Monthly Archives: January 2009

What would Stephen Colbert say?

I found this on post-Christmas clear­ance at A.C. Moore.  It con­fused me profoundly.

What? What?!

Who thought that this could pos­si­bly be a good idea? Plus, didn’t Nin­tendo do this with Mario Paint at least 15 years ago, only with­out the singing?

You can, however, time travel to 1987

The fol­low­ing is my visual trib­ute to this blog post.

IMPORTANT NEWS.

John Hodg­man is tak­ing ques­tions over at the NYT City Room blog.
That is all.

A pocketful of orchestras

I’ve always liked iTunes, even with the DRM non­sense, but these days I’m hooked on the Ama­zon mp3 down­loader thingy. Being me, I got hooked when I learned about the free mp3 sec­tion, and then started notic­ing actual decent deals in the music you can pay for. That’s how they catch you, dude.
A friend of a

I have a lot of conversations like this

I don’t like cats. No, really.

If you’re a rag­ing insom­niac like me, you may find this video appeal­ing. Watch­ing it makes me sleepy.

zzzzzz.…

The Great Odometer

I’ve never really been into New Year’s as a hol­i­day.  Maybe it’s the com­bi­na­tion of remem­ber­ing the 12/31/99 fiasco (still!) and wish­ing I were just baby-sitting instead…but it seems that no mat­ter what I do that night, I never have much fun at it.
And, res­o­lu­tions? Meh. I empathize with but sort of resent the beginning-of-the-year gym