Plead the First

We finally made it to Minj Grille in downtown Greensboro, after having heard great things about it for the past year and a half. Steph and I went for dinner tonight, and it was incredible. The chicken wings were perfect. Pleasantly spicy and sweet, the full-sized wings were light and crisp and delicious. We split […]

Now that it turns out the bomb scare in Boston was nothing more than a TV promotion gone awry, it’s good to see that people are calming down. Oh, wait … never mind: Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards “bomb-like” devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have […]

Recently, some pages from the Japanese version of Nintendo’s safety manual for the Wii turned up on the Internet. They provide some very sage – yet often bewildering – advice for using your Nintendo Wii. Little did anyone know, there are some hidden dangers not covered in the manual. Fortunately, today at work we discovered […]

From my blog’s admin panel: Somebody comment on something! Quick!

I haven’t ever participated in one of these memes before, but then again, I’ve never been asked. Now I find that Billy has tagged Joel and Joel has tagged me. So here are the questions, and my answers: 1: Do you like the look and the contents of your blog? Yes. There are some tweaks […]

So far I’ve managed to resist posting any YouTube videos on my site. This video (and the song) is too good not to post. The band is OK Go from Chicago. After seeing this, I downloaded the whole album from iTunes, and it’s excellent.

Dave over at Cognitive Daily has a possible explanation for why some of the more clueless American Idol rejects can’t accept the fact that they really can’t sing.

I don’t often blog about work related items, but I thought folks might enjoy this. New and wonderful things are in the works over at my day job at The Iconfactory, and we’ve come up with a series of animations leading up to their unveiling. Start with Day 1 and work your way through the […]

We attempted to go to Greensboro’s Fourth of July Parade this morning. Unfortunately, we got out of the house a little late, and missed most of the actual parade. We did catch the tail end and found this guy bringing up the rear: Fortunately, there was plenty more going on, so we made our way […]