Steel White Table

The Dilbert Blog is by Scott Adam, although it isn’t about Dilbert. It’s about Scott Adam. For example, from October 24, 2005:
My blog is the only writing you’ll see from me that doesn’t first go through a professional editor. That means plenty of grammar and punctuation wrecks for you to enjoy. I blame [...]

My 4 year old daughter learned knock-knock jokes about a year ago, a never-ending source of entertainment for her; she loves to make them up:
Knock-knock.
Who’s there?
Bath.
Bath who?
Bath me because it’s almost bed time!
And we both crack up whether it’s funny or not.
Today she told me a regular joke for the first time:
What do you call [...]

Calvin and Hobbes is back, as reported long ago, with The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

Where’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ creator? is an article from CNN about Bill Watterson, who’s rich enough to do whatever he wants, which is apparently studying 17th century art and painting.

The Empire Strikes Back as a 2 minute animated gif.
I can’t imagine the effort to do something like that. I wish I was rich so I could waste my time on stupid stuff (I mean stupider stuff).
(via Look At This…)

When I first saw Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool in 1996, I thought it was one of the best films ever made. It was unlike anything I’d seen before. I was easily impressed, I suppose, because it was one of my first introductions to art house films. I went nuts over stuff like Jim Jarmusch’s Down [...]

My blog is worth $1,129.08.How much is your blog worth?

Here’s an application that derives your site’s worth based on Technortati data, which tracks what sites link to others in “real time”. The more sites that link to yours, the more your site is worth.
That’s in American dollars! That’s like $200,000 Canadian.
(via Stupid [...]

I dropped my 4½ year old daughter, Caitlyn, off at pre-school today for the first time. My wife has always done it, so I didn’t give it much thought before now: I’m leaving my kid with strangers who don’t know she eats tomatoes like apples; she has to have sea salt on her sliced [...]

“Steve” has posted a dire warning about a new email virus. Take heed! This virus can:

Cause your toilet to flush while you are showering.
drink all your beer.
refill your skim milk with whole milk.
screws up the tracking on your vcr.

Be sure to read his entire post; a lot of important information is there!

This is the first cooking video posted to Steel White Table. It’s called Toutons: The Steak of Breads (Google Video), or This Ain’t No Martha Stewart Touton. It was recorded this morning with my friend, Mike. Jenny was behind the camera. It’s the first in a series of cooking videos called Sunday Morning Scoff with [...]

Tags: cooking, newfoundland, toutons

The hotel I stayed in last night at Southfield, Michigan has free breakfasts. As I entered its dining area this morning, I exchanged glances with a guy sitting at a table drinking coffee. My first thought was, “Holy shit, that looks like Danny Schmidt“. If you’re the regular reader of SWT (Hi, [...]

Guido notes the new programming language, YODA:
Instead of the cryptic c-like syntax below:
public void Main(string[] args) {
Console.WriteLine(”Hello World”);
}
We will now have eloquent YODA-like syntax:
(args of string many are they) Main is what they seek yet return they do not.
Brace you must
Written it is, the Console. “Hello World”
I thought it [...]

A Ninja Pays Half My Rent, a short, slightly amusing film about having a ninja for a roommate:
Finding a roommate is never easy. Especially when they are trained in the deadly arts of stealth and assassination. PRO: They’re quiet. CON: Throwing stars.

For the past few days I’ve been working on a script for a short film. It’s a script we might end up shooting in the film course I’m taking now. At first I was using a popular program called Final Draft to compose the script. But yesterday I was told about a program called celtx. [...]

I ate at the Memphis Smoke for supper, where I had blackened catfish with creole rice, washing it down with a cold draft. As we were eating, a band unexpectedly went on stage. It was a competition held by the Detroit Blues Society, with five bands competing to go to the International Blues [...]

I signed up to Zip.ca today. It’s one of those outfits that sends you DVDs in the mail. When you’re done watching the DVD, you send it back to them in a prepaid envolope, and they send out the next available DVD on your list. I’ve signed up for a 3-month deal with a fourth [...]