Archive for November 2006

For those of you who haven’t already heard about the big scandal involving the police where I grew up, check out the story via MSNBC, CNN, and/or The Washington Post. That’s my home town. The sheriff’s name is Frank Cassell, and if you ever meet him, he seems like a nice, normal old guy. He’s [...]

My Xbox Live gamercardMy family is in town for the Thanksgiving holiday, and me and my brother had a somewhat interesting disagreement while he was here. He brought along a couple of Xbox 360 games with him, and he wanted to play them on my Xbox. The catch was, he didn’t want to “recover” his [...]

Remember what it was like to watch a movie on VHS? You’d get home from Blockbuster with the new movie, all excited to watch it, you’d pop that sucker in the player and it’d start playing. Then you’d hit the fast forward button to get through all the crap at the beginning – the FBI [...]

We all got digital picture frames the other day as a ship gift, and I’ve got to say that it might be the worst electronics device I’ve ever seen. I guess the first clue should have been that it had a remote control with like 20 buttons. For a picture frame. Or that the first [...]

I’d like to think that my interests span a pretty wide margin, and as a result, I sometimes find myself doing a couple of things at the same time that don’t really seem to fit together at all, especially when it music is one of them. As Chris put it once, I might be the [...]

I think that every sports team should be forced to pick a city to associate itself with. None of this picking a State nonsense, much less the whole, “let’s pick an entire region to represent.” Not only that, but I think teams should be forced to use the name of the city they’re actually in [...]