Geek Soap Box

In the gentlemanly world of good social graces and proper political discourse, it is a show of class and respect to not speak ill of recently deceased members of the opposition party.  This is a fair and laudable endeavor, but in times such as these, a closer inspection of the legacy left by former West [...]

Darth Vader, the mythical character featured prominently in six separate Star Wars flicks, has an awful lot of “street cred” in today’s popular culture.  The American Film Institute ranked the mysterious and dark figure as the third greatest villain in cinematic history.  Quotations and parodies of his bad-assery abound.  Heck, I even follow the Sith [...]

I haven’t talked much of my online dating exploits in years for a variety of reasons, mostly which involve maintaining the smallest sense of personal privacy a blogger/Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare user can have. Anyway, tired of the human cesspool that is Match, I decided to give Chemistry a try; it seemed at the time like it had [...]

Clearing out my work Outlook mailbox after the conference.  Realized I had a particularly interesting exact number of unread messages. No, my “l337″ score is not all composed of 13 thousand real, actual e-mail that I’ve blown off.  I also get deluged with messages from system error logs, new Web site accounts, bookstore purchases, and [...]

So I came back to my hotel room last night, after the maid had cleaned up, and, upon entering the bathroom, felt as if something was…amiss.  Can you spot the cause of my confusion?

So apparently in another life I was actually Chinese.  Or Inspector Gadget. Stolen shamelessly from Francase Place.

On behalf of the voters of New Jersey and now…Massachusetts???

Cleanliness and organization are, quite honestly, not among the strongest elements of my personal skill set.  That doesn’t mean that I don’t know where everything is; in fact, I can precisely tell you where most items can be found in my apartment…on the floor. This system has to change.  A clean, well-organized apartment is integral [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, “House, MD” could be my favorite television show of all time.  The combination of pithy, sarcastic humor, witty banter, and grave seriousness match my own twisted personality nearly perfectly, and I can easily watch each episode time and again, one after another, without even remotely suffering from boredom or [...]

…but I think “Rabbit of Seville” is so much funnier and more brilliant. The best cartoon of all time. Rabbit of Seville, featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (1950) @ Yahoo! Video

Without question, the Internet has proven itself to be a magical fountain of bottomless knowledge and human know-how.  I don’t think it’s an underestimate to say that more learning has been facilitated via the limitless collaboration and exchange provided by the global medium in the past decade than perhaps in any other period in human [...]

An old-school post for longtime readers… (Stolen shamlessly from somewhere on the Internets.  No, I don’t really believe this is “my life” anymore.)

Amidst the chaos and unrelenting waves of injuries and shoddy fundamentals that have plagued this 2009 New York Mets season, another character has emerged from the fray.  A galvanizing force that has united the legions of blue and orange fans in their unrelenting hatred for his callous style and enigmatic stranglehold over top team brass. [...]

I love to joke around and play games; I call myself the Sad Clown for a reason.  But sometimes I guess jokes can go too far. Very rare that a short flick like this can make me shout “Oh My Fucking God!” two times in rapid succession.  Brilliant work! Thanks to the gorgeous teejaycee, who [...]

Sometimes I love my adopted career path. Stolen shamelessly from Jonathan MacDonald.

I was working on a blast HTML e-mail for work, and good old Dreamweaver decided to be extra helpful and tell me the following: It’s an error box that says “No error occurred,” in case your resolution is too small to read the text. Good to know!  Thanks Dreamweaver!

Stolen shamelessly from The Big Picture.

I do what I can to contribute my fair share to the global resource crisis. Stolen, of course, from the always-awesome someecards.com.

The Mets may have had a fairly lousy and eventful offseason, but Alex Rodriguez has not exactly been the picture of quiet dignity these past few months, either. First, A-Rod abandoned his wife Cynthia for a flaccid affair with his “soulmate” — an aging, skeletal whore you may have heard of named Madonna. Then, his [...]

Congrats to the owner and operator of the Web site Hot Chicks With Douchebags, who successfully had a defamation lawsuit filed again his book and site dismissed on the grounds that the uber-hott plaintiffs were suffering from an incurable case of douchescroatitis. A New Jersey judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three women [...]

This uncorroborated story came to me via an e-mail from a friend. I am pasting it below and make no judgments or conclusions as to its alleged chain of events. Patriots’ Cassel urinated on at Super Bowl According to a gossip column in the NY Daily News, Matt Cassel was urinated on in the bathroom [...]

While cable television stations repeatedly aired a certain comedy featuring Bill Murray and the rest of the United States marveled at the exploits of Punxsutawney Phil, New York turned its focus onto the other, lesser-known inhabitant of the underground frozen tundra, Staten Island Chuck. Chuck, unlike his rodent brother, predicted a much-needed early end to [...]

Never one to miss an opportunity to analyze the potential outcome of any situation in the name of preparedness, the US Air Force has made public its actual, 100%-legitimate “Rules of Engagement for Blogging.” And you know what? It positively reeks of awesomeness. Amazing, and scary-accurate as a portrait of the overall blogosphere. Let it [...]

Wouldn’t you love to walk into a meeting with an unruly client or bloviating manager and just start handing these out instead of your standard business card? Somewhere, Patrick Bateman weeps.

Time once again for the pic that keeps on giving.