I am beginning to suspect that my wife doesn't like it when I shave off my beard. When I have my beard (especially the stubbly-not-bushy...

Cool . Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal — named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor's day or Thursday — pro...

I heard from Epril that an acquaintance of mine was bitching to his friends that a few months back, I had invited him out to one of the pool...

Andy McCarthy at The National Review Online engages in a thought experiment : A friend poses the following: Imagine that there really were t...

News from work: I decided to complain about my pending relegation to part-time status. The only problem is that I am a "Level 2"...

My digital cable box... the one that I bitched for so much during World Cup... was destroyed by lightning last night. An actual bright kerp...

No new news on the work situation. But the fact is that in the end, I only care about the money I earn there. Cutting my hours to part time ...

My company sent yet another one of my accounts to India. This time, though, there were no additional accounts for me to fall back on with m...

About once a week, Epril comes and sits down next to me. "Can I cut my hair?" "Sure," I reply. She pouts and says, ...

As I'm sure you've heard, it's not just a mosque, it's a community center. It's not on Ground Zero, it's 2 blocks (...

Tyson finally figured out that he could jump the 5-foot fence if he wanted to. So far, he has only done it once... when I left without takin...

An ongoing protest by a church in Ohio at a local strip club has brought the strippers to church... in skimpy bikinis , to do their own prot...

Saturday was my birthday. Yes... I told everyone I was 28. That's a perfunctory claim based not on some discomfort with my age, but beca...

Basil Marceaux... Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee: He's made entirely of win. If he wins, I want to move to Tennessee be...

Thanks to the help of an anonymous reader, Eric and I have buried the hatchet. Somebody must have performed some Black magic to solve that p...

Work was okay today. We had a big rain storm that knocked out the power for a while. Chef Ednel made something brilliant for dinner today: ...

Standard day today. Ednel cooked some farfalle in a light tomato basil sauce. Dave from Kimaya stopped by in the evening for a visit. My mot...

Pattaya Beach in Thailand is well-known in Asia as being an adult playground, with a 12-mile-long beach lined with upscale shopping malls, m...

I always spend the first hour of my day doing the same thing: Hitting the snooze button on my alarm. I enjoy the mental jumble of hypnogogic...

Run a half marathon, and drink a beer every mile .

Monday. I took the day off yesterday, sleeping in after staying out until 2 a.m. I had hoped to do something fun with my day off, but wound ...

My days as a putative drug kingpin (and several other rather more unsavory metiers of crime) are over: The anonymous slander on Complaints...

This evening was the cotillion party for my friend Warren's sister-in-law, Jolimae... also known as Bing. Since Warren's birthday w...