of all days to wake up not feeling well (called a “bad meds day”, due to it being one of the side effects of strattera) didn’t it just have to be today? i did not ride my bike to work afterall. this turned out okay, as right after work we needed to go pick the […]

tomorrow is bike to work day, and i am excited. when i started riding a bike to work i never imagined how much i would get into it. there are some days when j1 has a softball game or something else comes up that requires me being picked up right at 5 pm at work, […]

this took place one block away from my house. Police shoot, kill pit bull after it attacked a manMay 9, 2007 Police officers shot and killed a pit bull that was attacking a man Tuesday on the city’s Eastside. Jesse Stanley, 61, Mooresville, was treated at Wishard Memorial Hospital for bites on his leg. According […]

nice bruising, no?

i want this: DIY Coffee collects five hot MAKE magazine projects to supercharge your java:Home-Build Coffee RoasterBottomless Espresso PortafilterToaster Tea PopperPerfect Espresso Temperature HackWeb-Fired Coffee with X10 Automation Got a jones for caffeine and technology? Mod your espresso machine to dial in the perfect shot, with precise temperature control and a filter hack that kicks […]

i got bit by a dog tonight. we were on the way home from the park, and near the house we saw two puppies in the road — adorable. i got out to lead them towards home (which i would need to find) and got two houses up the alley when their home (and their […]

found on the wikipedia entry “ear” Technorati Tags: bat, batears, bats, ear, ears, wiki

the big lebowski action figures Technorati Tags: actionfigures, biglebowski, jefflebowski, lebowski, thebiglebowski, walter, waltersolczeck

Dude #1: So, why did you break up with her?Dude #2: Because she got herpes.Dude #1: What?! You gave it to her!Dude #2: Yeah, I know, but it’s different — herpes is gross with girls. It’s like a battle wound for guys, though. –Slipper Room We Now Present This Public Service Announcementvia Overheard in New […]

just a reminder about the dan potthast show at radio radio (which is a non-smoking venue, so even expecting mothers can go, wink-wink mandi). Technorati Tags: concert, dan potthast, danpotthast, indiana, indianapolis, radioradio, rickjohnson, show

This post-it note was stuck on a page inside Oscar Kiss Maerth’s The Beginning Was the End, a wonderful book that (seriously) advances the theory that sex-crazed, brain-eating apes were responsible for human evolution. I checked this copy out of the University at Buffalo Library. The actual text and pictures are mind-bending on their own, […]

so i finally got around to buying a new battery for my camera. yay!

at radio radio on april 24 at 9:00 pm is a show being put on by none other than j1, and i couldn’t be more pleased to invite everyone who reads this to see: dan potthast & rick johnson rock and roll machine they each have myspace pages: http://myspace.com/danpotthast http://myspace.com/rickjohnsonrockandrollmachine j1 has stellar taste in […]

at my new job, at least one of the sites i am now tasked with taking care of uses asp/vbscript. now, i am not an expert programmer, by any stretch of the imagination. i am self-taught and i went to art school, and because of my ADD, have trouble sensing patterns, so this means my […]