Sky Cake: The Middle Weigh

Before reading this entry, watch the video that inspired it. I love cake. My middle can attest to this fact. Red velvet in particular is very tasty. But as I am sure you can already guess that this posting is not about actual cake. Rather it is an appreciation of Patton Oswald’s routine on faith. […]

Afterlife Lotto

I admit it. I bought 4 Mega Millions tickets. I got 2 for the Wednesday drawing and 2 for the Friday. “But Ben, why would you throw away 4 perfectly good dollars.” Two reasons: 1. There is not much risk on the front end. I will not miss $4. 2. The potential rewards are freakishly […]

Blog #700

Not sure how I missed this. But at some point last week, I wrote my 700th post. If you can’t have quality, go for quantity!

Tooth-tify

Yesterday was a friend’s going away party at work. We had lunch at Uncle Julio’s, a local Mexican restaurant. I was munching away on a basket of chips when I thought I bit on a course piece of cornmeal. It wasn’t cornmeal. It was my tooth. Crushed that sucker to bits. All that remains […]

Gimme that Ole Time Religion?

There is an old song called “Give Me That Old Time Religion.” It goes as follows: Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me. Here is my question: To which religion does the writer refer? The religion where humanity was cursed for wanting […]

Diet Guru

Only December 31st, I went on a diet. I have already lost 10lbs. And the amazing thing, I have not been hungry! I think I will write a book… Well, perhaps not since the target audience would be only me. It’s kind of a limited publishing market. How did I do it? I gave up […]

Standby for Hibernation Mode

Were I to be on the design team for humanity version 2, there are a couple of new features I would add to the human brain: Standby Mode and Hibernation. Standby mode would allow us to disengage huge portions of out intellect for a pre-determined portion of time, minutes or hours at a time. Here […]