Photoshop: Lessons in Patience

I started learning Photoshop yesterday with the hope of someday being able to superimpose my picture into the 2007 New England Patriots team calendar. I’ll keep you posted.The program itself is easy enough to learn, but I am doing so on my old, dilapidated laptop.  Doing anything on this laptop ceased to be easy once [...]

The 16-minute Mile

I went running yesterday.  Ugh.
Quick question: is running on Tuesday supposed to hurt on Wednesday?  Maybe I was doing something wrong like not getting up on my toes or wearing the wrong shoes or running in the first place.  Whatever it was, my calves feel like aching cinder blocks, and I just caught my breath [...]

Becoming Ted from “Sally Forth”

I came to a stark realization the other day. Thankfully, this realization was not as stark as others, namely the time I realized that Pop-tarts were not healthy to have every day for breakfast. Ignorance is bliss.What I discovered about myself recently was a wholly strange, unexpected epiphany: I want to be Ted from the [...]

TGIF: T-bone!

Is there anything better than a T-bone music video?  Well, alright.  Just humor me then.

TGIF: King of Queens!

Everyone needs a little more King of Queens in their life.

TGIF: Heavyweights!

A great clip from a great movie. Body!

Fantasy Basketball: My Cheating Heart

 
Fantasy sports are great, so long as I am winning and the sport in question is always football. Any other situations just make fantasy games boring and hard.
Take, for instance, my trial with fantasy basketball. In a Yahoo! public league, I am flailing in ninth place, I haven’t made a transaction [...]

The pudding predicament

Life is full of difficult questions, and I came face-to-face with one the other day: When does chocolate pudding go bad?
I was hoping the answer was “never,” or at least “six months from purchase date.” The prospect of eating bad pudding was one that I feared had regrettable consequences, namely digestive ones. Unfortunately, [...]

Celebrity Apprentice: Hotdoggin’ It

Donald Trump’s restructured reality show got under way last week, which may or may not be good news. The first episode was largely tolerable, which gives it a head start on previous Apprentice installments, but there was something oddly offputting about quasi-celebs competing half-heartedly for the title of Apprentice winner. In fact, the [...]

Fantasy playoff worries

With my fantasy league’s playoffs underway, I find myself in an unusual position.  
I’m not gloating over a win.   I’m not burning Daunte Culpepper in effigy.  Instead, I’m sweating—figuratively and literally—over what is to happen over the last few weeks.
Really, I shouldn’t be nearly as worked up as I am.  

For starters, I [...]