“You shall not pass!”
Oscar Mayer Conservation
Did you ever notice that the people who praise the American Indian for using every bit of the buffalo will whine about what’s in a hot dog?
Retconning: Unoriginal, Inexplicable, and Frustrating (usually)
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2008/01/retconning_just_1.html Interesting blog post by Eric Burns about the various types of retconning and their risks. This is all inspired by the recent Spidey/MJ “divorce” by Mephisto. Incidentally, I accidentally bought the issue when Mephisto makes the offer to Peter & MJ (the issue before the retcon actually happens). It was an accident because I…
I Would Be His Neighbor
I first saw the below clip in one of my first film classes a couple years ago. I don’t remember the context of the discussion at all, but I do remember wanting to cry when we watched it. Mr. Rogers is the butt of a lot of jokes in contemporary pop culture, and even though…
I know what “Chuck” is, BBA.
I just don’t watch it, that’s all. Mr. Arndt, if you check your IM logs, you will see that all you said was that a show with Adam Baldwin was on opposite “Big Bang Theory”, so I had to ask you to explain it because I haven’t watched “Chuck” and didn’t know he was on…
Best of the Big Bang Theory
UPDATE: Umm…did I do that? These videos all had thousands of hits. Then I link to them tonight and inside of two hours they are all removed by YouTube! I can’t believe how much work I put into this post and now all the videos are gone. I’m sorry you won’t be able to…
Thanksgiving in America
This Thanksgiving, I’m giving thanks to God for giving us Mark Stein and his latest column: World should give thanks for America His last book was one of my favorite Christmas gifts last year, and I devoured it hungrily. If you haven’t read it yet, please please please check it out. Mark is a humorous…
Boston and User Interface 12 Conference
I wish I could get my phone to talk to my computer. (More on that later in a more boring whiny post.) I’ve taken some cool camera shots of my trip, but I can’t transmit the pictures from my phone to a computer. As I write this, I’m in the “Theory and Practice of Social…
Hello, UI 12!
Yes, I just said Hi to you in Cameron Moll’s CSS Interface’s group. Bet you didn’t expect this! If you attended User Interface 12 in Boston (U.I. 12), please reply and drop me a note. See my post below for the other things I do.
Day by Day suspended temporarily
Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Chris.