003: Can you feel the love? Barbra Streisand is suing a fellow environmentalist. Why? Because he took an aerial photograph of her Malibu coastline estate. Along with 12,000 other …

Jun 3, 2003: One for the conspiracy nuts Speaking of the Stanley Cup Finals, specifically the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, ponder this: ( Please note that I do not believe my theory, though …

Jun 3, 2003: Galloway moving to ESPN radio One of my favorite sports-talk hosts is moving from WBAP, 820 AM, to the station's ESPN radio affiliate. This stinks, since I never listen to ESPN …

Jun 3, 2003: Microsoft targets Google Is there anyone that Microsoft doesn't see as a competitor? bq. "We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide …

Jun 2, 2003: iMac no more So, yeah, maybe I'm just way behind in picking this up, but the CRT iMac, the box that helped bring Apple back, is no more. The only CRT Macintosh …

Jun 2, 2003: PowerBook prices lowered Apple has lowered the prices on the 12" and 15" PowerBooks, in some cases by as much as $300. Does this portend an update for the 15" model and speed …

Jun 2, 2003: Tigers win regional For the first time this season, the LSU Tigers win an extra-inning game, and in doing so take their 8th consecutive regional championship. The Tigers, …

May 29, 2003: I am a Total Geek More accurately, I possess 31.36095% geekish qualities. Take the test yourself, unless you're Erik.

May 29, 2003: Redesign underway I am working on a redesign of the site's layout and navigation, a preview of which can be found here. That page also automatically updates, just as …

May 29, 2003: Oh, stuff it, StuffIt Erik brings up a good point on using disk images, .dmg, for archival purposes, rather than Aladdin's DropStuff or StuffIt Deluxe. I haven't used …

May 28, 2003: Roy retires Patrick Roy, the best goaltender in professional hockey the past twenty years, announced his retirement today. "I've had a blast. It's been …

May 28, 2003: Gruber on Waferbaby The Waferbaby Corner monkey interviews John Gruber, of Daring Fireball fame. John is his usual, subtle self when refuting the "Cult of Macintosh," …

May 28, 2003: Rangers make history My good friend Francisco informed me this morning that our up-and-coming Texas Rangers have made baseball history. No MLB club has ever fielded a team …

May 28, 2003: Why am I not surprised? "Congressman flies U.N. flag" Sam Farr has done more in his six terms (about six too many) to undermine American sovereignty than former General …

May 27, 2003: You can always use that Ranger tab for TP... Colonel David Hackworth (USA-Retired) reports on the sissifying of the elite Army Rangers. While the rest of the U.S. Army has lowered its standards …

May 27, 2003: Giving back to those who gave all Too often during Memorial Day ceremonies, we tend to overlook those who survive the men and women who sacrificed their all for our nation. Michelle …

May 26, 2003: Take time to remember On this Memorial Day, please take some time out to remember those who have sacrificed all on behalf of our nation, as well as those they have left …

May 26, 2003: The real Threat Matrix Despite ABC's upcoming fall show of the same name, the real Threat Matrix is a document the President reads each morning. The crux of their briefings …

May 25, 2003: How many times do we have to go through this? Yet again, in light of all the whining coming from the Demobrats over the just-passed federal tax cut: * unconstitutional spending causes deficits * …

May 23, 2003: TypePad screenshots There are now some screenshots of the TypePad interface up at the main site, including the photo albums feature. Having just recently moved over some …

May 23, 2003: This Friday's Five 1. What brand of toothpaste do you use? Colgate Total. 2. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer? Angel Soft. 3. What brand(s) of shoes do you wear? …

May 23, 2003: Last Friday's Five The questions, with my answers, from last Friday's Five (which I only saw yesterday): 1. What drinking water do you prefer -- tap, bottle, purifier, …

May 22, 2003: PNG petition IE/Win doesn't fully support the PNG graphics format, and Zeldman points to an online petition that is now just shy of 7,000 signatures. (Yours truly …

May 21, 2003: Photos, Colophon So I had put off two minor projects for the site for a while: a colophon, and moving all my photos from my .Mac account over to this domain. As of …

May 20, 2003: Quote of the moment "Following someone's blog is like doing a TiVo season pass for a person." --Rael Dornfest

May 20, 2003: LSU SEC baseball champs (again) The LSU baseball team has won the regular season Southeastern Conference championship (again) for 2003, its first since 1997. LSU's head coach has …

May 20, 2003: Master the Services Menu My favorite n3rdling has a great primer on MacMerc about getting the most out of OS X's Services menu. I've recently begun relying on the Services …

May 20, 2003: NetNewsWire Feature Ideas One of the cool things about being an independent Macintosh software developer is that you can have more open and direct communication with your …

May 20, 2003: Mavs upset Spurs in Game 1 Go Mavs! After Najera missed his first free throw in the first quarter, the Mavs combined for 49 straight free throws to help catapult them to an …

May 20, 2003: VZ VOIP Seems our parent company is going to be installing a "next-generation tandem soft switch" in Dallas as its first step in providing nationwide Voice …

May 19, 2003: Reloaded [Possible spoilers] So my lovely bride and I caught The Matrix Reloaded Saturday night. My overall feelings with the film mirror Jason Kottke's. In …

May 19, 2003: Open letter from the NHL Stars' color man Daryl Reaugh has expertly captured what we should hear from the NHL front office. As one of my wife's colleagues put it: "Hockey is …

May 19, 2003: Armey on Clinton/Lewinsky Back on 15 September 1998, then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) held his weekly meeting with Capitol reporters. When a reporter provided …

May 19, 2003: New Cube? I'm not one to spread Mac rumors; heck, I wrote an entire column about the dangers of rumor-mongering and how it affects Apple's bottom line. I'll …

May 18, 2003: Displaying Apache logs in NNW Brent links to a novel proof-of-concept usage of his flagship application, showing how versatile NetNewsWire can be.

May 18, 2003: Open in new tab in Safari Some times, the solution is so simple, we overlook it. Brent Simmons has a quick and dirty tutorial on how to get Safari to open an external links …

May 16, 2003: MT 2.63 and recent-update keys At the same time I decided to upgrade my MovableType engine to 2.63, I donated some funds to Ben and Mena. By doing so, I received a couple of keys to …

May 16, 2003: Gigabit Cube! It appears that Jeff has the only Gigabit Cube in the world. Now if we could just get someone to make the rest of us an upgrade. Too bad Apple won't …

May 15, 2003: TypePad Ben and Mena's latest venture sounds intriguing, especially if the basic service is something that runs only $7 a month. I'd be interested in …

May 15, 2003: iTunes music sharing So I wanted to borrow my buddy Jim's CD of Seussical the Musical, in light that it's coming to town this month, and my wife and I want to take in one …

May 15, 2003: Taking the Times to task So many blasting the New York Times, so little time... Ann Coulter: The Times has now willingly abandoned its mantle as the "newspaper of record," …

May 14, 2003: The word for today... ...is retromingent. Courtesy of Anu's free A.W.A.D. service: retromingent (re-tro-MIN-jent) adjective: Urinating backwards. noun: An animal that …

May 13, 2003: Jargonary Can't keep all of that techno-computer jargon straight in your head? Ever wonder what a PNG is? You need Jargonary, a shareware product for both Mac …

May 11, 2003: Prom Night So I took my wife to the prom last night. No, we didn't go to a high school as chaperones. We went to the 2d Chance Prom that benefits the Kidd's Kids …

May 9, 2003: Rumsfeld Sorry for Embarrassing Anti-War Celebrities You can read the full story here. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized to the celebrity community for the outcome of the war yesterday at …

May 9, 2003: Dictionary for Comicholics For thorough research of words in the world of comics, be sure to use Ka-BOOM! The Dictionary of Champions.

May 9, 2003: Dozens Dead in Chicago Meatwave As if terrorism wasn't enough to worry about, now we have this to contend with.

May 8, 2003: Quote of the moment "The Christian faith is not about mere intellectual assent to a set of doctrines, but about a daily walk with this person Jesus. It's about living in …

May 8, 2003: Is it or isn't it? (Hint: It is...) Brian has a good analysis and links of the infamous 9th Circuit Court's refusal for a full court hearing on California's "assault" weapons ban. By …

May 8, 2003: More for Kelly Can't Stop Lovin' You Hey! There's a time and place for everything. For everyone We can push with all our might, but nothin's gonna come Oh no, …

May 7, 2003: One million in one week Yeah, I know everyone has read how the Apple Music Store has sold more than a million songs in its first week. But Lee has broken down what that …

May 7, 2003: ATPM 9.05 Crikey! I completely forgot to mention that the May issue of About This Particular Macintosh has been published. Doh! I talked Lee in to interviewing …

May 7, 2003: Synergy vs PTHiTunesNotifier So Lee asked what made Synergy worth $5 when PTHiTunesNotifier was free and did essentially the same thing. So I decided to run down a quick …

May 6, 2003: Freedom <i>of</i>, not freedom <i>from</i> Jon Dougherty has an outstanding piece on the Supreme Court's recent unconstitutional ruling of the Ten Commandments display case in Kentucky.

May 6, 2003: Synergy Michael turned me on to Synergy, a menu-bar utility for controlling iTunes, and it freaking rocks! Well worth the $5 shareware fee. One feature is the …

May 6, 2003: InDVDiana Jones My gorgeous mother-to-be spouse points out that Lucasfilm is releasing the Indiana Jones trilogy on DVD! Slated for release on November 4th, this will …

May 6, 2003: iLoo I wish I was making this up. From the idiot savants at Microsoft UK. (Note that the emphasis is not on "savants.") (Thanks, Ricky.)

May 6, 2003: And they're such a peaceful people... You certainly can't blame the Israelis for decimating the Palestinian female ranks: Each year, dozens and probably hundreds of brutal "honor killings" …

May 3, 2003: Those incredibly intelligent, wonderfully sensitive celebrities "I'm getting more famouser by the day." --Avril Lavigne "I quit flying five years ago. Personally, I don't want to die with tourists." --Billy Bob …

May 2, 2003: Freedom is not free: a reminder Retired USAF Major Brian Shul delivered an address at March AFB on Veteran's Day 2001. Powerful stuff: Yes, I believe God has blessed this nation in …

May 2, 2003: iPod 1.3 software While I'm very glad Apple provided us old iPod users with a way to sync and listen to AAC-encoded files, the one other feature I'm envious of, in the …

May 2, 2003: I have an accent? A couple of days ago I was talking to my little sister on the phone (okay, she's 27, but she'll always be my "little" sister), and she stated that I …

May 2, 2003: The Political Quiz Show Brian pointed me to this political quiz, established in 1994 by Democratic consultant Victor Kamber and his Republican counterpart, Bradley S. …

May 1, 2003: Unexpected resistance Ann skewers the leftists once again over the U.S. victory in Iraq: They said chemical weapons would be used against our troops. That didn't happen. …

May 1, 2003: Apple's music Fortune My lovely bride pointed me to this Fortune article on the new iTunes Music Service. Obviously written for publication before the service was …

May 1, 2003: iTunes Music Store pricing Lee notes David Pogue's column on the individual song pricing structures at Apple's new online music store. Good points all around.

May 1, 2003: Dropping out of the job market? There is a story from the NY Times talking about a growing segment of the American population doing exactly that. Of note: "People use the …

Apr 30, 2003: France provided intel to Saddam? "The London Guardian found documents showing Paris fed intelligence to Baghdad before the war. Iraq got diplomatic secrets and military guidance from …

Apr 30, 2003: No more Safari-ing for me So after three crashes in a row today, I've decided to dump Safari as my main browser. Despite this being v73, aka, Public Beta 2, and fairly rock …

Apr 29, 2003: S.W.A.T. Another trailer, this time for the Sam Jackson-Colin Farrell-LL Cool J-Michelle Rodriguez vehicle, S.W.A.T. Loosely based on the 1970s television show …

Apr 29, 2003: T3 International Trailer Yeah, baby! Arnold's back in the 3d installment of the Terminator series. Point your QuickTime-enabled browser here to view the …

Apr 28, 2003: Maher Admits Naivete, Shocks Conservatives Everywhere The notorious Bill Maher admitted on his April 25th show that he was incorrect in his belief that there is a right to privacy in the Constitution. …

Apr 27, 2003: Still more Saddam/al-Qaida ties Yes, Virginia, there are still people who believe that there were no ties between bin Laden's al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. I wonder what they'll say …

Apr 25, 2003: Daddy's little Stars fan Start'em young, I say. And yes, this means there will be a little phisch swimming in our pod later this year.

Apr 24, 2003: Back off, you Rebel scum! Thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner, my TiBook has gone from four partitions to three, without missing a beat. Well, there was obviously some downtime, but …

Apr 24, 2003: DropDMG 2.1 Michael has quietly updated DropDMG to version 2.1. Enhancements include the ability to create Internet-enabled disk images, and the ability to encode …

Apr 24, 2003: al-Sahaf's new job Brian discovered that former Iraqi (Dis)Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has a new job.

Apr 23, 2003: We do have it good Bill Palmer offers an excellent summary of why it's so great to be a Mac user.

Apr 22, 2003: The West is looking good My favorite hockey team clinched its series in 6 games, and is now the #1 seed in the playoffs, thanks to Anaheim knocking off the defending Stanley …

Apr 22, 2003: Vindigo 2.0 is 1 A year ago Vindigo 2.0 was launched. I'm a happy customer, with the software humming away on my Palm m505.

Apr 18, 2003: The Bush Regime Change Tour First it was Afghanistan, where the U.S. military accomplished in less than three months what the former Soviet Union failed to do in a decade. In the …

Apr 17, 2003: For Kelly THROUGH THE NIGHT Hey, I'm the guy who found a treasure in your eyes, And that's no surprise. There's something 'bout you, clearly. I can't recall all …

Apr 16, 2003: Photoshop 7 tip I'm a complete Photoshop novice, often getting FranX or Lee to walk me through stuff. One observation I thought I would share about Photoshop 7 …

Apr 16, 2003: Baker Bros. redux So, on my own for lunch again. Three bucks in my pocket. Sure, it's enough for fast food--McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's--but I'm not eating at the …

Apr 16, 2003: Slide show screensavers Looking for a little help from the retrophisch readership (all 3 of you): I'd like to create a slide show-style screensaver, like those that come …

Apr 16, 2003: USB 2.0 already on new Macs? Hyok Ki Chung thinks so. Quoted on Macintouch, Chung analyzes a Korean news article: While browsing a Korean Mac magazine site, I found this …

Apr 16, 2003: Preschool Pacifism "Welcome to the new preschool curriculum: play dough, finger painting and pacifism 101."

Apr 16, 2003: Macintouch does XML Ric Ford notes that he is experimenting with a XML feed for his renowned Macintouch site. Plug this in to NNW, boys and girls: …

Apr 16, 2003: Aw, no more Saddam money for Palestinian terrorism Saddam Hussein was providing about US $1.5 million a month to various Palestinian agents and supporters, and now that money channel is cut off. And …

Apr 16, 2003: Still no Saddam/terrorism ties, right? It may have taken 18 years, but the U.S. has captured Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking. Abbas is wanted for …

Apr 15, 2003: New York Office Space I don't live in New York. Don't work in New York. Plan to never, ever live or work in New York. Yet I found this article by Joel Spolsky, on searching …

Apr 15, 2003: Tax Day Desktop Not sure what compelled me to suddenly share what my desktop looks like, but here it is: Click on the above pic for a full-size image. That's Zane, …

Apr 15, 2003: Baker Bros. = Yum! My buddy FranX is celebrating five years of service with the company today, at a special lunch for folks in his division who also qualify. So I was on …

Apr 15, 2003: Geektels If having high-speed 'net access while traveling is extremely important to you, then Geektels is a resource you must use. (via Damien via Dave)

Apr 14, 2003: No multiple flag flying in Peoria, AZ bq. "In the midst of the War in Iraq, the City of Peoria, Arizona, has declared war on the First Amendment by ordering one of its citizens to cease …

Apr 14, 2003: Second Safari public beta Apple released this morning the second public beta of its Safari web browser. You can download it here. The official public release of tabbed browsing …

Apr 10, 2003: We told you so? U.S. Marines have uncovered what is believed to be weapons-grade plutonium. U.S. Marines have located a complex of tunnels underneath an Iraqi nuclear …

Apr 10, 2003: And he works because...? So I just found out that the attorney in the office next to my wife's is worth, combined with his mother, nearly US $4 billion. The Schaefflers are in …

Apr 10, 2003: Fun with spammers This isn't necessarily an anti-spam measure; it's more along the lines of revenge. From the latest Dilbert newsletter comes this reader gem: Here's a …

Apr 9, 2003: Daring Fireball Double Whammy Gruber's last two posts are right on the money. First is his PR-speak to English translation of Quark's press release about QuarkXPress 6. Of note: We …

Apr 9, 2003: Liberation Iraq is free from Saddam's tyranny. Dayna has the play by play. WND has a summary. But of course the Iraqi people didn't wish to be freed from …

Apr 8, 2003: War Zone Entertainment It never ceases to amaze me how people can find ways to amuse themselves, even during times of danger, blood, and death.

Apr 8, 2003: More minor site work I don't know what it is, but sometimes I get this minimalist bug. So yesterday I decided to kill the parchment background (thanks again, Lee!) and …

Apr 7, 2003: Embedded PowerBook Thanks to Mark for the pointer to this photo gallery of USA Today photography Jack Gruber, who is using his PowerBook G4 12" to send pictures to the …

Apr 7, 2003: For those who confuse prime time TV with reality:

Apr 7, 2003: Saddam has left the capital... Now that U.S. forces own the Iraqi capital, the Hindustan Times believes the dictator has already fled Baghdad.

Apr 7, 2003: No links between Saddam and terrorists, eh? US Military Captures 'Foreign' Fighters in Iraq US says it has captured non-Iraqi fighters AL QAEDA TERROR CAMP 'LINK TO SADDAM' US says it found …

Apr 7, 2003: Smoking gun, any one? Reuters notes that NPR is reporting U.S. Marines have discovered 20 BM-21 missiles loaded with sarin and mustard gas. The Marines were working, …

Apr 6, 2003: iBox Wired reports on John Fraser's attempt to build a new pizza-box, or "headless" Mac, using replacement parts for older systems. Good luck getting past …

Apr 3, 2003: History Wow. (Mucho grande gracias to Ricky.)

Apr 3, 2003: Soapbox If I wasn't so happy with Movable Type, I would definitely be looking at Hiveware's Soapbox. You can learn more here.

Apr 2, 2003: Copywrong Zeldman calls it. Disney is not your friend.

Apr 2, 2003: Mobile mobile numbers All I can say is, it's about freaking time. I wonder if I could push this issue in June, should I change mobile providers after plan/phone shopping. …

Apr 2, 2003: ATPM 9.04 The April issue of About This Particular Macintosh has been released. Check out Eric's review of NetNewsWire, Lee & Darryl's review of Studio MX, …

Apr 2, 2003: A-ha! Now I know why I like "I Drove All Night" by Celine Dion so much--it's a Roy Orbison song. It was driving me batty; I knew this wasn't an original …

Apr 2, 2003: Very minor site work So this morning I took care of two minor items I'd been meaning to get to. First, I used Hiveware's awesome Enkoder to encode my email address (bottom …

Apr 1, 2003: Shameful confession Damn you, Daimler-Chrysler. Thanks to your commercials, I cannot get Celine Dion's "I Drove All Night" out of my head. Now the MP3 is in rotation in …

Apr 1, 2003: New BBEdit pricing option Bare Bones continues to push the envelope of customer service with this new pricing option for their flagship product, BBEdit. (via Gruber)

Apr 1, 2003: Dallas Auto Show 2003 This past Sunday I met up with my friend Michael at the Dallas Convention Center for the annual Dallas Auto Show. Not really in the market for a …

Mar 31, 2003: SmartyPants 1.2.2 I know I'm half a month late in noting this, but Gruber confesses to why such a quick update to the 1.2.1 release of SmartyPants was necessary: See, …

Mar 31, 2003: Gruber interviews Simmons John Gruber recently interviewed Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire. "Interview" might be stretching it a tad; it comes off more like the two of …

Mar 29, 2003: Switch of a different sort So today I completed a switch of my calendar and contact information from Palm Desktop to OS X's Address Book and iCal. After getting everything …

Mar 27, 2003: Earthquakes rocking France WBAP is reporting this morning: Earthquakes are being reported in France in over 10 different major areas. These earthquakes are measuring in at over …

Mar 27, 2003: LSU alumni in Afghanistan Speaking of the Fighting Tigers, several of the 500 members of the Louisiana Army National Guard's 769th Engineer Battalion are LSU students and …

Mar 27, 2003: Brent's Birthday Jon notes that yesterday was Brent Simmons' birthday, so I'd like to express my best wishes to him as well. NetNewsWire absolutely rocks, I'm becoming …

Mar 26, 2003: Macworld Expo no more? Well, there won't be an expo this summer in New York called "Macworld Expo." Instead, IDG and Apple today announced CREATE. Not that I'm likely to go, …

Mar 26, 2003: Why you want to buy the extended warranty

Mar 26, 2003: The Great California Gray-Out underway Doubtful that it will actually happen, but the California Secretary of State has cleared the way for a recall of Governor Gray Davis. Best of luck to …

Mar 26, 2003: Resuming the Safari So since the weekend, Safari has been giving me major headaches. It seemed to particularly dislike my using Movable Type, and viewing slide shows on …

Mar 26, 2003: Moore Lies So, by the Academy's own definition, Bowling for Colombine isn't a documentary. Yet it is nominated, and wins, an Academy Award. Ok, fine, the …

Mar 25, 2003: Anarchists and Traitors, Unite! I believe these pictures, provided by the ultra-left-leaning, obviously anti-law enforcement, SF Indymedia branch, are sufficient to show that the …

Mar 25, 2003: Can you hear me NOW? I've received enough copies of the Bush/Saddam Verizon Wireless spoof graphic. You can stop now. Thanks.

Mar 25, 2003: One more on Jury Duty Something I forgot to note in the previous jury duty posts, but I thought worth mentioning: the judge overseeing the case we sat for, Joe Briggs, sent …

Mar 25, 2003: Dark Side Switch The Lords of the Sith are ripping off Apple with their own commercials. (Note: Ricky's warned me that the rest of newgrounds.com isn't …

Mar 24, 2003: Jury Duty V Just to wrap up the "Jury Duty" saga: we concluded the trial this past Thursday, deliberating for about 10 minutes, and we found the defendant not …

Mar 24, 2003: Photorescue Now this is something I could have used last year, when I lost pictures of my grandmother's visit to Dallas.

Mar 22, 2003: Quote of the moment "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." --Winston Churchill

Mar 21, 2003: WiFi in rural Iowa Rod Keller documents the external expansion of his home LAN via WiFi. Very cool. (Thanks, Ric)

Mar 21, 2003: Mount.app Thanks to Jeremy Hedley, I've discovered Mount.app, a faster means of mounting disk images than using Disk Copy. Just as Michael's DropDMG is easier …

Mar 21, 2003: Say Thanks Whether or not you are in favor of the war with the Hussein regime, at least say thank you to the troops who are there in your place: Defend America …

Mar 21, 2003: The American Flag "This flag...the symbol of the hopes of man. This cloth of dreams for freedom, justice and opportunity. Its stars like beacons guiding us through …

Mar 19, 2003: It has begun Bombs over Baghdad tonight (tomorrow morning in Iraq). Apparently, intelligence on targets of opportunity was such that cruise missiles and F-117 …

Mar 19, 2003: First firefight of the Iraq War? London's Evening Standard is reporting on a firefight that broke out between Iraqi forces in Basra and members of the British Special Boat Service …

Mar 18, 2003: A barber shop A barber shop. That's what I want. Not a salon. Not another Supercuts, Great Clips, Sports Clips, or any other generic salon-style chain that have all …

Mar 18, 2003: Jury Duty IV Trial was going pretty good this morning. Got through 4 witnesses, then the defendant had some kind of seizure (I think maybe diabetic/blood sugar), …

Mar 18, 2003: Beleaguered Gateway closing stores, reducing work force I figured it was high time that a computer manufacturer other than Apple had the word "beleaguered" in a headline or story about them. According to a …

Mar 18, 2003: Jury Duty III I made the cut; I'm one of the six jurors for this misdemeanor trial starting later this morning. The defendant is charged with Deadly Conduct. From …

Mar 17, 2003: Jury Duty II So I reported for jury duty this morning, fully expecting to sit around all day while they waded through the list. This based on horror stories of …

Mar 16, 2003: Jury Duty So later this morning I'll be heading out to report for jury duty. Like most folks, it's not something I'm looking forward to, but it's one of our …

Mar 14, 2003: Extremely useful iTunes AppleScripts MacMinute is reporting on a set of three AppleScripts for iTunes released by Trinfinity Software. I've downloaded them, used them, and am grateful. …

Mar 14, 2003: Happy Birthday, Eric! Belated birthday wishes to friend and fellow ATPM staffer, Eric Blair. So what, you're old enough to buy beer now, right? ;^) Hope you had a great …

Mar 13, 2003: Even the French aren't this bad This is just disgraceful. Utterly disgraceful. Get it through your neanderthal-thick skulls, slugheads: men and women in uniform do not decide whether …

Mar 13, 2003: Mediated persona Gibson ruminates on how everyone now can have their own mediated persona, thanks to the meme of the weblog.

Mar 13, 2003: Font fix Thanks to Mark Newhouse's article on Unix fonts, I was inspired to revisit the fonts called for in the site's CSS style sheet. Now, OS X users should …

Mar 12, 2003: Walk away! Charles Krauthammer delivers good advice to President Bush: Walk away, Mr. President. Walk away from the U.N. Security Council. It will not authorize …

Mar 12, 2003: What are they thinking? Mars bar, meet Snickers Almond. Snickers Almond, the Mars bar. Why would a company create a product that not only competes directly with one of its …

Mar 12, 2003: Blaser LRS2 From the Reach Out And Touch Someone Department: One of the things that brought on the previous post was the review Guns Magazine did of the …

Mar 12, 2003: Firearms 'zines need to increase online presence Something I've noticed from the various firearms magazines I read: their online presences suck. The various publications from Harris, for instance, …

Mar 12, 2003: The Unix Guru's Guide to Sex % unzip % strip % touch % grep % finger % mount % fsck % more % yes % umount % sleep I IM'ed my wife this with the qualifier that it came from Jim and …

Mar 12, 2003: Done right, indeed Coming in under the radar Monday was this report that the United Nations has redesigned its logo and has a new motto. (Thanks, Michael)

Mar 11, 2003: Open, open, open... "Training In Progress" cries the banner outside the new Grapevine location of P.F. Chang's. Two minutes from the office, about 15 minutes from the …

Mar 11, 2003: Freedom Fries: It's Official Even members of Congress are beginning to call them "freedom fries," and even "freedom toast." (Yes, I know French fries aren't really French.) …

Mar 11, 2003: Large Silent Sinister Menacing Floating Presence Thanks to Gary and Chuq, I blew water out my nose when reading this. Highly entertaining.

Mar 11, 2003: Robinson: NYT op-ed "stupid" You can always count on programmers to be logical. (Well, good ones, anway.) Gary Robinson sallies forth: Saddam is today in a position where he is …

Mar 11, 2003: Hilton, Borders, & McDonald's go WiFi MacMinute notes a c|net report that Hilton Hotels, Borders Books & Music, and McDonald's are partnering with Intel to deliver WiFi (802.11b) …

Mar 11, 2003: WeatherPop One of my favorite pieces of software has been updated. WeatherPop has been revved to version 1.7. The Advance version is only $8 and gets you: …

Mar 10, 2003: Safari's wrong typography John Gruber makes an outstanding case for one of the few things I don't like about Safari. One thing that Safari has gotten wrong ever since it …

Mar 10, 2003: NewTen I'm finding more and more stuff that makes me antsy for my forthcoming MessagePad 2100...

Mar 10, 2003: Stars make trades One day before the NHL's trading deadline, the Stars make some moves to set themselves up for their run for the Stanley Cup. Currently second overall, …

Mar 10, 2003: MobileTracker.net My new favorite n3rd reports that his mobile phone weblog has a new and permanent home: MobileTracker.net. Jon also shares this insight on the T68i, …

Mar 10, 2003: Iraqi soldiers already surrendering Sent to me by Michael and noted by Jon, the UK's Sunday Mirror is reporting that Iraqi soldiers have already begun to surrender: Terrified Iraqi …

Mar 10, 2003: Does it come in desert camou? Lee notes a Wired story on a lone PowerBook user in the Third Infantry Division, currently operating out of Kuwait. As someone who almost became one …

Mar 9, 2003: Tax Cuts Lessons II Twenty thousand people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. The team was about to mail refunds when the …

Mar 7, 2003: Safari v64 Yes, another leaked beta version of Safari. Yes, I have a copy. No, I'm not posting it for widespread dissemination; my site runs via Darwin/Apache on …

Mar 7, 2003: Quote of the moment "Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." --Thomas Jefferson

Mar 7, 2003: Honey, can you take the AmEx out of the freezer? The March 3 issue of Business Week features a blurb regarding controlling your credit card usage. In the past, the solution to credit card overusage …

Mar 7, 2003: Camino 0.7 Hot on the heels of the official rename, the Camino crew has released an updated version of the in-beta browser. Highlights to this update include: a …

Mar 6, 2003: Re: Tonight's Presidential press conference I thought President Bush raised two very important points during the press conference regarding Saddam and the United Nations. One, the Security …

Mar 6, 2003: For the millionth time... You do not have a constitutional right to a job or free/cheap health care, and it is not the job of the federal, state, or local government to provide …

Mar 6, 2003: Multipage-view Safari I can't wait to hear what Michael and Gruber have to say about this really good mock-up. I'm torn on this idea. As presented, it takes up too much …

Mar 5, 2003: Monopoly money coming to our shores Yes, Virginia, beginning this fall, you can have your own wallet of rainbow-colored twenties... The new bills will be introduced on 27 March, and …

Mar 5, 2003: Zero intelligence A six-year-old boy has been suspended for having a plastic knife in his bookbag at school. A plastic knife he obtained in the school cafeteria. As the …

Mar 5, 2003: World's Smallest Combination Lock From the Your Tax Dollars At Work Department: Sandia Labs had developed the world's smallest combination lock, and hopes to have a commercial partner …

Mar 5, 2003: Required Reading Asked by Andrew Cuomo to pen an essay for a book on the future of the Democratic Party, Peggy Noonan, former Democrat, has delivered in spades. This …

Mar 5, 2003: Yeah, we're "rushing" (thanks, Brian)

Mar 5, 2003: Something rotten in the state of Japan? Gibson offers a "readymade" novel to anyone willing, founded upon this news item from Tokyo.

Mar 5, 2003: Tax Cuts - A Simple Lesson in Economics It's been floating around the ether for a while, but it bears repeating: Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, …

Mar 4, 2003: Camino lives It's official: 03 March 2003: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the project [formerly known as Chimera] has been renamed Camino.

Mar 4, 2003: SpyHunter! MacMinute reports that Aspyr is going to bring the updated version of the arcade classic to the Mac! w00t! I wasted many a quarter on the full-size, …

Mar 4, 2003: Apple to revolutionize the music biz? If this story in the L.A. Times is to be believed, Apple is going to change the way Mac users buy music. The new service was developed by Apple …

Mar 3, 2003: n3rd Cell Station Jon Gales has spun off from his regular blog a new weblog devoted to mobile communication technology. Seeing as how I'm four months away from the end …

Mar 3, 2003: On passwords Thanks to JG & Co. at MacMerc for the link to a CreativePro story on safe password creation and usage. Good stuff here. Read and implement. (This …

Mar 3, 2003: No more Caffeine Caffeine Software has suspended operations. Bad news for users of TIFFany, Curator, and PixelNhance. While I personally haven't used any of their …

Mar 3, 2003: Delta guinea airline for new security There aren't many things that the ACLU and I agree on, but this is one of them. (via Xeni)

Mar 3, 2003: Eric/raoli Fellow ATPM staffer Eric Blair is blogging at raoli.com. The jury is still out on what "raoli" means. :)

Mar 2, 2003: ATPM 9.03 The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now online. Yours truly has stepped into the Managing Editor's shoes, so if there's something …

Mar 2, 2003: TextWrangler Like Michael, I like Bare Bones' replacement for BBEdit Lite, though I also wish it included support for AppleScript. Like Jan, while I like …

Feb 28, 2003: Kill the Department of Education As if we needed more reasons to eliminate a bureacratic sinkhole in the federal government. From the Washington Times, 2/19/03: "More than a billion …

Feb 28, 2003: Newton still going strong Yesterday marked the 5th anniversary of Apple's discontinuing production of the Newton, the forerunner of today's PDAs. Speaking of today's PDAs, some …

Feb 28, 2003: Sound advice from across the Pond "Supposing I came along in August 2001 and said...that there was an al-Qaeda terrorist network; no one would have heard of it. Suppose I said that we …

Feb 28, 2003: On government spending "Frankly, when my family's income goes down, so does our spending as we tighten our belts. Why is it that government believes its spending of our …

Feb 27, 2003: Let the Hollywonk backlash begin! "Americans objecting to the anti-war rhetoric of Hollywood celebrities are no longer remaining silent, but are starting to fight back with their own …

Feb 27, 2003: For or against, just tell us the truth Ann nails the Demos yet again on their two-faced approach to war with Saddam: "After voting in favor of the war with Iraq right before the November …

Feb 27, 2003: Look at my incredibly massive ego! Jerry Jerk, er, Jones, has released the NFL's all-time leading rusher from the Dallas Cowboys. Players take note: this is how Jerry rewards your …

Feb 27, 2003: This is just wrong You know, go ahead and protest potential war with Saddam Hussein's regime. But when you take it out on little kids just because their parents are in …

Feb 27, 2003: Banana Junior 6000 Tech gear lust can begin at an early age. For me, in 1985, I wanted a Banana Junior 6000. (Thanks to Gruber for the link.) My personal favorites are …

Feb 27, 2003: P800 More gear lust, this time courtesy of Steven and The Register. With our current mobile contract up in June, I'll be shopping around for the best plan, …

Feb 27, 2003: Good-bye, Mr. Rogers Beloved children's programming legend Fred Rogers died early this morning at age 74, from stomach cancer. Song composer, puppeteer, Presbyterian …

Feb 26, 2003: tchotchke Lee was not familiar with the term, so I pointed him to Webster's, which defines it as a noun, Yiddish in entymology etymology, and means "trinket" or …

Feb 24, 2003: Those lovable French... Brian informed me that Rush's stand-in nailed the French today: Q: What did the leader of France say when Germany invaded? A: Table for 100,000? Q: …

Feb 24, 2003: R1 Michael has me gear-lusting after this. I've always felt more like a rice rocket kind of guy than one who'd straddle a hog. I'd like it in Liquid …

Feb 24, 2003: Don't waste your money Please don't shell out ten smackers for MacMaid when Erik gives you an AppleScript that'll do the same thing for free.

Feb 24, 2003: Monty Python in church? It's pretty cool when your pastor uses a Monty Python reference in his sermon. In this case, it was the "Department of Redundancy Department." Tim was …

Feb 24, 2003: Former Star hits 1,000 Former Dallas Star Joe Nieuwendyk, currently with the New Jersey Devils, reached the 1,000-point plateau last night with a goal against Magnificent …

Feb 21, 2003: 54321 I just saw the motorcross commercial on Fox Sports (Southwest) for their show "54321." The motorcross biker clapping at the end, after the doofus …

Feb 21, 2003: Froogle Froogle, currently in beta, is a Google project for product price comparison.

Feb 21, 2003: gurgle Burger King has joined McDonald's on my places of never to eat again.

Feb 20, 2003: What a great kid Mark Newhouse's daughter Jordan donated a 14-inch ponytail to Locks for Love on Valentine's Day, and Mark has documented the event in the form of a …

Feb 20, 2003: Liberal radio talk show hosts? Ann cracks me up: "If liberals cared about ideas or knew any facts, they would cease being liberals. Even the audience for the left's …

Feb 20, 2003: iChat logs I share Michael's iChat irritation. One of the things I love about Fire is that I can drag a log file onto BBEdit and have it open up in the text …

Feb 20, 2003: Cool new PDF trick Michael notes Bill Bumgarner's example on using Mac OS X 10.2.4's new PDF Workflow feature. I tried out Bill's example, since it plays into my own web …

Feb 20, 2003: Doing the right thing, rather than the "popular" thing Doing the right thing is oftentimes not the easy thing to do. With regard to Saddam Hussein, President Bush's course of action is the right thing to …

Feb 20, 2003: Hypocrisy, anyone? Riddle me this: why was it okay for President Clinton to go into the Balkans without approval of the U.N. Security Council, but it's not okay for …

Feb 20, 2003: NetNewsWire + Safari = Power Ok, I've finally used NetNewsWire consistently for a couple of weeks, and now I'm hooked. Like Michael admitted, my vision on NNW's potential was …

Feb 19, 2003: Stolen Computer Registry Lose or have stolen your laptop--or desktop, for that matter? You can register the serial number with the Stolen Computer Registry. That great system …

Feb 19, 2003: Marijuana DOES lead to harder drug use A study by Washington University (of St. Louis, MO), published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, of 311 Australian twin pairs, …

Feb 19, 2003: California Patriot You have to admire and respect a conservative startup at one of the bastions of leftist thinking. They give away the 4,000 copies they print to …

Feb 19, 2003: Four-eyes A little over two weeks ago, I joined the ranks of the bespeckled: Eyemasters wanted $90 for the non-polarized clip-on sunglasses for them! Thanks to …

Feb 19, 2003: Freedom fries Some times, real life is just too much fun to have to make up fiction. (Yes, I know I'm paraphrasing; sue me. Thanks, Jim.)

Feb 19, 2003: Well, Virtual PC is dead... Microsoft is going to acquire Connectix's Virtual PC software. Don't believe for a minute their claim that they're not buying the software to kill it. …

Feb 19, 2003: RSS feed Thanks to the nagging hints of some people, I have modified the RSS doc to show the full text of each post, rather than just a line or two. Props to …

Feb 18, 2003: Camino Apparently, everyone's favorite OS X-flavored Gecko-based browser will be renamed to Camino. What's sad is that Pinkerton knows it stinks, but …

Feb 18, 2003: This is compliance? Riddle me this: what good is it to have U-2 flights over Iraq, in the hope of locating production and storage facilities for weapons of mass …

Feb 18, 2003: Finally! Ric is reporting that Microtech International has finally gotten off their duffs and have posted for download drivers for the USB CameraMate and Zio! …

Feb 18, 2003: When you're really paranoid The DVD/CD Shredder from Alera Technologies destroys the data layer on DVD and CD discs, making the data unrecoverable. Pretty much any size DVD or CD …

Feb 16, 2003: Safari now supports title tag I just noticed, after adding a new link in the right-side column, that the latest public beta of Safari now supports the title tag. Make sure you have …

Feb 16, 2003: Please get a clue What is it with the "news" media and the hippie-throwback peaceniks out there? Oh, Saddam and the Iraqi government are making all of these …

Feb 14, 2003: Raena's blog Raena and I don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of stuff, but she's a fellow Mac-head and ATPM staffer, so she can't be all bad, can she? ;) Anyway, she's …

Feb 14, 2003: Debating the war on terror This is from an email sent to me, presumably posted by some radio personality, to show an illustration of the ongoing debate on how we should handle …

Feb 14, 2003: 10.2.4 disables PHP? Lee is reporting that Jon Gales has found that the Mac OS X 10.2.4 update disables PHP; Jon provides the Terminal-based restart sequence.

Feb 14, 2003: Free DropStuff via .Mac If you're a .Mac subscriber, MacMinute is reporting that Apple is offering Aladdin's DropStuff as a free download. As of 9:00 am CST, I'm getting 504 …

Feb 14, 2003: Happy Valentine's Day I'd just like to take a moment to wish my wonderful wife of ten and a half years a Happy Valentine's Day. I love you, sweetheart.

Feb 13, 2003: Fine, the gloves are off So, back in January, the New York Times' editorial page headline screamed "The War Against Women," the letter therein lambasting the Bush …

Feb 13, 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.4 Apple has made rev 10.2.4 available via the Software Update panel. "The 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the …

Feb 13, 2003: The Left's brain trust On the February 12th "The View," the ABC show created by Barbara Walters, former Good Morning America staffer and WABC Radio talk show host Joy Behar …

Feb 13, 2003: Going to war without the French is like... To wrap up Federalist coverage for today, I'd like to offer up my favorite results from their latest "Two Cents" reader feedback, wherein readers were …

Feb 13, 2003: Yet another reason to dump the SSA bq. "An internal review at the Social Security Administration found that the agency has paid accused felons between $76 million and $283 million in …

Feb 13, 2003: Worthy of our honor The following appeared in the 03-06 Digest of The Federalist: By now you know that five of the seven astronauts who died aboard the Space Shuttle …

Feb 13, 2003: retrophisch.com v2.0 So I think enough changes have been made to the site within the past few weeks to warrant a full version upgrade. :) Inspired by re-reading Robin …

Feb 12, 2003: Don't forget from where your power stems, pols "Anyone who has ever been in a government office sees people sitting around doing little if any work. Yet these people are never the first target of …

Feb 12, 2003: Safari update Apple has released a Safari beta update, taking the turbo browser to beta v60 (0.8.2).

Feb 12, 2003: French voting "Tony Blair said he and President Bush prefer another UN resolution before a war in Iraq. Their problem is the Security Council. France might command …

Feb 12, 2003: Happy Birthday, Mr. President II Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The Great Emancipator was fond of saying that God created all men as equal, and proved as such with the …

Feb 12, 2003: So are we at war, or aren't we? You have to love the Left. When it comes to liberating the Iraqi people, ousting a sociopathic dictator in possession of weapons of mass destruction, …

Feb 12, 2003: French peacenik pervasiveness "Meanwhile, the peacenik predisposition of the other Continentals is a useful cover for French ambition. Last year Paavo Lipponen, the Finnish Prime …

Feb 12, 2003: Kenner Pooch Wins at Westminster A Pekingese from Kenner won the toy dog category at the Westminster dog show this week, though she lost out in the Best in Show finale. Why do I care? …

Feb 12, 2003: Evidence for the French "How many folks saw Colin Powell at the UN? I thought he was pretty persuasive, but a lot of folks are still demanding more evidence, you know, before …

Feb 12, 2003: CRT-free household As of this morning, our household is free of computer CRT monitors. Last night, we purchased a NEC 17" LCD for my wife's PC. With just a slightly …

Feb 11, 2003: Get Safari Enhancer I'm always a little leery of third-party applications which modify or "enhance" another application. I like to live on the bleeding edge, but I also …

Feb 11, 2003: Silver kicks butt and takes names "Not all Hollywood celebrities are ungrateful, anti-American lefties." The MRC reports on an interview on Fox News Channel with actor Ron Silver, who …

Feb 11, 2003: Mr. Marx, Mr. Turner. Mr. Turner, Mr. Marx Yet another instance where I am ashamed to share a surname with this moronic windbag: Monday morning on Today, however, Turner maintained that Iraq is …

Feb 11, 2003: Entourage will be Exchange solution for OS X Good news for those of us stuck in Exchange server-using corporate environments: Microsoft's Mac BU has officially announced that Entourage will be …

Feb 11, 2003: Smart punctuation lives When you're a type nerd like me (never would guess that from the monospaced logo for the site, would you?), things like smart punctuation matter. …

Feb 11, 2003: SpamSieve 1.3 Michael has released SpamSieve 1.3, which is more resilient than ever to spammers' tricks for obfuscating words. In addition, you can now use e-mail …

Feb 10, 2003: SmartyPants Well, Gruber has released SmartyPants 1.1, and Lee's using it. I suppose I've been mulling over its use long enough. Buckle up, smart punctuation is …

Feb 10, 2003: Dude, you're going to jail! You know, this explains so much about the persona of "Steven the Dell dude."

Feb 10, 2003: Daily bread "The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit." —Proverbs 15:4/NIV, verseoftheday.com

Feb 10, 2003: Exercising rights "Americans are a people who have realized a dream of freedom, who have taken it from an abstract hope and turned it into a living reality. What made …

Feb 10, 2003: Online library Anu of the A.W.A.D. list is now gleaning example text from books found at Questia, an online library. It is a subscription-based service, though you …

Feb 10, 2003: Eddie who? Speaking of the Stars, I think Marty Turco is well on his way to ridding us of the ghost of Ed Belfour. Taking his team to the Finals and winning a …

Feb 10, 2003: Why IS a team from Dallas in the Pacific Division? Daryl Reaugh sums up a lot of my feelings on why the Stars are in the wrong division.

Feb 10, 2003: Tax food for thought Jim shared via email: "As income tax time approaches, did you ever notice that when you put the two words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells …

Feb 10, 2003: 1.2 GHz Cube Bill Fox fans the flames of my gear lust with his review of the PowerLogix 1.2 GHz single processor upgrade for the G4 Cube.

Feb 10, 2003: Updated Xserves, new Xserve RAID Apple announced today updated Xserves, as well as the new Xserve RAID. The new servers feature up to dual 1.33 GHz processors, up to 720 GB of …

Feb 7, 2003: MacinTiVo From Damien comes this encouraging news on the TiVo front.

Feb 7, 2003: Furthermore Last night, I picked up my pre-ordered copy of "Furthermore" by Jars of Clay, their 2-disc studio/stage compilation. Faithfully ripped via iTunes, I'm …

Feb 7, 2003: Transmit 2.3 Panic released an updated version of their FTP client today. Mostly a bug-fix release, it does include an oft-requested feature: a preference that …

Feb 7, 2003: Virex 7.2 My favorite antivirus application has been updated. .Mac subscribers should log in and download the new version, which includes an automatic virus …

Feb 6, 2003: Happy Birthday, Mr. President Former President Ronald Reagan is 92 today. Major retrophisch well wishes to President and Mrs. Reagan.

Feb 6, 2003: Glad I don't read Salon Michael notes that Salon has adopted a new pay-or-click-through-multiple-ads model. Might be worth it for some, but I never thought Salon was worth …

Feb 6, 2003: Baked PowerBook, anyone? A colleague just sent me this link to a baked Apple. Please note that there are links at the top of the page to more pictures other than those …

Feb 6, 2003: Death of the floppy, redux Four and a half years after Apple declared the floppy disk was dead with the introduction of the iMac, the rest of the computer industry is finally …

Feb 6, 2003: You can still nab WordPerfect If you are one of those folks who just cannot let go of WordPerfect for the Mac, you can download the last version, released free by Corel, here. …

Feb 5, 2003: Sounds like a smoking Gatling gun to me "conceal" "hiding" "evacuated" "noncompliance" "mobile biological weapons labs" "nerve agents" "some followers of a senior associate of Osama bin …

Feb 5, 2003: Right on, Reebok! You know that annoying Nike Shox ad with the guy running across the soccer field wearing only his Shox shoes and a scarf? Reebok, with the help of …

Feb 5, 2003: On discrimination I have pondered authoring an essay on how it is the Democrats, in fact, who have long favored racial discrimination, and not Republicans, but why go …

Feb 4, 2003: New iMacs Even though I'm late in the day reporting this, Apple released upgraded iMacs today. The 17" iMac now sports a 1 GHz G4 processor, while the 15" …

Feb 4, 2003: Void that warranty, yeah! Thanks to Mike for the link to Kodawarisan Oheya's step-by-step disassembly of a 12" PowerBook G4.

Feb 4, 2003: Health improvements Well, after taking a couple of sick days, I'm beginning to feel normal again. The anti-nausea and anti-spasmodic drugs the ER doc prescribed for me …

Feb 2, 2003: Being sick sucks And it really, really, really sucks when you end up at the ER at 11:45 on a Saturday night because you're so dehydrated and you can't get fluids in by …

Feb 1, 2003: Rest in Peace, Columbia We've been getting calls pretty steady all morning from friends and family, making sure we're ok since all the reports have the Columbia breaking up …

Jan 31, 2003: Demos take note "National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams

Jan 31, 2003: Demo SOTU Response The volunteer researchers at The Federalist simply rock. Let's follow along as they break down the Democrat response to President Bush's State of the …

Jan 31, 2003: iLife released Apple has posted for download iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, and as has been the case, iTunes 3. The full iLife package began shipping earlier this week to those …

Jan 31, 2003: In The Visegrips Gibson continues to blow me away.

Jan 31, 2003: Notable Quotables MRC's latest Notable Quotables is available. They pick out the best biased lines from the news talkingheads to show you how skewed broadcast news …

Jan 30, 2003: Miller on the ACLU My friends know that in general I detest Dennis Miller, but he made an excellent point regarding the ACLU on the Tonight Show this week: "The ACLU …

Jan 30, 2003: "Balanced" reporting If a ban on partial-birth abortion, decidedly a conservative issue, is a "sop to the far right," why isn't a campaign finance reform bill, decidedly a …

Jan 30, 2003: iLife shipping MacMinute is reporting that iLife is now shipping from Apple. iPhoto 2 and iMovie 3 downloads have yet to be posted online, however.

Jan 30, 2003: Microsoft anti-Safari? A member of the Cube email list reports that he is unable to log in to his Hotmail account with Safari. He does say this "is limited to the browser …

Jan 30, 2003: Knowing Who Your Friends Are I know several folks out there, even some I call acquaintances and friends, believe that the United States, and specifically President Bush, is acting …

Jan 29, 2003: Harmony "Triumphant in their kill of the elephant chew toy, feline and canine shared bedding in front of a warm fire, and there was peace throughout the …

Jan 28, 2003: Sounds like material breach to me Hans Blix: "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance--not even today--of the disarmament which is demanded of it and which it needs to …

Jan 28, 2003: New Apple iron Apple released new desktops today. Processors ramp up to 1.42 GHz in the high-end model, as well as a new 4x SuperDrive. Like the PowerBooks released …

Jan 28, 2003: Good riddance, Opera Speaking of Mac browsers, Opera’s Jon von Tetzchner whined to CNET about competing with Safari, and losing out on providing the Opera engine to …

Jan 28, 2003: Safari best Mac browser ever? Bob Levitus, a.k.a., Dr. Mac, thinks it just may be: "Safari is wicked fast, with a clean, uncluttered interface and a feature I love--a special …

Jan 27, 2003: Stars beat Senators In a possible Stanley Cup Finals preview, the current best team in the West took on the current best team in the East (and the league). The Stars …

Jan 27, 2003: What's fair Once upon a time, there was a young woman who was about to finish her last year of college. She considered herself a very liberal Democrat, and her …

Jan 27, 2003: Daily Tales and Punditry Lee's blogging! Welcome to the weird and wacky world of the blog, bro. :)

Jan 27, 2003: Apple Store Knox Street Grand Opening So I decided to drag my butt out of bed at 6 am Saturday morning to join a friend for the opening of the new Apple Store on Knox Street in Dallas. …

Jan 27, 2003: '9/11 will seem like a picnic' From Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son, according to a Reuters article: "It is better for the Americans to keep themselves away from us. Because if …

Jan 26, 2003: Frickin' Celine Dion?!?!? Can someone answer me why a French Canadian is singing “God Bless America” during the Super Bowl pre-game show? “My home sweet …

Jan 23, 2003: SIGARMS Academy One of the reasons why SIG is my favorite firearms manufacturer is the SIGARMS Academy. Located in New Hampshire, the Academy provides all types of …

Jan 23, 2003: Common sense prevails A federal judge has thrown out the class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s which claimed the chain’s food was the reason for …

Jan 22, 2003: ClarisWorks History Michael notes a history of ClarisWorks posted by Bob Hearn, one of the software package’s creators. The quote Michael highlights stands out in …

Jan 21, 2003: Automatic Flatterer If you’re having a bad day and need a little pick-me-up, click here. (JavaScript needs to be enabled in your browser.) (Thanks, Jim!)

Jan 21, 2003: Don't mess with MacTavish It’s nice to see that Craig MacTavish, who came up during the NHL’s bruiser days, hasn’t lost the hockey-player mentality as a …

Jan 21, 2003: New spam filters Something I know will be of interest to Michael. (SpamSieve uses Bayesian analysis to identify spam.) (from Lee)

Jan 20, 2003: Frank talk on Apple's free software I know why Michael links to Steven Frank’s note on Apple’s free software. I agree with Steven, and I hope that developers like Michael and …

Jan 20, 2003: Where's Marv? Ok, so now I’m worried. A few weeks back, I noticed that Gunnery.Net had dropped off the ‘net. I didn’t think anything of it at the …

Jan 20, 2003: One million Safari downloads Apple announced that its beta web browser for Mac OS X, Safari, has been downloaded more than a million times in just over 2 weeks time. (from Stan)

Jan 20, 2003: Jacoby on capital punishment Speaking of Jeff Jacoby, he offers this point on the recently-revived capital punishment debate: "This week the Justice Department released 'Capital …

Jan 20, 2003: Jacoby's musings Jeff Jacoby's latest column notes a wide array of topics, including the fact that the war between the enlightened West and militant Islam has been …

Jan 20, 2003: Lies my protesting newsperson told me Now I could lay in to the various news agencies for their highly-skewed slant on the various anti-war protests over the weekend, but the Media …

Jan 18, 2003: Heaton rocks! There are reasons why Patricia Heaton continues to be one of my favorite actresses. She’s absolutely fabulous on Everybody Loves Raymond, and …

Jan 17, 2003: Addendum to definition of a liberal "A liberal is one who opposes racial profiling in matters of national security, but believes it is a useful standard in matters of higher education." …

Jan 17, 2003: Americans "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, …

Jan 17, 2003: Open Secrets Now you may be wondering, "How did the MRC find out those economists were Democrat contributors?" It's called OpenSecrets.org, and you can search for …

Jan 17, 2003: Busted Gee, what possible agenda could ABC, NBC, and CBS have for trotting out financial experts and accountants who poo-poo on the President's tax plan, …

Jan 16, 2003: What are you lookin' at? Isn't he adorable? Clancy loves tennis balls. . .

Jan 15, 2003: Gibson blogs One of my favorite authors, and the coiner of “cyberspace,” is blogging. He also has a new book coming out, and damn, can this guy write …

Jan 15, 2003: Apple Q1 Results Apple posted its first quarter results; $8 million net loss. Ouch. I’m sure the stock will drop like a stone as “analysts” and stock …

Jan 15, 2003: Apple on Photoshop There's a bevy of Photoshop tips in the Creative section of Apple.com.

Jan 15, 2003: This week's "Leftmedia Busters" Award "In the 1979-80 season, 75% of all TV sets that were turned on in the early evening were tuned to the network news programs on CBS, NBC or ABC. By …

Jan 15, 2003: New PowerBook benchmarks Bare Feats' Rob Morgan benchmarked the PowerBook G4 17" from the Macworld Expo show floor, and has posted his results, with comparison to current …

Jan 15, 2003: Macally items Between the new PowerBooks, Safari, and Keynote, amongst other news out of Macworld Expo SF, I failed to notice some of the latest gadgets from …

Jan 15, 2003: How small is the 12" PowerBook G4? PowerBook Central answers that question with this handy chart of small Apple portables. While it's technically not the smallest when certain …

Jan 15, 2003: iConquer If you love(d) Risk, then you have to get iConquer. Sorry, Mac OS X only.

Jan 15, 2003: 40 GB iPod?!? As crazy as it sounds now, a 40 GB iPod could be a reality later this year, thanks to 40 GB 1.8-inch drives from Hitachi. (from MacRumors)

Jan 14, 2003: More Vindigo city facts From back at the end of October, when Vindigo added Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and more coverage for Chicago and Washington, DC: During the 1850s and '60s …

Jan 14, 2003: Safari first look If you're still waffling over whether or not to try Safari, Wei-Meng Lee has a good overview over on O'Reilly's MacDevCenter.

Jan 14, 2003: How true “It is almost pathetic to see the emerging lineup of Democratic presidential hopefuls slobbering all over themselves in search of a defining …

Jan 14, 2003: Sharing the sacrifice “The first thing to keep in mind is that it is almost impossible to cut any tax without making the people who pay that tax richer. And, rich …

Jan 13, 2003: Saving web pages as plain text in <strike>Chimera</strike> Camino Like Charles, I hadn't thought of this remedy.

Jan 13, 2003: Bumper Snickers LEM has some new bumper snickers. The Dell one is my favorite from this batch.

Jan 13, 2003: Bulls-eye! "The central question in this debate is not whether government should decide how much money it will allow us to keep. Rather, it is how much of our …

Jan 13, 2003: Will on stimulus package "Today's 'stimulus package' is psychotherapy for a nation that very recently has become too fixated on the stock market, which has declined three …

Jan 13, 2003: Tax vernacular Friday’s Federalist opined on President Bush’s proposed economic policy, and this gem on tax cut vernacular: "And Sociocrats depend on one …

Jan 11, 2003: New Safari beta Some time yesterday, Apple released a new beta of Safari.

Jan 10, 2003: You, too, can hack the RIAA Eric shared this tidbit with the ATPM staff on the ongoing hacks of the Recording Industry Association of America's web site.

Jan 9, 2003: X11 for Mac OS X Steve didn't mention it during the keynote, but it's been generating lots of buzz: Apple released a public beta of X11 for Mac OS X. X11 is the common …

Jan 9, 2003: The Hacker FAQ For clueless managers.

Jan 9, 2003: iPod #1 Steve Jobs reported during his keynote that the iPod is the #1 MP3 player in the United States and in the land of consumer electronics, Japan, with a …

Jan 9, 2003: "Come on a Safari with me. . ." Safari is generating quite a bit of buzz: Former Mozillian and Chimera inventor Dave Hyatt is part of the Safari team and has several interesting …

Jan 8, 2003: Safari breaks download record MacCentral is reporting that Safari, Apple's new browser for OS X, has broken Apple's single day download record.

Jan 8, 2003: Why the West is best “Western values are superior to all others. Why? The indispensable achievement of the West was the concept of individual rights. It’s the …

Jan 8, 2003: Freedom without faith? “It is vitally important that we recognize that there is a law higher than that of the state or the will of the majority. There is a higher law …

Jan 8, 2003: I couldn't agree more “We were hoping for a big and bold tax cut from President Bush and, by George, we got one. Yesterday Mr. Bush drew a bead on the twin …

Jan 8, 2003: Let's be honest with Saddam "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." —Edmund Burke

Jan 7, 2003: Wireless PocketMouse Kensington has announced the PocketMouse Pro Wireless. US $49, pre-orders being taken now. I'm sure this will eventually find its way into my bag for …

Jan 7, 2003: Too cute Keegan, a seven year-old hockey player from Canada, has his own iMovie-edited film clip, with some help from his dad. (QuickTime required.)

Jan 6, 2003: Copyright Call to Arms Lawrence Lessig delivered “Free Culture” in July 2002 at the Open Source Convention. If you read nothing else that I post here about …

Jan 6, 2003: And just like that. . . . . .Apple releases iCal 1.0.2. Apparently this is a bug-fix for a problem in 1.0.1 that caused some users "living in time zones 10 hours or more from …

Jan 4, 2003: ATPM 9.01 About This Particular Macintosh enters its 9th calendar year of publishing with the January issue. Yours truly has a small review in this issue, as …

Jan 3, 2003: Digitize Fido Fido's info, that is. The stamped metal dog tags you buy from a vending machine at the pet store are so 20th century. The Dog-e-Tag is a US $40 …

Jan 3, 2003: Tax cut lies Thursday night, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNBC all decided to subtly berate President Bush’s upcoming economic stimulus package, which will include tax …

Jan 3, 2003: Debug your iPod Slashdot has a post on accessing the secret debugging tools inside the iPod. (with a nod to Ric)

Jan 2, 2003: There are other teams, Dallas sports fans As a transplanted Texan, one of the things that has bothered me since our move here in ‘98 has been how Cowboys-focused Dallas sports fans are. …

Jan 2, 2003: Cotton Bowl observations Longhorn Chris Simms lived down to his reputation and didn’t choke at a big game, closing out his collegiate career with a win. I can’t …

Jan 2, 2003: iUpdates Apple announced iCal 1.0.1 and final release of iSync 1.0 today. Each requires Mac OS X 10.2.2.

Dec 31, 2002: Cotton Bowl bound Yeah, I know the blog’s been quiet the past few days. Since I was unable to get any time off on the days before or after Christmas Day, we had …

Dec 26, 2002: Preloaded Blog Entry of the Day has to go to Panic's Steven Frank. Steven's commentary is just as funny as the item being commented on.

Dec 26, 2002: LSU vs Ole Miss, 11/23/02 Thanks to a generous neighbor, Kelly & I, along with our friends and fellow alumni, Drew & Melanie, got to go to the last LSU home game of …

Dec 26, 2002: All along the watchtower “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” —John Adams …

Dec 25, 2002: Happy Birthday, Jesus! Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ, our Lord and Savior, who died for the sins of the world. "And it came to pass in those days, that …

Dec 24, 2002: Microsoft to acquire Macromedia? Yes, that Macromedia. Of FreeHand, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and most of all, Flash, fame. Does Microsoft plan to kill Java through this acquisition? …

Dec 24, 2002: Santa uses a Mac! www.santaclaus.com UPDATE (12/26/02): In case you are seeing this link after December 25th, the above link used to redirect back to Apple's Santa …

Dec 24, 2002: Protect Fair Use A new site has appeared, protectfairuse.org. I encourage you to check it out. They make it easy for you to email and print letters to send to your …

Dec 24, 2002: OS X fresh meat Open source software site, Freshmeat has opened a new section devoted exclusively to OS X.

Dec 23, 2002: Happy Belated Birthday, bro Dan turned 30 yesterday. Welcome to the ranks of the thirtysomethings, amigo. :)

Dec 23, 2002: The One True Quoting Style Michael calls it on Chris Hanson's observation. Take note, emailers of the world. At work, I am forced to use Entourage as my Exchange client under …

Dec 23, 2002: Safer in Afghanistan than in Montgomery Exercising the Second Amendment right he defends every day through his service, Marine Sergeant James Lowery shot and killed a would-be carjacker last …

Dec 23, 2002: About those poor Iraqi civilians. . . A lot has been said and written in the past few months regarding the fate of the Iraqi civilian population in the event of a U.S.-led attack on Saddam …

Dec 22, 2002: My Glorious The world's shaking with the love of God Great and glorious, let the whole earth sing And all you ever do is change the old for new People we believe …

Dec 22, 2002: No news is good news Well, that's what Grant has to say about his mom. Keep sending the prayers out.

Dec 19, 2002: Prayers for Grant's mom Grant Hutchinson's mom suffered a grade V intracerebral aneurysm on Monday. She appears to be improving slowly. Please pray for her and the rest of …

Dec 19, 2002: Transmit 2.2 What is fast becoming my favorite GUI-based FTP client for OS X has an incremental update. Transmit 2.2 was released today, and is the first FTP …

Dec 19, 2002: More of the real Clinton legacy ABC News has conducted an exclusive interview with two FBI agents, who said they were repeatedly warned off of the cases they were working on. …

Dec 19, 2002: Have you been Googled? Michael links to this article on MSNBC about Google, its pervasive nature, popularity, and a little history. And since MSNBC's articles tend to …

Dec 19, 2002: I'm glad I use a Mac New security bug with Windows XP and Nullsoft's Wimamp MP3 player. Yet more reasons why I love iTunes and Audion. (Thanks, Eric.)

Dec 18, 2002: WebDesktop Well, isn't this a kick in the pants?

Dec 18, 2002: Is this covered by my insurance? "Watch for falling meteorites."

Dec 18, 2002: Truth hurts, eh Yasser? “The expectations in the reformed-terrorist category are not high–Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Mugabe–but [Yasser] Arafat has failed to …

Dec 18, 2002: Liberty History In case you missed it, and I know you did since I did, too, Sunday, 15 December, marked the 211th anniversary of the adoption of our Bill of Rights, …

Dec 17, 2002: How to Ruin American Enterprise All I can say is, Ben Stein FREAKING rocks! Thanks, Dan!

Dec 17, 2002: O'Reilly on Online Distribution Michael links to Tim O'Reilly's treatment of piracy and online distribution. This is in the vein of fair use and copyright noted yesterday with Dan …

Dec 16, 2002: A.Word.A.Day Extend your vocabulary by subscribing to this free A.Word.A.Day email list. (Thanks, Michael.)

Dec 16, 2002: Common Sense, Copyright, and Fair Use So I’m a little behind in my LEM reading, but Dan Knight published an outstanding article on copyright and fair use. If you ever needed a simple …

Dec 16, 2002: Nice, but it doesn't do windows... For your enjoyment, the iRobot Intelligent FloorVac from Roomba. (Flash required.)

Dec 14, 2002: You are cordially invited to... …A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!!! Guest of Honor: Jesus Christ Date: Every day. Traditionally, December 25, but He’s always around, so the date …

Dec 13, 2002: Barney Cam No, not the purple dinosaur parents love to hate, but Barney, one of the Bush dogs. Go here and look for the Barney Cam link to see Barney terrorize …

Dec 13, 2002: MacScan SecureMac has released a beta version of MacScan, their spyware detection and removal software for all Macs, from 68K machines to the latest G4s …

Dec 12, 2002: Not Carlin's Paradox If you are one of many who receives "The Paradox of Our Time" email this holiday season, and it's attributed to George Carlin after 9/11/01, or a …

Dec 12, 2002: A product manual worth the read Grant mentions purchasing a Marathon Deskmount for his G4. I downloaded the Deskmount installation instructions (PDF), and had a good chuckle. These …

Dec 12, 2002: I have to try this! Ever been shopping and when you check out they ask you for your zip code? That make you feel even the least bit uncomfortable? Well, here’s an …

Dec 11, 2002: Ah, men after my own heart “A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” —Frank Dane “Every day you meet a delegation going to some …

Dec 11, 2002: Macrovision moving in to audio Digital "rights" management company Macrovision has completed its acquisition of Israeli-based Midbar Technologies, and will now take its …

Dec 11, 2002: Amazing foresight For all of you who think the federal government doesn’t focus enough on domestic issues: "[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the …

Dec 10, 2002: Categories live! Thanks to code deciphering from Michael, you can now see the categories I use for my posts at the bottom of each post. If you click on the category …

Dec 10, 2002: Beware Bord the Impaler! As a warning to Gummi Bears everywhere. . . Ok, so I work with odd people. And who is more odd—those who perpetuate such acts, or those who …

Dec 10, 2002: Boundaries of the Contiguous United States Watch the boundaries of the U.S. and the individual states change from colonization to the modern age. (Thanks, Rick!)

Dec 9, 2002: X2 teaser Speaking of QuickTime, Apple is hosting the teaser trailer for X-Men 2 that was shown at ComicCon 2002.

Dec 9, 2002: SnowSaver A developer known as “mathew” has released SnowSaver, a freeware snowflake screen saver for OS X. SnowSaver is “modeled on the …

Dec 9, 2002: Macintouch on IP over FireWire Dan was asking if I had any experience yet utilizing IP over FireWire. I still haven't set it up to play with it, but Ric Ford has posted a Reader …

Dec 9, 2002: If they went any more left, they'd drown Proving once again that they don’t get it and do not deserve the benches they sit upon, a three-judge panel of the left-leaning Ninth Circuit …

Dec 5, 2002: Powers of Ten Cool site courtesy of one of my co-workers. Requires a Java-enabled browser. From the site: "View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the …

Dec 4, 2002: IP over FireWire At 400 megabits per second, FireWire is 40 times faster than 10Base-T Ethernet, and 4 times faster than 100Base-T. The only Ethernet spec faster than …

Dec 4, 2002: &lt;big smile&gt; "Michael Jackson horrified German onlookers by dangling a baby over his hotel balcony railing in Berlin. He's there for a reason. Americans are so …

Dec 4, 2002: Michael's blog Speaking of ATPM publisher, and pal, Michael Tsai, Michael started his own weblog back in September and failed to mention this to anyone on the ATPM …

Dec 4, 2002: ATPM 8.12 The December issue of About This Particular Macintosh is out. Nothing in there from me this month <head hung in shame>, but Robert Lewis has …

Dec 4, 2002: This is a problem because. . . ? This week’s “Keen Sense of the Obvious” Award: “The Bush administration often seems to be completely engrossed with the …

Dec 4, 2002: Think Geek wish list Speaking of Think Geek, I have updated my Think Geek wish list, just in case anyone feels generous enough to buy me anything. My top picks include the …

Dec 3, 2002: MegaTokyo Thanks to the overlords at Think Geek, I am now a fan of the online manga strip, MegaTokyo by Fred Gallagher. Computer geeks, especially gamers, and …

Dec 3, 2002: Happy Birthday to me. . . Yes, yes, 32 today. Well, officially, 32 as of 11:03 am, about half an hour from now. Eh, just another birthday. Thirty-two doesn't feel any different …

Nov 25, 2002: Switchers you won't see on TV More and more PC users are learning how easy it is to switch from Windoze to Macintosh, and OS X is a big reason. For Shoshana Berger of Business 2.0, …

Nov 15, 2002: Ride the Shuttle For the first time ever, NASA mounted a "RocketCam" on the external fuel tank utilized by the Space Shuttle. From a launch of the Atlantis earlier …

Nov 15, 2002: Foam PC Proving they have too much time on their hands, as well as what PCs are really good for, it's the NeuHausPlatz 200NC. NC stands for "no case." This is …

Nov 13, 2002: Daily bread I love this: “The LORD reigns; let the earth be glad; let the distance shores rejoice! Clouds and thick darkness surround Him: righteousness and …

Nov 11, 2002: Thank you for your service And on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the Great War ended with an armistice. November 11th was officially honored as Armistice Day …

Nov 10, 2002: New Mac portables I can’t believe I forgot to make mention of the new PowerBooks and iBooks that Apple released last week. The new PowerBooks go up to 1 GHz and …

Nov 10, 2002: Frank TabletPC analysis Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic Software, has an early analysis on why Microsoft’s new TabletPC initiative is really nothing new, and in many …

Nov 8, 2002: National Military Appreciation Month "To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington, First Annual Address, January 8, 1790 Veterans …

Nov 8, 2002: When I grow up Remember that Monster.com ad with all the kids talking about what dead-end career they wanted “when I grow up?” If not, you’ll …

Nov 8, 2002: Chimera 0.6 The latest stable version of Chimera was released a couple of days ago, and I am falling further in love with this browser. Powered by the Gecko …

Nov 8, 2002: Transmit 2.1 The fine folks at Panic Software released version 2.1 of their fine FTP client, Transmit today. Hey, Michael, guess what feature got implemented? :)

Nov 5, 2002: Like you need another reason to go Mac Wired has an article on successful tech entrepreneur Doug Humphrey, wherein he discusses his decision to move his company to all Macs. He has an …

Nov 5, 2002: Why HTML in email is bad Personally, I have long maintained that HTML belongs in browsers, not my email client. One of the reasons I use Mailsmith is that it never shows HTML …

Nov 5, 2002: Multiple choice For our friends in the ACLU and other leftists opposed to profiling in our current war on terrorism: In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, Israeli athletes …

Nov 4, 2002: Character Palette Instead of hunting up the Key Caps application under Mac OS X 10.2, use the Character Palette instead. Go to System Preferences, click on …

Nov 4, 2002: Lapvantage Deluxe Dome My review of the Lapvantage Deluxe Dome is now online in the November issue of About This Particular Macintosh.

Nov 4, 2002: Industrious Clock A very interesting web page clock. (Thanks, Jay!)

Nov 3, 2002: Blog spam For crying out loud, now I have to worry about spam links showing up in my blog. Spammers are now stuffing blogs' referral logs--a list that …

Oct 27, 2002: Aloha! I'm on vacation on the Garden Isle of Kaua'i, Hawai'i, right now, so posts will be few and far between. I'll try to get a few pics up here and there, …

Oct 25, 2002: Windows messages rewritten Courtesy of Neil Gaiman, and like Neil, it made me smile: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Windows Messages, as if Rewritten by Scott, This Guy …

Oct 25, 2002: Air passenger ban possible America's Finest News Source has revealed that the FAA is considering a ban on air passengers in order to make our skies safer. In the wake of …

Oct 24, 2002: Transmit 2.0 I failed to mention yesterday that Panic Software released Transmit 2.0, their outstanding FTP client. Version 2.0 has been rebuilt from the ground up …

Oct 24, 2002: Hypocrisy as a way of life? Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle appeared on Fox News Sunday this past week. During the interview, hypocrite Daschle remarked: “Well, …

Oct 24, 2002: This week's "Leftmedia Buster" Award "Saddam won a 100 percent victory in an uncontested election Tuesday to remain the nation's leader for another seven years." —CNN followed by: "Iraq …

Oct 23, 2002: DropDMG 2.0 Michael Tsai today released DropDMG 2.0, the latest version of his excellent utility for creating disk images in Mac OS X’s device image (DMG) …

Oct 23, 2002: iPod turns one The iPod is one year-old today. On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs held a special press event to announce that Apple had produced the best digital music …

Oct 22, 2002: What's a retrophisch? I remarked to my buddy Brian that "retrophisch" sounded like something out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, since it reminds me of "babelfish" …

Oct 22, 2002: Justifiable violence “Are liberals incapable of the kind of practical moral reasoning that foreign policy requires? It seems that they are. Most liberals are content …

Oct 22, 2002: Learn some history, people “The Congress of the United States has now given President George W. Bush the authority to enter into preemptive war against Saddam Hussein, …

Oct 22, 2002: Call'em like we see'em "The House of Representatives packed up and went home for elections, and we can't say we're sorry to see the Members go. Senators are lingering for a …

Oct 21, 2002: National Novel Writing Month Hmmmmm…..motivation? November is designated National Novel Writing Month; the object for participants: to write a 50,000-word novel, beginning …

Oct 21, 2002: Speaking of slaps to the face... “Of course, it’s a tragedy that the peace prize was awarded to Carter and not Reagan. I mean, who did more for world peace? Who did a …

Oct 21, 2002: American "force" There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth over Bush admininstration foreign policy, that the United States is "forcing" its will on the rest of the …

Oct 21, 2002: Don't need a father, eh Murphy Brown? "Fathers' involvement [with their children] seems to be linked to improved verbal and problem-solving skills and higher academic achievement. Several …

Oct 21, 2002: Why it's freedom of religion, not freedom from "Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just …

Oct 20, 2002: Blast from the past Well, not that far past. October 2001, to be exact, but rather timely since there is new gun regulation being discussed in the wake of the DC metro …

Oct 19, 2002: No more AOL CDs campaign Jim McKenna and John Lieberman have begun a campaign to send back 1 million CDs to snail mail spammer AOL. Just send Jim and John any AOL CDs you have …

Oct 18, 2002: Biggest LEGO set ever Thirty-eight inches long. Twenty-four inches wide. Over 3,100 pieces. Twelve-hour minimum build time. I must have one. Perhaps someone will buy it for …

Oct 17, 2002: More on the fake Microsoft switcher John Gruber has uncovered the lies Microsoft is putting forth to cover its previous lie of a Mac user switching to Windows XP. What’s so …

Oct 17, 2002: 800MHz Cube upgrade Bill Fox of Macs Only! has concluded testing of the PowerLogix PowerForce G4 Series 100 800MHz upgrade card in his Power Mac G4 Cube, and has posted a …

Oct 17, 2002: Worth repeating He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpentry shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he was an …

Oct 16, 2002: Yes, Virginia, lie detectors are fallible "After 19 months of study, experts convened by the National Research Council, an arm of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, concluded that …

Oct 15, 2002: Microsoft switcher lies Apple comes out with a kick-butt ad campaign called Switch, an ad campaign that utilizes real people who have switched from Windows-running PCs to …

Oct 14, 2002: English, the de facto official language "If I were Hispanic, I would be ashamed that so many American institutions take it for granted that people like me can't understand English. I would …

Oct 14, 2002: Congresscritters, it wasn't supposed to be a career! "Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from …

Oct 14, 2002: Perpetual Bubble wrap Are you one of those people that loves to annoy others by popping bubble wrap? Me, too. Now you can pop the bubble wrap that always comes back for …

Oct 14, 2002: PGP 8.0 Public Beta Earlier this year, the email encryption system known as Pretty Good Privacy was rescued from the nincompoops at Network Associates, and will soon be …

Oct 13, 2002: Why we need a college football playoff system Can someone please explain to me why the Miami Hurricanes continue to be voted the #1 college football team in the country? I mean, look at these …

Oct 13, 2002: FireWire film scanner SmartDisk has announced two new film scanners, one of which, the SmartScan 3600, is FireWire based. Now I have something else to add to my wish list …

Oct 10, 2002: retrophisch.com v1.0 One door closes, another opens. Welcome to my weblog, or blog, retrophisch.com! Further blogging at digitalpembroke.com is now suspended. That site …