t was a dull, dreary day in the town of Four Corners. The dullness was on account of the fact that Four Corners had acquired itself seven peacekeepers. Whereas previously to the arrival of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ rowdies tended to congregate in the small town, nowadays rabble-rousers tended to give Four Corners a wide berth. [...]
oday I watched a customer at The Restaurant Where I Work™ very carefully save his pocket lint from the handful of change he was counting out to me. Granted, this guy is a known crazy — I’ve been waiting on him in various restaurants around town for ten years now, but damn. Who saves pocket [...]
et me first begin by toasting StumbleUpon, which is pure liquid crack. If I never get my novel written, it’ll be solely due to the joy of Stumbling. No, seriously. Go directly to the site, install the little toolbar, and proceed directly to the cracking. I’ve lost whole swaths of time due to this damn [...]
t’s been a while since I have had Java post one of these, but I thought this would be an opportunity to “bless” you all with some sage advice. Its well that I do this, you see, for I’m usually unable to follow my own advice, so someone should get some use out of it. [...]
ou should always use basil the day you buy it - as they say, herb today, gone tomorrow.
I don’t field like football today, and besides, baseball is a batter game!
When I treated my friends to lunch at the Mexican fast food restaurant I had to pay the taco bill.
Did you hear about the pig who [...]
ell good heavens, it’s been quiet around here, hasn’t it? It’s been quite the interesting couple of weeks, the net result of which has me currently sitting in my own new apartment and aimed directly for Divorceland. I could dedicate an entire post or three to the details of how all that managed to occur, [...]
eah, it’s not as cool as it sounds, so don’t get your hopes up.
Two astronauts spent their Saturday night assembling a giant robot outside the International Space Station (ISS), wrangling with stubborn bolts to attach the machine’s two massive arms.
Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman, who both arrived at the space station in NASA’s shuttle [...]
n ancient Babylonian general was once involved in a plot to overthrow the king. His plot included a number of followers in the upper ranks of the army. However, his plot was uncovered, and the king threw him in jail. The king sentenced him to death without a trial.
From the jail, he was able to [...]
KCD is probably one of my favorite little webcomics. The art doesn’t get any fancier than this, but the jokes are divine. Much of the humor is science and/or math based, with a big dollop of gaming, ninjas, and Internet goofiness. Hover over the images at the site to get smart-assed comments from the author [...]
n the advice of my friend Squatch, who has contributed here a time or two, I have decided to go with writing in the “first person” on my novel. I have to admit, I was a little hesitant for a variety of reasons. For one, most of the crew who is currently writing successfully in [...]
