Relative Bandwagons
Reportedly, publisher Penguin is now saying they are going to be releasing their books in ebook format as well as the regular paperly kind. I found out about this from this post, which amusingly mentions “the ebook bandwagon”.
When we were discussing this several months ago, I thought the whole ebook thing was essentially dead [...]
A Public Service
This may be the most important thing you do all week. As explained in this post, please please please stop Uwe Boll from directing any more movies. The director himself says he’ll stop making movies if one million people tell him he should via of this online petition. Heck, that’s only 1/8th [...]
Old ‘Nuts In The Naked Bathroom
There’s one thing that’s always bothered me about the Peanuts comic strip, as exemplified by this one from yesterday (click to enlarge):
The only times you ever see Schroeder in the strip, he’s either 1) playing his piano or 2) the catcher on Charlie Brown’s baseball team. Which of these is not like the other? [...]
How Green Is My Sandwich
One of the many ways in which my relationship with N has changed me is that because of her, I can now eat spinach. I was never much of a Spinach Man. Growing up, I hated it. Mostly because my mother would try to feed us cooked spinach, and the texture made [...]
Hergest Ridges
Awhile ago, I received an e-mail advertising Mike Oldfield’s upcoming album Music of the Spheres as his “first classical album”. When I got that, I sent an e-mail to my bandmate DJ Smallberries saying “Huh? He wasn’t doing classical music before?” Deej is a fellow Oldfield fan, even moreso than I, and [...]
Next: Stop Sign Cameras
Wow, this whole red light camera controversy is a really hot topic. I last talked it about it last week, and on Saturday the Rocky Mountain News devoted a whole ‘nother big followup story to it. The upshot is that it looks like Denver is still going to install the cameras in a [...]
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