Paul Gleason, an athlete, actor and poet that is burned into our minds (that is, if you are part of the generation “x” collective) as the angry principal in The Breakfast Club and as Van Wilder’s most demanding professor, has died of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos. He was 67. [...]

Today I measured my favorite route for my “fatso” walks: The result is 2.32 miles, but I am sure my error margin is at least 10%, so it could be as short as 2 miles. I’ll re-measure it later. The terrain is a little bit hilly, it has enough grades to make it worthwhile. UPDATE: [...]

Every year I am subjected to a creepy custom. There are certain people that forget the meaning of specific holidays in this country, to them a holiday means a long weekend, food, maybe a party, and bullshit e-mail greeting cards. Most of the times this is harmless, but for example it turns creepy when you [...]

dev_null just reminded me of this neat gadget at http://www.myheritage.com. All you have to do is upload a photo and it will try to match it to its database of famous people. I posted some of the funniest matches on two of my old mugshots at my Flickr page. Technorati Tags: amusing

This announcement pertains those very few of you that have me listed in your MSN Messenger buddy list. One or more of you poor bastards is infected with a virus. This virus IMs other people in your buddy list and sends them a link to an infected file, which spreads the infection. The IM will [...]

Here’s a great take on the new Apple Store in NYC: You can always count on Joy of Tech to come up with cool stuff like that. Technorati Tags: Apple

When did Flickr change the hot linking terms of service? I was under the impression that I was allowed to link to my pictures at will, but now when I go to the details page for a picture, it tells me that if I want to use a picture elsewhere, it must have a link [...]

Mr. T is 54 years young today. Wish him a happy birthday or he’ll eat your balls! Technorati Tags: history, movies, television

Read the book, now watched the movie and still I can’t figure out WTF is the uproar about. It’s FICTION. Christian denominations all over the world are shitting bricks over it. People are freaking out, or worse. They are seeing it as a quasi-religious truth. It isn’t. As a movie it was decent. It did [...]

Google has released another free tool, Google Notebook. The concept is simple: take as much as you can from the Google Mail framework/API/whatever and use it so people can jot little notes. It doesn’t support labels yet, instead you have one or more notebooks, and each notebook can have category groups. Google also supplied a [...]