Last month I bought Rainy Day Fun and Games for Toddler and Total Bastard by my new best friend Greg Knauss. It’s six buck very well spent. I’m not a daddy, but if I ever am there’s no doubt I’ll follow the path Greg has blazed.

Yesterday was “The Tree that Owns Itself Day”, by proclamation of the mayor.

The end of this month and the first ten days of next .are exciting times for those watching the heavens. Among the highlights: an opportunity to see all nine planets on a single night (something that likely won’t happen again in your lifetime), Mars and Venus merging, and Mars, Saturn, and Venus forming a small equilateral triangle “directly above Bethlehem”.

You know that poor stick figure that’s always getting mangled or electrocuted or bruised on those warning signs you see here and there? Well, he’s got a website where he shares details about the creation of those signs.

After viewing the “Always with you” Jesus drawings, many of my readers wanted to be able to create their own custom Jesus image. The best I can do to help you is point you to Jesus Dress Up!, where you can drag and drop a variety of items onto a paper-doll style Jesus. For those of you finding this sacreligious, mentally replace the word “Jesus” with “Jason Stiffler”, and everything’ll be fine.

Alton Brown’s latest rant & rave: a simple story about a spontaneous nuclear fission in a tomato, or an allegory about something innocent gone horribly, horribly wrong?

When did Jason Stiffler, my college partner in crime, start sumo wrestling? And will he make a surprise appearance at my party?

I just stumbled upon a picture of me graduating from college among a bunch of other pictures of people I know on a (I assume) long forgotten ftp site maintained by David “Dragon” Michaels. There’s lot’s of pictures from Randy’s wedding, too. I hated to miss it… I don’t recall why I didn’t go. He’ll be coming to my party, and that makes me mighty happy.

Depending on your religious fervor, these images are either inspirational or really creepy. “Jesus! I’ve told you a thousand times, quit reading over my shoulder!”

Dude! I’m getting a Dell! It finally came time to replace my four and a half year old Winbook XL2, as even my force of will is currently barely sufficient to keep it running. It’s going to take Dell a month to ship the new computer to me, so I’ll have to crank of my force of will one last notch.