Meet Spike
After not having a dog for a couple of months I decided it was time to bring another fur ball into the house. I missed the companionship and, while nothing could ever replace Penny, decided it was tim...
Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Weird?
Have you ever watched an old movie and wondered why everyone sounds just a little off? Did people really talk like that? What accent is it? Brainstuff has your answers in the video below. I've always...
Aerial Screensaver for OS X
John Coates created a screensaver for OS X based on the new Apple TV screensaver. It is beautiful. You should check it out. The only problem I have with it right now is that it doesn't support energy...
On Podcasts
For the past couple of years I've been listening to a lot of podcasts. In fact, the list of podcasts I listen to has grown a great deal over the past six months. Today, I was thinking about all the po...
Goodbye, My Friend
It's a weird thing to call and schedule the time in which you will say goodbye to your best friend forever. That's what I did today. Over the past couple of months (starting shortly after the seizures...
3M Rube Goldberg Machine
3M, the company behind office products designed to make your life easier, created a machine that in incredibly complex. I'm talking about a Rube Goldberg Machine 1. A Rube Goldberg machine is a contra...
Penny and Seizures
For those of you that don't know, this is Penny, my Boston Terrier. I've had Penny in my life for 7 years now. She is a sweet dog that gives nothing but love to anyone she meets. She has been the best...
Office 365
I've recently been looking for a replacement for Google apps. I wanted something that had reliable email and calendar. While Google does provide both of those things, I find myself wanting to be contr...
2015 MacBook Pro
My work recently adopted a flexible work policy in which employees could work from home at certain times. I get to work from home on Wednesdays. When the policy was announced, I knew I'd want to work...
Color Footage of Berlin in 1945
I saw this video today on reddit and was blown away. The destruction is amazing and sad. I sent this to a coworker (who we may or may not give trouble for being German) and we discussed it briefly. Sh...
Ghostbusters III by Max Landis
Ghostbusters was a huge part of my childhood. Every time a rumor would circulate of a third movie I would get excited only to be let down. Now, a Ghostbusters reboot is in the works.[1. Worst idea eve...
Lost City Discovered in Honduran Rain Forest
It is amazing that after all this time there are still cities being discovered. From National Geographic: An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a...
Dinosaurs + Notorious B.I.G. = Awesome
You have to be of a certain age (late twenties and early thirties) to remember the awesomeness that was the ABC show Dinosaurs). If you're of the age, you remember how great the TGIF show was (though,...
I Heard the $5 Million Wu-Tang Album That Won’t Be Played Again in Public for 88 Years
Jonathan Sturgeon writes about the new Wu-Tang album The CD is housed within two nickel-silver boxes that were hand-carved by a Moroccan artist and his team of ten workers over three months; there is...
Companies can track what diseases you look up online
Well, this is terrifying. From Vice: Tim Libert, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, has discovered that the vast majority of health sites, from the for-profit WebMD.com to the government-...
Rediscovering Comic Books
When I was younger, I was a huge comic book fan. You could even say I became a collector. I amassed a large enough collection to fill two long-boxes.[footnote]Long-boxes are boxes that are slightly wi...
Harper Lee will release her first book since To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my all-time favorite books. I was completely shocked this morning when it was announced that Harper Lee was coming out with a followup. Go Set a Watchman, which will be...
Prehistoric Skull Helps Complete the Human Story
Interesting article about a prehistoric skull found in North Israel may finally prove that Neanderthals and modern humans lived together. "It is the first direct fossil evidence that modern humans and...
Happy National Good Day Day
Today is National Good Day Day. What is National Good Day Day, you may ask. Well, my dear friend, it is a day we celebrate every year in honor of the most perfect South Central day ever observed, on J...
How White Flight Ravaged the Mississippi Delta
This article is absolutely fascinating and depressing at the same time. St. Louis has experienced its own form of White Flight with folks moving from the city to county,[footnote]Or even further West...