Camping, Huntington Library and Motor Home

What a crazy fun week last week was. We left on Sunday right after church to go camping with two other families. We went to Castaic Lake. The four of us were in a new tent, new sleeping bags with tons of new gear. The Mannings Mark I were in their [...]

In Search of… the iPod Killer

That title’s misleading, but I wanted to be sure and hook you in. How is it misleading? Well, the iPod doesn’t need something else to come along and “kill” it because it’s not at the top in its class. See, back in the day, when the video game “Quake” was released, it [...]

Diggin’ the WordPress

Got an e-mail from my friend, Ron, asking a mod_rewrite question because he was converting The House of Rapp from Moveable Type to WordPress. Good choice, Ron! Hope you enjoy it as much as I am. Now I just need to get moving on converting Karch’s site….

Freaky Friday Party

Got some pictures up from yesterday’s “Freaky Friday Party” at my son’s preschool. Check out his multi-colored mohawk.

More new music than I can listen to…

Perhaps I can throw up some short reviews soon, but I thought I’d alert you to some new music.
SR-71 has a new album available as a Japanese import for now called “Here We Go Again”. I’ve heard the first 6 tracks so far and I’m digging this. The nostalgia-inducing triple shot of “Axl [...]

Paper Arcade

We just got a new dollhouse for my daughter. It’s pretty cool… all wood. Also got a bunch of wooden furniture and stuff. These aren’t the scale miniatures that you see dollhouse collector types getting into. This is more rugged, toddler friendly stuff.
But, even though the end product might be a [...]

2001 Sucked… musically. Or did it?

I’m not talking about the movie or how my life was during that year. No, I’m talking about the absolute sadness that is the Billboard Top 100 songs of 2001. I just finished reviewing all 100 songs. I used an 11-point scale (0 – 10; 10 being highest). The average song [...]