One of the most intriguing toys in history, the bricks gave children endless possibilities of what they could create. While we certainly aren’t masters by any means, we still have some Lego sets around the Uncrate office, and that’s why we were so pumped by The Unofficial Lego Builder’s Guide by Allan Bedford ($16). All […]
thirty seven years is a long damn time
congratulations mom & dad! Technorati Tags: 2006, anniversary, marriage, momanddad, parents, sarahcorwin, tomcorwin, wedding
gnome-be-gone
GNOME-BE-GONE – UncommonGoods Watch with amusement as the one and only Gnome-Be-Gone frees your garden of a kitsch little Euro invader. Who does he think he is, wearing tiny red dunce caps and pushing inefficient wooden wheelbarrows? Tuck a few made-in-the-USA Gnome-Be-Gones into your flowerbeds and watch the demented yard goblins get toted away. Set […]
The Demon Fish of South Atlanta
So what about evolution? We did have a fierce drought for a number of years. Maybe some of our local fish evolved the ability to locomote between pools in search of better pickins, like a Chinese lungfish. I’ve been known to do that when the beer runs out. Anybody seen any goldfish waiting at a […]
get out, now
it is way past time for the US to leave iraq. how many innocent people are our troops going to kill before we start demanding that bush stop behaving like the terrorist he pretended he’s interested in “rooting out”? Technorati Tags: army, bush, death, george bush, iraq, kill, killers, killings, marines, murder, murderers, politics, president, […]
new mail
so this was odd, or at least new (to me): b00ty:~/Library/Mail chris$ sudo lasso8ctl restartPassword:Restarting Lasso Service: DoneYou have new mail in /var/mail/chrisb00ty:~/Library/Mail chris$ cd /var/mail/chris what does this mean? Technorati Tags: ctl, email, Lasso, lasso8ctl, lazyweb, linux, macosx, mail, unix
fauxhawks are teh funniest haircut in my referrrers
so, about twice a month i bother looking through my website stats, to see if there is anything new or exciting. sometimes there is, sometimes there’s not. i tend to gain about two unique visitors a day per month — i’m average 48 now. the stats tell me location and IP address, so some of […]
"old people" on a blind date
so i’m sitting at the coffeeshop right near my house on sunday afternoon, drinking ice water and coding away on a project that i wish i had finished two weeks ago, and there’s a couple in here on what is obviously a blind date. and something about it just hit me: i was sitting here […]
overheard in indianapolis
Barista girl with exactly zero irony: What is Starbucks becoming?? It’s becoming McDonalds! Listening to: Brand New Colony from the album “Give Up” by The Postal Service Technorati Tags: barista, coffee, indiana, indianapolis, indy, irony, mcdonalds, overheard, overheardinindianapolis, overheardinindy, overheardinnewyork, overheardinny, starbucks
i want
An amazing step up from the Senseo, which has poor pressure and terrible tasting coffee (although you can find “better” third party pods out there). The Essenza makes a very good shot of espresso or ‘longo’ which isn’t hard to do when you realize it has 19 bars of pressure (same as their more expensive […]
Leslie O Wilson : May 9, 1916 — May 25, 2006
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father timeAs I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409And I rationed my breathes as I said to myself that I’d already taken too much todayAs each descending peak of the LCD took you a […]
towel day 2006
i got mine all ready to go. Technorati Tags: douglas adams, frood, h2g2, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, hoopy, towel, towelday
so it’s not just "clean living" ?
Did you know that Pat Robertson can leg-press 2000 pounds! How does he do it? Where does Pat find the time and energy to host a daily, national TV show, head a world-wide ministry, develop visionary scholars, while traveling the globe as a statesman? One of Pat’s secrets to keeping his energy high and his […]
Williams-Sonoma | Catalog
Niman Ranch’s premium beef is produced on sustainable family ranches in the American West, where the animals are fed only grasses, grains and other all-natural feed. Niman Ranch’s strict guidelines ensure that the animals are hormone free, allowed to mature naturally and treated humanely. i assume they mean the cows are treated humanely right up […]