While I am no stranger to liver, I recently attended my first “offal party” with some families along with my own that had just purchased a freshly-slaughtered cow. After the beef had been distributed, the offal had been held onto by one of the stakeholders (“steak holders”?) for purposes of hosting an offal barbecue. I…

I was 12 years old (early 1980s) when I had liver and onions for the first time, courtesy of an aunt I was staying with for a few days. I had been dreading the meal all day long on the basis of nothing but the kid-level pop cultural perspectives which dictated that I wasn’t supposed to like it.

When I took my first…

Here’s mine (not my pic, but the same model). A few year’s back I inherited my father’s 1976 Bicentennial Edition FXE Super Glide, which was produced with this limited edition tank. My dad had the foresight to realize that this tank should probably be preserved, and quickly swapped it out for a pair of fat bobs. I…

Following an expected layoff at an IT job I held for 5 previous years, I signed on with a fellow named James who starting up a local IT support firm of his own. I was brought in with the idea that once the business was built up adequately I would be regarded as either a senior partner or potentially a co-owner of…

I can remember a time when a phrase like “life beyond bars” was used in reference to a how a parolee was adjusting to freedom. Now it seems like it’s more applicable to reminding people that sometimes they have use their own brains rather always banking on a sustained connection to the Hive Mind of the internet.

Although I am a huge fan of Frank Herbert’s books (yes, all six of them) I simply do not see the allure of this kind of RPG. Most RPG’s based on a story franchise with strong central characters wind up being rather anticlimactic unless you play as anything but one of those characters...but their “story” has already…

Long time Trekkie here. And for those occasions where I still sometimes wear something in public bearing the symbol of Starfleet, I will not brook hearing any of my conservative friends ever make fun of me for it again.

I know I’m dating myself, but I never really got over Honda re-purposing the “Odyssey” model name to a minivan line. 

It’s a cute trick, but not terribly revelatory since Android is still ultimately based on a Linux kernel, and therefore more than capable of reading older FAT-style storage volumes.

Some years back I had locked my keys inside my house. I wanted to get the spare keys from my parents’ house a few miles away so I asked my new next-door neighbor - an older, retired fellow - if he could give me a lift to my parents’ place. Instead he just offered me the keys to his Civic which - from the outside - appe…

I have a distinct memory of being weighed on a scale as an infant.

As a stereotypical middle-aged HD owner, I want to indignantly argue with your logic but ultimately I cannot.

I would only ask you to suspend final judgement on this pending the reveal of whatever sub-Sportster-sized bikes Harley is also apparently planning to import into the country as a further part of this…

NP all day for reliability alone. My 70+ year old neighbor has an `85 model more or less like this one except with AC. He is kind enough to loan it to me sometimes when I need to haul something big around town, and I have begged him repeatedly to come to me first if he ever decides to sell it.

NP all day for reliability alone. My 70+ year old neighbor has an `85 model more or less like this one except with AC. He is kind enough to loan it to me sometimes when I need to haul something big around town, and I have begged him repreatedly to come to me first if he ever decides to sell it.

Anybody who is seriously into this kind of thing owes it to themselves to visit the Telephone Museum of New Mexico (http://www.telcomhistory.org/vm/museumsAlbuquerque.shtml) in Albuqueruque. The place is chock full of backend equipment, switchboards, lineman gear, and of course hundreds of different types of telephones…

Yesterday evening I realized I had some sort of scratch, perhaps about 1.5" long, running vertically on the inside of my right cheek, and with no idea how it got there. Today it feels like it’s only about 1/10 of that size. This article helps me at least understand why this is the case.

Wow. I’ve had a MAME cabinet ever since 2001, but I must admit that all vector games-cab (the Asteroids one) looks pretty tempting.

Wow. I’ve had a MAME cabinet ever since 2001, but I must admit that all vector games-cab (the Asteroids one) looks pr…

His lies sound exactly like the kind my 12-year-old used to try...back when he was 10.

Clearly the President never watched the Electric Company as a child or this gaffe never would have happened....

No love for Basket Case?