I love this: The PocketMod
Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper.
The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card.
They have offline and online tools to walk you through the easy [...]

Our 18 month old son sleeps in our bed. It’s easier to put him back to sleep when he’s with us, after he wakes up from his crib during the night. We have the bed against a wall so he won’t fall off; that’s the side he usually sleeps; however, he’s an active sleeper, [...]

Tags: kids, parenting

I used to decide on whether to ride my motorcycle to work if the chance of rain was less than 40%; I wouldn’t take it if it was higher. Unfortunately, we’ve had a wet spring, resulting in a lot of false alarms; there have been many days where it hasn’t rained even though the [...]

Okay, it’s coming back to me. Someone who bats .500 hits the ball and gets on base half the time. Babe Ruth has a lifetime batting average of .355 (I know this, because I saw City Slickers). So he got on base 35.5% of the time. Why don’t they just say he has a [...]

Tags: baseball

A serious, yet hilarious controversial (to some) post by Scott Adams: Could Science Eliminate Religion? (Link no longer works so I removed it – jc).
As readers of my blog know, I believe that given the right conditions, anyone can be made to believe any damned thing. That’s why there are so many different religions.
I wonder [...]

Tags: religion

Plants are evil:
That plants are evil is widely regarded as an inherently obvious fact, but this is clearly not sufficient as a basis for scientific research.
Nature tells us to destroy plants: Many animals have devoted their lives to the destruction of plants, most of them have in fact evolved in such a way that their [...]

My dream vacation, The Academy:

Here is the opportunity to make whisky the traditional way, to live Islay’s culture, see the heritage, and experience the magic. We do not claim any teaching qualifications, nor do we rely on classroom study, or facile industry indoctrination. Instead we offer the Islay way of down-to-earth, [...]

I read and posted about the book, Fast Food Nation, over two years ago; (Shit, I’ve been at this blog crap for over TWO years?!) and to my surpirse, it’s being made into a fictional movie:
…a character study set in the fast food industry, is based on material from the book of the same name [...]