Just another day

The Distraction speaks, again and from now on, I no longer have to hijack the blog when I have something to say. I am now an official contributor to the Blue Girl(s) page. So on to my first blog!

Just another day

You reach a point in your life when having a birthday is not a big [...]

Don’t pass over Passover

Jews are cool.
I realize how dorky that sounds, but seriously.
Stacy and I were invited to a Passover Seder last Sunday. Passover commemorates the exodus from Egypt (remember, Moses, Ten Commandments, Pharaoh, parting of the Red Sea – all of that Charlton Heston stuff).
It is a very long and involved dinner. You read the haggadah (the [...]

What is news?

Okay, I have a question — what is news?
I found this article on Google yesterday:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2008/04/we-foolishly-th.html
Is the death of Martha Stewart’s dog newsworthy? And what does “newsworthy” even mean. I searched for “paw paw” on google and there were 189 entries, all with a huge number of comments (by huge I mean well over hundreds on each [...]

Is the world really ready for more than one?

I found this link on a friend’s blog and figured I’d try it for myself. Even with my less common spelling and when combined with my last name, there are still three people out there with my exact same name. I wonder if they know much about James Bond.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
3
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How [...]