My 5-Year Anniversary: Thank you!

Five years ago I posted my first post. I had joined WordPress two days earlier. It’s hard to believe it’s only been five years, as I feel I’ve known some of you forever. Still, looking at my stats I realize I’ve posted 1,247 posts, so I guess...

A Belated Tolkien Celebration

January 3rd marked Tolkien’s twelfty-sixth (126th) birthday. I apologize for not being here to celebrate and raise the customary toast to the Professor. To make it up to you, I’m sharing here some Tolkien-inspired memes that never fail to crack me up....

Amazon Kindle Is 10-Years-Old Today

Ten years ago, on November 19th, 2007, Amazon introduced Kindle to the world, for US$399. It sold out in five and a half hours, even though there were just 88,000 books available for download. The device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008....

How (not) to Get your Baby to Eat

As some of you may remember, today is our anniversary, and I thought I’d share a special post. Some of you (yes, Debby, I’m looking at you) have been complaining it’s been a while since you saw our baby girl, so I’m happy to report that...

A Boy, a Girl and a Baby Cthulhu

Visitors of this blog may remember that today is our anniversary. We went on our first date on October 3rd, 1992, and she’s been suffering life with me ever since. This year we have something special to celebrate. For once, our latest project doesn’t...

Memories are Made of This

I remember it as if it were yesterday. I had just broken up with my girlfriend of almost three years, and was spending the weekend with a cousin of mine. A strange thing about his family; they’re big cat lovers. I mean, real fans. The day before, one of his...

Thank you!

Today is this blog’s first month anniversary – our anniversary. I say “our”, because when I started, on February 21st, I never expected to have over 1,000 views and almost 100 wonderful followers a short month later. I’m surprised, moved...