Here we are in Orlando, and it’s beautiful — sunny and warm, with a brisk breeze blowing to keep the temperatures mild. The drive here was uneventful, except to say that it was like driving through bug soup. The Florida “love bugs” are in season this week, and it was a veritable hailstorm [...]

Okay, so I manufactured the so-called “study” sent up by the title of this post. But it’s the natural conclusion for one to draw after reading this article on my most-loathed cable news website, MSNBC.com.
The headline reads “TV can be bad for diabetic children.” The tagline? “Snacking, less exercise linked to increases [...]

Highlights:

Vomit-green Scion xB, lowered to the point of immobility.
Water added to the driveway so the wheels would spin.
After a few seconds of annoying Black & Decker sounds, the transaxle snaps.
Simultaneously, the side marker light pops out. ZING! Instant win.

Part not shown:

Driver crawls away and slits his own wrists.

The United States government (or certain arms of it, at least) came bearing good news for Apple and me today.
First, Apple received her official “invitation” to her Oath of Allegiance ceremony, where she will be sworn in as an official U.S. citizen. The ceremony will be held, as expected, on June 14. Exciting! [...]

What an interesting amalgamation the title of this post would make. Unfortunately for the curious, it refers to two different things.
This evening, I went out with a friend to see 28 Weeks Later, that new zombie film which is a sequel to 28 Days Later. While I had seen the first film, I [...]

This has been one incredibly, laboriously, unbelievably long month. Almost every day of it has been filled to the brim with work and responsibilities, which in and of itself isn’t unusual for me — but the round-the-clock nature of those responsibilities has been. For the last two weeks, with both of my managers [...]

It’s one of those infernal in-jokes that no one but my friends and I will get. A long time ago, just as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was getting popular, I doodled up a fake advertisement for a product sure to take America by storm: A Rene Auberjonois autographed toothbrush. Mr. Auberjonois, for [...]

Yay! It’s pouring rain here in Florida for the first time in six months! Now perhaps we can finally stop smoldering, inhaling noxious smoke and — dare I say it — go back to washing our cars in our driveways without getting two-hundred dollar tickets. But that’s not the subject of today’s [...]

Yesterday I made a trip up to the supermarket for a few things, and what should I see in the supermarket parking lot but the General Lee! It had a rust spot here or there, but that didn’t detract from the overall coolness factor. Sadly, when I came out of the supermarket the General was [...]

I was fiddling around in the server control panel just now and thought I’d take a look at my latest search queries — you know, the keyphrases people are looking for when they stumble across this site. They were mostly all relevant for a change, but I did find these two gems:

sanity replenishment
anime doug’s [...]