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« Previous EntriesThe Grim Disparity Between Fantasy and Reality
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008When you hear the word nurse, what do you think of?
If you’re a guy — or, at least, me — this won’t be far off the mark:
Sadly, the reality is a lot more like this:
How did the medical industry get it so wrong?
Or is it the porn industry that got it wrong…
Either way, it’s a [...]
Trumping the Twitter Crapper
Sunday, July 27th, 2008I installed two mobile WordPress plugins on my site, one to format this page for mobile surfers and the other to let me blog from my new CrackBerry Curve. I’m testing the latter with this post.
It occurred to me I could make the much-maligned Twitter tweets from the crapper, but it further occurred to me [...]
Screwing Up Spaghetti
Sunday, July 20th, 2008I’ve always been of the opinion it’s hard to screw up spaghetti. You boil up some noodles, heat up some sauce, maybe serve it up with garlic bread, and you’re good to go. The sauce is the key ingredient of course, making or breaking the whole mix, but in general, there’s nothing to it. It’s [...]
Live from Wizard World
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Wizard World starts today. I most likely will not have email or Internet access through the con, but I will be able to post Twitter updates from my cell phone. Because I’d like to give you all a flavor of what I’m up to this weekend, I’ve activated the blog post digests of my Twitter [...]
As the Worm Turns
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Stacks
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
I play poker about once a month or so with some co-workers and some guys around town, and my luck has been crap for months. The last few rounds, though, have been more of a roller coaster.
In this pic, I’m sitting on about $83, double the $40 I’d bought in so far. [...]
The Ultimate Reality Show
Friday, June 6th, 2008I’ve become addicted to The Ultimate Fighter. I can’t stand most reality shows, but this one’s pretty simple: get a bunch of thugs together in one house, watch them screw with one another, then watch them vent their frustrations in the ring. No getting voted off islands, no silly games for immunity, no ridiculous challenges, [...]
Beware Fat Men With Tight Belts
Thursday, June 5th, 2008I’ve got karate class tonight, and I can’t stop thinking about a lesson my sensei learned the hard way on Tuesday night.
Sit-ups compress your guts, see. So when poor, hapless Sensei Miller paired up with me for the night’s workout and said we were going to do sit-ups, I felt a small pang of pity [...]
The Perils of Fatherhood
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008The Wife handed me a nice, big chunk of my ass again today.
Yes, again. I have a bad habit of forgetting what the rugrats should and shouldn’t be watching, and I have yet to live down a two-week streak of nightmares the Midget had when he was two. Nightmares caused by a viewing of the [...]
Stoked for Devil-Slayer
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I’m really looking forward to the relaunch of Marvel’s Devil-Slayer, as two friends of mine are working on the project.
On writing duties is Brian Keene. Brian’s been chasing a job like this as long as I’ve known him, and I couldn’t be more stoked (or more jealous) that he’s landed it. He shared a little [...]
The World is Just Awesome
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008My family is hooked on this Discovery Channel commercial:
Apparently Coop is, too; he sent me the audio via multimedia message with his shiny new phone. If the kids start acting up in the car, I press a couple buttons and they’re suddenly singing along with the boomdiadas.
Personally, I think it’s a brilliant bit of advertising: [...]