wanted: The Unofficial Lego Builder’s Guide

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 […]

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

"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 […]

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 […]