I discovered by accident that Burlington, VT is now displayed on Google Earth.

…well, at least a couple blocks of it is. One block of Main Street followed by as much of S. Winooski Ave as it takes to get to the highway. The rest of Vermont’s entry is limited to highway travel. Why anyone would [...]

Today I wore a black canvas vest, this white shirt that kinda looks like a thermal shirt with lines rather than a waffle pattern (some kinda Swedish military shirt, got it for five bucks and I love it), black 501’s and a brass-studded belt.
Peter, my co-worker, walks past me and compliments me on my Han [...]

King Diamond fans will agree…

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

Me: (on phone to client) “No that won’t take a week, that’ll be done today. Even in the case of absolute disaster that change shouldn’t require a week to do.”
Jim: So you told the guy that, barring the Apocalypse, changes made in a day, otherwise it’s a week. That’s our official policy?
Me: No, I said [...]

I like to read books. My favorite books are historical fiction, anything from pre-antiquity up to the 1980’s, my prerequisite being that the book is accurate. I like being able to not only entertain myself, but to acquire some new knowledge as well. Always multi-tasking! My standards are high, a thousand page book is a [...]

Chris Gilmore is a sculptor in Northern Italy who recreates various objects in true-to-life scale and detail, using only corrugated cardboard and glue as his sculpting media. The result is astonishing, both in concept as well as in its level of detail. Included in this menagerie of packing-material masterpieces are various [...]

If you can, go outside and take a look up to the right of the moon (sunset), you’ll see this (taken from my front porch five minutes ago)…

…as it was described: “On Monday night, the three brightest objects in the night sky — Jupiter, Venus and the moon — will line up close together in [...]