What's on my mind today?
Yesterday, as you no doubt have heard, there was a fire at a LIRR control tower that totally effed up the commutes of hundreds of thousands of people who travel to and from Long Island. Today, the trains are still all kinds of messed up. Sure, accidents can happen, so it’s hard to be angry [...]
It isn’t a rhetorical question. Why doesn’t the Long Island Rail Road have a quiet car? A “quiet car,” if it isn’t immediately obvious, is a car of the train where cell phone calls, loud conversations, and other assorted forms of noisiness are prohibited. It exists for the commuters that want to read, sleep, [...]
Exhibit A:
Notice the pocket on Eli’s left leg.
Exhibit B:
There are two pockets clearly visible, but trust me, there are more.
Exhibit C:
There is not one, but THREE pockets in Eli’s overalls.
And do you know what’s in these pockets?
NOTHING.
You know why there’s nothing in Eli’s pockets?
BECAUSE HE’S A BABY.
What kinds of things do you keep in your [...]
None of us would be happy if we didn’t have remote controls. Even thinking of a time when people had to actually stand up and walk towards their TVs to change the channel or lower the volume is almost painful.
Now we have multiple devices with multiple remote controls; sometimes they can all [...]
Every December, a ton of “Best of the Year” lists pop up everywhere, and they can get old pretty quick, but I’m digging the “Best of the Decade” lists that I’ve been seeing lately. So I figured I’d jump on that particular bandwagon, and so I now present my list of some of [...]
On December 17, 1989, the face of television changed forever, as the first episode of The Simpsons aired. It was a half-hour episode featuring a crudely animated family struggling to make their Christmas memorable. Few people would have imagined then that in two decades time, the show would still be profitable.
I won’t pontificate [...]
So, there is no way for me to write this post and NOT be accused of being a pompous jerk, but whatever, here it goes anyway.
Every now and again, someone will refer to a non Ivy League school as an Ivy League institution. They don’t mean anything malicious about it, they just have their [...]
It’s a question every Star Wars nerd has debated, and I still have some time to worry about it, but this is something I really need to start considering:
How should I expose my kid/kids to Star Wars?
The obvious answer is to start with Episode IV (the original film for any non-geeks). It just makes [...]
My money is worth just as much as anyone else’s, but yet, for some reason, no one wants to take it.
Allow me to explain. In our house, we have an attic. But the only way to get in there is via a tiny entrance in a closet in one of the bedrooms. [...]
For some reason, babies tend to be measured in fruit sizes.
When I tell people how big Baby Noah is at any given time, I usually use fruit as an analogy. And it’s not a conscious decision on my part, that’s just the way it’s done. Every week I get an email from the [...]
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