Monthly Archive: December 2013
Throwing Resolutions To Your Past Selves
Having your future selves do stuff is so last year. Give some resolutions to some of your previous incarnations.
New Year’s Tuesday questions, Tempur-Pedic edition
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, I’ll probably be in bed anyway.
A Failure to Abide by Hanley’s Second Law
My school has never put in place individual classroom budgets. They are attempting to do so now. I was just informed that I have gone over budget even though I was never given a...
Monday Trivia, No. 146 [Randy Harris wins!]
Only five nations, including one that no longer exists, are on this week’s list.
Ugly Duck Things
If you guessed that what’s going on here isn’t exactly about Christianity, I’m in agreement with you.
Playoff Rankings!
Here are my final NFL power rankings of the regular season, focusing just on those teams that are making the playoffs. Because, honestly, does anyone really care where the Tampa Bay Bucs rank?
Greetings from Southport, North Carolina
Greetings from Mon Tiki, currently docked in Southport, North Carolina, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River.
Linky Friday #49
Energy: [En1] The decline of oil. [En2] Smart street lights may save energy. Imagine, of course, what robocars will do. [En3] The media has focused quite a bit on the upheavel caused by the...
The Most Wonderful Time of the Sports Year?
Kazzy ranks the sports year month-by-month. (Spoiler: His relatively low valuation of Major League Baseball just might make Mike Schilling’s head explode)
This Feels Like a Market Failure
Purchasing Christmas Trees in My Town December 1 – December 24: Available for $30 December 26: Available for $30 Purchasing Eggnog in My Town December 1 – December 24: Available everywhere December 26: Available...
Finding Fellowship (while avoiding the spots in the carpet where the furniture used to be)
In sussing out what he’s getting wrong with his atheism, Jaybird learns that he got a lot wrong about the Unitarian Universalists too
The Virtual Musical Advent Calendar, December 26: St. Stephen’s Day Murders
At last we come to the end, with a song for all those that need an antidote to a month of forced merriment.
The Virtual Musical Advent Calendar, December 25: The Rebel Jesus/Skyline Jig
There may not be a more Ordinary Times-esque Holiday song.
