This story about a body found in the wheel well of an airplane at JFK is odd and unsettling, if only for the imagined terrorist/bomb implications, but it becomes even more unsettling when one reads that it is the second body found in an airplane wheel well at JFK in less than a week. Gives [...]

Return to the Blue Lagoon has to be way up there on any intelligent list of champion le bad cinema. We’re watching it right now: a train wreck, but we’re having fun in our morbid, silly way. What we should be watching is my Xmas present, the Tick DVD.

OK, it’s on. We need the authoritative list of really bad movies. Seriously bad. Not artfully bad, like Glen or Glenda, but just pukingly bad, like Perfect.

How fucking stupid. Donald Murphy, doubtless a “good christian” on Team Bush, has been doing things like reinstalling biblical verses at the Grand Canyon and approving for sale a creationist pamphlet on the Grand Canyon, and how the Creationists purport to show that the canyon is only a couple thousand years old. You cannot support [...]

Pretty sedate this year, just my family, my parents, and my grandmother. Gifts for the kids: Izzy got clothes and some dangly toys, Mona got Barbies (including the Aragorn & Arwen Ken & Barbie set). DVDs galore for everyone, and a Tiki head Kleenex box cover for me, where you pull the Kleenex out of [...]

The new security patch for OS X 10.3.2 installed fine on my iBook, but the G5, not so much. It got 99% of the way through, and then just hung. And hung. I finally had to hard reboot, and it sort of didn’t. Which is why the blog has been down: my OS had managed [...]

So Yats told me about a little incident with Mona today. Yatsze was in the kitchen doing dishes, and Mona came in from the living room. “Mommy, Mommy, your coffee spilled!” Yeah, coffee often does that on its own, Yats is thinking. She goes in there, her coffee cup is on the floor, and then [...]

Madeleine Judith Cecelia Page passed away at 11pm, from complications from aggressive chemotherapy. She passed away in her sleep, surrounded by friends. The world is so much poorer. She has been an inspiration to me for many years, and will be for the rest of my life. You left me better than you found me. [...]

If you’re like me, you think you’re introspective and self-aware, and you’re really not. Times come when little epiphanies happen, and you find out what you really think and feel. Sometimes it’s wonderful, like when something happens that makes you realize how much you love your kids, and how lucky you are to have them. [...]

This was always a nightmare scenario I had in my head all those years at Valve. Fans who love guns like CounterStrike fans love guns…99.9999% of the fans are great, happy, fun-loving gamers, but it only takes one psycho to crash the whole works. No one’s fault except the psycho’s, of course, but when the [...]