Posts from 2006
Bart’s Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you are lucky enough to have a boutique grocery store in your area, see if they are selling chocolate chip cookies from Bart’s Bakery. They are, without a doubt, the world’s best.
Bonnie Brae
A serendipitous song find
WordPress Captcha
In which I deal with spam
Wasted Space
Can anyone tell me if I really need Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03 and J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3? These things are ridiculous. Each one is over 100MB! What a waste.
The Day the World Exploded
Wow. I (finally) just finished reading Krakatoa — The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester. Crazy stuff. I liked it. It’s a smidge on the textbook-side, but he’s an entertaining enough writer — and the topic is so incredible — that you don’t ever get bored during its 380-ish pages. The
Answerbag – Answer Hunt
Check it out: The guys at Answerbag are having an Answer Hunt! You can win up to $2000 for answering the questions asked by the elusive “answer rabbit”. (Note: This would be an excellent place to post the classic “TheBrad with Bugs Bunny on Head” photo, but the damn fool has gone and lost all
WaMu Snafu
Catch-22
MySpace v. Friendster
You can’t buy your way into knowledge of a rave.
Complete Failure
The only two positive things I can say about Failure to Launch are that it was not quite as bad as A Historyof Violence and that it had a decent soundtrack. (And, of course, for some reason that soundtrack is not available at Amazon or on iTunes.) Terry Bradshaw did the best acting in the
CrashBonsai
More proof that people are strange (in case you needed some): There is a website dedicated to selling toy cars which have suffered toy accidents by crashing into toy (bonsai) trees. The art pieces go for between $75 – $150. People are — apparently — grabbing them like hotcakes. CrashBonsai