Father’s Day Gift
Jill got me a very cool gift for Father’s Day: some Star Wars artwork done by our friend (and amazing comic book artist) Craig Rousseau. (You can see a larger version of it on his site here.)
100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
I thought this was pretty cool. Someone put a lot of work into this, and there are some great quotes here.
Fortress of Solitude
Hey, they discovered Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Turns out it was underground. And in Mexico.
A Yankees Batboy’s First Day
My First Day with the YankeesHere’s a great story of how a kid became the batboy for the New York Yankees, and his first day on the job. (via kottke)
So It Goes
Kurt Vonnegut: 1922 – 2007
Snipshot
This is very cool: Snipshot is a website that is essentially a very basic photo editor (think Photoshop Elements Extra-Lite). You can edit a photo from your computer or a website and resize, crop, and adjust brightness/contrast/saturation/sharpness to your liking, then save it. It even allows for undos. If you need to do basic photo …
Apple Mail and SpamSieve
I had a bizarre thing happen: the built-in junk mail filter for Apple’s Mail program stopped working for me. After trying everything to get it going again, I decided to clear the spam filter and start from scratch. After training it for over a week, it’s worse than ever: it never marks anything as spam …
Weekend Wedding & Opening Day
This weekend my cousin Shane got married and it was probably the best time we’ve had at a wedding that wasn’t ours. It was great weather for an outdoor ceremony, the reception was a lot of fun, and everything was nicely done. One thing I hadn’t seen before was their table assignment method: rather than …
Less Lawn
Part of the reason I got into gardening was simply to have less lawn to mow: the more gardens I had, the less grass there was to deal with. (And I enjoy taking care of flowers and shrubs much more than grass.) I came across this site — lesslawn.com — that has many ideas and …
Killer Kites
Remember several years back when we (“we” being the United States) got word that the Taliban and/or other radical Islamic groups had outlawed kite flying? And how ridiculous we thought that was? Turns out that the kite flying methods they have in that part of the world isn’t the “let’s get this thing as high …