Thought Distillery

Some comment spam is so zany you just can’t help but share it with everyone. After searching for Aunt Mary’s and getting very benevolent results (dog rescue, quilt shop, yarn store, etc), I figured it was safe to share this without advancing the spammer’s cause. Get your shoes and socks on people, it’s right around [...]

The following is a post drafted in early 2005. At the time I didn’t want to give anyone paranoia that I was tracking their browsing habits of this website. I’ve long let go my server log obsession, as I have plenty of other useful actvities to occupy my time. I bring this draft to life [...]

I should be sleeping right now, for tomorrow’s 4:30am wakeup call looms. Instead I allow myself to become distracted by pointless yet oddly amusing toys. Thank you Mike Park for enlightening me. You too can create create you own South Park doppelganger…

Posted on the WFMU blog, my latest favorite blog of the week, was this catchy little ditty. If you have broadband, the download is well worth the wait. At first I thought this video was a farce, but further digging into the America We Stand as One website seems to indicate 100% sincerity… … oh [...]

While following a cheeky blog discussion that I dare not partake in, I was reminded of a related post by The Gal From Down Under on the Bike Friday mailing list. If you have an allergy to nuts (or spandex), then don’t follow this link. Otherwise, I found it quite laughable and let it serve [...]

Just when I start to become all bleak and weary from my dusk to dusk daily grind, along comes the latest pick-me-up email from your pal and mine: Archie McPhee. This will probably read like a blatant commercial plug, but heck who else has brought you the Cat-A-Pult, Nunzilla, and Hopping Lederhosen??? (Oh, meiner lederhosen!) [...]

Lately, words and names have been occupying my mind and apparently I am not the only one with this kind of pastime. The other night I decided it was time to find a good name for a future website devoted to one of my other fascinations – bamboo. Lucky for me there were plenty of [...]

Normally I’m a stairs kind of person. Its not that I dislike elevators, I just think that as long as I’m physically capable and can spare an extra minute why not just get a bit of exercise? Or maybe its not an exercise thing. My earliest memory of stairing over elevatoring is a lighthouse visit [...]

Inspired by the zany projects of fellow Indiana University alumnus Mark Horowitz, I present Pogo Chronicles Part I: The Vision. The Scenario: A group of parched individuals sit at a table in the park in dire need of cold and refreshing carbonated soft drinks. Too exhausted to move, they look with puppy dog eyes far [...]

With my recent Scrabble and Anagram themes, I can’t help but post this link to a Scrabble Anagram Poem. It seems that one could come up with a million variations of amusement centered around this classic game. You could even use Scrabble scoring to turn your lunch of alphabet soup into a competition. Hmm, I [...]