Jessika sent me over to Dyers.org to check out his quest to grow every possible style of beard.  Fun stuff, and an inspiration to us all, to be sure.  But I started wandering through the rest of his site, and came across this beautiful gem, the Heavy Metal Farmer:
 (Either JavaScript is not active or you […]

Thanks to Chad, I’ve gotten myself addicted to yet another website.  It’s called thesixtyone, and it turns the discovery of new music into a type of MMO.  The idea is that you log in and listen to songs streamed through the site.  When you come across one you like, you “bump” it, spending some of […]

I don’t know how he finds these things, but today I read Adam P. Knave’s Around the Internet segment over at the footnote, and was amazed.  He came across a story over at BBC News about a Capuchin monk who fronts a heavy metal band.
I’ll let that sink in a moment.

addthis_url […]

A long, long time ago, I heard a song called “Master of Puppets” and immediately became a fan of the metal band Metallica. For years, I devoured everything they produced, dutifully running out to buy up each cassette (and later CD) as they came out. When Load and Reload came out, a lot […]

Yesterday, I was finally catching up on my podcasts, and I got to listen to the first audio entry in Mur Lafferty’s The News from Poughkeepsie series. She put together a promo for a (sadly!) non-existent podcast. I would subscribe to a horror for the younger set podcast in a second, and share […]

Metal makes everything better.
I had this driven home a while back when I discovered Beatallica, the Beatles/Metallica mashup band. I’m not actually that big a fan of the Beatles, truth be told, but they’re songs actually become awesome when they’re Metal tunes, particularly when combined with some old-school Metallica lyrics to boot.
And Jessika drove […]

It seems like only yesterday my little girl looked like the photo here.
I was going through some files for an earlier version of this site and found my original photo gallery setup, so I had to download them all so I can start moving them over to Flickr. She gets that ginormous head from […]

My daughter loves to watch TV. I don’t really blame here; there’s plenty of awesome stuff to watch out there, some of it even worth while. Whenever possible, I try to make our TV watching time at least somewhat educational. Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters have been great for this, as both are […]

I got an unexpected package in the mail the other day.
I typically don’t get a lot of interest in the mail. Mostly junk mail advertising flyers and bills. And because I pay all of my bills online, I almost never bother opening those. As a result, I don’t always parse my mail […]

After a surprisingly exhausting week, I came home from work, hit the recliner to relax with some video gaming, and promptly fell asleep, controller in hand. Fortunately, I woke up in plenty of time to check my Twitter feed and find that Chad had left a couple of tweets bemoaning the lack of rock […]