Oh my, this is schadenfreude at its' best. My apologies for the lack-of-posting yesterday, it was a day of juggling, dealing with the Aunt, and also, having to remove the almost 10-inches of snow (made easier by the generous neighbor, offering use of his snow blower ...Yes, better than shoveling, bu...

It's interesting how easily you can fall back into a routine; how easily you can take for granted the obvious blessing you've been given. When Lulu was diagnosed with osteosarcoma back in August of '06 we were told that with the amputation and the chemo she'd have about a year to liv...

I finally feel some energy returning after my eye injury about a month ago, although my right eye remains dilated which still means that side is a bit out-of-focus and I don’t like driving at night. I feel like I need to give a status update or some such. So here goes. Winter Camp With luck my...

Last year I was blessed with the birth of my daughter (now 9 months old), and I wanted to come up with a special gift that both she, and her immediate family could enjoy for years. Given that I was working on some wikinomics-related research, I sat down to think about how I could put some of the pri...

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In hard economic times, people often look to cut their food budgets first. There may be a tasty source of nutrition you're overlooking, and it's right inside your pants, or tucked into your bra! (NSFW)...

This weird and wonderful year has been packed with implausibilities and impossibilities: the Clintons losing, a black man elected president and Peggy Noonan occassionally making sense. This week’s installment of her serialized first-person novel of Manhattan Madness, Declarations, contains two...

In advance of the realness dropping this Friday, I thought it was only right that we prepare by checking in with the three greatest Bond theme songs of all time. Choosing "Goldfinger," what with it being iconic and all, is easy, but the song's fame has, in some ways, transcended its more humble begi...

Last night, I wrote a post about my frustration with Lulu.com and my trials of ordering a book from them. Today, I got a really, really nice note from Angela Hooper, the Customer Service Manager at Lulu: I am the assistant manager of Lulu customer services, and I am absolutely mortified on how you w...

Even during the height of the zine craze, while most of them were happily reviewing Italian horror, one pasta-encrusted genre that often went unnoticed was the Italian action film. Often times even more shocking and bizarre than their gory counterparts, they were wonderfully volatile, ultra-violent ...