TheFullPint.com is beer news, reviews and discussion. And it makes me thirsty every time I visit it. The site has reviews of beers from all over, and the forum has discussion on beers, including a section just for home-brewers. For beer lovers, it is a must-visit. Some of the stuff goes way over my head, […]
At the risk of making this just a Consumer Complaint blog, I feel the need to share our recent experience with Nebraska Furniture Mart. Sara and I were there last Saturday, initially just to help my mom pick out a new digital camera. But while we were there, we wandered over to the outdoor furniture […]
A French software company believes that Sony BMG may be pirating up to 47% of its software! PointDev, a French software company that makes Windows administration tools, received a call from a Sony BMG IT employee for support. After Sony BMG supplied a pirated license code for Ideal Migration, one of PointDev’s products, the software […]
Regular readers of this site know that I only post werewolf news when it’s good news. So now, for the first time, I have werewolf news. I’m probably one of the last people to learn this, but there’s a remake of The Wolfman in the works, and it stars Benicio del Toro. I am very […]
This mashup was a regular on You Are So Beautiful, Beautiful Robot back in the day – it’s a seamless combination of some of the greatest pop songs ever – but I just this evening discovered that there was a video for it too. Download the song and visit DJ Earworm’s site for more.
Continuing the theme of digging up old work, this story was from October 2004, but I don’t remember which paper ran it. I think maybe it was the Omaha City Weekly. They were a band without a country. And now they’re a band without a label. After winning the prestigious Mercury Prize for the best […]
This was a story I did for an April 2006 issue of the short-lived Lincoln weekly, ‘Switch.’ Fifteen years ago, the first issue of the new X-Men series sold over six million copies. The Comics Journal estimated that more than 9000 comic book stores were in business across the United States.Now, in spite of the […]
I wrote a while back about the problems we were having with how Wells Fargo chose to use our money. Well today, we got a $10 “excess activity fee,” which meant quite simply that we were using our savings account too much. Apparently when the lady at Wells Fargo – who helped us set up […]
I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I played around with public domain footage I found at the Prelinger Archives and made a video for Pablo’s Triangle’s “Girlfriend” using only clips from old stag films and stripper footage (and a little bit of concert footage). I carefully edited so that there is no nipplage, but if your […]
Usually I’m the only member of our family in the Sunday Journal Star, but this past weekend, my dad was one of the volunteer weather observers in a Sunday feature. He even gets a joke in — better than the one I had in my cartoon.