With the recent changes to identi.ca, and the arrival of Google Plus, I think it's time for me to rethink how I use social media. If you're one of those folks who hates the navel-gazing that people can do when it comes to social-media platforms, please feel free to …

Kid: "Trick or Treat"
JoDee: "You're one lucky ghost. You know why?"
Kid: "Why?"
JoDee proceeds to dump the rest of the candy into his sack
JoDee: "Here you go."
Kid: "Are you serious?"
JoDee: "Yep."
Kid: "Happy Halloween, like, a Trillion times over"

(off in the distance, once he …

I hate the term mid-life crisis. I think the term "mid-term exam" is much more appropriate. Mid-life crisis sounds like a crisis of faith; like the very foundations of God, family, career, and what-have-you are suddenly called to question. Maybe that's true for some, but for me turning forty isn't …

This morning I got up and mowed the lawn. It really needed it, and the push mower was having all it could do to make it through the damp morning dew-covered grass. But, the sun was shining, Five-Finger Death Punch and Iron Thrones were on the Sansa, and I plowed …

Recently there was a "study" published that claimed that Internet Explorer users were dumber than users of other browsers. It was a wild claim at best, but of course the media ran with it. Even the normally stoic BBC got caught in the hullabaloo. It was an outrageous claim, but …