Author: Jesse

Defeating Despotism One Kitchen Counter at a Time 5

Defeating Despotism One Kitchen Counter at a Time

The trip to Home Despot is often enough to make me drag my heels for weeks on basic home improvement tasks. It's usually too crowded, nobody useful works there, nothing is labeled. I suppose if you're a elbow-throwing contractor that...

A Year of Blogging 17

A Year of Blogging

As of August 9th, this little blog has been going for a year. Since then, we've built up from nothing to over 1500 unique visitors dropping by over 4200 times a month, moved from a dinky secondhand server on our...

Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way 3

Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way

You know you've always wanted to read the collected works of Dickens. Maybe you really want to catch up on your Cervantes. Perhaps you've always meant to read The Art of War but never got around to it. With DailyLit,...

John Cusack can do no wrong. 6

John Cusack can do no wrong.

Shauna and I watched Serendipity tonight. As with every other one of his flicks I've seen, it was good. I'm beginning to think he just can't make truly bad movies. Or do I have some kind of weird man-crush on...

Restaurant Roundup: Greater Houston and Humble, TX 3

Restaurant Roundup: Greater Houston and Humble, TX

Work took me back to Texas, this time to the near-Gulf metropolis of Houston. I was pretty eager to partake of a city known for its great dining and fresh seafood with plenty of Texas flair. The city itself was...

Comfort Suites of Kingwood Texas is a Terrible Hotel 8

Comfort Suites of Kingwood Texas is a Terrible Hotel

I was on business in the greater Houston area last week, a trip that wouldn’t have been all that bad if not for the hovel of a hotel I had stayed in. I’m not exactly picky about hotels either. I’m...

Social Blunder #47 0

Social Blunder #47

When leaving a message, it's a Bad Idea(TM) to do your Micro Machines Man impersonation when doing so. This goes double if you do it only during the portion of the message containing your phone number.

Our New Addiction 7

Our New Addiction

For years I'd been hearing about Settlers of Catan and about how much fun it is to play. I'd never gotten around to trying it out and Shauna was especially disinterested, relegating it to the same category as Dungeons and...

Website Updates: Subscribe to Comments, Related Posts, and Behind the Scenes Stuff 3

Website Updates: Subscribe to Comments, Related Posts, and Behind the Scenes Stuff

I've added a few new features over the last few weeks that I hope will prove helpful in finding nifty stuff on our site and participating more fully. For about two weeks now, I've had the Subscribe to Comments plugin...