Here is my State Map. I’ll be knocking New Hampshire off the list in September.

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I feel like such a good person. I just completed my first iTunes Music Store purchase. It went down flawlessly, and I’m currently enjoying my well-spent $2.00. Audio delights purchased: Kenny Rogers: “Lucille”; New Order: “Ceremony”.
I agonized over that trailing period in the last paragraph for about ten seconds, but I’m [...]

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bitter.net and Halfass proudly announce the launch of:

Signs of Danger
What is it? The answer, from the site:
Don’t you just love those little iconic “achtung” people that illustrate all sorts of consumer product and environmental hazards? Those poor suckers; they pay the price again and again. Some people call that little bastard the “dangerman,” but [...]

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Folklore.org collects stories surrounding the development of the original Macintosh computer.
Andy Hertzfeld made the site, and it’s a great read. Whether you’re a fan of the Macintosh or a sucker for a good story, this site delivers on every level. The reader is entertained, can learn about everything from capitalism to [...]

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Some buddies and I started a band back in 1997. We were sitting around my apartment drinking “Coors Premium,” and watching free cable, when we came across a wrestling match. It inspired us to name our band, The Busdrivers, because, well, we’re taking you to school.
We have always had Big Plans. We [...]

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Should I be disturbed that I just received a thirty-page Feasability of Design and Estimate document written entirely in the Comic Sans Serif font?

To me, this is like showing up at a meeting wearing clown shoes and an orange bozo nose. When I see this font, I hear circus music in my head. [...]

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Appearing in Atlanta on or around May 9th:

Maple is coming, and nothing has so fundamentally changed my outlook on life as the news I received back in August that we were successful in our efforts to spawn. I can’t go into detail on the Big Things right now, but the “nesting” has [...]

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IBM’s new promotional Linux interactions are so creepy they could have been directed by David Lynch or Cronenberg.
With the creepy old-school “Twighlight Zone” kid, the moody, atmospheric music and the “Linux is Everywhere” tagline, this ad freaks me the fuck out.
Personally, if a mainframe opened, and that freaky little kid got out of [...]

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Miscellaneous items of note, in lieu of real content:
A mother of two turned herself into a weapon of murder, and now the Israel is saying “it’s on.” It’s probably not the best idea in the world to spend ordinance to snuff out a blind old man, but I won’t cry when they do it.
Meanwhile, [...]

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Please enjoy a brief video snippet of the turn of midnight at Johnny and Darolyn’s party celebrating the new year. Listen carefully and you can hear the gunshots. Also, check out the classic line delivered by Johnny at the end: “those things could never start a fire!”
“Flaming brains!”

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Remember that decrepit old man in the full-length wool coat that was always digging around in the dumpster behind Safeway when you were in junior high? The one that everybody said was really secretly rich and had thrown away a winning scratch ticket because he didn’t even need the money?
I always doubted that story, [...]

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These stickers were all the rage when I was a kid, as was the “don’t Californicate Colorado” and “If God had meant Texans to ski, he’d have made bullshit white” expressions. I even had an English teacher in 8th grade who told us that we were permitted to not capitalize California or Texas because [...]

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Goat Ravisher is the nome d’krylon of some local Atlanta “tagger” and now a new blog focused on in-town Atlanta living. Check it out. Only one problem with it: I’m not listed in the “Locals” section—glaring oversight on behalf of the editors.
I wonder why they chose “Goat Ravisher” over “Vicious Sever,” which [...]

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Back in the Autumn, my wife, my friends Rachel and Simmy and their daughter Lily took a trip up to North Georgia to take in the scenery, breathe the fresh air and to buy up all of the locally-produced victuals we could find. To be more specific, we got muscadines, sweet potato butter, local [...]

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Michael J. Totten resolved to ramp up the writing gigs in 2004. It makes me wish I could start a magazine, online or otherwise, or that I’d get off my ass and launch Lies Lies Lies. Regardless of venue, you owe it to yourself to check out his writing and thinking.
I guess I [...]

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