I don’t remember how old I was, but I do remember at some point in my school days learning about the structural marvel that is the arch. What sticks out in my mind is my teacher saying the most important part of the arch is the keystone. The keystone, the wedge shaped block in the [...]
Sure, helmet laws might be pushing the boundaries of the safety police, but they’re just protecting children. It’s the same as the laws that require car seats for ever increasingly larger children. I mean, I don’t think fourteen year olds need a car seat, but what about the twelve year olds? Shouldn’t they be protected? [...]
We bought my son a bike last week and a helmet along with it. I asked if he really needed the helmet seeing as when he’s on the bike his head only an inch or two higher than normal. Yes, he does. It’s got training wheels, so he shouldn’t be whipping violently towards the ground [...]
I may be the only person in the world, but I am not a fan of the website People Of Walmart. Yeah, I know, it’s a super popular website that pokes fun at all of those weirdoes at America’s most popular retailer, but I just can’t get into it. It’s not like I don’t enjoy [...]
When I first heard of it, I was very excited about Google Wave. What got me was the way it was introduced. The Google rep posed the question, “What if e-mail were invented now, what would it look like?” It’s an interesting question and their answer, Wave, was a good one. I can’t describe it [...]
As many of my friends and family know, I’m not a huge fan of President Obama. He seems like a decent person, a brilliant politician, and someone who wants to grow the size and reach of government well beyond our current level. To me, the current level is unacceptably large to a people who want [...]
One of the reasons I have a love/hate relationship with Yahoo! is because they never cease to amaze me with the stupid or seemingly irrelevant advice blogs that they tend to highlight. I’m constantly checking because I apparently love to make a WTF face while thinking, who the hell needs this? The latest one is [...]
It’s been a couple of weeks since Disney released it’s new movie The Princess and the Frog, so this post might be dated. I did have these thoughts then, but I didn’t have the chance to post this and thus forgot about it until now. I haven’t seen the movie, but I don’t think that [...]
Christmas is just days away and I know the question we’re all asking. Oh, the poor atheists, how do they deal with Christmas? Thankfully, Yahoo had an article on just this subject. I’d love to tear thru the entire thing but honestly, I don’t have the patience to do so right now, so here’s a [...]
Chuck Klosterman is one of my favorite writers right now. He has a knack for taking a subject that seems irrelivant and creates an intriguing analysis that provides some deeper meaning. He gets me thinking. His newest book, Eating the Dinosaur, is pretty good. A bit heavy on the sports talk, but he makes some [...]
