Alton Brown, of Good Eats fame, had a fit of absent mindedness and wound up in handcuffs. He knows it was his fault, but he won’t be filming Good Eats at Kroger anymore.

I’ve been chatting this afternoon with a self-described Sustainologist, who is working on the problem of global sustainability – making sure that the human race lives in a way the planet can handle. There are many who think we aren’t currently, and many more who don’t care. And Jack Harich’s on the case. He’s got a great mind to apply to the problem. Be sure to catch the photos of his woodworking and house. They are truly inspiring.

Are you descended from the royal house of David? If so, these guys want to hear from you so you can get invited to the first Davidic family reunion in over 2000 years.

We can’t go this year, but it sounds like the Fairie Festival at Spoutwood Farm in Glen Rock, PA could be quite fun. Who knows, maybe Boann’s Banks might host a similar event some day.

I’ve written this weblog for a bit under three years, writing a bit most every day to create a snapshot of my life as it happens. I’m not the only one to do this, by far. Some people skip the whole writing bit, though, and just go for the snapshot.

Have you been to see the humanclock lately? He’s got to analog clock working like a charm, and of course the original digital version is better than ever. This is exactly the kind of hobby website I love to see.

A recently-discovered comet should be visible to the naked eye for the next month or so. I was just thinking the other night how lucky I was to have seen two spectacular comets back-to-back (Hale-Bopp and… the other one. I forget its name.) in 1997. I was in one of the best places in the country to observe the heavens (the middle of the New Mexican desert) and could step outside my front door to see comets with multiple tails spanning almost from horizon to horizon. And some people never get to see such things. This one won’t be as spectacular as those, but I’ll be looking at it as it goes by just the same.

Over the weekend I moved some files around from one computer to another at my domain hosting company. They’re good people over there – adept, responsive, and cheap. Due to a timing fluke, my two accounts over there were split up onto different computers, so I moved them all together, where MovableType can more easily manage them all. Because of the move, this site may have been inaccessable for a while, and any email sent to the ericwagoner domain on Saturday may have bounced. It all appears to be better now.

This month’s Car and Driver contains what may be the best car review ever: a skewering of the Cadillac Escalade. “There are lots of things on which you could spend $49,990. This is one of them. "

The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival just wound down in Aspen. Entertainment Weekly sent special correspondent Space Ghost to report from the scene.