Do you remember the first taste you had of strong alcohol? There are two distinct alcohol memories in most guys: The first time you split a beer with your old man, and your first taste of strong liquor. The way it burns your throat and sends fumes out your nostrils, making you squint and pucker [...]

Today is the one-year anniversary of my last cigarette. A full year later I am still a non-smoker. This was something I never thought I would become. I smoked through half the 80’s, all of the 90’s and almost all of the 00’s, all those years I thought that my addiction was far stronger than [...]

Anyone who saw the documentary about Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the lady doctor who discovered breast cancer in herself while stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1999, will probably always have that story lodged in their memory.
Nielsen caught the nation’s attention in 1999, when she found a lump in her breast while wintering at [...]

Smoking. Smoking is near the top of my list for life changes. Picking it up? Noooo, silly! Quitting smoking. Not a moment too soon, I might add. I’m undergoing a number of life changes at the moment, and I decided this was the perfect opportunity to quit smoking once and for all. At my partner’s [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/08/microsoft.ballmer/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday with an impassioned endorsement of PCs and a sneak peek at the company’s future Windows 7 operating system.
I wonder how they came upon the name itself. “Windows 7.” My first IBM-clone that ran windows as the operating system was Win3.11. Since [...]

King Diamond fans will agree…

…as Net.Cliche as these things have become, I don’t mind re-publishing this one.

Norway is to Heavy Metal
what Scotland is to Football
–Me, May 27, 2008