On the off-chance you haven’t seen this yet…

For those who don’t know, this is the big-screen, live-action adaptation of a rather popular cartoon series from Nickelodeon, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Excellent show, and it looks like Shyamalan might actually be making up for The Happening with this one.

So… I know what you’re expecting.  It’s Monday, the day I’ve posted my weight for the last three weeks.  You’re waiting for a weigh-in post, and I have this inner compulsion to give it to you.  After all, you’re the folks rooting for me, cheering me on, and need your encouragement as much as I [...]

Okay, so the title is a little deceptive.  It’s taken from one of my online haunts, Fark, where the running gag is that Mac-users are smug, conceited, and clueless.  I’d like to think I know better, of course.  I am a Mac user at heart, an aficionado of Apple’s oft-maligned products.  I’ve used them off [...]

Have you ever climbed Mt. Everest?  Parasailed across the English Channel?
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Is your life interesting?
If you haven’t seen the commercials for German beer Dos Equis, you should mosey over to YouTube and check them out.  The ads star actor Jonathan Goldsmith, whose career is long and [...]

Parkour.
Freerunning.
Are these terms familiar?  I’ll admit, I had heard neither of them until a couple years ago, when something I saw on television prompted me to investigate.  At the basic level, parkour is the art of efficiency in motion, the ability to get from Point A to Point B with as little deviation as possible.  [...]

This week was rough.  I walked, but there were a few problems.  You see, I walk barefoot.  I do so for a number of reasons, all my own, but I was foolish enough to walk barefoot on the track this week.  The track we have nearby isn’t dirt, isn’t rubber, and isn’t standard asphalt.  It’s [...]

just got Twitter Tools installed at bigsimon.com, so he can tweet from the blog now. Ugh. Tweet? Does he reall have to call it tweeting? #
isn’t nearly as tired as he ought to be. #
just ate more than he should have, but not so much it’ll cause a problem. Spicy, too! [...]

I’m told this winter will be mild.  Mild, however, is a relative term.  If the area you’re in usually drops down to the single digits, mild might be an average temperature in the teens or low twenties.  Still pretty freakin’ cold.
And there are people who are going to have a much harder time of it [...]

There are some days, days like today, when you find yourself without anything much to say.  Today is the second day in a row, and I think it’s mostly because if I said anything, I’d be complaining about the blisters on my feet.  Instead, I’ve kept my mouth shut, because I don’t want to make [...]

It’s Tuesday.  I don’t think anybody really thinks much about Tuesdays (except maybe people who celebrate Mardi Gras, which literally means “Fat Tuesday”), but I do.  Tuesdays are the kind of days where you’re just finishing up all our early in the week stuff, but you’re not quite at the late in the week stuff [...]