Oh, this is too freakin’ cool. NASA has a moblog from Spirit! (thanks to bOINGbOING for the link) Here’s the first color image Spirit sent back. I was in Virginia working on The Day Lincoln Was Shot (something I’m very proud of, by the way) when Pathfinder landed, and I’ll never forget the feeling I…
RetroCRUSH is a pop culture website run my my friend Robert Berry. On November 20, 2003, Robert wrote a humorous article called The Worst Sex Scenes Ever: A Look At The Most Unsexy Sex Scenes”. On December 30, 2003, his article was stolen by the UK Tabloid The Daily Star. Robert writes, “The UK tabloid…
On Friday morning, I woke up and felt like myself for the first time in almost a month, so I spent the weekend making up for the lost month of December. Friday afternoon, Anne and I finally saw The Return of the King. I won’t discuss specific spoilers, because I would have been pissed if…
I know from personal experience that The Media are often a miserable failure when it comes to getting the story right, but this story that I read yesterday really upset me. Last month, Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade had a fantastic idea: show the world that gamers are not the mindless idiots the Mainstream…
Every year, Anne and I make tons (tonnes) of Christmas cookies for our friends and family. We do gingerbread men, snowmen, ginger snaps, and sugar cookies with pounds of sugary “frosting” on them. Oh, it’s the opposite of healthy, but so much fun! We take these cookies, put them on a nice festive plate, and…
