Author: Jon

Yep, time for the lame blog post about what I received for my birthday and Christmas. "Lame" because it’s kind of a blogging cliché, and mostly it feels like bragging. But something is better than nothing—especially around this blog lately. Let’s see… Birthday and Christmas money and a gift certificate Christmas ornaments Anathem by Neal… Continue reading Holiday gift roundup

We had been planning a New Year’s Eve party at our place relatively early on; we’d had one the past several years and they’re always fun, especially for the kids (who get to stay up until midnight). This year, it was going to be a smaller party, as a number of people dropped out, for… Continue reading The best laid New Year’s plans…

CSI:Miami is a pretty ridiculous TV show, and one of the things that makes it so is the opening one-liner. Often I will watch just long enough for this before leaving. They’re really cheesy and ballsy—Law & Order usually has the one-liner, but CSI:M really outdoes it. I blame David Caruso. For a while now… Continue reading CSI:Miami one-liners

Looking at the title of this post, that’s a geeky way of saying how old I am today. Yes, it’s another birthday. I’m 36 today (in case you don’t want to do the math—which, incidentally, should account for leap years. Told you it was geeky). Even though I had to work today—first time in a… Continue reading 13,149 days, or 1,136,073,600 seconds

I’ve been enjoying Once Upon a Win lately (the cousin to FAIL Blog) and the one thing that’s lacking so far is the Commodore 64. Tonight, though, I came across something even more epic: the Commodore Christmas Demo. Dave writes: Commodore wrote their famous Christmas Demo in 1982 to demonstrate the capabilities of their new… Continue reading EPIC WIN

I’m writing this blog post on our new computer. Yep, finally; we order a Dell from a really good online Black Friday deal and it arrived yesterday. Replacing the six-year-old eMachine. This new computer is running Microsoft Vista, which I was really leery about, but so far there’ve been none of the problem with Vista… Continue reading Coming to you from a new computer

Rounding out this holiday weekend, it seemed only appropriate that I do this type of post. So, things that I’m thankful for: Family and friends – It goes without saying yet it’s never said enough. I have terrific family and terrific friends and you couldn’t ask for more. A good job – After spending the… Continue reading Things that I’m thankful for

Halfway through the month, and I haven’t written here yet. Shameful. I guess it’s time to get my nerdtastic geek on. The new Enterprise: I’ve been entirely mum on the topic of the new Star Trek movie coming out next year—a prequel to the original series with re-cast young stars and directed by J. J.… Continue reading Nerdtastic

Yes, late in the evening but just under the wire. I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!

Last week my company sent me and three co-workers to Simi Valley, California for a three-day training course with Bruce Clay. Bruce Clay, if you didn’t know (and likely you don’t; it’s pretty niche) is a Search Engine Optimization specialist and the training was, naturally, for SEO. It was actually pretty worthwhile and interesting, despite… Continue reading Search terms I rank well for