While driving home from work this evening I had my iPhone on a random playlist and these two songs played back-to-back: “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi” by Weird Al Yankovic and “Possum Kingdom” by the Toadies. Ok, yes, an interesting combination but that’s to be expected in a random playlist. What caught my eye was [...]
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Cleveland is finally #1!
My hometown of Cleveland, OH is finally a winner … a recent Forbes article named it the number one most miserable city, edging out last year’s reining champion, Stockton, CA. Hoping to continue Cleveland’s championship year in 2010, the Cavaliers traded local favorite Zydrunas Ilgauskas (who’s spent his entire 12-year career with the Cavs) to [...]
Calvin’s Cleveland connection
How, after all these years of being a “Calvin & Hobbes” fan, did I never realize Bill Watterson is from Cleveland!? The Plain Dealer posted a brief interview with the cartoonist, thought to be his first since 1989. A C&H stamp will be issued by the post office later this year. I loved reading “Calvin [...]
Crash!
The hard drive in my server crashed! I’ve been having problems over the past few days where Ubuntu was just locked up and the server was unpingable. I’m trying to make a backup image of the drive before it completely dies, but for now I’ve got some of the site back up and running with [...]
Happy New Year! A new decade begins …
Wow, 2010. Hard to believe that 10 years ago we were worried about Y2K! For New Year’s Eve we did our family tradition of fondue for dinner (we went out to The Melting Pot this year instead of cooking it ourselves). Then we headed over to First Night in downtown St. Petersburg, which we had [...]
Now on my iPod: Nerdcore hip hop
Ever since I started playing Kingdom of Loathing a few months ago, I’ve been listening to the “120 Minutes of Jick and Mr. Skullhead” podcast/radio show. Through them, I was introduced to Nerdcore hip hop since the Asymmetic crew are friends with MC Frontalot, the artist who coined the term. I’m not actually new to [...]
Binary birthdays
My little sister will turn 30 next year on 10/10/10, which is pretty cool on a number (no pun intended) of levels, mainly 10 + 10 + 10 = 30. This got me to thinking that being born on the first day of October, I’ve never really had one of those cool birthdays like 01/02/03, [...]
Wii puns go mainstream, still not funny
As investigators searched the home near Lakeland for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering the home, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame. I saw this headline on the local paper this morning: “A [...]
Julia Child, Mr. Wizard, Monty Python … Good Eats Turns 10
This afternoon I was at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, GA watching the live matinee performance of “Good Eats Turns 10″ with Alton Brown. What a blast! I had a fantastic time. I don’t think I’ve been to a live TV show recording before (except for sporting events), so it was cool [...]
SysAdmin Day 2009
Today is the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Won’t you take a moment today to let your local system administrator (or IT staff) know that you appreciate their hard work? Of course you will … you wouldn’t want your e-mail to stop working today, would you?
