Recently, there was a malicious attack on GoDaddy-hosted sites. It’s tough to track down the exact date of the original attack — I was first able to find a mention of it on Slashdot from 4/26, and I found a topic in the WordPress support forums that supported that approximate time. However, I also found […]

the oil spill in the gulf of mexico made the front page of huffpo today with some terrifying images of the destruction to the native wildlife, many of which came from Greenpeace who flew down there to document the disaster. but these two striking photographs of the drilling platform on fire with the simple caption “the cost of offshore drilling” […]

Okay, so this month’s wallpaper has a bit more of a story.  Or, at least, it’s meant to imply that it has more of a story. I wanted to do something spacey/sci-fi because it’s something we haven’t really done.  I started thinking about what a captain’s journal might look like if it wasn’t explicitly limited […]

StumbleUpon found this site for me today, and there’s a particular reason why this gadget resonates with me… the Geocities-izer the tagline for the Geocities-izer by the aptly-named Wonder-Tonic (who brought us ShadyURL, a URL shortener/renamer that will make any URL look like it’s trying to scam you out of all your money and infect your computer […]

RPM is a couple months gone and I still haven’t gotten to listen to nearly as much of what came out of it as I would have liked.  However, one album that was recommended on the RPM forums was Charcoal Essex Park by Black Pepper Sea.  Working in the yard today, I loaded up my […]

it’s interesting how muscle memory works. or, if not muscle memory (a term i just grabbed because it seemed appropriate without knowing anything about the actual scientific usage of said phrase) then the way your body remembers things that, intellectually, you probably couldn’t possibly keep straight. very close to nightly i quietly enter and exit […]

this came to my attention today. there is a website that reviews…wait for it… snacks. apparently there are over 4,500 snacks reviewed for your, um, snacking pleasure with information on where to get them.  from pizza balls to octopus-flavored chips, and everything in between. so.  i’m thinking…if the Almighty Tallest (pictured above) from Invader Zim had […]

Is Piracy Really Killing The Music Industry? No! | TorrentFreak. via @isohunt blah blah blah…still more evidence to support the idea that declining music sales and music piracy are not related.  and more of the same RIAA whining about how they are, despite all data to the contrary. when can we just be done with […]

coming back from a long road trip — for which i threw together several mp3 cds for the car in under a half hour — got me thinking about something i will call “the lost art of the mix cd.” i use the term “cd” fairly loosely because, before the mix cd, there was the […]

gavin and lilah have been playing a lot more together for longer periods of time.  i snapped these pics when they were being particularly cute together one evening during dinner.

Concern about the environment is a value that is very important to us.  So, amidst our series of holiday-themed Blogger templates, we didn’t want to forget Earth Day, a day in which we celebrate our planet and educate ourselves on how best to be its caretakers. The rugged burlap coffee bag and aged map background […]

we took a long road trip with g-ma & g-pa to moscow, idaho to see the kids’ great-grandparents there.  it was a two-day drive and the kids were wiped but we were glad we split the drive up rather than try the 11-12 hour trek in one go.  the kids had a good time hanging […]