nosuch.org

Leo had a play date with our friends’ dog Queen over the weekend. They live in Inwood, way up at the northern tip of Manhattan, where I hear Santa has his workshop. We opted to meet in the middle, which meant the dog run at 105th Street on the river. After a ten minute taxi [...]

[Read more →]

How to spend a bleak, drizzly Saturday morning?
How about an unlimited mimosa brunch (for $10) with the best french toast in Hell’s Kitchen followed by a manicure and pedicure?
While I am always up for the former, the latter isn’t really my bag, mostly because I’d rather spend the hour playing Xbox. But after a few [...]

[Read more →]

In a few days I will be once again attempting to cook a truly American Thanksgiving dinner for the wife. When it comes to cooking, she provides 99 and 44/100% of the meals in this house, so I get tapped to do the holiday ones. I’ve done a turkey for Thanksgiving and duck for Christmas. [...]

[Read more →]

With very few exceptions (like the release of Halo 2) the “release date” listed for a game is the day it gets shipped out to stores. Stores don’t actually have the product that day. Stores with a good supplier will have it the day following the release date.
Trust me on this. I have optimistically hit [...]

[Read more →]

After years of being with Blogger, I am now making preparations to move to a new weblog system. I won’t say precisely when this will happen, since I can’t miss a deadline I don’t set.
I’ve always been reasonably happy with Blogger, so much so that I was one of those wacky “Blogger Pro” users. And [...]

[Read more →]