Monthly Archives: April, 2009

My Penguicon Schedule

I’m being completely honest — I still find it a bit surreal people actually want to know my schedule at Penguicon this year. I’ve gotten several emails, tweets, and facebook something-or-others asking for it. It makes me feel a bit like the nerd that gets asked to the prom as a prank. If anyone throws [...]

Amanda Starves, So Others Don’t Have To

You may remember last year, my church youth group participated in the 30 Hour Famine to raise money for those in need. We’re doing it again this year, and our oldest girl, Amanda, is now old enough to be in youth group. I told her she could ask the people that read my blog if [...]

Amanda Talent Show 2009 Look, it’s Amanda!

The Truth About Boxers and Briefs

This post crosses way over the line of TMI, but if you’re remotely interested in some insight into the boxer and brief debate, and not offended by references to dangley bits, this post might be educational. It might also be a complete farce, it’s hard to tell. This evening, due to my inability to put [...]

Real Life Zombies: Insomniacs

At first glance, insomnia really does seem cool. No, I’m serious. I don’t know about you, but I’m often annoyed that I need to spend a third of my life pointlessly sleeping. I’ve got things to do man. Unfortunately insomnia really isn’t as cool as just “never getting tired.” See, here it is almost midnight [...]