Those of you hounding me to see some of my writings can check out a story I did as a final project for a Romantic Era literature class called "Claphaven."

Let me know what you think!

How many typos can you spot on the "bumper art" on this page?

Henry Payne Revare
was born at
1:11 am Thursday October 21, 2004

He weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz.
and was 19.5 inches long.

Mom and baby are doing great!

Here's an interesting headline.

Stehpinkeln unite!

An interesting thing happened when I was playing Scrabble on my phone yesterday (don't you LOVE stories that start that way?). Anyway, I was playing in something called Friendly mode, because I think it's bad kharma for one to have an antagonistic game with one's phone. Friendly mode means if you put in letters that do not spell a word, you get to replay your turn. If it is a word, it shows you the definition after accepting your turn.

Late in the game, I was trying out the word tup. It turns out tup is a word, meaning "to copulate with a ewe." This amused me, and after showing it to a few people, one of them asked me "Why is there a word for that?"

I looked the definition up today online and now it makes more sense to me, as a word that rams to use.

I had an existential moment today when I had spelled 'spell-check' as 'spellcheck' and spell-check recommended the spelling it 'spell-check.'

Check out this important product recall! Apparently these matches pose a fire hazard!

Did you know that Mozart might have died from undercooked pork?

I plan on seeing a double-feature this weekend: Hellboy, followed by The Passion of the Christ.

You have to admire the subject line of this bit of spam I received today:

"Employers don't hire people without degrees, buy yours today"

My 2 year old son Graham explains anything he does not want to do in one of two ways. He says either "That would be too gross," or "That would be too dangerous."

Think about it. You can actually group ANY activity you don't want to do in one of those categories!

I see that health experts all over the the US and Canada warn visitors to Asia to stay away from live poultry markets. That's going to be tough for tourists like me. I know when I'm in Asia, the first thing I do is sign up for the GreyLine Live Poultry Markets tour. Now what will I do? Where will I eat lunch? Too bad there's no Applebee's in Viet Nam.

In other news, Charlize Theron has a snackin' attitude!