John Scalzi is doing something pretty cool. He is releasing a shareware short story. Called “How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story”. Basically you can download the story, pay for it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. Now granted this isn’t particularly a new idea. Cory Doctrow does it after [...]

You should totally go to this post,MCF’s Nexus of Improbability: Bracket Blogs, and watch as MCF (master of the daily post) pits his blogroll entries against one another (in a good natured way). You don’t have to vote for me, but you could. In any case it gives some exposure to some very cool fellow [...]

Check out Insect Picture of the Day for a picture that yours truly took!

If you want cutting edge politcal commentary, the latest news on the election, or snarky bi-polar headline mongering (whatever that means) then I suggest you check out DailyKos, LittleGreenFootballs, BigTent, FoxNews, Hot Air (I think that’s one and if it isn’t it should be)… If you want to see what happens when two moderate democrats [...]

Janet poses the question: What are your thoughts on life outside of Earth? Do you believe in aliens? If so, what do you think when you think about them? I am purposely being vague here in the hopes you’ll expand upon your own. Some may (or may not) find my answer surprising. I certainly find [...]

Since there are no good political blogs out there, Pat decided to start one that appeals to our sensibilities. Spitball Politics is what we’re calling it for now. It’s got a bit of whimsy to it. Check it out. We’re both DINOs in the sense that we aren’t your typical liberal mouth foamers. Pat is [...]

Aaron and I waxed political on his BlogtalkRadio show. First time I’ve been on in a while. We talked about corruption, Hillary, Obama, bias, all sort of good stuff. I hope to blog about the following this week: The birthday trip we took this week to Pilot Mountain. (My wife’s b-day) Why I am a [...]

From ReligiousFreaks.com: This morning I received a plea for help from Chris Weber, a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Chris is conducting a survey for his dissertation in Political Science and could use our help. I know it’s political in nature, but religion and politics go hand-in-hand these days If you’re interested in helping [...]

Janet wants to know what some of our favorite things are. No longer being sick ranks right up there, but she got specific. I like that, so here you go.

Janet and Sid have both done posts regarding early childhood memories. So I figure I’ll throw my two cents in. Memory is a tricky thing and mine has always seemed to be reeeeally strange and unpredictable in what it will cache and what it won’t. Forget dates and names, but I have an affinity for [...]