I have a Roomba. A 550. I got it about 6 weeks ago at Costco. It’s great when it works. It’s not so great when it breaks. It broke on its six week birthday. The two roller brushes just stopped spinning. I’m no mechanical engineer, but I know trouble when I see it, and I’m…

Kate is 6 months old! Her 0.5 year birthday was Friday so of course that means picture time! I took the day off and we had some family photos taken too. I love my family.

Have you been watching Breaking Bad? I love that show. Brian Cranston plays a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. His HMO won’t cover his chemo, so in an act of desperation he reluctantly hooks up with a former student who is now a small-time drug dealer. The two of…

Portal without GLaDOS is like Christmas without presents. Please do not buy the XBLA version of Portal. Just suck it up and get The Orange Box. You probably won’t ever touch the other four games that come with it, but it’s worth it just to play Portal – one of the most unique and engaging…

Doot doot doot doot doo… Oh hey, what’s this in my mailbox? A present? For me? Oh city of Anaheim, you shouldn’t have. It’s not even my birthday! I wonder what it could be! Two free CFLS! Neato! Thanks, Anaheim Public Utilities!

If fonts were people.

The teaser for Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series, is now online. There is a boob in it. Caprica takes places a half-century before the events of BSG. It’ll explain how and why the Cylons were created, among other things. The second half of the final season of BSG isn’t set to air until 2009!…

I had a good time in high school. In fact, the only bad memories I have are of the constant struggle for good grades. This was difficult because I was an average student in a school full of geniuses. So there’s this girl, Andrea Wachner. She went to my high school. I was class of…

I found a house I’d like to buy. Unfortunately it’s a little out of my price range! $23 million. I bought a lottery ticket yesterday so we’ll see how that goes. If I don’t win it, it wasn’t meant to be.

Kate’s turning out to be a real trooper. She had two back-to-back days of overstimulation this weekend and she took it all in stride – barely putting up a fuss at all! Saturday night we went to the Orange County Fair. I ate and ate and ate some more. The poster advertising this hot dog…