My sons and I started watching "24" last season, but after about 8 episodes we got behind and never caught up. This week I was cleaning up the TIVO and was going to delete the remaining episodes when Eric came up with the right way to watch the show: "Why don't we just watch the [...]
File under "Fun with Microwaves." Detailed directions can be found at http://www.pmichaud.com/grape/, but simply cut a grape almost in half, leaving about 1.5cm of skin joining the two halves. Put it on a plate and nuke it. After only about 5 seconds it will shoot up a flame, as much as 3 inches tall. Our [...]
I googled my birthday - not just the day, but the year. Ignoring who was born or died on my birthday, here's some of the highlights for June 28, 1957: Elvis was hanging out with Lou Costello and Jane Russell. It was Harry and Bess Truman's 38th anniversary, and he wrote her a note with [...]
There was a great article in the San Jose Mercury News yesterday about blogging addiction. I'm happy to say that I am not a member of that set. No, I have found that blogging is primarily a form of procrastination. For example, I really need to be writing a 300 word bio for a book [...]
Jason, Ryan and I made our annual trek to NAMM a couple weeks ago. "NAMM," of course, stands for The International Music Products Association, which is a clear indication of why the retail music industry gets no respect. The hot item for the show was Roland's new V-Accordion, shown here with interested buyers. Through the [...]