A few days ago, JoDee and I were getting ready to head out to work, when I noticed a yellow jacket by the fuel door of her car. Wonderful. Now I'm going to have to try and extract a yellow jacket from the car without getting stung. This should be …

Just saw this story on the BBC news site, and it struck me as rather odd: BBC man 'was unlawfully killed'. Unlawfully killed? What a strange term, unlawfully killed. Apparently the rules of war disallow certain forms of killing. When doing a wikipedia search on the term, I came across …

"Bob Ross Paints on Revolution. Yes, it's true - the famous cult painter goes virtual on Nintendo's new generation platform." (Article here).

Pardon me while I paint happy technicolor blotches in the porcelain urn.

"Replica knife is richly adorned with deer and leaf sculpture and full-color artwork". Words alone do not do this knife justice, so here is a scan of the card. It's restricted to 295 casting days, so you better hurry to adorn your walls with the manufactured collectible that just screams …

While waiting in the checkout lane at Meijer:

Daughter (to NASCAR mom): Ow, he hit me with a Slim Jim.