RustedRobot

You know when you sign up for something online, you have to occasionally give your birthdate? Back in the internet-boom days, this was “personalization,” the great little get-to-know-ya thing that was supposed to revoloutionize the internet. You give them your information and they would target products to you based on your info and send you [...]

I’ve always thought that the amount of keys on your keychain could very well be the key indicator of how complicated (or simple) one’s life may be. I have 2 keys on my keychain.
Song now playing: Cracker – “100 Flower Power Maximum”

Ruminating today about decision-making. What happens in our brain that sways us to do one thing over another? If you have two choices to make for places to go on a Friday night, it’s almost always a pretty simple decision. But what’s at work inside our heads when we’re walking down the street and there’s [...]

First things first, this new law recently enacted by the state of Massachusetts has put a damper on my heterosexual marraige plans. Stephanie won’t be pleased. The question: is there a grandfather clause which lets currently married or engaged people maintain their heterosexual union while determining the partner for their homosexual one? Stay tuned.
Lots of [...]

I got a call late yesterday afternoon and it was a friend-of-a-friend who was looking for someone to play hockey in his league because a few guys couldn’t make it. Seeing as though the rink was less than 5 miles from my house, I accepted.
So anyway, I’d like to thank the guy on the [...]

Last Friday night at about 5:45pm I was sitting in the office at work, on the phone, for what I decided would be my last call of the day. Stephanie was out for most of the night, so I found myself trying to decide what to do with myself. Normally, when I try to decide [...]

A friend of mine pointed me to this interesting article about eating meat. While I am not a vegetarian and I don’t necessarily pay much attention to how much meat I consume, I would venture to guess that I eat less meat than the average American. I’m more apt to order a portobella mushroom sandwich [...]