Fred is right, it’s a good time to be a MST3K fan, what with several new movie-mocking projects in the works from different sets of the MST3K cast. The really exciting news is that Joel is reuniting with Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff, and Mary Jo Pehl to work on a project called [...]

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I just installed OSX Leopard and one of the first things I did was open a directory window and option-click in it to get my context menu. Bless you, there’s now a “new folder” in every possible directory view. I have several irritations with OSX, but that one thing — the difficulty of creating a [...]

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There’s a lot more details
over at Elf’s blog, but for the last week or so we’ve been propping Cory up on a miniscule potty chair with excellent results. Your mileage may vary, but the concept seems to have required very little explanation. Surprisingly little, in fact.
GLS is also
trying early potty training.
I am not [...]

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Like
August Pollak, I just can’t understand why Obama doesn’t want to be president anymore. Between the social security issue and tacit support of anti-gay rhetoric, I think I’d much prefer Hillary Clinton. Except for this, Obama’s campaign has been pretty “me too,” as well — he lets other people (like Chris Dodd) take risky [...]

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You are looking at that panorama because I have to look at that panorama. (Update: Geez, Wordpress makes the thumbnails teeny! Click it to get a better look.) A little over six months after Elf and I moved to Blacksburg, I’m back in the neighborhood on business. The hotel I’m at is a longer-than-remembered Metro [...]

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