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earthquake
Jan 24th
Wife is 8 months pregnant now, and we’re closing in on the home stretch. The baby’s room is almost all put together (I refuse to call it a nursery until plants are grown somewhere else) and we have accumulated quite the pile of things needed to raise a human being properly according to the time that we live in’s “experts.” Seriously, how did we survive as a race without such necessities as Bumbo’s and Boppy’s.
One interesting side effect is that Wife snores.
And I mean really, really snores.
I’m told this is a side effect of pregnancy, something about sinus cavities yada More >
preparations for minion
Jan 6th
So Wife is getting bigger, but its a funny bigger. She’s a very small person who is in pretty good shape, so the baby is growing straight out the front of her. If you see her from behind, you wouldn’t suspect that she’s got a baby-sized apartment growing on the other side of her. The youngling has decided that its head should be down, its butt should be in one of her ribs, and her feet on the other rib. This way, when it kicks, it can start breaking two ribs at the same time. I’m already impressed by it’s efficiency.
I’ve More >
shiny lights
Dec 23rd
There’s been a trend growing the last couple years during Christmas that I think needs to stop. It was cute for awhile, but now it needs to go away.
Of course, I’m talking about inflatable Christmas decorations.
Once reserved for used car lots and community festivals/rich parents throwing a birthday party, inflatable decorations are out of control.
They do not make your lawn look good, or make it seem like the owner of the house has an outstanding holiday display. In fact, they do quite the opposite. Wherein hard plastic or wooden decorations have some sense of permanence , inflatable decorations say to the world, More >
21 facts about kim jong deadguy
Dec 21st
I did not create this list, but a friend of mine compiled it from various sources around the internet. Â I think its amazing to have all of these “facts” about Kim Jong Il in one place, you know, just in case he re-incarnates and takes control of the entire world and we have to study up for a test.
1. A former chef said staff had to make sure the grains of rice he ate were the same size and color.
2. He kidnapped two South Korean film directors in 1978 because he thought all the filmmakers in his own country were More >
every minion needs a name
Dec 16th
As the day that I will have a youngling to teach the ways of the force draws ever nearer, the problem of what to actually name the darn thing is growing. Â The wife and I have differing opinions on what constitutes an “acceptable” name. Â She likes names that are “normal” and I like names that I read in a book or saw on in a movie and the character totally kicked ass. Â And not just regular kick-ass, but in a totally nerdy, geeky, “LOTR is too mainstream so I went with Firefly” kind of way.
This is where I need your More >
lazy writer syndrome
Nov 21st
I’ve noticed a trend that, like all things literary, television, and cinematic that I hate, I’m going to blame on Dan Brown. Â That might not be exactly fair, but neither was tricking me into reading the “Da Vinci Code”. Â Also, “National Treasure.” Â That was terrible too. Â And every episode of “Law and Order: SVU.”
What I’m talking about are the mystery stories without any mystery, the detective stories with very little detecting, and the cop stories where the killer confesses everything. Â The hero might jump through a lot of hoops, but none of them paint a clearer picture. Â The only thing More >
terra nova hurts my head
Nov 3rd
I wanted to like this show, I really did. Â I’m a huge sci-fi nerd, and with no more Battlestar, Defying Gravity, SG:U, or their kind on television anymore, I had high hopes for Terra Nova, Grimm, and Once Upon a Time. Â Grimm still seems interesting, Once Upon a Time better get to the damn point soon, and Terra Nova has already lost me. Â And it wasn’t just the terrible acting, oh no. Â You’d think that if they were spending bucketloads of cash on this thing, they might have thought about the setup for the whole shebang for more than a More >
jester
Oct 31st
Recently, a friend of mine’s mother died. Â She was diagnosed with cancer and died about a month after.
My friend flew back from New York and stayed with her throughout the ordeal. Â He told me about it after she passed, and I was able to make plans to come up and see him.
The drive was a couple hours, and only then did it hit me that I had no idea what to say. Â What is the right thing to tell someone who had a parent die way too young? Â What are the magic words to make it all better?
Of course there More >
things i never knew i could do
Sep 15th
There have been a lot of changes in the last couple months. Â The biggest and most important one is that I found out I know how to use a sewing machine. Â Oh, also my wife is pregnant (by me) but more on that later.
Yeah, for real, we got a sewing machine from my parents that they picked up at a garage sale. Â They asked if I wanted it, I said sure, and they dropped it off while I wasn’t home. Â They neglected to tell me the part about the sewing machine being mounted in a piece of furniture that takes More >
uprising of the nerd
Jul 20th
Fellow nerds rejoice, for our time has come.
Never before has there been such mainstream proliferation of our favorite materials and ease as to which we can consume it.
The day they announced the Dark Tower series was going to HBO I thought, “almost there.” Â Then Game of Thrones went and got Emmy nominated, and I knew our time had come. Â A book series that every fantasy geek on the planet typically places behind Lord of The Rings, yet only those fantasy geeks knew of its existence.
Quick aside: it’s not “Game of Thrones” its Fire and Ice. Â ”Game of Thrones” is the More >
