Merry Krampus!

A merry Krampus to you and yours! Hope you’re not on the naughty list…

Star Trek TNG: Happy in Paraguay

It might be the remaining NyQuil in my system clouding my judgement, but this video was the funniest thing I’ve seen in years:

2009 in Photos

Boston.com’s The Big Picture published their three-part Year in Photos of amazing and moving shots: part 1, part 2, part 3.

Support for Same-sex Marriage by Age & State

This graph that shows that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. As one person commented, “Looks like the debate will solve itself (mostly) in 20 years or so.” One can only hope… Somewhat strange that a couple of the most supportive states (Maine and California) have recently repealed gay marriage …

The Yankees Payroll

Joe Posnanski wrote a good post about the Yankees payroll. It’s something all of us non-Yankees fans know and complain about, but even as a fan of the high-spending Red Sox I can’t help but agree when he writes “You have one team (and only one team) playing the video game on cheat-mode.” The following …

Obvious Map

Like we didn’t all know this already…

Capturing the Cemetery

There’s a cemetery down a street that we really enjoy visiting. It’s old, picturesque, and has some great old trees. It’s very peaceful and relaxing to stroll around or just hang out under them. (Sidenote: we might accidentally be raising some “odd” kids who like cemeteries: often when we drive by one, they often exclaim …

Apple Good, Yankees Bad

Behind the Mac nerdery I enjoy on Daring Fireball is a typical Yankee fan: cocky and annoying. Update: Greg Knauss created a helpful Grease Monkey script to “fix” Daring Fireball this time of year: Damned Fireball.