"I remember the day we got cable" "I remember the day I finally got broadband internet" "The Safety Dance was the first 45 single I bought" "My brother got one of the first CD players on our block" "I owned many, many cassingles" "For ten years, I watched a 19" TV from across a large …
Category Archives: foofery
Thoughts from the bottom of a ditch after veering off the road while reading email on my iPhone while riding my road bike near a farm
Man, there sure are a lot of beer bottles and cans down here. If my 18 year old self could see me today at 36, I'm sure he'd want to know why I'm still doing stupid shit like getting so engrossed with my phone that I actually did this. Thank god I didn't break anything …
Perchance to dream
Slug, originally uploaded by visualdensity. I had a dream last night that we solved the energy crisis by forcing the animal kingdom to create energy for us, but the trick was picking an animal ugly and unlikeable enough that the least number of people opposed the enslavement. So in the end, we had these enormous …
The Culture War on Halloween
The culture war on Halloween, originally uploaded by mathowie. Halloween is a time-honored holiday steeped in the traditions of sharing with your neighbor, celebrating childhood with candy and decorations, and generally having a fun time as the days begin to grow shorter. There is also a culture war that seeks to end this traditional holiday. …
TLFT*: Michael Phelps
Watching some recent olympic track and field events still sitting on TiVo, I’m finally starting to understand how amazing it was for Michael Phelps to swim 17 races and win 8 medals and break multiple records over the span of just a few short days. For some reason I wasn’t really that impressed by the …
Becoming an old (blogging) man
Today I realized that I’m part of the “old guard” of blogging because I remember a time when blogging was so new that very few sites had comments (it seems like MetaFilter was one of the first few?) and after a few years when they started to become commonplace, people were generally decent to each …
Eleven
After upgrading my first mac (powerbook) to another powerbook, then to an iMac and finally to a Mac Pro, I realized five years of using the Migration Assistant had finally run its course. Various basic parts (mostly Keychain Access) of Leopard stopped functioning properly and since everything ran great on my new Macbook Air, I …
Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89
Oh shit: Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89. Anyone that knows me knows that I’m the biggest fan of this man’s invention. I can’t think of a more fitting tribute than imagining Father Guido Sarducci/Lazlo Toth is spreading jam on a McMuffin, just for you, inventor guy.
A used car scam I once almost fell for
I saw someone I know selling their old car on craigslist and it reminded me of the time I sold my last car using similar means. I almost fell for a couple guys that showed up, test drove the car, then tried to buy it at a vastly discounted price. They were quite persistent and …
What if cupcakes could somehow become more awesome? HOWTO
I’m a big fan of cupcakes, huge fan. 30lbs overweight fan. Anyway, a couple months ago, my wife gave her students some cupcakes and someone BLEW MY MIND with a simple hack that solved one of cupcakes’ few failings: sometimes there’s just too much frosting, they’re too tall for your mouth, and/or the frosting/cake mix …
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