Here we are, the first week of the American Idol finals. Not only is a top 13 a first, it's created an interesting problem for anyone voting for the last singer. As the linked article says, it will be interesting if the perceived producers' favorites will be in any spot but the last. I'l...

Photograph by sw_awesometown Get yourself a three-bedroom at Longwood Towers for just $860,000. [Globe] News flash: budget people are nerds. Nooo. And this makes them incompetent. Um. Huh? And being macho makes you more competent. Okay, now you're just getting nutty. [Herald] Stocks are up, no thank...

        No holiday more clearly embodies Boston than St. Patrick’s Day—it’s a celebration of beer, Ireland, and Celtic green. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that when Bostonist arrived at Harpoon for the brewery's annual St. Patrick’s Day Fe...

From Recipes I love my maman, but if there's one thing she didn't inherit, it's the modesty gene—at least not the culinary modesty gene. "Nobody makes fish soup like I make fish soup," she proclaims. Come to think of it, my mémé didn't inherit it either—at all. Modesty must be recessive. The t...

Well, looks like I'm batting 1.000 - hopefully I can keep my prediction streak alive during tonight's wild card round.  Not sure how the judging is going to go, so I may not get much time to make my picks. I was plurking with some buddies last night during the results show, and we all ...

It didn't occur to me to even look for this app until I heard James on the Geek Loves Nerd podcast talk about blogging on an iPhone. I'm posting this from my iPod Touch, and it's pretty cool. Won't be liveblogging AI using it, though ;) BTW, I'll be back tonight for the wild card show!...

Finally, the last week of the top 36!  So far, I'm doing well picking the finalists, so let's see if I can get the last three right, too.  I'm pretty sure the theme is Billboard Hot 100 again, so there should be at least a few really bad choices.  After two weeks of wat...

you could start with a basic visual aid… or perhaps appeal to their sense of patriotism… …or go with a not-so-veiled threat. of course, you could just let your ass do the talking. but remember to cite your sources. (thanks to ryan in west palm beach, heather in delaware, julie in m...

It's taken a while to go through all the images from our recent trip but, at the request of friends & family, I've finally managed to put together an album. The photos in this book were taken over a one-week period in Vancouver and Tofino in mid-February.  As you can see, we didn't experien...

In reading the Epistle of James, we find some interesting notes in the Greek that are worthy of attention. The "Constancy of faith" James speaks of (James 1:4) is unto perfection. What are we to understand about perfection here though? James Hardy Ropes says the phrase τέλειοι...