RustedRobot

Did you notice that you’re not hearing on the news or reading any articles about how expensive Super Bowl ads are this year? It’s not because it won’t be a good game. I assume it will. I don’t follow football religiously, but the teams in the Super Bowl are both 14-2. It’s mostly because large [...]

Time to take a spin around the world of the utterly ridiculous (these are all very quick reads):

This guy had the right idea in finding a career!
Ah, roller coaster faces. Always funny. Some are clearly staged, but still. Funny.
I really wanted to do stuff like this in college. I was too chicken.
No explanation needed. Brilliant.
Do [...]

I keep hearing about Apple’s intentions to craft a version of ITunes that sits on a browser instead of it being an application that sits on your desktop. What this means, for those of you that have no idea what I just typed, is that you’d be able to use your ITunes and listen to [...]

As a kid, I spent a lot of time in my room, in relative solitude. I’ve always just liked it that way and I still do today. One of the biggest adjustments for me when the twins were born was less of that. I was never a loner as a kid, but I always loved [...]

I don’t do good with tragedies. Or death. I guess not many people do. Oh, I want to be informed, I want to know what’s going on, so I do read the main stories, but I can’t go much deeper. Mostly because I can’t bear to hear about people who’ve lost their entire families, their [...]

A recent exercise has me thinking about smaller watershed moments in my life. Going off to college was certainly one of them. I was originally accepted at Northeastern University in Boston, where I spent a little more than a half-year before I knew it wasn’t the right place for me. I quickly realized that I [...]

One of the things we treasure in our house is the crock pot. It is as versatile a piece of cooking machinery as you could ever hope for. When we first got it, we made a lot of very exquisite dishes that tasted out of this world, but took a long time. The first thing [...]