Oh Google Ads

you don’t know me as well as you think.

New Pornographers Video

This might be enough for me to forgive them for what they did to me in Rock Band with “Electric Version”.

Anxious

It doesn’t bubble up to consciousness very often, but Christ I worry I’m forgetting something. Every day I’m going to forget the permission slip and have to slog through a phonics workbook while everyone else goes to the Museum of Science. It probably drives being anal …

New Mountain Goats Album

Streamed here. Join me in crushing their servers, won’t you? That video still weirds me out. At least it’s a semi-original spin on the Dylan ripoff.

Q: What I Think We Are

My mom tells the story of kicking my grandfather, a cop, out of the room whenever they watched Dragnet because he’d constantly be yelling at the screen. I think I’m next for that treatment with Lost. The problem’s not really Jack …

New GTA IV Preview

Alternative Uses for a Time Machine

Beyond the obvious, investing, the sports betting and a bit of comic collecting, one thing I’d like to do with a time machine is go back to right before Einstein’s Eureka! moment about the Theory of Relativity, hang behind his shoulder, wait …

On Sordidness

In the interests of keeping fun levels low, the first thing that happened after I created my Rock Band band was a warning that while I could name the band “Trucker Sex” if I wanted to, it would appear as “ROCKBAND1” or some generic placeholder text. This is …

On a Friday's Death

Damn you, chico, there goes Friday afternoon. Ladies and gennlemen, presenting Starlet Sea Anemone!

On Starting a Project

Starting a project is one of those moments of sheer pleasure for developers, the clean sheet. While you’re laying foundations on web apps, you often need some way of interacting with the plumbing. Old friends may remember “Peterson Style”, named for an ex-coworker who would …