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Uverse Vs Fox Sports Midwest: They Fight, Fans Lose

Starting this season, Fox Sports Midwest will carry all of the Cardinals baseball games. In the past, local channels would carry some of the games (KPLR, then KSDK). Because Fox Sports Midwest decided...

att, baseball, cardinals, uverse

Texting Etiquette

I hate texting. I think it's stupid, pointless, and annoying. That being said, there are millions of people who do nothing but text so I find myself on the receiving end of a text message or two. Befo...

etiquette, rants, texting

The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

Stunning pictures of the devastation in Japan. They need your help. Text 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross (charge will be added to phone bill).

earthquake, japan, linked, tsunami

Blue Scholars Sign to the People

One of my favorite underground hip hop groups over the past couple of years has been Seattle-based Blue Scholars. If you don't know much about them, they are a duo comprised of producer/DJ Sabzi and M...

blue-scholars, hip-hop, kickstarter, music

Restroom Etiquette

There are certain things you don't do in a restroom, at least if you're a guy. Most guys abide by this (unless they are drunk at a bar or sporting event), but there are a few that I have to deal with...

etiquette, rants, restrooms

Sync Postbox + Lightning with MobileMe Calendars

Recently switched from Outlook (adios Exchange) to Postbox on my work Windows machine. I needed a way to sync my MobileMe calendars to the Lightning calendar add-on. This tutorial helped me do it.

lightning, linked, mobileme, postbox

Ricky Gervais Tells the Story of Noah’s Ark

Absolutely hilarious. Logic FTW.

linked, noahs-ark, religion, ricky-gervais

30 inches of snow in 30 seconds

St. Louisans can't complain when we get 3 inches anymore.

blizzard, linked, snow

The Samaritan

To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and weathered and sometimes only visible if someone cuts deep enough. Scars keep the past just close enough...

blank-slate-press, books, fred-venturini, the-samaritan

Why I’m An Atheist

A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais.

linked

Unified Folders in Thunderbird

When I decided to leave Google Apps for Rackspace Email for a couple of my domains, I switched from a webmail user to an IMAP user. I set up the new email accounts in Outlook and within hours decided...

email, imap, technology, thunderbird, unified-inboxes

Replacing Politics with TV

Two of the biggest things I blog about are politics and TV. I blog about those subjects so much I started sites on the topics (the long abandoned Political Jackass, Grand Old Parody, and Let's Talk Ab...

grand-old-parody, lets-talk-about-tv, political-jackass, politics, tv, websites

You were on your way home when you died.

The Egg is a great post I read a while back. I don't know why I didn't post it, but I was going through my Instapaper account and saw that I still had it saved. Definitely worth the read.

god, life, linked, religion

The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

It's hilarious to see how many of the signs make fun of the spelling on tea bagger signs.

humor, linked, politics, rally-to-restore-sanity

Kno, Kokayi, and Bop Alloy

This is probably the oddest post title on my site. For those who don't know what it means, they are the names of the artists behind three of the best albums of the year. In a time where it seems reall...

bop-alloy, cunninlynguists, death-is-silent, hip-hop, kno, kokayi, music, qn5, robots-dinosaurs, substantial

Movember 2010

I'm going to participate in Movember again this year. If you don't know what Movember is, it is an annual, month-long celebration of the mustache, highlighting men’s health issues – specifically prost...

life, movember, mustaches

No on Prop A

Proposition A jeopardizes the funding of critical services including fire and police protection, street repair, park maintenance, after-school programs, services for seniors including senior nutrition...

linked, politics, prop-a, st-louis, taxes

Leaving Google Apps

I love Gmail. I think it is the best webmail interface out of any of the major providers. This is why, along with great spam protection, I decided to set Google Apps for domains up on some of my domai...

email, email-hosting, google, google-apps, rackspace, rackspace-email, support, technology

11 People You Might Not Know Were on Saved by the Bell

Most of these I knew, but there were a few surprises, such as Scott Wolf.

linked, saved-by-the-bell, tv