As promised, the good folks promoting the film “Slammin’ Salmon” have sent me some schwag (promotional items) with which to reward my faithful readers. The incredibly heavy box I received in the mail included 14 T-shirts in a mix of M, L, and XL sizes, emblazoned with the slogan “WORKING HARD FOR JUST THE TIP”:

Neato!
However, [...]

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Pardon me while I vent for a moment.
The Internet is, without question, the greatest assemblage of information in the history of mankind. Even more impressive than the sheer volume of data accessible via the Internet is the utter simplicity and ease of use of its interface. Having grown up in an era when you were [...]

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Today I discovered that a Google Docs spreadsheet maxes out at 100 rows, forcing you to start a new sheet. I guess that’s fair. But that means that my little weight-tracking charts are constrained to a particular size, and specifically that means that the chart corresponding to the first sheet has a particularly serendipitous endpoint:

As [...]

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You might be familiar with the comedy group “Broken Lizard”. If you’re not, then you might still be familiar with some of their movies: Supertroopers? Beerfest? After starting out as a humble sketch comedy group back at Colgate University, the five lizards have developed a knack for creating cult comedies. Their movies feature a type [...]

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Way back when, I used to have a page where I kept of list of things I recommended. I eventually dropped it, because I didn’t really maintain it, and because no one really looked at it.
Nevertheless, I still like things, and sometimes want to tell my friends about particularly good things. So, here’s a post [...]

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