My Personal Bestseller List…

Books you will probably never see on Amazon:

Self-Castration: Is It For You?
Bi-Curious George
You Were an Accident!
Microsoft Windows: How It Beat Linux
Xanth: The Final Chapter
Strangers Have the Best Candy
The Apple Newton v9.0 Unleashed
The Children’s Guide to Hitchhiking
The Idiot’s Guide to Being an Idiot
Talk With Your Mouth Full
Saddam Hussein: The Autobiography
Handwashing for Dummies
Stedman’s Medical Guide for the [...]

Ardenwood Historic Farm…

Our second monthly mandatory educational *slash* fun family fieldtrip adventure was a visit to Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont, California.
In 1849, George Washington Patterson, along with 19 of his closest business associates formed a company to take advantage of the California Gold Rush. They set sail from New England, bound for the Gulf of Mexico. [...]

A Close Call?

On April 16, I unsuccessfully tried to find a geocache called Little Liz in Fremont, California. My experience was very creepy:
Well, less of a “couldn’t find it” and more of a “gave up before I could get there” kind of cache today. Even if the ground had not been covered in up to a foot [...]

At Least Sunblock Isn’t Necessary…

I took another one of those online “tests” today, similar to the one I took that gave me absolutely no additional information relating to my feminist viewpoints. This time, hëll was involved!
That’s right! I took the Dante’s Inferno Hëll Test, loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Fortunately, I discovered that, because of my virtue and beliefs [...]

The One Ring…

A few months ago, I picked up the latest version of Newtek’s LightWave 3D with the eventual goal of producing some movie-quality animation. But first, I had to reacquaint myself with some of the basics — starting with modeling, and not the fashion kind! Having created some bouncing ball wire-frame animations, played around with some [...]

Stymie the Muggers…

I heard an interesting story on NPR (National Public Radio) last Friday and it definitely struck a nerve with me.
For years, after having my wallet stolen in New York City while traveling on business to fix a file-tracking system for CNA Insurance in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, I have consciously carried [...]

America, the Beautiful…

Since I’ve been a bit too anti-French lately…

Only in America is lemonade made with artificial flavors and dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons.
Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in America are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
Only in America do drugstores make [...]