Yesterday, I was just doing a simple google search for…hmm, I can’t remember…and I tripped and fell down the YouTube rabbit hole. Ninety minutes later, I emerged with some serious respect for this spidery-fingered asian kid named Sungha Jung. Just as an article I read the other day pointed out, this kind of [...]

My Uncle Steve sent me a link to this Reddit discussion about his domain name. It’s pretty darn funny. I’ve quoted my favorite bits below, but I recommend reading the rest.

Several dozen times now I have come close to starting a blog or twitter account or Facebook account for my 77-day-old daughter, and updating it as if it was her talking about herself. But there’s something that always stops me. It feels vaguely unethical. Like I’m not sure that I would have [...]

I dedicate this post to my high school World Literature teacher, Glenda Stephens, who crammed way too much Greek mythology into my head. As with many good teachers, I hated it at the time and have been grateful ever since.

My favorite lolcats are the ones that are way over the heads of most lolcat [...]

It’s really simple. I want my contacts organized in groups, just like any RSS client. When I open up my Twitter client, I want to go directly to my friends’ new tweets before reading my celebrity or news tweets. I care more about jagosaurus or sgazzetti are up to than what celebrities [...]

Below is my Twitter feed posted during the birth of my daughter, saved here for posterity.

A month ago, a scandal rocked the e-commerce world. A Development Rep from Belkin, a computer peripherals manufacturer, was caught hiring people to write fake reviews of Belkin products on Amazon.com. The internet tubes rattled with outrage! Everyone in the e-commerce industry knows that the latest must-have feature for your website is customer [...]

One of the uses of Twitter, I’ve found, is for complaining when there’s no one around at the moment to hear your complaints. So you broadcast them on Twitter. And one common activity that results in the “bored and angry” mental state necessary for such tweets is being on hold on the telephone. [...]

Sarah Palin’s career has been full of ups and downs in the past six months. It’s interesting how traffic to my Can Sarah Palin really see Russia from her house? post has ebbed and flowed with Palin’s popularity. The other events that have affected this traffic graph were my blog getting dugg and [...]

If you’re ever curious what the weather is (or was) like here, there’s a solution! I recently discovered a very well done 360° webcam in nearby Laredo. You can download 7330×900 high resolution photos from every quarter hour of daylight going back to November 3, 2007. It will also generate timelapse videos, [...]