Strawberry Shortcake & The Wolves & The Bats. By Mona, age 6.

I seldom post about games these days, as I don’t want my blog to be related to my work, but, since Nintendo announced the real name of the Revolution console, I do sort of have to say, “Disaster.” 1. It’s not intuitively pronounceable. It’s pronounced “we”, as in, “We had to guess how to pronounce [...]

The eye is not irreducibly complex, and this video tells us how it came about.

I can only point out that Mona has written and illustrated a story entitled “Strawberry Shortcake & The Wolves & The Bats”. I positively glow with admiration for her.

Salon has an excellent article about how the privatization of the Internet is beginning to lead to, well, exactly what you would think it would lead to. Time was, the government ran the Internet, and it was a great thing. Today, commercial interests are trying to monetize every single aspect of the thing, with this [...]

I ordered MLB Extra Innings from Comcast, and here, during Game 8 of the season, I just cancelled it and demanded a refund. So far, this is two and a half games that have been preempted by hockey. Fuck hockey. Hockey can go jump in a lake. I paid to watch out-of-market baseball games, not [...]

During storytime, I usually read a book laying on my stomach on Isabel’s bed, as Isabel looks at the book and Mona rolls around being a goof. A couple of nights ago, I was laying there reading the story, and she crawled under my shirt and said, “I’m being born out of Daddy’s back!” Where [...]

Now I’m hoping that Willie Bloomquist falls on his head, and Carl Everett falls off a curb into the path of a speeding bus. Since I wrote my first M’s update of the season, they’ve been trounced, and I mean trounced, over three games by the A’s. Twenty-seven scoreless innings trounced, that’s what I’m talking [...]

Isabel has a project to do for school, a little presentation to give on crabs. I got home from work late today, but hearing that she was still awake in her room, Yatsze told me to go in and ask her a few questions about crabs. “Isabel, what do crabs eat?” “Lunch! Hahahahahahaha!” “Isabel, where [...]

Really, I mean it. He’s as corrupt as they come.