My company holiday party is tonight, which means I have essentially wasted the entire day running errands and doing crap like tweezing my eyebrows and giving myself a French manicure (the real kind, with the white pencil).  I shot over to the outlet mall in the extreme suburbs (like, I live on the north edge [...]

To watch:
This is a FANTASTIC short film about some of the stranger requests for photographs received by the Hulton Archive/Getty Images.  I thought it was going to be a tidy little documentary with amusing anecdotes (the title of the film is “Photographs of Jesus,” after all), and it’s this amazing stop-motion photo-animated romp that is [...]

More plumbing this morning:  the improved water pressure with the new water supply overwhelmed my toilet float, and given the option of spending at least an hour with my arms down the tank or paying $55 (courtesy of our home warranty) for a dude to come do the replacement in 12 minutes, I took the [...]