The other day I boasted to the Internet about how I spelled perpetuity correctly on the first try. When you live alone and don’t leave the house much you boast about all kinds of minor…
Browsing Category Misc.
30 minutes
Everyone has a time threshold by which to judge the emergency-ness/bad news factor of a phone call. The older you get the earlier that time gets. For instance, if someone were to call you at…
Mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, monosyllabic simpleton
Much to the surprise of everyone, I actually (pretty much) held to my 2010 resolution of writing down the words I had to look up in the dictionary. In 2010, I looked up approximately 105…
This is what I love about the Internet today: A fanpage for a drum kit
This here is Neil Peart’s 1974 Slingerland drum kit circa 1974ish. It is called (or is a) Chromey. Here is what I know about Neil Peart without Googling: he plays the drums for Rush. Rush…
My 2010 Christmas Wish for You, Darling Ones (a little late)
My annual letter of good tidings and comfort and joy is late this year. I would apologize but, well, there are very good reasons for this tardiness. These reasons include, but are not limited too:…
21.5 inches
I missed the great Halloween Blizzard of ’91, because I was living in Wisconsin. So this is the first epic blizzard I can remember experiencing. Lucky for me, I live in Shakopee which wins (?)…