I’m gonna have to do something soon to compensate typing all day.
My left wrist is going through an interesting period. Going back and forth between being painfully numb and having shooting pains go up and down my arm is just not the way to handle RSI(Repetitive Strain Injury). I’ve shifted my keyboard at home to [...]
On mid-afternoon game days at Coors Field here in Denver, I see lots of kids outside, walking down the street, on their way to the baseball game. In almost any group of children numbering more than 10, I am likely to see a kid with a mohawk.
Now, I mean no disrespect to the glorious ‘hawk. [...]
The months of waiting have finally ended. I am mobile again. The bike is in great condition (though I need to have the front brakes replaced, something they didn’t have in stock @ the shop). All is well with the world.
Put over 150 miles on it this weekend. Forgot how fun the damn thing is. [...]
The weather has been oppressive this past week, temperatures soaring into the 90s on a near-daily basis, air conditioners and swamp coolers across the state ill-prepared for the onslaught of the dry, blustering heat. When the wind blows, it seems to blow steam, like when you stand too close to the oven when you open [...]
I saw a homeless guy, recently. He was just standing on the corner outside my office, happy as can be, I imagine. Not a care in the world. Dirty clothes, sweaty face–didn’t bother him any. Wore a novelty American flag as a pseudo-mohawk on his head. Big, out of style sunglasses. I was downwind, could [...]
It seems now ASCAP is fond of suing small businesses that offer music that is unlicensed to their patrons.
I respect copyright laws. I think they exist to keep the intellectual property in the hands of those who created it. In the case of music, it’s important that such laws exist so that, say, Coldplay doesn’t [...]
Diet Coke Plus: All the great taste (?) of Diet Coke plus 15% of your daily requirements of Niacin and vitamins B6 and B12, and 10% of your required zinc and magnesium.
Let’s be honest. 90% of Diet Coke drinkers do so in this format:
Man at counter: Hmm.. is that the largest popcorn, that bucket? Eh, [...]
Independence Day has been a bitter-sweet day for me for the past several years (say, since July 4th, 2002). On the one hand, we, as a country, have overcome countless, seemingly-insurmountable challenges to become the great nation that we are today. We defeated the then-strongest military in the world to gain our independence from an [...]
Bill Clinton will be joining his wife this week in Iowa.
I was wondering when she’d roll out the big guns. I guess the points she’s continuing to lose to people with real, new ideas finally pushed her to bring out the only weapon in her arsenal that can defeat Barack, Edwards, and all the rest [...]
It’s become an issue.
The Summer months tend to bring me down to to languish in the darkest parts of my psyche. When the sun is out, raising the ambient temperature to the 80s and 90s, when the trees turn green, when the flowers bloom, when the normal humans go outside to dance and develop bronzed [...]
There has been a bit of a conversation going on since the mid-term elections in 2006 about the gentle slide of the Democrats moving ever closer to a libertarian structure, and the Republicans becoming more and more authoritarian with each passing legislation. As one who considers himself a Libertarian and a Democrat, I somehow feel [...]
What the…
New Scientist magazine reports that the “friendly appearance” of the robot is designed to put the wounded at ease.
I say cut the BEAR’s hand off and go back into battle charged with the power of the bear/lich. FOR VICTORY!
The mornings are easiest.
It seems to be pretty easy not to reach for a cigarette after waking up, despite the habit of doing so for as long as I have. That habit wasn’t that tough to break. It’s not so tough to have my morning coffee (since I can’t seem to sleep a full night [...]
Things are better today.
Sure, I’m still waking up three or four times a night, hours before I actually want to be moving. Yes, I’m coughing all the time, so much so that I am near to throwing out my back. Now I’m coughing up stuff that tastes suspiciously like chewing on a wet cigarette. Things [...]