UNDERDOG of PERFECTION

Well, that’s it. As of last night, the last traces of WordPress on my site are gone.

There’s nothing really wrong with WordPress; in fact, for what it does it’s pretty elegant and flexible. But since, let’s be honest, I’m a geek, and I’m more about building my site than actually creating any meaningful content for it, running it on someone else’s engine is unsatisfying, and almost feels like cheating.

Besides, WordPress (and probably any other third-party tool) will never do everything I want it to, or at least it won’t do it precisely in the way I want it to. And it’s more fun for me to write my own code than to tweak someone else’s. So here we go.

Yesterday I came across what is surely the coolest name ever: Melchior Vulpius.

He was an early Lutheran hymn composer. Apparently his family name was originally Fuchs, but he Latinized it to Vulpius, a fact which thoroughly confounded me until I learned that fuchs is German for “fox.” Thanks, Babelfish!

A Game Theoretical Approach to the Toilet Seat Problem

Clever, yes. And fairly well-reasoned (if decidedly tongue-in-cheek). However, for the paranoid and germophobic (including myself on both counts), this entire line of reasoning leaves out the most important component of the system: the lid.

Extra effort be damned, the lid must be closed! And if my anecdotal experience is any indication, women are far more likely to leave the seat down and lid up than men are to leave everything up vs. closing the lid.

C’mon people, the lid is there for a reason! (Several, in fact.) Use it! Besides, we all know the average American leads a far too (and increasingly) sedentary lifestyle. You need the exercise.

Yes, George W. Bush is in town today, but more importantly (if the KARE 11 teaser is any indication), so is Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey!

Apparently Keith Schofield is an indie music video director, specializing in working old-school video game imagery into his projects.

He’s getting a lot of attention in the Atari community for a video about the fabled E.T. cartridges buried in a New Mexico landfill, but personally I found the one about a rapping video game much more entertaining.