RustedRobot

Sloan is fast becoming one of my favorite bands of all time. It seems no matter what, when, where and how they do it, they do it right and they leave a trail of ass-kicked fans gushing over their live show, which is second-to-none. Their last record took some time to grow on me and [...]

Here’s what’s awesome:
- Seeing friends you haven’t seen in a while
- Band of Horses
- Having a two-car garage
- When it clicks with a potential customer
- Having family nearby
- A good piece of salmon
- Tortilla chips in sandwiches
- Fig cookies
- When the first sip of beer goes down
- It’s almost time for spring training
- Hearing your [...]

I’ve been lucky over the years to never have “lost” a hard drive. Until Friday. After turning on my computer, I kept on ending up at the famed “blue screen of death,” no matter which way I booted the machine up. I was scared. Oh, I back everything up to my external drive, but only [...]

I had a childhood flashback last night. I think I must have been about 9 or 10 years old. At the time, I was really into building car models, mostly old muscle cars, but occasionally newer cars of the time as well. I had this grey Indy Pace Car Mustang that I had built and [...]

You always hear about projectile vomiting with children, but until you actually see it, no words really do it justice. One of the, um, joys of having twins is that if one is sick, it is a damn good bet that the other one will be shortly thereafter. This theory was deployed flawlessly here in [...]

Ever since 1990 when I first attended Kent State, all my friends, acquiantences and strangers always had some kind of remark about the 1970 shootings. Lots of people told me things like “make sure you wear a bullet-proof vest” and “don’t get shot.” Never very clever, really, but still, I have to agree it’s a [...]

About once per week I like to go to the email junk/spam folder because once in a while a “real” email manages to get filed as spam. I recommend you do this occasionally. One of the side benefits of doing such a thing is that you get to see some rather funny email subject lines. [...]