I put a couple of Amazon Widgets on the left sidebar, one a cloud of products that pulls its contents from my posts and two a search function. I get a sliver of whatever anyone buys using those links so feel free to use them! If it gets too intrusive or annoying awaaaay they go.

Today is the first anniversary of this here site. My first post was a simple welcome and that spirit of welcome and openness is still here. I hope that you’ve enjoyed this site as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. I started this whole business on blogger.com here with this pithy post: First Shot Here’s [...]

I wrote a guest post for Janet at the art of getting by. Give it a look!

Ahoy, maties, this be Iron Jack Kidd! Be ye celebratin’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Don’t be a lubber. Drink yer grog, navigate o’er to http://www.talklikeapirate.com/, and dance tha hornpipe! Do it smartly now or I’ll run ye through!! You are The Pirate Do you remember the last time you took a chance? It [...]

This week’s question from Janet is a simple one with the possibility of being a long, detailed answer: “What are your favorite songs with a name in the title?” Well no long detailed answer, but as MCF usually does I do provide YouTube videos of each.

Survey reveals dirty little hand-washing secret – On Deadline – USATODAY.com Survey reveals dirty little hand-washing secret The Tomahawk Chop still might be mildly popular at Atlanta’s Turner Field, but hand-washing? Apparently, not so much. The Soap and Detergent Association is out with an annual study of the hand-washing habits of men and women. The [...]

I got this meme from MCF who got it from here. 1. Go here: http://www.careercruising.com/default.asp 2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark. 3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions. 4. Post the top results. I’ve always felt like the jobs I’ve had have been more out of necessity than choice. The results really weren’t all that [...]

I got the opportunity to meet with philosopher, mathematician, semi-frequent commenter and all around cool frood Sid Faiwu yesterday. We ate good food, drank better beer, and talked about religion, science, how much extremism sucks for everyone, whiskey, and all sorts of things. It gave me food for thought and more importantly for blogging. Future [...]

Janet at the art of getting by asks the question “Where were you on September 11th, 2001 and how did it change your life?” I certainly remember where I was. I was at work. At the time I had just found a message board that I was rather fond of. The job was quiet that [...]

This is probably pretty close. I scored high percentage-wise because on tests where I have a spectrum to chose from I tend to go to one extreme or the other. That has more to do with annoyance with trying to decide wether I somewhat agree or somewhat disagree and what the difference between the two [...]