More random ideas! (2011/08/19)
So, I got to thinking. How does anyone know that the One Ring can only be destroyed in the fire in which it was forged? And how common is that kind of limitation?
[read more...]New Japanese restaurant in Northfield (2011/08/17)
So, the former Wendy’s has reopend as a Japanese restaurant. The Northfield News says the Tokyo Grill is open, and since Jesse’s a fan of Japanese food, we went.
[read more...]The Gospel according to a little old lady (2011/08/16)
A friend of mine, who goes by the nym “borealis” on a few forums, posted a thread entitled My Mother’s Religion on a forum I hang out on. I repost the text here with permission:
[read more...]Some of my best friends are crazy. (2011/08/10)
No, I don’t mean eccentric. I don’t mean “differently abled”. No, I mean crazy. This is a distinction I learned about a long time ago, when a nice man in a wheelchair explained it quite succinctly:
[read more...]Gifted child syndrome (2011/08/09)
A lot of “gifted” kids end up pretty messed up. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but one of them sorta came into focus for me recently. A friend refers to it as “the entity theory of intelligence”.
[read more...]DRM sucks. Film at 11. (2011/08/06)
Apple’s got a new gimmick. They will now “rent” videos as well as “selling” them. If you “rent” a video, you can watch it for about 24 hours. If you “buy” it, you can watch it… for some unspecified period of time until it stops working.
[read more...]Hasbro is sitting on a gold mine. (2011/08/05)
The problem is, when I say “sitting on a gold mine”, I mean “complaining about this chair being uncomfortable”.
[read more...]Someone stole my spouse's porn. (2011/08/02)
Okay, that’s not quite right. I mean, for one thing, when Jesse wrote it, it wasn’t porn, it was character development. Also, it’s not obvious that “stolen” applies correctly to a thing you still have after someone takes it.
[read more...]C. S. Lewis wrote about Bronies, too. (2011/08/02)
Bronies, you say? That would be adult fans of the recent reboot of Hasbro’s My Little Pony toy advertisements, which are cleverly disguised as a TV show.
[read more...]New result: Futons + Box springs = No. (2011/07/29)
So, a while back, I had this idea. I had a pretty beat up old futon, and thought maybe I could get a bit more life out of it if I added a bit more springiness to it. Box springs! Those would help, right?
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