My mom never handed out Halloween candy. It was against her principles. Or something. Not a religious thing; she just hated Halloween. She hated everything about it; the dressing up, the skulls, the witches.
In her mind, Halloween was a celebration of evil and death (and of evil death). It was not something she’d grown up [...]

Just links today… hmmm, where to start?
Well, it is, as you know, Halloween weekend, which, judging by the elevated hype and hysteria, has been promoted to national holiday status. If that’s the case, you might as well have some good Halloween music to go along with it. And a candy corn flag.
Somehow it seems fitting [...]

You know what The West Wing needs? Besides a kick in the pants? A Reality-Track. Like a laugh track, that ubiquitous background gurgle of the sitcoms. But instead of coming in at the punch lines, it would appear at those perfect moments when the show mutilates reality like a street mime playing Hamlet.
When those moments [...]

I.F.S has passed. He was about six months old.
What his life lacked in length, it made up for in fullness. Toward the end he had a large tank with a water filter. He had a neon lump of molded plastic in the shape of some kind of coral formation. He was, by all accounts, a [...]

When you scavenge for newspapers in the cafeteria at work, you’re not bound to get the best pickings. There’s always an abundance of sports sections lying around, but though I’ve tried, I just can’t get into reading them. The only games I might care about are the ones I watched on TV the night before [...]

I had a busy day at work today. For me, that looks a lot different than you might expect. For a firefighter, a busy day involves riding in the truck, running into burning buildings, sliding down the pole (do they still do that?), etc. For my mom, who designs closets, a busy day means driving [...]

There are so many things in an old house that don’t come with instructions. Or if they do, those instructions were lost long ago. The instructions to some of the things in my house were lost before I was born.
Maybe even before my parents were born.
But yesterday when I went down to the basement [...]

Apparently my glowing review of “Super Size Me” isn’t getting much attention in Singapore:
Spurred on by shouts of “Shove it in, shove it in!” 19-year-old Don Ezra Nicholas stuffed more than three McDonald’s hamburgers into his mouth – without swallowing – and claimed a new global record at the end of Singapore’s contest to be [...]

Why the pope is smarter than everyone.
Um…duh.
A new search engine called Clusty based on Vivisimo. It clusters results based on similarity between documents. So if you were searching for Bruno Bornsztein (and, let’s face it, I know some of you are), you’d see all the results from this site clustered together, and you wouldn’t have [...]

Good morning, blank page of the word processor. You strike deep fear in my heart. I raised myself from a gentle, swaying sleep to meet you at this early hour, in this remote place. So let’s talk about something.
Penguins?
They have them at the Como Zoo. Like most people, I find them very endearing. They have [...]