Consider if you would the following comment to my site:

i am tired of ads on my mail account. Please give me a gmail account. blahblah@r3d1ff.c0m.

Excuse me while my head explodes.

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Michael Totten is back from Tunisia and ramping up the weblog again. His photos from his trip are amazing, so go check those out. That decreases by fifty percent the drought of my first and second favorite weblog authors. Mister Ford, please return!

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Sometimes, when my baby is looking so adorable, sweet and cute that I can barely stand it, I want to grab her and squeeze her until her head pops off. So my question to other parents is, how do you prevent yourself from doing that? I’m serious!

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As any good Office Boy of the age, I get innumerable daily e-mail communications. Being pimped out from one company to another, I have to be inside the e-mail systems of two Fortune 100 corporations on a daily basis, so I get double the amount that most sorry suckers have to contend with. [...]

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After a bit of neglect, I uploaded quite a few photos over in the Visual Narrative. Stay metal, folks!

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One of the best tricks played by architects, designers and builders in history has been to place their own secret messages, inside-joke winks, metaphorical projections or expressions of their own likenesses into the result of their efforts.
One example, and a favorite of mine, is how Anton Pilgram, the lead architect of one of the phases [...]

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I have only limited historical data on my family, but probably one of the best in my possession is the diary of my great-great grandmother on my father’s side. She was a simple country woman who wrote poetry and worked hard her entire life, which began with some difficulty:

I, May Catherine McSpadden, nee Sisco, [...]

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I have uploaded a photo to my recipe for Ragu Bolognese. I can’t take full credit for the recipe, of course, as it is a Frankenstein’s Monster sort of recipe in which I have utilized bits and pieces of other recipes as well as the advice of Halfass readers.
Lately I’ve been using [...]

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My buddy Kenny just turned me onto the Pitchfork Media Top 100 Albums of the 70s list. While there is a ton of room for argument on their choices, I have to say that this is the best list of this type that I have seen. I probably mainly like it because [...]

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every thousand years
this metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats just a few yards past the earth
you climb on your roof
and take a swipe at it
with a single feather
hit it once every thousand years
`til you’ve worn it down
to the size of a pea
yeah I’d say that’s a long time
but it’s only half a blink
in the [...]

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Despite the snark, I know I still must stare into the abyss.

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My friend Robert linked to this amazing Atlanta Time Machine site a few days back and I haven’t been able to take my eyes off of it since. The author of the site, a man named Greg, has mined the archives of the Georgia State University Library’s Special Collections and then painstakingly re-created [...]

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Syndication really is the future of weblogs. I didn’t believe it until just now. I stumbled across the Planet model of weblog aggregation and I can see a lot of promise. Especially for the “vortal” business model of blogs (a la Weblogs, Inc.) and for topic-specific sites such as Planet Apache.
I love the [...]

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