My wife hates this song, and I’ve never been a huge Weird Al Yankovic fan, but I just couldn’t help but feel like it’s talking about me. I actually did a lyric-by-lyric comparison to see just how white and nerdy I am. After tallying up my comments below, I’d say 9 of the lyrics describe [...]
Imagine Snake with a Darwinian twist and you’ve got some idea of what flOw is like. You play an… amoeba-like thing that gets to swim around and eat other microorganisms to get bigger and eventually evolve. It sounds simple enough, and the game play is very straightforward. Just use the mouse cursor to guide your [...]
The first time I heard this song, it was background music for a Gears of War commercial. I think I might have also heard it on a commercial for Thief. At any rate, I knew I liked it from the moment I heard it, but it wasn’t until a coworker played it that I finally [...]
Apparently, if you put Mentos into Diet Coke, you get a pretty energetic reaction. I could go into the chemistry behind it, but, well, I don’t like chemistry (sorry, Mrs. Hamilton). What I do like are fountains of Diet Coke set up to produce ingenious chain reactions. Just think, all of this was caused by [...]
I always like posting to Search Engine Lowdown, and my latest post about Yahoo and MSN adopting Google’s sitemap protocol is no different. It makes me feel like something of a celebrity. After all, how often do I get to write something that gets read by thousands? I’d love to claim Project Paradox has that [...]
Or so the little sticker on my shirt tells me. This was actually the first time I’ve ever gotten a chance to vote. I had planned to do so for the 2004 presidentials, but, what with being in the hospital from 4:00 am until 11:30 pm on election day, let’s just say I was indisposed. [...]
I first saw the video for this song this morning, although I’m sure I’d heard it on the radio a number of times without paying much attention. Hinder has an almost Nickelback-like quality that makes me like them more the longer I listen to them. Of course, having only ever had one real girlfriend (or [...]
So my friend Garrett, thanks to his new blog, is starry-eyed over the possibilities of WordPress. Not too long ago, my friend Brandon voiced the same sort of enthusiasm when he started his bass guitar blog. As I’ve gained a certain reputation for being a WordPress guru around the office, I was more than happy [...]
Last night was Izzy’s first Halloween out trick-or-treating. Like most concepts, trying to explain Halloween to a two-year-old really gives you a fresh perspective on the topic. We’d been trying to teach him phrases like “Trick or treat” and “Happy Halloween” over the previous week with little success, mainly because he didn’t understand their significance. [...]
So what is a LARPer to do with those old costumes? As it turns out, ordinary people have a yearly occasion to dress up, too. It’s called Halloween. Apparently you can even win prizes for having one of the best costumes. Sure, it’s only once a year, but it’s probably the only chance we get [...]