Ever have a day where you feel like something… momentous is going to happen? Today is one of those days. The world had a different… quality today. Maybe it’s the seagulls flying overhead. Maybe it’s the feeling of springtime and sunshine. Maybe the air feels different. Maybe ...

I've started cutting up a whole chicken before roasting in the oven, and I've had a hard time achieving a good crispy skin. I've been cooking it on 350 for about 45 minutes... maybe I should try a higher temp? I do put in under the broiler for a few minutes at the end but it doesn't get the same eff...

I’m such a nerd. I want this. I want this so bad. The Beatles: Rock Band . There’s nothing there yet to see at that website, just an image of the inside of Abbey Road Studios. So what is it? It’s a video game. Coming on September 9th, 2009. (Note to self: Look in The Complete Beatl...

When people ask me what my favorite comic book movie is, there’s only one answer, and I don’t even have to think about it. The Rocketeer. Yes, Batman Begins blew me away. V For Vendetta, I’m sorry to say, Alan Moore, was well-nigh perfect. The Dark Knight, I wept at the end. Even S...

Today’s a little dreary in Baltimore. It’s overcast. It’s a little chilly. The air feels like snow. I want spring. I want it now. Fortunately for me, the first signs of spring have arrived. Spring training games began yesterday. And in the game that mattered to me, the Cubs triumph...

“The Spindle of Necessity” notwithstanding, I am not a philosopher. I have no great truths about the universe. I have no system to explain the world. The world just is; I don’t question its existence. Yet. Something strange is in the air. In the past three weeks, multiple friends h...

I spent part of my day at work code-monkeying HTML. I needed to create a table. Not a plain, simple table, not exactly. But a table. With headers. And column spans. This should be simple, right? Wrong. I had a webpage that looked… terrible. (There, that’s a polite word for it.) It needed...

I love the Internet. I love how it can resurrect old things I’ve written, like a reanimated corpse. There’s seven years worth of my blatherings here. Google knows them all. Over the weekend, two major hits stood out. A televised broadcast of Attack of the Clones no doubt prompted the hit...

The facts are these. I have a bruise on my right hand. The bruise is on the back of the hand. The bruise is situated roughly adjacent to my right thumb and my wrist. The bruise measures 1 1/2-inches in diameter. The bruise is a deep purple. The bruise hurts like a motherfucker. If you have any infor...

You know what’s awesome about memes? They’re cheap content. I don’t have to do a lot of thinking, and you get something to read that says something about me. And possibly something that you, dear reader, can interact with. This one is Dayton’s and Jim Johnson’s faults. ...