Welcome to the first edition of the Oddball Update’s newest regular (ha, ha) feature, the Constipated Fogey of the Day! As you may know, I live in a retirement town in southern Florida that is filled with people who are very, very particular about…well, pretty much everything. Around here there are more rules [...]

Either that, or a Firebird exploded inside this van!

Firebird parts galore!

Too tired to resize all the photos I took and post them up tonight, but I’ll have more details in a day or so. For now, I leave you with this image. The “before” picture. [...]

I’m sitting here right now, looking out the window behind me at the panoramic view of the Southwest Florida skyline, watching President Bush fly over our building. No shit. A “motorcade” of a half dozen aircraft just flew overhead, carrying George W. Bush to his appearance today in Naples’ Rookery Bay. The [...]

…and parking in ridiculous places?

Nice park job, buddy

Apparently the driver of this truck fell asleep at the wheel, hit an embankment and went airborne, launching himself onto the roof of the Fish Bowls Bar & Grill in Jefferson, West Virginia.
When he gets out of the [...]

"Uhhh, yeah, about your TPS reports…"

The big office move is finally over, and all that extra work I had to do to prepare us (and our customers) for the relocation is finished, too. Now it’s back to business as usual, which means we can [...]

It’s been months since I visited the Knight Registries message board, and this morning when I decided to check up on those guys again, I happened across a sweet deal just as it was posted. A guy who lives down here in south Florida is clearing out his garage for a new toy, and [...]

THIS JUST IN: Season one of Knight Rider is OFFICIALLY coming to DVD on August 3rd, 2004! All 22 episodes of the first season will be included on 4 discs (3 of which are double-sided, double-layer 18 GB discs), as well as an untold number of bonus features. None of the rumored bonus [...]

I’ve been busier than ever in the last couple of weeks, staying at the office until 6 or 7:30 every evening, bringing work home and going at it again until midnight or 1 a.m. Most of this has been because of our office move. The crummy, dilapidated, poorly-maintained old building we’ve been leasing [...]

Hi. I’ve decided to reactivate the fabled Oddball Land long enough to scream at the world’s stupidity for a moment. Behold.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the federal government has released an alert that two toys for children have been recalled today. One is a Batman Batmobile, which poses a risk because [...]

My friends will tell you that I’m not much for medieval PC RPGs like Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind. I’m more of a mainstream FPS gamer who likes your run-of-the-mill Dooms, Half-Lives, and all that other crap. But even I can get into a good medieval RPG if it’s accessible enough, and that’s where [...]