Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing.

It pretty much goes without saying that I’m a cusser — that much is obvious just from the title and tagline of this blog — it’s one of the few vices I have. It’s a habit I’m not at all ashamed of and which I take a certain amount of enjoyment in engaging in. So . . . → Read More: Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing.

A few of random pictures I took.

With all the driving back and forth to Lansing I’ve been doing lately I decided to start carrying my digital camera with me. The decision came about in part due to a rather stunningly lovely morning drive to Charlotte, which is just south of Lansing, which showed off a particularly nice part of the Michigan . . . → Read More: A few of random pictures I took.

Just how bad is the BP oil spill?

Sometimes it helps if we can visualize how bad a problem is. It’s difficult to get a sense of the scale of the BP oil spill from reading news reports. Sure, we know it’s hit the coastlines of several states and is encroaching on Florida beaches, but unless you live there it’s really hard to . . . → Read More: Just how bad is the BP oil spill?

SEB Review: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ for the PC.

It's a great game that has some terrible flaws.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

I’m in a real love/hate relationship with this game and I’m torn on how to present the review. So I suppose I’ll start off with a quick summary: It’s awesome and horribly flawed at the same time. This latest . . . → Read More: SEB Review: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ for the PC.

Somehow the punishment seems inadequate to the crime.

I don’t use the word ‘evil’ very often to describe crimes that people commit and in all honesty I’m not sure the following really is deserving of that designation, but it certainly feels like it to me. It involves two people who took advantage of a 93-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease:

Rebecca Tharpe posed as . . . → Read More: Somehow the punishment seems inadequate to the crime.

How to ruin The Prisoner in six easy steps.

So I finally got around to watching the AMC remake of The Prisoner this past weekend. I’m a huge fan of the original, which is as old as I am, and I didn’t hold out high hopes for AMC’s take on it. Still, it starred Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel so I set up . . . → Read More: How to ruin The Prisoner in six easy steps.

“Wassup” eight years later.

Remember the old Budweiser “Wassup” ads? I wonder whatever happened to those guys:

True.

Found over at Boing Boing.

A belated Merry “Krismas” wish to you.

So I’m catching up on some of my blog reading and I’m browsing through the two dozen or so entries at The Meming of Life which is run by Dale McGowan, the author of the book Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion, and it’s been awhile since I last stopped by . . . → Read More: A belated Merry “Krismas” wish to you.

SEB Review: “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare”

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

So I recently found out that SEB has a few fans at Activision as I was contacted a few weeks back and asked if I would like to receive a review copy of Call of Duty 4 of my very own for the . . . → Read More: SEB Review: “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare”

Happy (belated) Birthday to Me!

I was going to post this yesterday before we left for the day’s activities, but the wonderful folks at Charter decided to give me a birthday gift of taking the entire state of Michigan offline so they could upgrade their digital equipment. It was back up right about the time we stepped out the door.

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