Road trip pictures

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Alright, so I’ve finally gotten off my lazy bum and downloaded my pictures from my weeklong road trip last month. Here they are, in all their glory.
And in case you’re wondering why there are so many pictures of me with random girls, they’re mostly swing dancers. Then again, I’m wondering about that [...]

Shop Till I Drop Part I

How can I possibly be so bad at Christmas shopping?
Last week, I went to the mall swearing I was gonna get all my shopping done in one fell swoop. The last couple years, this had been no problem at all. I was in and out, done with my shopping, and back to watching [...]

I Heart the State Diner

Is there anything so truly American as the diner?
Unfortunately, probably. I mean, I don’t consider myself particularly wordly, but it always amazes me when I meet kids from the ‘burbs whose idea of a diner is something like Perkins. No offense to them, but calling Perkins a diner is like calling the All [...]

WTFMFWTFAYT!?!

OK, so bitching about the Shrub seems to be out of style these days. And I probably missed the boat on this one anyway. But this is just too good to pass up.
Jim Infantino of Jim’s Big Ego, in his infinite wisdom, has said it more eloquently than I ever could. WTFMFWTFAYT!?!
Go [...]

Marginal Revolution: Markets in self-constraint

It’s true, things between Alicia and I have been up and down, but let’s just hope I never need to use this.
An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls…
…The [...]