My mom is coming into town Friday, expecting to stay the night with her husband in our downstairs office. That necessitates some housecleaning, a process that began a year ago under similar circumstances but was thwarted when the room became the overflow for other room cleaning projects.
I’m cheating right now, of course, not just [...]
When Crap Becomes Junk
Pat Coyle
David tipped me off on a blog Pat Coyle started this past summer. Actually, Pat’s first post was in 2003, but he seems to have re-dedicated it to the idea of sports marketing over the summer. Coyle is the Director of Database Marketing and E-Commerce in the Community Relations and Marketing branch of the Indianapolis [...]
(Group)think global, act local
I’m a fairly new reader to the Huffington Post, a byproduct of this academic-driven exploration of Web 2.0 and finding some hooks in various communities. I get the daily email, and when titles and/or authors are intriguing enough. The email that arrived today included an entry by David Russell, in what appears to be his [...]
Evil Spock is Coming to Town
Evil Spock asked me to guest blog for the holiday season, so I told my story of holiday disillusionment and lost innocence. Because my chosen persona — Ensign Redshirt — actually had some history on his site that didn’t match my backstory, some respectful editing ensued. Alas, my logic for selecting ER was that, in [...]
Tagger
The last time I played tag was three weeks ago. It involved me intentionally getting caught by two small boys, each of whom was playing a slightly different variation of the game. Carter was playing Freeze Tag (though a different version than I remember from my youth), while Archie was playing Monster Tag (which largely [...]
All I want for Christmas is fake sports
Thanks to graduate school life changes and guilt over FOX Sports acquiring the mom-and-pop company, I have spent very little of my own money on WhatIfSports (WIS) for the past few years. My early success and participation in an owner’s council for the basketball sim (the game I played the most) allowed me to coast [...]
Jesus and breastfeeding
This story describes my favorite nativity scene. Very hilarious.
Our funny nativity scene story was several years back, and apparently didn’t make it into the blog.
Each Christmas season, we have a “magic box,” that refills each morning with something to help us get in the Christmas spirit. One morning, it came with filled with a [...]