A friend of ours happens to know the person who cuts Barack Obama’s hair so she gave them a few of her Obama mosaic posters: Turns out our president-elect was in for a haircut this week and they showed it to him. It also turns out he liked it a lot! They gave him one and they’re going to have […]

No, not because she was being bitch. She thought she was being punk’d. When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call. So Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up. But, the Miami Herald reports, this was no prank. “I thought it was one of the radio stations in […]

I was using the Internet Archive’s Way-Back Machine to take a look at some of my early blog posts back when I was on a site called Modblog (you Modbloggers are all sighing wistfully right now, admit it.) I had a post about three years ago on January 6th, 2006 that went like this: GM Proves That It Will NEVER […]

Bob Hope, that is. I’m just gigglin’…

This is very interesting study about the effect of disorderliness on people’s behavior. (H/T Andrew Sullivan). The gist of the study outlined in the article is that a messy/trashy/disorderly environment encourages negative behaviors. Here are two examples: His group’s first study was conducted in an alley that is frequently used to park bicycles. As in all of their experiments, the […]

The Telegraph Newspaper in the UK has a great list of the Top 11 Holiday Cards for Geeks. Here’s a sampling: (That last one is the peptide sequence that spells “Peace”.) Good times. I’m just sayin’…

I think Mr. Ill here speaks the truth. See if you don’t agree. I’m just sayin’…

I was checking my insurance claim on Progressive Insurance’s website for the car bonfire I had last week. We’ve only had one other claim with them; last year my wife was run off the road by an idiot SUV driver going too fast for the snowy conditions. Here’s the claim history for our household: Take a look at the dates. […]

Last night Mrs. E and I were making our holiday 8-hour drive to St. Louis to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my Most Awesome In-laws. About 30 miles from our destination, Mrs. E commented that she had been smelling smoke for the past couple of minutes. I agreed, saying that there was probably a fire somewhere nearby. Just then the […]

As you may know, Mrs. E spent quite a bit of time photographing Barack Obama rallies during the General Election campaign. Now that the election is over, she has put together an amazing mosaic photo with close to 2,500 different faces from the various rallies she photographed, from the Bruce Springsteen concert held on Obama’s behalf, and of many of […]

In my workplace, staffed by adorable lily-white conservative people who have absolutely no clue whatsoever about what it’s like to be poor, much less a discriminated-against minority, one of the most-loved sports is what I call Poor People Bashing. According to the Wonder Bread Crew, the melt-down of the financial markets is due almost entirely to two things: 1. Poor […]