If you’ve been avoiding this site because you’re sick of reading cute baby stories, then believe me, I take no offense. I know they’re not always the most exciting stories around, especially if you don’t have kids of your own. But in my defense, they’re better than most of the stories I make up just […]

Nobody ever reads Ayn Rand and identifies with the mediocre masses. Sure, a lot of people get to the end of books like The Fountainhead, Anthem or Atlas Shrugged and say “Wow, society really does oppose our most exceptional people at every turn.” But nobody ever says “I’d better get out of the way so […]

I don’t get a huge amount of blog traffic, but I tend to do well on the days I go off on a rant. The more backed by facts and/or buoyed by snark a post may be, the further it’s likely to travel. Yesterday’s post on Gun Appreciation Day was a good example, generating some […]

I’ve been DJing digitally with Serato for a number of years now, but I’ve never really taken the time to make it work with iTunes in a way that suits me. To tell you the truth, I’ve always hated iTunes; it’s one of those awful programs that works great as long as you want to […]

Saturday was Gun Appreciation Day in the States, and it went about as well as you might expect. Launched by second amendment aficionados in response to the threat of new gun control measures, Gun Appreciation Day fell two days before both the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Day. Some people took offense to this, […]

Hey, need a little trick to help you remember to take your vitamins? Put the jar in your medicine cabinet, or on your bathroom shelf, and make it part of your morning routine. Soon, remembering to take your vitamins will be as easy as remembering to brush your teeth! And hey, need a lite trick […]

I like to get a lot done in a day, and in order to help myself do that, I tend to keep a long list of regular jobs within reach. Most of them are simple tasks or habits I’m trying to develop, like “water work plants,” “check Facebook birthdays” or “click Hunger Site links.” There’s […]

It doesn’t take a new parent long to learn that it’s not a question of if your kid’s going to throw up all over you, but a question of when, and how often. The chalkboard in our kitchen, for example, read “10 days without a puking” until about an hour ago. There’s no way to […]

The Hoole Ice Memorial is a small tombstone in the UK. It reads: “In loving memory of George Goodfellow, aged 11 years and Henry Berry, aged 8 years, who were drowned by falling through the ice trying to save a fellow playmate at Hoole on January 17th 1905.” It’s an amazing story, but it’s also […]

When I told you that my brother is now writing for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, I said it was “the latest and biggest in a recent wave of major achievements.” Also on that list is SPANK!, a musical Fifty Shades of Grey parody that’s been enjoying sellout runs on stages across North America, including […]