Hail!

We had a pretty big hail storm pass right over our house for 10-15 minutes today around 5:15pm. Here’s some video of the hail in our front and back yards: [Download Video, 3.6Mb] Hard to tell from this picture, but it dinged up the Honda pretty well! Around 9:30pm we had another storm pass by, […]

Creamed Corn

Picture this: It’s Tuesday evening, and I’ve just returned from the grocery store. Being a man, I am attempting to bring in all of the groceries at once, so I have 5 heavy plastic sacks looped over various appendages, a 12-pack of paper towels hooked under my armpit, and I’m trying to pick up a […]

E for Erasmus

It’s strangely disconcerting when two completely unconnected lines of thought suddenly join up. Today I read this review of the movie V for Vendetta, which says that while the movie is ostensibly anti-fascism, the main character is actually (and without a sense of irony) a fascist. Further down in the article it mentions a book […]